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Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the television show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Kaept'n Blaubaer
This site from the German TV show Kaept'n Blaubaer includes games, contests, and basic learning activities.
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Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Csi: The Experience
Based on the CSI television show, this series of four role-playing games helps students learn the scientific method and try their hand at solving crimes. Discover if you have what it takes to be a forensic scientist.
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Disney Junior: Play App
Welcome to the magical world of Disney Junior Play featuring your favorite Disney Junior characters all in one place! Loads of exciting TV shows, games, puzzles, sing-along videos, dress-up fun and sticker book scenes. The 'Disney Junior...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Shifting Cells
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of algorithms. Students are at first given a string of cells (one-dimensional), and then told to iterate the cells according to a couple basic...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Truth or Dare
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson present a series of five logic puzzles, most of which include the classic "liars and truth-tellers" format. On the teacher's page, sample leading questions are presented to help...
A&E Television
History.com: 8 Ways the Original 'Star Trek' Made History
When "Star Trek" premiered on NBC in the fall of 1966, it promised "To boldly go where no man has gone before." More than half a century later, it has done just that. The original "Star Trek," which lasted for only three seasons, birthed...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guess My Type or Lose
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students take a greater look at tree diagrams, especially in relation to decision making. Game theory figures in on this lesson, as students try to determine which choices...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: To C or Not to C
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Iterated Prisoner Dilemma, an interesting problem in the realm of Game Theory. Two prisoners are separated and given the opportunity to either "rat out"...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Party of Six
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson use graph theory to examine social network analysis. Students form complete graphs with different colored edges (representing acquaintance or non-acquaintance), and determine how...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students think about fair way to divide a quantity into even parts. Different algorithms are presented, including "I cut, you choose," and students are to choose which...
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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: Numb3 Rs: A Bit of Basic Blackjack
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson explores a little probability in the world of the card game Blackjack. While gambling is not mentioned or used in the lesson, students do find the probability of attaining a...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Percolation Theory
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the chaotic topic of Percolation Theory, in which the major question is "Can you get there from here?" Students use their calculators extensively in their...
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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...
PBS
Pbs Nova: Flying Casanovas
Here's another great website that is a companion to a PBS television series. This time the show was called "Flying Casanovas" and the topic is bowerbirds. A lot about courtship and behavior in these bird groups. There's even a matching...