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Illustrative Mathematics

US Garbage, Version 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
An interesting example of a discrete function and how it is applies to the real world. This could easily make a good collaborative lesson with an environmental science class. Practice reading a table and drawing a scatter plot make up...
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Curated OER

Latitude

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young geologists generate a graph given a table of values from the context of latitude and percent of the earth's surface north of that latitude. The questions in the activity then focus the learners to a deeper understanding of the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: Discrete Distribution (Playing Card Experiment)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Stats lab, students will work with a set of playing cards and a calculator. They will compare empirical data and a theoretical distribution to determine if an everyday experiment fits a discrete distribution. They will compare a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Challenge New Color of Money

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will read about the changes in the "new money" and then create a graph to represent various combinations of currency produced. This activity provides an excellent example of discrete, real-world data.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Modeling Exponential Decay With a Look at Asymptotes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use sample data to approximate models with the Transformation Graphing Application. They are introduced to the idea of discrete data sets being used with continuous function models. They also identify non-zero asymptote form of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Galton Board

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students find the probability of chips falling into each bin of a Galton Board (also known as a quincunx or Plinko board), and then graphing these data to form a normal curve....
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Applied Mathematics Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Over a dozen topics in the field of Applied Mathematics are explored here. Each link contained detailed explanations of the area in question, along with examples and sketches that both teachers and students will find helpful.

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