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Easy as Pi
Students describe the importance of structural features that increase surface area in a coral reef habitat. In this investigative lesson students quantify the impact of modifications on surface area in model habitats.
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Active Wear
Students interpret and analyze data. In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students conduct an experiment in which they investigate which solar collector, black, white, or silver, absorbs the most heat. ...
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Skiers on the Slope
Students explore mathematical concepts, problem solving, and the ability to program in LOGO to test ideas about speed, acceleration, gravity, and slope when dealing with downhill skiing.
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Graphit
No graphing calculator? No worries, there's an app for that! Young mathematicians use an app to graph functions. In addition, they can also plot data points.
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A Steep Hike
Students explore slope. In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students analyze and interpret graphs as they investigate slope as a rate of change. Students use a motion detector to collect data as they...
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Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Second graders develop an awareness of the power of their minds to work with visual images. All the activities in this unit help strengthen visualization that is an important tool or process in Geometry.
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Do You Want To Learn more Aobut QC Planning Tools?
Students explore scientific graphs and charts. They describe the origin of power curves and examine QC procedures. Students calculate critical-size errors that are medically important. They read OPSpecs charts. Students describe the...
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EasyData Reference
Students explore the EasyData. In this secondary mathematics activity, students investigate the screens, menus, and list of types of data collection available with the EasyData.
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Where's My Bot?
Students estimate geographic position based on speed and air travel. In GPS lesson students use GPS to estimate the set and drift of currents.
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What's My Rule? Simple Linear Functions
Students investigate simple linear functions by trying to guess a function rule from inputs and outputs. They write the function rule in algebraic form.
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Graphing With RXTE
Young scholars use data from the Rossi X-ray Tiiming Explorer (RXTE) satellite to analyze and graph.
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Living With Fire
Students identify effects of treatment weather on behavior of a wildland fire. They view simulation game that predicts effects of forest management on fire behavior.