Curated OER
Absolute Maximum and Minimum
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts of absolute maximum and minimum while solving for absolute extrema. They solve example problems that are used for direct instruction, guided practice, and independent...
Curated OER
the Max And Min of a Capt'n Crunch Box
Students use knowledge of area and volume to explore minimum and maximum. They create models and determine a "best" shape for getting the maximum volume or minimum area.
Curated OER
Design-a-Lesson-Packaging a Product
Students in a teacher education class address consumer related issues involving packaging. Using volume, surface area and graphs, they create a package for a given volume of a product. They design modifications for this lesson and to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Data Clusters to Find Hacker
The CyberSquad searches for Hacker's castle based on a survey of where town residents have last seen him in this video from Cyberchase.
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: Maximum and Minimum Points
An explanation of how to find maximum (or minimum) point of a quadratic equation, including graphs to enhance understanding. Includes several examples/exercises, with solutions on the page.
University of California
University of California: Maximum/minimum Problems
The following problems are maximum/minimum optimization problems. They illustrate one of the most important applications of the first derivative.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Maxima and Minima
Very good site explaining the maxima and minima. The site has examples and definitions along with links to help the student through the process.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Maximum, Minimum, Increasing, Decreasing
This StudyCard set is a teaching activity that uses real-world contexts to assist students in understanding the concepts of maximum, minimum, increasing, and decreasing.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Functions and Their Extrema
Model the trajectory of the longest home run ever hit while studying extrema of functions on the TI-89. Another real-world problem in this activity involves minimizing the amount of tin used in a cylindrical tank. Following the worked...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Find Minimum and Maximum
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to find the minimum or maximum and the zeros of quadratic functions.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data 2
Students describe graphs and explore range, measures of central tendency, and distribution in this interactive web lesson.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Arrange a Party
Students use problem solving skills to calculate the range for a set of data and plan a party for friends.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Aplicaciones De La Derivada
In Spanish. In this interactive unit learn how to calculate intervals of growth and decay, maximum and minimum value of a function, the intervals of concavity and convexity and the turning points of a function.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Programacion Lineal
In Spanish. In many applications in industry are situations which require maximizing or minimizing some functions that are subject to certain limitations. With this interactive activity you can learn how linear programming can solve...
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Problemas De Optimizacion
In Spanish. Apply your Calculus knowledge using interactive activities to solve optimization problems.
Other
Increasing, Decreasing, Maximum and Minimum Functions
This site provides a portion of a textbook that explores increasing and decreasing functions. Students are provided examples and then have practice problems they can attempt to master the concept.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Algebra: Use the Completed Square
Students learn about the concept of completing the square by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Mean Grade 6
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Determine the mean, or average, in a given set of data.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Median Grade 6
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Determine the median in a given set of data.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Range of Spread/dispersion
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Determine the range of a given set of data.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Drawing a Box Plot
Learn how to represent the Five-Number Summary graphically using a box plot.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id Haircut Costs
This lesson could be used as an introductory lesson to introduce group comparisons. Being able to use data to compare two groups is an important skill. Students will sketch box plots using the data given about the cost of haircuts for...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Linear Programming: Introduction
Linear programming is a part of a very important area of mathematics called "optimization techniques". This field of study (or at least the applied results of it) are used every day in the organization and allocation of resources. Linear...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Graphs of Absolute Value Equations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers graphing absolute value functions. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice problems.