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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Population Growth Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Avida-ED freeware, students control a few factors in an environment populated with digital organisms, and then compare how changing these factors affects population growth. They experiment by altering the environment size (similar...
Handout
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: Slope & Line Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University has a very substantial discussion of math topics slope & line equations. The outline form is quite useful if you need to zero in on one aspect of...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Lines and Slope: Chameleon Graphing

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Join Joan the chameleon in an exploration of lines and slope. You'll be drawing lines, calculating slope, using equations and more!
Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Math Partners: Statistics and Probability [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Comprehensive unit that consists of lessons and activities designed to help students learn statistics and probability concepts.
Website
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Collaborative Projects: Down the Drain: How Much Water Do You Use?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How much water do you use everyday? Find out in this engaging investigation, where you compare your water usage with your classmates and other people around the world. An exploration filled with lots of math and science that students are...
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Savvas Learning

Prentice Hall Science & Math: Graphing Calculator Help

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides very complete help guides for a variety of graphing calculator models, complete with pictures and step-by-step instructions.
Website
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun Mathematics Lessons

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource has mathematics lessons for different levels, from counting to slope. In English and Spanish.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Axonometry: Applying Complex Numbers to Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Axonometry is an illumination that has students discover relationships between complex numbers and graphing. Students make connections between algebraic and graphical representations of a complex number.
Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Smartgraphs: Equivalent Graphs

For Students 6th - 9th
Students investigate graphs that are equivalent, in the sense that they represent the same data, though they look different because they employ different scales.
Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Smartgraphs: Graphs Tell a Story

For Students 6th - 9th
Students match a word story to the correct set of graphs involving temperature change over time.
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Global Night Sky Comparison

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This inquiry invites young scholars to investigate human impacts on the environment. Specifically, students will examine the relationship between human population, light pollution, and how brightly celestial objects like stars appear in...
Lesson Plan
BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Frog Eat Frog World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using maps and graphs of large data sets collected in FrogWatch, learners will determine the range, preferred land cover, and proximity to water of the American bullfrog to figure out the bullfrog's requirements for food, water, and...
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Other

Bscs: Restoring Oyster Reefs

For Students 9th - 10th
In this self-directed lesson, young scholars use data from the Chesapeake Bay estuary to determine suitable sites for oyster reef restoration. A handout with everything the student needs to complete this lesson is available as a PDF or...
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Other

Bscs: Frog Symphony

For Students 9th - 10th
In this self-directed lesson plan, students use maps and graphs of data to investigate the habitats and time of year and day to hear a full chorus of frogs. A handout with everything the student needs to complete this lesson plan is...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Learning

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learning does not take place only in the classroom. Learning occurs naturally, every day! This KET collection uses original animation and wonderful, visual images to introduce basic concepts of math, science, social studies, art, and...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Seeing Math: Linear Transformer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Transformations of linear functions, with links between the symbolic and graphic forms, can be powerful tools to help students overcome conceptual hurdles in algebra.
Lesson Plan
Cyberbee

Adventures of Cyberbee: Graphing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teacher-directed lesson plan focusing on data analysis, graphing, and probability. Lesson includes a video and engaging spreadsheet activities.
Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Line Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Line graphs are shown and explained here. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a line graph. There are also line graphs with questions and answers available to help you learn how to read them.
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Richland Community College

Richland Com. College: Graphing Systems of Inequalities

For Students 9th - 10th
Thyis site offers problem solving systems and graphing systems of inequalities. Illustrations included.
Interactive
US Department of Education

Nces: Create a Graph: Kids Zone

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Make your own pie, bar, line, area or XY graph with this interactive tool. Look for examples of graphs already created from data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Complete with a graphing tutorial.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Data Sense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site has some interesting ways to collect and evaluate data. There are some activities about note taking, spreadsheets, surveys, and a cool bridge construction project. Teachers may want to use this site as a resource for some...
Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Project Sky Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers will be interested to explore the SkyMath module, and the 16 classroom activities at this site. In this program, students will collect and record real-time weather data to analyze. Data analysis, graphing, number relationship,...
Activity
Robert Schenk, PhD

The Demand Curve

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses demand and the law of demand, and shows how a demand schedule can be transferred onto a demand curve. It also explains how a change in the price of a substitute can cause your original demand curve to shift.
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Robert Schenk, PhD

The Model of Supply and Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows a supply and demand schedule, and constructs a graph using this schedule. It continues on to discuss equilibrium, and then shows a new equilibrium after there has been a change in supply.