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Dog Days or Dog Years?
In need of some algebraic fun with real world implications?Learners use ordered pairs, a table of values and a scatter plot to evaluate the validity of several real world data sets. The class focuses on dog ages in human...
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Learning about Infectious Diseases
All of the activities and worksheets in this unit relate to learning about how infectious diseases spread & how the body deals with them. There is a collection of problem-based learning activities, as well very useful at-home...
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How Do Car Engines Work?
Students perform an experiment which simulates what happens inside an internal combustion engine. They explain how the chemical reaction they witnessed is similar to what happens inside the car engine.
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Skateboard Disaster
Learners conduct a hands-on experiment with collisions between two skateboards of different masses. They are introduced to the concept of conservation of momentum in collisions and consider how their observations might help engineers...
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Sliders - Static and Kinetic Friction
Students work in groups to conduct experiments the demonstrate the differences between static and kinetic friction. They consider how friction affects us in our everyday lives, determine the effects of weight on friction and complete a...
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Wind Energy
Students explore wind energy by making a pinwheel to model a wind turbine. They experiment with their turbine by placing it in different locations for optimal energy.
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TE Lesson: I've Got Issues!
Students study environmental issues from different perspectives. They look at the issues from the view of both preservationists and conservationists as they identify themselves with one group or the other. They determine how teamwork...
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Cleaning Air with Balloons
Students examine how a pollutant recovery method functions in cleaning industrial air pollution. They listen to a teacher-led discussion, conduct an experiment with balloons, static electricity, and pepper, and observe and record the...
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Kidney Filtering
Students investigate how kidneys function. They discuss how a dialysis machine works, and conduct an experiment in which they filter different substances through a plastic window screen, various sizes of hardware cloth, and poultry...
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Two-Cell Battery
Students build their own two-cell battery and determine which electrolyte solution is best suited for making a battery. They discuss background information for their experiment, construct and test their battery, and using the chart on...
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Augmented Matrices
Pupils write systems of equations in an augmented matrix and enter it into their calculator. They use the reduced row echelon function on the calculator to solve the system of equations.
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Chill Out: How Hot Objects Cool
Teach how to explore exponential equations. In this Algebra II lesson, students investigate the graph that occurs as a hot liquid cools. Students model the data algebraically.
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Getting Started with the TI-Navigator™ System: What's My Line?
Learners analyze linear functions in this algebra lesson. They explore the meaning of slope and the slope-intercept form of a line as they investigate the effect changing parameters on the graph of a linear function.
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Rational Numbers
Young scholars investigate rational numbers in this algebra lesson. They graph systems of equations and use technology to find the point of intersection. They need a TI for this assignment.
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Tight Rope
Learn how to explore the concept of linear functions. In this linear functions lesson, students collect linear data from a motion detector. Students walk to create a linear function. Students plot the points on a graph...
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NUMB3RS Activity: Settling The Score
Learn how to investigate matrix multiplication. In this secondary mathematics instructional activity, students examine matrix multiplication in the context of a Homes-Rahe stress test which is similar to the process used to score...
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NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Provenance" - Set the Trap
Learners investigate concept of matrices through iteration in this probability lesson. They investigate probability by creating a lesson based on a famous painting. This assignment contains extensions to the...
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Quadratic Function Investigations
Learners perform investigation of quadratic functions while taking part in the solving of various types of problems. They explore the changes in the coefficients on the quadratic function to observe the patterns. The lesson includes...
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NJ HSPA Cluster 4
Pupils engage in a lesson plan that is focused upon helping them to complete exercises used to prepare for the High School Proficiency Assessment. They look at the patterns seen in algebraic problems and focus upon the cluster areas of...
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Complex Numbers
Students examine complex numbers. In this Algebra II lesson plan, students investigate two programs that involve complex numbers: the MANDELER Program and SYNDIV program.
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Exploration of Trigonometry
Learners explore how changing an angle in a triangle changes the ratio of the sides. They also explore how changing the sides can make changes to an angle in a triangle. Finally, they determine how two different pairs of sides, in the...
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Show Me the Money
Pupils investigate financial applications of mathematics in this mathematics lesson plan. They will investigate equations that represent a company’s income, expense, and profit functions and use those equations to identify break even...
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Confectionery Delight
High schoolers explore the problem of maximizing the volume of a box by making a physical model and observing how changes in the orientation of the paper changes the volume. They use the symbolic capacity of their calculators and...
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NUMB3RS Activity: Riding the Waves
High schoolers use the TI-Navigator system to explore vector fields and make predictions. They also identify what a vector field is and that it represents the movement of water. Pupils try to determine where a bottle floating might have...