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Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Navigating Networks
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students analyze different networks to determine the maximum flow rate of each network. This is done in the context of power plants supplying the community with electricity....
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Absolute Values
This set contains questions about graphs of V - shaped absolute value functions. Students are asked to determine maximum and minimum values, state whether the graph is opening up or down, and solve absolute value inequalities.
Other
P.u.e.m.a.c.: Conceptos Del Calculo
These are interactive examples that illustrate various concepts of Calculus. It goes from real numbers to the maximum and minimum value of functions. Requires Java.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Analysis: Graphing Polynomials
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers finding the minimum(s), maximum(s), end behavior, domain, and range of a polynomial graph. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Analysis: One Sided Limits
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Exploring functions with differing limits when x>0 or x<0. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt...
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Programacion Lineal: Aplicaciones
In today's world practical problems required to obtain the maximum benefits and minimum costs. Learn the part of mathematics which is used to solve those problems with this interactive activity.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Arrange a Party
Students use problem solving skills to calculate the range for a set of data and plan a party for friends.
Other
World Climate
Find out what the climate is like in thousands of places all over the world. You'll not only get the climate, but the latitude and longitude as well!
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Count Your Raisins
In this activity students will create a class line plot using data collected from boxes of raisins. This activity will be used to collect, organize, represent, and describe data using the line plot.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data 2
Students describe graphs and explore range, measures of central tendency, and distribution in this interactive web lesson.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Graphs of Absolute Value Equations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers graphing absolute value functions. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice problems.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Puntos Caracteristicos, Criticos Y Singulares
Use this interactive unit to learn and use analysis tools that allow the location and calculation of the extreme value of a function on a closed interval.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id Haircut Costs
This lesson could be used as an introductory lesson to introduce group comparisons. Being able to use data to compare two groups is an important skill. Young scholars will sketch box plots using the data given about the cost of haircuts...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Box Plot
Students learn about box-and-whisker plots. The interactive box plot allows the user to explore maximum, minimum, median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and outliers.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Linear Programming: Introduction
Linear programming is a part of a very important area of mathematics called "optimization techniques". This field of study (or at least the applied results of it) are used every day in the organization and allocation of resources. Linear...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Far to Your Birthplace
Examine one-variable data analysis through the creation and exploration of a birth place data set. Graphing calculators are used to analyze the data through mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, stem-and-leaf plots and box-and-whisker...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Extremum Test
With this site one may understand how to test a point in a function for a relative minimum, maximum, saddle point, or none of these, by taking derivatives of the function. Explains and performs what is known as the "Extremum Test."
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative Graph 1 [Pdf]
Students use the graph of the derivative to answer questions regarding the original function. Maximum, minimum, concavity, and slope are investigated. The handout is available in PDF format.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Statistics Calculator
Calculate basic summary statistics for a sample or population data set including minimum, maximum, range, sum, count, mean, median, mode, standard deviation and variance.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Iniciacion a La Programacion Lineal
In Spanish. Practice how to find the value of linear functions at the point of intersection and learn how to locate the maximum and minimum value with this interactive activity.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Quartile Calculator
This quartile calculator and interquartile range calculator finds first quartile Q1, second quartile Q2 and third quartile Q3 of a data set. It also finds median, minimum, maximum, and interquartile range.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Mean, Median, Mode Calculator
Calculate mean, median, mode along with the minimum, maximum, range, count, and sum for a set of data.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Optimization the Basics
In this lesson, you learn how to apply the concepts of maxima and minima to any formula that is generated by business, economics, physics, etc. It is one of the most important applications of derivatives and will show up on your AP...
Other
Lincoln Public Schools: Applied Technology & Engineering: Mousetrap Car It's a Snap! [Pdf]
This is an engineering activity that requires students to build a mousetrap car based on certain constraints. Constraints include students having a virtual budget that they use to buy approved parts for their car, the car having...