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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Simpson's Rule

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive site from MathWorld.com explaining Simpson's Rule with links to related topics.
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Other

Numerical Integration: Simpson's Rule

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a description of Simpson's Rule. It includes formulas, examples, and graphs. There are also links to further information.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar by Bret Harte

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the short story "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar" by Bret Harte.
Website
University of Groningen

American History: Presidents: Ulysses Simpson Grant

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains primary source material including Grant's first (1869) and second (1873) Inaugural addresses and eight State of the Union addresses from 1869 to 1876.
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Other

Simpson College: Writing Assistance: Research Papers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides writing assistance to users, including an area about research papers.
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Other

David G. Simpson: The Use of Kennings in Anglo Saxon Literature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an eleven-page PDF research paper on the use of kennings in Anglo Saxon literature. It includes a definition of kennings (a type of metaphor), an outline, the paper, an appendix of kennings and literal translations, and resources.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Simpson's Reciprocal Index: Identify and Compare Habitat Biodiversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this biology field lab, learners will collect insects from two different habitats and use them to quantify the biodiversity of each habitat.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: It All Adds Up to Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lorna Simpson creates evocative works that examine how combinations of pictures and texts create new meanings that do not exist in the images or words alone. This lesson plan explores the concepts she works with, including African...
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Curated OER

Famous American Trials: The Oj Simpson Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
This well-researched site offers a comprehensive study of the 1995 criminal trial of OJ Simpson. Includes not only the law and politics involved in the trial, but also the role of the media and the mass public attention placed upon the...
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Jennie Laura Symons Simpson (1894 1977)

For Students 9th - 10th
Born in Waterloo, Canada, geneticist Jennie Laura Symons Simpson (1894-1977) earned all her degrees from McGill University (B.A., 1917; M.S., 1921; Ph.D., 1925). In 1925 she married biochemist George Eric Simpson (d. 1927) and eventually...
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894 1991)

For Students 9th - 10th
Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894-1991) attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning the A.B. in chemistry in 1915 and the M.A. in 1916. Simpson went on to earn the first Ph.D. in anatomy conferred in the University of...
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Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company: H. H. Fudger

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a brief biography of Harris H. Fudger, president of The Robert Simpson Company Limited (Simpsons), who made his mark on Toronto history in the early 1900s.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Statistics Can Be Misleading

For Students 9th - 10th
Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it that can turn the...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Structure of a Hurricane

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has general information on the structure of a hurricane. There are links to the eye, eye wall, spiral rain bands, and the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Danger Potential Scale.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Programming to Find Area Under a Curve

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how to program the TI 83/84 Plus graphing calculator to approximate the area under a curve using Left,Right,Midpoint Riemann Sums, and Trapezoid Rule, and Simpson's Rule.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Integration

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson puts integration to work. Lessons include integral, derivatives, antiderivatives, and indefinite integrals. The Trapezoidal and Simpson's Rules are highlighted. The examples are enhanced using Live, Math and Scientific...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Derive activity, students investigate the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and explore examples of Riemann Sums for approximating the Definite Integral: the Midpoint Sum, the Left Hand Endpoint Sum, the Right Hand Endpoint Sum,...
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Other

Unisys: Hurricanes/tropical Data

For Students 9th - 10th
There is a table that has links to hurricanes in the Atlantic from 1995, East Pacific from 1997, West Pacific from 1996, South Pacific from 2000, and South India from 2000. This page has a satellite map and the Saffir-Simpson Scale.
Handout
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Oj Trial Johnnie Cochran

For Students 9th - 10th
Short article on attorney Johnnie Cochran (1937-2005), his part in the O. J. Simpson trial, and his defense of other high profile clients.
Interactive
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Numerical Integration Utility

For Students 9th - 10th
The integration tool integrates and graphs functions that student enter into the tool. The tool uses the trapezoidal rule, Riemann sums, and Simpson rule to integrate the function.
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Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Graphing Calculator Programs

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource is a graphing calculator program used for numerical integration. The program uses trapezoid and Simpson approximations. Instructions on how to use the programs are included.
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: "Over There and Back"

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the diary of Private Homer Simpson that he kept during World War I. Entries are dated from April 1918 when he received a notice to report through June 1919 when he was discharged.
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Curated OER

Smashing Apps: Dove: Illustration

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The graphic image shows Marge Simpson in a before and after picture advertising Dove Anti-Frizz Cream.
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University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: History of Mathematics

For Students 9th - 10th
Short selections from W. W. Rouse Ball's "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics," most of which are biographies that focus on the mathematician's work. The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or...

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