Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: I, It, Itera, Iteration
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the notion of Brownian motion and has students graph a sample Brownian particle. In Brownian motion, each "step" depends on the "steps" taken previously,...
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Texas Instruments: Rational Timer
Students use the calculator to play a game that requires them to convert numbers to fractions, decimals, or percent quickly and accurately.
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Texas Instruments: Solve It! App
This App helps students develop mental math skills through structured play activities. Students progress from simply filling in missing values to actually finding both a number and an operation to make a true sentence.
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Texas Instruments: Hey, That's Not Fair! (Or Is It?)
In this activity, students can use the calculator to simulate the dice rolls to play two different games. They will decide if the games give each player an equally likely chance of winning. They also compute the probability of an event...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Fours and Sevens, Oh My!
Based off the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of random numbers and shows how human-generated random numbers are not always "really" random. This is done by framing the lesson in terms of...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Chase
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students develop the concept of pursuit curves, in which one object moves according to the movements of another object. This lesson is framed in the context of an officer...
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Texas Instruments: The Factor Game
In this activity, the teacher and students play a game which involves identifying the factors of a number.
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Texas Instruments: Match the Graph (Linear And/or Absolute Value)
The students will follow instructions on slope and linear functions, with playing match the graph on the TI-Navigator. Several digital pictures are provided, or you could find your own!
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Texas Instruments: Percent Square
In this activity, students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game and explore fractions, decimals, and percents. They are shown a hundred square grid with different number of squares colored and are required to...
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Texas Instruments: Parabolas: Numb3 Rs: Structural Corruption
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand how changing the values of y=a(x-b)^2+c changes the graph of the associated parabola. This is framed in the context of a bridge jumper, who enters the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Much Can They Win?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students create data points from given information, plot those points, and then create a line of best fit. This is done in the context of playing blackjack, although the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Risky Business
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore odds ratios and risk ratios. Framed in the context of a possibly contaminated playground on which children who play show signs of toxic exposure, students...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sir Models
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand how diseases, epidemics, etc. are tracked by health organizations. Using the SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) model, students track the number of...
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Texas Instruments: Rational Match
Students use the Rational Number Rampage application to play a game to find numbers that are equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents.
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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: Guess My Coefficients App
Students play a game to identify the correct equation for the graph displayed. Through the game setting, they review graphs and equations of linear, quadratics, and absolute value functions.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Art Gallery Problem
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...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Music for Kids: Basics of Playing the Guitar
On this site, students can learn the basics of playing the guitar. They can learn how to hold and play this musical string instrument.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Music for Kids: Listen, Play, Learn
On this site, students learn about brass, string, and woodwind musical instruments. Listen to tunes, discover artists, and find out how music and notes work.
Arizona State University
Arizona State University: Why Was the Valve Invented?
Dr. Ericson holds firm to his beliefs that the valve was not invented as "a mere crook changing device." Dr. Ericson embraces the idea that the "co-inventors of the valve clearly intended to perfect the brass instruments by making them...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Students will enjoy this interactive website. There are many musical topics to explore while having fun. Learning how to make your own instrument, playing games and listening to music are just a few of the things you can do here.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Students will enjoy this interactive website. There are many musical topics to explore while having fun. Learning how to make your own instrument, playing games and listening to music are just a few of the things you can do here.
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University of Vermont: The String Pedagogy Notebook
A great resource for teachers, students, and performers of string instruments. Very indepth "how-to" descriptions, care information, procedural movies, and more.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Games
Help the Sesame Street characters while completing various early learning tasks. Students will develop language, reasoning skills, and independence as they play the games provided.