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Minimum Wage
The first ever minimum wage in America was set at 25 cents per hour in 1938 and has been steadily, if slowly, increasing ever since. Using the provided website, pupils decide if the United States should further increase the federal...
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Skin Cancer Investigation: A Multi-Component Project
Students compare the perceived and actual risks of getting skin cancer, while looking at ways to minimize these risks. They may have very little grasp of the severity of the threat of skin cancer or be unaware of the increase in the...
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Interesting Interest Rates
Your young bankers compare earning interest accumulated yearly and monthly to decide which method most increases their balance. Using an exponential function to model the bank balance affords the learners more practice connecting...
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A Saturating Exponential
Your learners analyze the familiar model of a cold beverage warming when it is taken out of the refrigerator. The general form of the equation and its graph are presented. Learners learn about the specific pieces of the function by...
Mathematics Vision Project
Module 2: Systems of Equations and Inequalities
The brother-sister pair Carlos and Clarita need your class's help in developing their new pet sitting business. Through a variety of scenarios and concerns presented to the siblings, the learners thoroughly explore systems of equations...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Factoring Quadratic Expressions
Factor in different strategies in a lesson for factoring quadratics. Young mathematicians first create tables and area models to factor quadratic trinomials into two binomials by guess and check. Learners then investigate how they can...
The New York Times
The One-Question Interview
Generate interest in current events, the theme of a new unit, or a research project. Individuals select a question from the list generated by the class, conduct one-on-one interviews, analyze the responses, draw conclusions based on...
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An Exploration of Cradle-to-Cradle Design Thinking
Introduce cradle-to-cradle design thinking. Scholars first discuss the importance of natural laws and rights. They then use a variety of online and print resources to research eco-efficiency and cradle-to-cradle design.
Consortium for Ocean Leadership
Nannofossils Reveal Seafloor Spreading Truth
Spread the word about seafloor spreading! Junior geologists prove Albert Wegener right in an activity that combines data analysis and deep ocean exploration. Learners analyze and graph fossil sample data taken from sites along the...
National Council of Teachers of English
Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
Budding poets create two acrostic poems, one for their name and another using a word of their choice. Over the course of five days, scholars compose, revise, publish, and share their work with their peers.
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Drawing On Gray Toned Paper
Students create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. The piece creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks recede.
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Successive Approximation and Euler's Method
In this approximation worksheet, students use the Euler's method to interpret a piecewise linear function. They explore why the approximation produced using a smaller stepsize is a better approximation. This four-page worksheet...
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Worksheet 9 Practice Test 1
In this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the differential equations. Then they examine the group of equations in order to determine the ones that are linear.
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Worksheet 4
In this math worksheet, students write down five exact differential equations in symmetric form. Then they test the statements concerning differential equations.
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Numerical Analysis
In this math activity, students examine the concepts of generalizing root-finding algorithms and fixed point iteration. They also practice using the Fixed Point Theorem.
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Numerical Analysis/ Orders of Convergence of a Sequence
In this math worksheet, students examine the concept of orders of convergence for a sequence. They practice finding the different rates of convergence.
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Worksheet 19
In this math worksheet, students use the following descriptions of a spring system to write a differential equation of the form my + γy + ky = F(x).
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Worksheet 8
In this math worksheet, students explore how the use of implicit differentiation does not give the solutions to the differential equation. Then they write the definitions to the vocabulary related to differential equations.
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Calculus and The Simpsons
In this calculus worksheet, students examine a situation form The Simpsons in whcih Bart falls from a tree house. Students write and solve an differential equation that gives the height of the tree house. The...
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Worksheet 17
In this math worksheet, students suppose that a function f and its derivative f1 are continuous and that there are constants K, a, and M such that |f(t)|< Keat for t ≥ M.
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Numerical Analysis: Sequence
In this sequence worksheet, students explore the convergence of a sequence and the rate of a sequence. They explore problems and identify the order of convergence. This three-page worksheet contains approximately six problems. ...
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Worksheet 30
In this math worksheet, students solve the differential equation by means of a power series about the point x0 = 2. Then they find the recurrence relation and the first four terms.
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Worksheet 18
In this math instructional activity, students examine the two springs with spring constants k1 and k2 are attached to a block of mass m. They show the frequency of the oscillations on the frictionless surface.
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Math 155 Review Worksheet 10
In this college level Calculus worksheet, students evaluate indefinite and definite integrals. The two page worksheet contains eight problems. Answers are not included.