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Shortest Path
High schoolers explore an application of definite integrals. They graph three functions that go through the same three points. Learners use the symbolic capacity of their calculators to find the shortest path through the three points and...
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The Apple Orchard Problem
Students explore various approaches to solving a problem of maximizing the total production of apples in an orchard. In this apple orchard instructional activity, students collect data in order to solve the apple orchard problem...
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Screaming for Ice Cream
Mathematicians investigate maximizing volume by learning to explore the problem in which they seek to maximize the volume of a cone. Students solve the problem symbolically, graphically, and through the use of integration or...
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Studying Checks
While on-line banking and electronic payments seem to be the way of the future, next-generation wage earners still need to understand the details of check writing. Here the focus is on the details of the check including what the...
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Projectile Motion Lab
In this physics worksheet, learners model the position, velocity and acceleration using mathematical formulas and a computer program. Then they interpret the parameters in each of the models. Students also complete the experiment and...
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Related Rates Problems: An Application of Implicit Differentiation and the Chain Rule
In this related rates problem worksheet, students use the chain rule and implicit differentiation to solve related rate problems, such an writing an expression relating to the ripple of a circle. This three-page worksheet contains...
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Supreme Court Confirmation Lesson Plan
High schoolers consider the responsibilities of Senate Judiciary Committee members. In this judicial hearings instructional activity, students participate in a mock Supreme Court Confirmation and discuss the outcome.
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Torque Play
For this physics worksheet, students use torque to explain several very odd phenomena. They write the definition of torque and the relation between torque and change in angular momentum.
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Waves Velocity & Particle Velocity
In this physics worksheet, students examine a single wave pulse which travels down a slinky. Then they sketch a single ring of the slinky as the wave goes by and determine whether the wave is constant or not.
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Numerical Analysis: Dimensional Vectors
In this dimensional vector worksheet, students prove dimensional vectors. They write systems of equations, verify solutions, and sketch graphs of the functions. This two-page worksheet contains approximately ten problems.
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Introduction to Accumulation
In this math worksheet, students work in groups to estimate the area of the ellipses using the grids. Then they estimate the arclengths of the ellipses.
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Race The Rapper: Slopes
Students calculate the slope of the equation For this algebra lesson, students graph coordinate pairs of linear equations and identify the relationship between x and y values and slope. They differentiate between functions and...
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Between The Extremes
Students analyze graphs for specific properties. In this algebra lesson, students solve equations and graph using the TI calculator. They find the different changes that occur in each graph,including maximum and minimum.
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Kinematics of the Planar Continuum Snake Robot
Students calculate the length of an arc that surrounds an angle at the center of a circle of radius. In this kinetic equations lesson students complete a lab and solve a kinematic equation.
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Math: Who Makes an Epidemic?
Learners calculate the threshold value for the number of susceptible people needed to create an epidemic. They examine a real life flu epidemic and use the SIR model to solve the problems. Students discover they can use mathematics to...