Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Art Gallery Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Art Gallery Problem, in which cameras must be placed so that the entire area of a floor can be seen. Students use their graphing calculators extensively...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Heads Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The lesson is a hands-on project. Students will work in pairs to gather various measurements, organizing the data into a provided chart. The measurements will be used to review, reinforce, and introduce skills such as measures of central...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: The Intersection of Two Lines

For Teachers 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is to introduce students to systems of equations. It takes skills and concepts that students know up to this point, such as writing the equation of a given line, and uses it to introduce the idea that the...
Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Limits

For Students 9th - 10th
Beginning with a discussion on continuity, this site introduces the concept of limits. Several examples are presented, some of which allow you to work the problem yourself before seeing the problem. Graphs are included on several of the...