A DADS description of the Radix sort algorithm.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in place value, rounding, and algorithms for addition and subtraction.

Many clever algorithms have been devised for sorting values into order efficiently. In this activity young scholars compare different algorithms to sort weights to simulate how computers devise sorted lists.

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

This page provides online class notes and lab exercises to gain experience with different types of algorithms including bubble sort, merge sort, linear and binary search .

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.

Find out about the properties of recursive algorithms.

Learners are invited to express algorithms in their everyday life, sports, games and apps.

As related to cryptography, understanding and providing proof of the Euclidian Algorithm.

A Wikipedia description of the process of designing algorithms.

This site from Mathworld.com provides a very detailed description of Euclid's algorithm of common divisors and a method of finding the greatest.

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

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.

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...

Find out about algorithmic design.

Get a step-by-step explanation of the square root algorithm from a geometric perspective.

The DADS description of recursive algorithms in computer programming.

This site considers a bottom-up algorithmic paradigm called dynamic programming including links to examples with source code.

In this exercise, students practice multiplying decimals 3. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.

Multiply a whole number times a decimal written to the tenths or hundredths place. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to one of the prominent algorithms in graph theory used to find shortest paths -- the Djikstra Algorithm. The lesson includes four graphs of increasing...

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.

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.

A complete course on theoretical Computer Science presented at the college undergraduate level. The course attempts to describe Computer Science beyond the computer, focusing on mathematical tools, complex systems and classic problems,...