Explore the main algorithms that are used as the basis for keyword searching on computers, using different variations on the game of battleships.

Students research OCR and OCR techniques and then apply those methods to the design challenge by developing algorithms capable of correctly reading a number on a typical high school sports scoreboard.

This lesson plan offers a variety of algorithms and systematic errors that occur in written multiplication problems.

The bridge from algorithms to programming can be a short one if students understand the difference between planning out a sequence and encoding that sequence into the appropriate language. This activity will help students gain experience...

Students analyze data gathered from sensors and develop filtering algorithms for anomalies and outliers, then use these algorithms to make decisions on sensor data as it is being collected.

Detailed lesson plan explains how to use the partial quotients algorithm for solving division problems and understanding the process involved.

This puzzle shows students the decisions involved in linking a network between houses in a muddy city. It can lead on to a discussion of minimal spanning tree algorithms for optimizing networks.

In this lesson on subtraction, students will use the break apart strategy, draw a model, or the standard algorithm to subtract 3-digit numbers.

In this lesson, students will explore the US Algorithm Method of multiplication using a unique way of describing it known as the Turtlehead Method. Students will collaboratively work together to complete story problems using the US...

Students will use base 10 manipulatives to build a rectangular array to represent double digit multiplication. Students will make the connection between the standard algorithm and the rectangular array.This lesson plan was created as a...

The students will critically think through the traditional algorithm for addition and compare to an alternative strategy.

Sixth graders will be able to model division of fractions by another fraction. Students will be able to divide a fraction by a fraction using the standard algorithm.

Sixth graders fluently add and subtract money with decimals using the standard algorithm.

Overview of this instructional activity on animation. In this instructional activity we are going to uncover a really useful way to construct Bezier curves of various degrees using de Casteljau's algorithm.

In this lesson on subtraction, students will use the break apart strategy, draw a model, or the standard algorithm to subtract 2-digit numbers.

Young scholars learn about data sorting, and by what criteria can one sort things by different algorithms such as selection, insertion and bubble sort.

This task provides an application of polynomials in computing. Students are asked to calculate the running time of algorithms for loading images of different sizes. They then graph the running time polynomials and decide which is more...

This unplugged lesson brings the class together as a team with a simple task to complete: get a "robot" to stack cups in a specific design. This activity lays the groundwork for the programming that students will do throughout the course...

Learners will practice debugging in the "collector" environment. Students will get to practice reading and editing code to fix puzzles with simple algorithms, loops and nested loops.

Brief lesson plans that show how to use base ten blocks to do all four operations and a little bit of algebra.

This activity will look at how computers correct errors automatically.

This lesson plan will help illustrate how variables can make programs more powerful by allowing values to change while the code is running.

n this lesson, students will explore the creation of repetitive designs using variables in the Artist environment. Students will learn how variables can be used to make code easier to write and easier to read, even when the values don't...

This instructional activity helps to explain what variables are and how we can use them in many different ways.