ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Sets Through Math Related Book Pairs
After reading two math-related books, students investigate their home and school environments to find examples of objects that come in sets and then create their own books on sets.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: Discrete Distribution (Playing Card Experiment)
In this Stats lab, students will work with a set of playing cards and a calculator. They will compare empirical data and a theoretical distribution to determine if an everyday experiment fits a discrete distribution. They will compare a...
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Understand Discrete and Continuous Data
This site provides students practice with the concept of discrete and continuous data. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Continuous vs Discrete Data
Explore continuous and discrete data and when to use one over the other.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Continuous vs Discrete Data
Explore continuous and discrete data and determine when to use each one.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Discrete Data
Explore the term discrete data and look at examples for further explanation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discrete Random Variables: Expected Value
Compute the expected value given a set of outcomes, probabilities, and payoffs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly or receive hints.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Closed Set
Site gives four different definitions of a closed set in mathematics. Each of the definitions has at least one link for further clarification. The site also expresses which of these definitions is most commonly encountered.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Niels Henrik David Bohr
This resource presents a biography of Bohr, including many personal tidbits, as well as a substantial treatment of his scientific work. Several interesting quotes by and about Bohr are included. It also links to several other sources.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Basic Graph Types
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will review the different types of graphs, and the differences between discrete and continuous data, and between qualitative and quantitative data. They...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Interpreting Functions
During this lesson, students will be introduced to interpreting functions. A function is a relationship between two sets: the domain (input values) and the range (output values).
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Pack It In
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Knapsack Problem, a discrete mathematics situation in which a knapsack is to be filled with a series of objects, each with various weights, sizes, or...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Topology: Topics
A dozen topology topics are listed here for both the teacher's and the student's use. Knot Theory, Bundles, and Topology Structures are just some of the areas which are explored in depth. Detailed explanations and necessary sketches and...
University of California
Geometry Junkyard
An interesting junkyard of geometry findings where people are free to add their own findings and sift through others' interesting additions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Modeling Exponential Decay With a Look at Asymptotes
Students use sample data to approximate models with the Transformation Graphing Application. They are introduced to the idea of discrete data sets being used with continuous function models. They also identify non-zero asymptote form of...