Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Choose Your Best Way

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Find the best path through town. The lesson teaches future computer programmers about networks and paths in graph theory. They develop a network of their towns to determine the most efficient path to visit each of their homes.
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University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: Discrete Mathematics Graphs

For Students 10th - 12th
A pdf version of lecture notes covering a variety of graphical representations.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Graph Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an introduction and overview of graph theory. In addition to introducing the basic terms, there are related links to classic problems in graph theory such as the traveling salesman problem and Dijkstra's algorithm.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Seven Bridges of Konigsberg

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia site introduces the seven bridges of Konigsberg problem, a classic graph theory problem solved by the mathematician Euler in the 18th century.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Closed Set

For Students 9th - 10th
Site gives four different definitions of a closed set in mathematics. Each of the definitions has at least one link for further clarification. The site also expresses which of these definitions is most commonly encountered.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Edge Connectivity

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of edge connectivity, that relates to vertex connectivity.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Vertex Connectivity

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of vertex connectivity, that relates to edge connectivity.