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Why Are Hot Things Red?
In this radiation and temperature worksheet, students use 2 methods to derive the Wein Displacement law that shows the relationship between the temperature of a body to the frequency where the Planck curve's value is at its maximum....
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Exploring Transformations
Young scholars investigate functions and their transformations. They move absolute value functions around on the coordinate plane, and then define the transformation and plot the new graph. The table feature of the TI-calculator is used...
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Himalayan Herds: Fractional Exponential Growth
Students solve problems by identifying exponential growth and decay and differentiating between patterns, relation and functions. In this algebra lesson plan, students apply concepts of exponential growth to solve problems.
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Dead Body Math
Students solve the mystery of dead Mr. Potato Head using physics and algebra. They discuss Newton's Law of cooling as it applies to the mystery scenario involving a cooling baked potato as the "victim". They manipulate algebraic...
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Forms Of Relations
Young scholars identify relations and functions. In this algebra instructional activity, students map points and decide whether the mapping is a function or not. They find the inverse and examine relations for functions.
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Finding the nth Term
Students analyze patterns and try to figure out the next term in the sequence. In this algebra lesson plan, students discuss the functions rule and how it works to solve sequences. They practice solving problems and find the nth term or...
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Name That Tune: Matching Musical Tones Through Waveform Analysis
Pupils detect the waveform of musical notes to determine the code for the "safe" in this forensics simulation lesson. They use a microphone and tuning forks along with Vernier EasyData on their graphing calculator to analyze five musical...
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Scatter Plots
In this statistics worksheet, 11th graders analyze different scatter plot graphs for positive, negative and no correlation. They graph their data and analyze it using scatter plots.There is 1 question with an answer key.
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The Reciprocal Function Family
In this Algebra II instructional activity, 11th graders examine the reciprocal function family in the form y = a/(x – h) + k, identifying the vertical and horizontal asymptotes. The two page instructional activity contains...
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Graphing Linear Equations - With Table
Students describe relations and graph linear functions. After studying a geometric shape and a verbal statement, students contrast the differences between the verbal statement and the picture. They determine functions and graph...
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Polynomials Degree and Finite Differences
In this algebra learning exercise, students identify polynomials and state the degree and rewrite it in standard form. There are 32 questions ranging from polynomials to graphing a quadratic.
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Integrated Algebra Practice: Square Roots
In this square roots learning exercise, students calculate the square roots of whole numbers and rational numbers. Seven problems have multiple choice answers. The remaining 13 problems are short answer. One problem involves graphing a...
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Introduction to Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences
Students examine the concept of sequences. Students create a sequence using varied starting numbers, multipliers, and add on values. Students practice determining the starting values to use in order to produce a desired sequence.
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Discovering the Linear Relationship between Celsius and Fahrenheit
Students discover the linear relationship between degrees Farenheit and degrees Celsius. They manually compute the slope and y-intercept of the line passing through points. They convert Celsius to Fahrenheit degrees.
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Table Settings
Fifth graders explore and examine how to make organized lists and find patterns to help them solve problems. They identify, analyze and determine a rule for predicting and extending numerical patterns involving operations of whole...
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Hybrid Vehicles: Cut Pollution and Save Money
Students examine how driving a hybrid car can save money and cut down on pollution. In this hybrid vehicles lesson students complete an exercise that shows them how to work with proportions, percents, dimensional analysis and...
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Tessellations: Geometry and Symmetry
Students examine tesselllations and their geometric properties. They have a better knowledge of polygons, can identify types of symmetry in tessellations. Also students use visulization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to...
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Alike and Different
Students compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different lesson plan, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Students classify object and build ideas about variables....
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Another Way of Factoring
Focusing on this algebra lesson, learners relate quadratic equations in factored form to their solutions and their graph from a number of different aspects. In some problems, one starts with the original equation and finds the...
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The Most Important Property of Logarithms
Won't the other properties be sad to learn that they're not the most important? The 11th installment of a 35-part module is essentially a continuation of the previous lesson, using logarithm tables to develop properties. Scholars...
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Buying Cars/Financing Cars Compound Interest
Provide a real world context in which exponential functions are used to determine a eal world phenomena such as compound interest and exponential growth. This instructional activity should be taught after students have mastered the laws...
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What is Log?
Young mathematicians differentiate between logs and natural logs in this algebra lesson. They solve functions and logarithmic functions. Learners also graph and rewrite the exponential and log functions.
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Monopoly Graphs
Students relate the concepts of linear functions to the game of monopoly. In this algebra lesson, students solve problems with ratio and proportion. They collect data and graph it.
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Math TODAY Challenge - New Color of Money
Students read about the changes in the "new money" and then create a graph to represent various combinations of currency produced.