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Algorithms: Big Oh Notation

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the algorithm measurement tool known as Big-O.
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: A Library of Parallel Algorithms

For Students 9th - 10th
A page for accessing code for a collection of parallel algorithms.The algorithms are implemented in the parallel programming language NESL and developed by the Scandal project. There is a brief description along with its complexity (in...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Algorithm Discovery With Venn Diagrams

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and interactive resources, helps students learn about algorithms using box plots and Venn diagrams.
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Geeks for Geeks: Graph Coloring|set 2 (Greedy Algorithm)

For Students 10th - 12th
Graph coloring is widely used. Unfortunately, there is no efficient algorithm available for coloring a graph with a minimum number of colors as the problem is a known NP-Complete problem. There are approximate algorithms to solve the...
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Webopedia: Algorithm

For Students 9th - 10th
Webopedia definition with a fun example!
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Did You Ever Wonder? Why the Digits of Pi Look Random?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the randomness of the digits of pi. The article discusses David Bailey, experimental mathematics, and numerical algorithms. The resource consists of pictures, quotes, and links to additional resources.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the greatest common divisor, the least common multiple, and the Euclidean Algorithm. This resource gives a description of each of these concepts, accompanied by several examples.
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California Polytechnic State University: Pseudocode Standard

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth discussion of the algorithm design language known as pseudocode.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Devising an Algorithm for Solving Rubik's Cube

For Students 9th - 10th
If you're the kind of person who has taken apart your Rubik's cube in order to grease the inside parts so it will move more smoothly, this could be a great project for you. This will show you three sets of move sequences that accomplish...
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REMC Association of Michigan

Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 21. Computational Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Computational thinking can be used to take a complex problem, understand what the problem is and develop possible solutions to solve or explain it. In these six Quest, students will learn about the four stages of computational thinking:...
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Graphs and Networks: The Travelling Salesman Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the traveling salesman problem which involves finding paths through a city without backtracking. While no algorithm has been found to do that for all cities, there are algorithms that help somewhat. They are...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: "Uncertainty Principal" Checksum

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan introduced students to algorithms in the context of bank routing numbers (printed on checks). Students learn that the final digit in the routing number serves a specific purpose, and find such digits so that the routing...
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Blue Centauri Consulting: Readability Analyzer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This writing sample analyzer takes a sample of writing and calculates the number of sentences, words, and characters in the sample. As it's calculating these statistics it makes estimates as to how many syllables are present in each...
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University of Hawai'i

University of Hawaii: Bubble Sort

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains how a bubble sort works along with examples and source code.
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Minich: Pseudocode

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise explanation of the algorithm design language known as pseudocode.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Artificial Intelligence Teaching a Computer to Play Tic Tac Toe

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a more challenging JavaScript project. You will have to figure out a way to translate game strategy into a computer algorithm. Directions will show you how to create a working Tic-Tac-Toe board on a webpage. Just by showing the...
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Interactive Data Structure Visualizations: Binary Tree Traversals

For Students 9th - 10th
A great visualization / animation tool that illustrates the different traversal algorithms used with binary trees.
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University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Recursion

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the algorithm technique known as recursion.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Getting More Out of Less : Google Hits and Search Terms

For Students 3rd - 5th
Google is the name of the most often used search engine on the Internet. "Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. It's a very large number. This experiment will help you test different search terms and find out.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Bikes and Trikes [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of concepts involved in multiplication.
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University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the graph data structure and how it is used to solve certain types of problems.
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University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Bin Sort

For Students 9th - 10th
A description and demonstration of the bin sort algorithm.
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University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Quick Sort

For Students 9th - 10th
A description and demonstration of the quick sort algorithm.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Multiplying With Decimals

For Teachers 6th Standards
How do you multiply decimals? Where does the decimal point go? Students work on answering these questions and developing an algorithm for multiplying decimals.

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