Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Close Encounters
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore how "closely connected" a network structure is. Framed in the context of a terrorist cell, students must find which setups would allow organizations to still...
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Texas Instruments: Limits Vertical and Horizontal Asymptotes
This activity explores graphically, numerically and symbolically the vertical and horizontal asymptotes of a rational function through the limit taking capability of the graphing calculator.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Linear Programming Cookie Dough Kits
In this lesson students explore the concept of linear programming. The students model a real life situation with a system of inequalities and then use their graphing calculators to search for a maximum value for an objective function....
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Texas Instruments: Classroom Activities: Parachuting
This activity explores a parachutist and her position, velocity and acceleration. Graphing and calculating these functions will be required.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Topics in Precalculus
Designed to help high school students to learn precalculus, topics include the formal rules of algebra, rational and irrational numbers and mathematical induction.