Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System: More Students Apply Early
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, "More students apply early," students will explore scatter plots and independent and dependent variables. Students will determine a best-fit regression model for the real-life data set and then use the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Domain and Range
This StudyCard stack uses real-world contexts to teach the concepts of independent and dependent variables, and then domain and range. It includes practical examples at the end.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Forces and Graphing
This activity can be used to explore forces acting on an object, to practice graphing experimental data, and/or to introduce the algebra concepts of slope and intercept of a line. A wooden 2x4 beam is set on top of two scales. Students...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Multiple Linear Regression
Students compare multiple independent variables as predictors of one dependent variable. Students explore correlation and lines of best-fit.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Warming a Solution
In this activity, students use a temperature sensor to measure the temperature of water samples before and after adding washing soda. They understand concepts of dependent and independent variables and study the relationship between them.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Linear Correlation Tutorial
Use examples to determine and explain the linear correlation of independent and dependent variables.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Research Methods: Experimentation in Scientific Research
An explanation of scientific research using variables and controls.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Functions and Their Graphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Functions can be specified in a number of ways. Students concentrate on functions given by equations involving independent and dependent variables and begin to recognize the different forms to find the...
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra
This site is a tutorial for students in algebra 2 or for those who need a refresher. The site has explanations, definitions, examples, practice problems and practice tests are found covering topics such as linear equations, graphing,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Causation
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn about cause and effect in disease occurrence.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motion: Calculating and Graphing Students Walking Speed
In this activity young scholars will collect and analyze data of their walking speed. They will compare their speed to an outside speed walker. They will determine their speed every 20 meters up to 100 meters. They will complete five...
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Trend Analysis
A series of pages that help us understand testing one or more components of a trend using specific comparisons, a set of coefficients, error analysis of variance and the probability value.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Designing a Reaction Rate Experiment
In this activity, students will design, conduct, and report the outcome of an experiment in which they investigate some factor that affects the rate of reaction between baking soda and vinegar. The dynamic nature of the reaction, coupled...
Concord Consortium
Seeing Math: Function Analyzer
The Function Analyzer allows learners to see the connections among three representations of a function: symbolic, area, and graphic. In addition, by allowing learners to change the value of four elements of a function - the coefficient...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Good Scatter Plots
A good scatter plot has the independent variable on the x-axis and the dependent variable on the y-axis. Also, the scale of both axes should be reasonable, making the data as easy to read as possible. In these practice problems, we...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Writing Hypotheses
This informative page describes the true purposes of the hypothesis and how it should be used. Not only shows how they are written, but also helps students figure out the dependent versus independent variable.
Other
Alverno College: Ps Aqua Farm: The Aquafarmer: Your Role in This Lab
Using this simulation become the manager of a real-life fish farming operation. Make money by raising fish manipulating dependent and independent variables.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Mountian College: Introduction to Genetics
This site explains genetic beliefs before and after Mendel, and also includes a section on Mendel himself and his experiments, entitled, "The Monk and his Peas".
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Linear Systems Graph
Learn Alberta helps students visually explore various solutions of systems of two linear equations by allowing students to manipulate lines and view their numeric and graphic solution(s) or absence. The applet identifies the solutions as...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Strengths and Weaknesses: North vs. South
A very good compilation of the advantages and disadvantages of both the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War. The South had the trained officers, but the North had the factories to make rifles. Read about the major...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Exponential Distributions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers exponential distributions. Presents examples using a graphing calculator as well as guided and independent practice questions.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Asking and Answering Questions With Data
This inquiry is intended to provide young scholars with practice developing investigable questions that need data, and specifically large datasets, to be answered. Click the teacher resources link for teaching guides and student handouts.
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Science Experiments
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to scientific experiments.