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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Box and Whiskers Plot

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an interactive flipchart for ordering the steps for plotting a box and whiskers. It also allows students to determine the minimum, maximum, median, upper and lower quartiles. Students will also...
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Statistics Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Calculate basic summary statistics for a sample or population data set including minimum, maximum, range, sum, count, mean, median, mode, standard deviation and variance.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Quartile Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Relative Maxima and Minima

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given the graph of a function, find all of its relative maximum and minimum points. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Absolute Minima & Maxima (Closed Intervals)

For Students 11th
Find absolute minimum/maximum points of continuous functions over closed intervals.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Absolute Minima & Maxima (Entire Domain)

For Students 11th
Find absolute minimum/maximum points of continuous functions over their entire domain.
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Aplicaciones De La Derivada

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. In this interactive unit learn how to calculate intervals of growth and decay, maximum and minimum value of a function, the intervals of concavity and convexity and the turning points of a function.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens Plotting Sun Spots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students follow in Galileo's footsteps as they examine the nature of sunspot cycles, define solar minimum and solar maximum, and graph data for a solar cycle. Then they will predict the next solar maximum and when the...
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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Quadratic Functions: Problems (1)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The tutorial demonstrates how to use quadratic functions to solve word problems. Some topics discussed are minimum points, maximum points, and vertex. The activity consists of examples with detailed solutions.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Maximizing Your Efforts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use linear programming to solve problems involving maximum and minimum values. They use the Inequality Graphing application to solve linear programming problems.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Navigating Networks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Comparing Perimeters and Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use a graphing calculator to find maximum and minimum values for area and perimeter problems.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Absolute Values

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Funcion Derivada

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. Learn with these interactive exercises the concept of the derivative of a function, calculate tangents to a curve and maximum and minimum values of functions.
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Other

P.u.e.m.a.c.: Conceptos Del Calculo

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Completing the Square: Solving Quadratic Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Purplemath gives several examples which clearly show the process of completing the square to find the maximum and minimum solutions to a quadratic equation.
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Indoor/outdoor Residential Water Use in California

For Students 6th - 8th
Compare data about indoor and outdoor residential water use in northern and southern sites in this infographic from KQED and the California Single Family Water Use Efficiency Study. The accompanying classroom activity helps students find...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Create Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and learn the usefulness of them. Students identify the five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Programacion Lineal: Aplicaciones

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: History of Science and Technology: Weather Instruments

For Students 9th - 10th
A look back in time at weather instruments used in previous centuries. Includes pictures and descriptions of instruments from Franklin Institute's historical collection.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Mean, Median, Mode Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Calculate mean, median, mode along with the minimum, maximum, range, count, and sum for a set of data.
Unit Plan
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Iniciacion a La Programacion Lineal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Derivative Graph 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: An Approach to Calculus: Applications of Maximum and Minimum Values

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a site that clearly and thoroughly explains how to solve applied max/min problems using the first derivative. There are example problems solved, problems for the student to attempt, and answers to the student problems. Point this...

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