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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Measuring G

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit, students construct experiments to measure the time it takes a free falling body to travel a specified distance. Students use the touch sensor, rotational sensor, and the NXT brick to measure the time of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Spring Away!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This lab demonstrates Hooke's Law with the use of springs and masses. Students attempt to determine the proportionality constant, or k-value, for a spring. They do this by calculating the change in length of the spring as different...
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Curated OER

Y = (2/3)X 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on slope explains the slope concepts, demonstrates how to use the slope formula, shows how to find slope in horizontal and vertical lines, and how to use slope to find whether the lines through the pairs of points are...
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Curated OER

Y = 2x + 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on slope explains the slope concepts, demonstrates how to use the slope formula, shows how to find slope in horizontal and vertical lines, and how to use slope to find whether the lines through the pairs of points are...
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Lines in the Coordinate Plane Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive study guide highlights the main terms and formulas needed to review lines in the coordinate plane. Examples are included.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Analyzing Linear Functions

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This unit is all about linear relationships and functions.
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Other

Taro: An Application of the Derivative

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a somewhat lengthy site discussing applications of the derivative using a trajectory problem as a template for understanding the concept. The page begins by defining a quadratic equation given three distinct points and then...
Handout
Duke University

Duke University: Intercept of a Straight Line

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at the y-intercept and how to write the y-intercept in point notation.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Symbolic Study of Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will write an equation in slope-intercept form given two points on the line; write an equation in Ax + By = C form given slope and one set of coordinates; and prove lines to be parallel or perpendicular given vertices of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformational Puppet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to reinforce the concepts of reflections and translations by having the students create a virtual puppet using Cabri Jr. As they construct their puppets, students will reinforce their understanding of...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Parallelograms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will move the points on the parallelogram to explore what happens to the slope. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Fen Wetlands

For Students 9th - 10th
Sometimes called rich fens, find out about these saturated environments that are fed with mineral-rich groundwater and occur at low points or slopes in the landscape where the soil surface is intercepted by the water table.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Linear Regression Applet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This applet allows you to plot up to fifty points and it will display a best fit line and give you the slope of that line.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Parallel & Perpendicular Lines From Equation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use your knowledge about the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines to solve some problems. For example, what's the equation of the lineperpendicular to y=3x-3 and passes through the point (-8, -2).
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: What You Need to Know About Immigration Reform

For Students 6th - 8th
Interpret graphs showing changes over time in the percentage of foreign-born US residents and in annual deportations in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use the interactive and look at how...
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan: Lesson 5: Relationships Among Linear Equations, Lines in Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the relationship between algebraic, graphical, and contextual expressions of linear equations.
Activity
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: The Writing Center: Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discussion of common fallacies, along with definitions, examples, and tips on avoiding them.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Mean Value Theorem 3 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The handout investigates the calculus concept that given a section of a smooth curve, there is at least one point on that section where the slope of the curve is the same as the average derivative. The exercise consists of a graph that...
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Mean Value Theorem 4 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The handout investigates the calculus concept that given a section of a smooth curve, there is at least one point on that section where the slope of the curve is the same as the average derivative. The exercise consists of a graph that...
Lesson Plan
Other

Ctte: Geometer's Sketch Pad Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers numerous activities for middle school and high school students to explore using Geometer's Sketch Pad.
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Curated OER

Webmath.com: Graph a Line

For Students 9th - 10th
WebMath.com offers a java applet that allows you to input the slope of a line and a point on the line and gives you the equation, in slope-intercept form, of the line with the given slope that passes through the point. It also includes a...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Climate and Watersheds of the United States, 1868

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1868 of the United States showing physical features, mean annual temperatures, rainfall distribution, watersheds, and principal products in the area. The average annual temperatures are shown by isotherms, with temperatures...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Solutions to Compound Inequalities

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Solve compound inequalities and graph the solution set on a number line.

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