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Illustrative Mathematics

US Garbage, Version 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
An interesting example of a discrete function and how it is applies to the real world. This could easily make a good collaborative activity with an environmental science class. Practice reading a table and drawing a scatter plot make up...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Fishing Adventures 2

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
This resource is part of a series which expects participants to be familiar with graphing inequalities on a number line. It is a word problem that asks your class to graph a discrete solution set and interpret it in the context of an...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Fishing Adventures 1

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Often inequalities exist in many real-world contexts but young math learners struggle with understanding how to represent that relationship in a simple equation using an inequality. This activity focuses on the basic concepts by using...
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Curated OER

Latitude

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young geologists generate a graph given a table of values from the context of latitude and percent of the earth's surface north of that latitude. The questions in the activity then focus the learners to a deeper understanding of the...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Discrete Mathematics Topics List

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough list of topics in the study of Discrete Mathematics. Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Point Lattices are three of the many areas given in-depth explanations here. Many of the links contain discussions of the topics that both...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Graph Theory Activities

For Students 9th - 10th
This series of activities incorporates the concept of graph theory into the discrete mathematics classroom. Students work in a group to solve problems using graph theory.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice: Discrete Mathematics and Probability

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice using your graphing calculator for factorial, combination, and permutation expressions. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View Solution button, which is located directly under each problem.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Inequality Graphing App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity investigates the use of the Inequality Graphing App of the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus to solve a linear programming problem.
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Other

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Games on Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn to understand graphs and graph theory by playing games from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The site also provides definitions and related links.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guarding the Goods (Part I)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Art Gallery Problem, in which the number of guards necessary to guard a two-dimensional space (the "art gallery") must be found. This lesson keeps the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Art Gallery Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Art Gallery Problem, in which cameras must be placed so that the entire area of a floor can be seen. Students use their graphing calculators extensively...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guarding the Goods (Part Ii)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Art Gallery problem, in which guards must be placed so that an entire area is guarded. This lesson may be used concurrently with Guarding the Goods...