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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Waxing Elliptical
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the ellipse, especially it's foci. Students create an ellipse on wax paper by repeatedly folding a circle to meet a chosen internal point. When finished,...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Crowded Ballroom
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore various methods of estimation. Framed in the context of a ballroom dance, students are to determine approximately how many people fit in the ballroom. A...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Prime Time
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand the Goldbach Conjecture (any even number greater than four can be written as the sum of two odd prime integers). Students explore how many pairs of odd...
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Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: When Does 1 + 1 Not Equal 2?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson will get students thinking outside the box about situations in which 1 + 1 is not necessarily equal to 2. Examples includes dozens of eggs and distances which are perpendicular.
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Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Fly Zone
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students calculate the probability that a spider web will catch a fly. The webs are modeled as standard geometric figures (circle, rectangle, triangle), and assumptions are...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Straddling Checkerboard
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to a ciphering technique called the Straddling Checkerboard. In such an encryption scheme, all messages are turned into a series of numbers for transmission....
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sudoku Puzzles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson concerns Sudoku puzzles and Latin squares, as well as their relationships and differences. Students learn about both of these puzzles, and hopefully become hooked in the logic...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Code Crackers
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to simple methods of cryptography, most notably the Caesar cipher. By sliding the alphabet a certain number of spaces, students code and decode messages, and...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Tall Is the Criminal?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to lines of best fit and their applications. While the extensions delve into correlation, the main lesson focuses only on collecting data, creating a...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dialing Ben
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students try to discover if there has been a significant change in cell phone use over the course of ten days. If so, this "change point" can be detected by creating a line of...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Tic Tac Toe
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses more on logic and deduction than on formal mathematics. The game of tic-tac-toe is simplified and given different variations, and in each variation students are to...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs How to Get a Date for Episode
Students will learn how to estimate time of death by using a lab that models carbon dating and radioactive decay. Activity pages complete with calculator keystroke instructions and screenprints are included in this lesson plan based on...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Traveling on Good Circles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this high-level math lesson has students delve into the topic of Great Circles on a sphere (specifically, the Earth), in order to find the shortest distances between locations. Students will...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Mapping Fireprints
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this diverse lesson has students perform linear regression analysis (to compare two fire variables), check three-dimensional points using a planar equation, and evaluate points to determine...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guarding the Goods (Part Ii)
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Art Gallery problem, in which guards must be placed so that an entire area is guarded. This lesson may be used concurrently with Guarding the Goods...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guarding the Goods (Part I)
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Art Gallery Problem, in which the number of guards necessary to guard a two-dimensional space (the "art gallery") must be found. This lesson keeps the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Critical Maths
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to critical path analysis (CPA), in which tasks are broken into subtasks with prerequisites. In such a situation, subtasks must be completed in a certain order...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs Season 2 "Convergence" Where Is the Bullet?
Charlie uses parametric equations of projectile motion to figure out where to look for a fired bullet in the "Convergence" episode of the show NUMB3RS. The lesson plan includes a student page complete with keystroke instructions for the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Eyes Have It
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson lands students as investigators who must explore the usefullness of iris scan (security) algorithms. In the first part of a lesson, a given probability is used to determine how...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Pythagorean Expectation
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this interesting lesson has students use sabermetrics (the study of statistics in baseball) to determine the expected winning percentage for a team, given the runs scored and runs allowed....
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sabermetrics
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to lesser-known statistical analyses. The focus of this lesson is sabermetrics, a statistical procedure used to measure a baseball player's worth or the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Choosing Contenders
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students two different ways to "normalize" scores: by applying a created scalar factor so that all scores have a mean of one, or by using z-scores. Students are walked...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Angling for Distance
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students manipulate the vector component equations in order to maximize distance for a given initial velocity (using the launch angle as the variable). In an extension,...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Air Hockey
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to a couple applications of matrices. Namely, a competition matrix is manipulated so as to rank included players, squared to see how opponents did, and finally...