Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Word Roots and Prefixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At this website, there is a large chart that "Contains some of the common roots and prefixes that make up the building blocks of numerous English words." Columns for roots/prefixes, meanings, and examples are included.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
You will learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Finding the Roots of a Cubic Equation Math History

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Derive activity, students understand how the software solves cubic equations and relate it to contributions made by del Ferro, Tartaglia, and Cardan in finding the method of solving cubic equations.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Quadratic Equation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This MathWorld site shows how to derive the quadratic formula.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: That's Greek

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Did you know that at least half of the words in the English language are derived from Greek and Latin roots? Students use these roots to grasp meaning of words before looking them up in the dictionary....
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Newton's Method

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides an example demonstrating the iterative method of finding the roots of a function using derivatives.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cubic, Zeros and Tangents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use CAS to prove a theorem regarding cubic functions, their zeros [roots], and tangents to the curves.
Activity
Help Algebra

Help algebra.com: Quadratic Formula

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This presentation of the quadratic equation includes a discussion on the discriminant and a derivation of the quadratic formula.