Archimedes-lab.org

<h2 id="site-contents">Site contents</h2>
<p>Archimedes-lab.org is divided into four main categories: puzzles & tests, illusions & paradoxes, mind & brain, oddities & curiosities. Among the proposed educational tools and tutorials, visitors will find intuitive visuals, number games, puzzles with downloadable pieces, perception puzzles and interactive <a href="/facts/Optical_illusions/8wfWwjFI">optical illusions</a>. A principal objective throughout the site is the enhancement of <a href="/facts/Critical_thinking/x7j7f8W9">critical thinking</a> skills and the development of <a href="/facts/Creativity/8sNGv9no">creativity</a>. Here's a quote from <a href="/facts/Scientific_American/jkl8bhUN">Scientific American</a> (May 27, 2003): "This virtual lab borrows the empirical spirit and creative curiosity that <a href="/facts/Archimedes/sIeMhSVF">Archimedes</a> brought to his work and invites visitors to explore with the same expectations for mind-blowing discovery."
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<h2 id="awards-and-accolades">Awards and accolades</h2>
<p>Archimedes-lab.org has won several awards from scientific and educational publications,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> including a Scientific American Web Award in 2003,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Web Award,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> and a mention in <a href="/facts/MERLOT/jdj2TPSM">MERLOT</a>, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> and in <a href="/facts/The_DO-IT_Center/PAzgjhIr">The DO-IT Center</a>, the Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology Center.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a>
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<h2 id="selected-works">Selected works</h2>
<h3>Books from Archimedes' Laboratory</h3>
<ul><li><i>How to draw incredible optical illusions</i>, Imagine Publishing, USA, 2015, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1623540607.</li>
<li><i>Super Optical Illusions</i>, Carlton Kids, UK, 2014, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1783120851</li>
<li><i>Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes</i>, Dover Publications, USA, 2014, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0486493512</li>
<li><i>Pliages, découpages et magie</i>, Editions Pole, France, 2012, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 2848841656</li>
<li><i>Puzzillusions</i>, Carlton Books Ltd, London, 2007, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-84442-064-7</li>
<li><i>Big Book of Optical Illusions</i>, <a href="/facts/Barron%2527s_Educational_Series/jkPaR38h">Barron's Educational Series</a>, New York, 2006, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-7641-3520-1</li>
<li><i>MateMagica</i>, La Meridiana, Italy, 2005, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 88-89197-56-0</li>
<li><i>L'Almanach du mathematicien en herbe</i>, Editions Archimede, Paris, 2002, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 2-84469-025-4</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.archimedes-lab.org"><i>Archimedes-lab.org</i></a>, official website.</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161023101236/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1140109/jsp/you/17765469.jsp"><i>Puzzle it out</i></a>, an exhaustive article about Archimedes-lab.org</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Open Education Consortium. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305182228/http://www.oeconsortium.org/courses/view/aef9a8217994fd8daed5d06f2e7308d2/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160305182228/http://www.oeconsortium.org/courses/view/aef9a8217994fd8daed5d06f2e7308d2/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Puzzle Archive. <a href="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/archive_puzzles.html" target="_blank">http://www.archimedes-lab.org/archive_puzzles.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Archimedes Lab's Accolades <a href="https://www.archimedes-lab.org/pressrelease.html" target="_blank">https://www.archimedes-lab.org/pressrelease.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>SCIAM web award <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2003-scitech-web-awards-m/" target="_blank">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2003-scitech-web-awards-m/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>NCTM Web Award <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040624193754/http://www.nctm.org/news/webbytes/2004_05webbytes.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20040624193754/http://www.nctm.org/news/webbytes/2004_05webbytes.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Merlot – Archimedes’ Laboratory <a href="https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84249" target="_blank">https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84249</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>DO IT – Archimedes’ Laboratory <a href="https://www.washington.edu/doit/archimedes-laboratory-project-0" target="_blank">https://www.washington.edu/doit/archimedes-laboratory-project-0</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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