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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Missing City
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students examine maps of a crime spree in order to figure out if any locations have been unreported. The lesson is not math-intensive and instead forces students to use...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Let's Add Some Trig
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the range of graphs which can be formed by adding and/or multiplying other trigonometric graphs together. Technology use is heavy in this lesson, in that...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Creating Codes
Based off of the hit show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses on getting students to create ciphering codes. These codes are made in two different ways in this lesson: once with addition and once with multiplication. Students in this lesson are...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Less Is More
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this two-part lesson begins by having students try to find the line of best fit for a given set of data (strike outs vs. home runs). The second part of the lesson shows how least squares...
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Texas Instruments: Parabolas: Numb3 Rs: Structural Corruption
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand how changing the values of y=a(x-b)^2+c changes the graph of the associated parabola. This is framed in the context of a bridge jumper, who enters the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Error Correction
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore Hamming Codes, an error correction technique used on slightly unreadable or damaged compact discs. Students see how the Hamming Codes allow a CD player to...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: An Irrational Approach to Music
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of approximating irrational numbers using a continued fraction. For most exercises in the lesson, the values which are to be substituted into...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Lost and Found
Based off the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to chaos theory, and specifically Levy flight paths. These allow students to "trace back" where an object may have originated, given its endpoint. This lesson is...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: That's So Random
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students how apparently random data is not always quite so random. This is done with a standard deck of 52 cards, which students analyze after dealing for randomness. In...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Much Can They Win?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students create data points from given information, plot those points, and then create a line of best fit. This is done in the context of playing blackjack, although the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Markov Chain Links
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity introduces students to the concept of Markov Chains, and shows students how to find the probability of something (dependent) happening in the future, given certain conditions...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Seeing Everyone
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson deals with lattice points, and the visibility of lattice points from other lattice points. The lesson is framed in the context of a leader and his audience, in which every member...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Pack It In
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Knapsack Problem, a discrete mathematics situation in which a knapsack is to be filled with a series of objects, each with various weights, sizes, or...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: I Never Metadata I Didn't Like
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this fun lesson will get students thinking about how lists of seemingly random characters (numbers, letters, etc.) can actually contain some meaning. Many examples are given, and although...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Is It Really Rare?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Poisson Distribution to determine the probability of events happening a certain number of times in a given time period. The lesson is framed in the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Shifting Cells
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of algorithms. Students are at first given a string of cells (one-dimensional), and then told to iterate the cells according to a couple basic...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Reliable Is the Test?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students how conditional probability can be used in the real world and can, in fact, impact them. The lesson is framed around drug users and drug tests (namely, steroids)....
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Birthday Surprise
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Birthday Problem, in which one calculates how many people must be in a group so that a birthday is "probably" shared. The solution to this problem is...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Location! Location! Location!
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to Voronoi diagrams, which split a plane into regions corresponding to distances to given points. The lesson is framed in the context of splitting a city into...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Follow the Flock
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the lesser-studied topic of Flock Theory. The lesson is framed in the context of groups of birds, which follow a few simple rules. By using this algorithm,...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Stylometry
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students analyze two samples of writing to determine who is the author of a third piece of writing. While the actual statistics would be overwhelming for students, this lesson...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students think about fair way to divide a quantity into even parts. Different algorithms are presented, including "I cut, you choose," and students are to choose which...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Maintaining Balance
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students determine center of mass for a series of objects (approximate JENGA blocks), and then to push each level so that it "hangs over" the level below it. Following this,...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sir Models
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand how diseases, epidemics, etc. are tracked by health organizations. Using the SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) model, students track the number of...