* Blue binder materials are listed with each of the units. 

The minimal set of materials should include the following items. One for each participant unless otherwise noted. 

• 1" cubes (50-100/per participant)
• Scissors
• Compass (or Mira)
• Transparent tape
• Masking tape
• Angle ruler or protractor
• Tape measure (metric and standard)
• Dice (two per participant). Two sets of polyhedral die are optimal. 
• Chips or checkers, or small block (10 per participant)
• Graph paper
• Color square (~50 per particpant)
• Colored markers
• Colored pencils
• Various colors of card stock paper
• Grid paper (six dots per square inch)
• Newsprint
• Cereal boxes to cut into nets (one per participant is optimal, but groups could share)
• Reference books of various kinds: e.g., encyclopedia's, almanacs, atlases, the Book of Lists, magazines (issues of NCTM magazines especially), etc.
• Paper pie plates
• M&Ms candies or Skittles candies (one pack per participant)
• Assorted containers; some with capacit of exactly one gallon and others of various sizes
• Filler material for checking capacity. Some suggestions: rice, rock salt, dry sand, small beans or lentils (more than one gallon's worth). 
• 3 pieces of 22"x28" poster board for each participant

• A graphing calculator (Instructions in the binder were made with the TI-73 in mind).
• A computer with Internet access and Java-enabled brower (if you can view this page and the menu bar, that should be fine)
• Geometer's Sketchpad, Cabri, or other computer geometry software (materials in the binder are written with Sketchpad in mind)
• Geostrips
• Plastic volume set
• Spreadsheet software like Excel or MS Works. The instructions in the binder were made with Microsoft Excel in mind.