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Rice University: Focus on Your Community
A resource page for teachers and students with lesson plans and varied resources to study your local community.
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Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Stem and Leaf Plots Defined
A nice site for a defintion and example of finding a stem and leaf plot in statistics.
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Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Central Tendency
Click on mean, median, mode, trimean, or trimmed mean to review central tendency.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun and Sun Rent a Car
A wide range of math skills is incorporated into a lesson that involves planning a family's vacation to Florida. Travel expenses are gathered and compared, graphed, and analyzed in hopes of finding the best prices. There are extension...
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Museums Teaching Planet Earth: Hydrosphere
This tutorial looks at the hydrosphere, that component of the earth that is liquid water such as rivers, streams, oceans, and so on.
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Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Chapter 3: Describing Bivariate Data
This chapter of an online textbook begins with a description of scatterplots, then focuses on the Pearson Product Moment Correlation.
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Rice University: Let's Count!
Let's Count is a website that offers opportunities to count lots of different sets of things. You can also view the same website in Spanish.
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Rice University: Writing Research Papers
This site presents information about the necessary parts of a scientific research report. It also contains a sample abstract and introduction.
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Rice University: The Geometry of the Sphere
This site provides you with a table of contents about spheres. It links to topics such as basic information about spheres, area of the sphere, and Girard's Theorem.
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Rice University: Museums Teaching Planet Earth: What Is the Hydrosphere?
Focus is on the hydrosphere and contains the definition as well as characteristics of the ocean and the effect of the ocean on climate.
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Museums Teaching Planet Earth: What Is the Geosphere?
Describes Earth's layers, which make up the geosphere.
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Museums Teaching Planet Earth: Atmosphere
This introduction to the atmosphere details the important properties of the atmosphere: temperature, pressure, and humidity.
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Cynthia Lanius at Rice University: The Million $ Mission
Here's a fun exercise on how to multiply your salary--a sample problem dealing with exponents and money.
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Rice University: Wwii: Bombs and Peace
Students explore the final events and end of World War II, such as the community impact of events like the dropping of atomic bombs and President Roosevelt's death.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography
Can there be a connection between map making and math? Explore the mathematics of cartography in this resource that integrates web-based instruction, mathematical problem solving, geometry, history, and art. Interesting information and...
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Stressed Out: Slope as Rate of Change
This site may be used as a lesson for understanding graphs of functions and goes into slopes of a curve. The site helps students notice when a slope of a curve is increasing and decreasing and general interpretations of graphs.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Hidden Irrationals (Geoboard Lesson)
This site provides a lesson on finding possible irrational numbers using a geoboard.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Geometry Online
This is a site for geometry lovers. Chock-full of puzzles, games, interesting geometry facts, and online activities.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fractals Unit
This site from the Rice University provides a Fractals Unit for Elementary and Middle School Students. Find out what a fractal is and what it looks like. You can value fractals for their visual delight or mathmatical properties. This is...
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Let's Graph
An introduction to bar graphs, both vertical and horizontal in nature. The interactive aspect of this site allows students to change the values of the data - their favorite cafeteria foods - and then see how the graph is changed.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Golden Ratio
This site introduces students to the definition of golden ratio. It gives them a chance to estimate ratios and predict which figures are closest to the golden ratio. There is a link on this page that provides charts for students to...
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Designer Fractions Symmetry
This site takes a look at symmetry, with a special focus on line symmetry. Here you will find a definition, as well as several examples and real-world applications.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Golden Rectangles All Around
This site is a lab sheet that students can use to explore the golden ratio. It also has other informative links on it.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Interpretando Graficas: La Tina Caliente
An example problem in Spanish of interpreting a graph. Gives the student many questions to think about, including slope and if the graph serves as a function. Does not offer solutions or answers. Includes link to the English version.