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Marine Mammal Diving Reflex

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders discuss marine mammal diving reflex, and measure pulse rate while holding their breath under three conditions: control, warm water, and ice water to determine if humans exhibit marine mammal diving reflex.
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Famous Public Properties

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and use the commutative properties of addition and multiplication, associative properties of addition and multiplication, and the distributive property of multiplication over addition.
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Understanding Equations of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pupils write equations for different functions. For this algebra lesson, students observe data and find the function that goes along with that data. The identify the line of best fit.
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Monitoring Oxygen Level

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students measure oxygen percentages in room air and air exhaled after they perform various activities. They explore various websites, and record and analyze the data from the experiments.
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Technology - Chaos Theory Lab

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders gain an understanding of Chaos Theory that exists in one's everyday environment.
Worksheet
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The Babylonian Algorithm, Limits and Rates of Change

For Students Higher Ed
For this successive approximations worksheet, students use the Babylonian algorithm to determine the roots of given numbers. They identify the limits of a function, and compute the rate of change in a linear function. This two-page...
Lesson Plan
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Modeling With Circular Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore circular functions. They identify the amplitude, period, phase shift and vertical shift of circular functions. Students analyze phenomena described by sine waves and they find mathematical models for transforming images of...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of the Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the changes in a graph of a quadratic function that occur when different transformations are applied to the vertex form of the equation. Students will need to have the transformation graphing application on their TI-83+...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Probability, Simulations, and Probability Distributions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use simulation on the TI-83 graphing calculator to teach students about the distribution of sample proportions, distribution of sample means, the Central Limit Theorem, normal probability plots, and the Law of Large Numbers. Pick and...