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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Air Hockey ActivityTexas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Air Hockey Activity
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Texas Instruments
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9th - 10th
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Air Hockey

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Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to a couple applications of matrices. Namely, a competition matrix is manipulated so as to rank included players, squared to see how opponents did, and finally new methods of ranking are discussed. As an extension, similar methods are used to rank college football teams.

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competition, matrices

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matrix multiplication, rank matrix, texas instruments, ti, numb3rs, numb3rs: air hockey, matrix, operations with matrices

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

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