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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Set the Trap ActivityTexas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Set the Trap Activity
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Texas Instruments
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9th - 10th
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Math
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Activity

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Set the Trap

Curated by ACT

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students a real-world application to matrices and matrix operations. Framed in the context of a stolen painting which the thief may hide at different warehouses, students are to use network diffusion probability matrices and repeated multiplication to try to pin down where the stolen painting may be. All edges of the graphs in this lesson are of equal weight.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

linear equations, matrices

Additional Tags

matrix multiplication, network diffusion, probability matrix, numb3rs, ti, texas instruments, systems of linear equations and matrices

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

HSN-VM.C.6

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