Production scheduler Jessi Felde explains how she uses math in her work in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video and then complete an activity involving one aspects of math that Ms. Felde...

The general manager of a fitness center explains how numerical calculations, percentages, and ratios are critical to his job in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explore percentages, fractions, and...

A practical application of the use of the components of vectors with force. Example and general form are both given.

At the bottom of this page from the Georgia State University, you will two real-world applications of the Laws of Sines and Cosines (in the context of velocity vectors.)

Students learn about Newton?s method. Newton?s method is an example of how differentiation is used to find zeros of functions and solve equations numerically. The tutorial consists of examples with detailed solutions.

Composer and ukulele artist Jake Shimabukuro describes the concept of transposing notes in music and how ratios are applied in this video from Center for Asian American Media. Shimabukuro explains how to transpose music written in the...

College professor Dan Bach reviews the basic calculus concepts of limits and derivatives. The site includes examples and animated graphs.

The principal purpose of the task is to explore a real-world application problem with algebra, working with units and maintaining reasonable levels of accuracy throughout. Aligns with N-Q.A.3, N-Q.A.1, and N-Q.A.2.

The purpose of this task is to give an application arising from a real-world situation, determining braking distance, in which a quadratic equation arises. In this scenario, it is natural to use a graphical method to find an approximate...

Students use ratios to answer four questions about rates in situations involving unusual units in this performance task.

A video presentation covering the history and evolution of statistics, as well as this area of math's link to our everyday world. View simple examples, including the application of statistics in the business world. [28:36]

This video, from Khan Academy, is about modeling different things with differential equations and this topic is well explained by modeling population.

Remember, anti derivative of acceleration with respect to time is velocity and anti derivative of velocity with respect to time is distance where acceleration, velocity, distance are all functions of t, the time. This concept is very...

The downloadable monograph investigates the electrification of Los Angeles. Topics include scientific principles associated with major technological advances in electrical power production.

Calculate expected values and then use them to make decisions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Using this infographic, learn how wage equity today compares with data from 50 years ago, at the dawn of the equal pay movement. The accompanying classroom activity invites students to explore the change in the gender wage gap from 1965...

Understand how trigonometric functions can model periodic behavior. See the application of periodic behavior, amplitude, frequency in sound waves. Make sure to turn up your sound to load an audio file to play the given tone of the...

This is a mathematical modeling task aimed at making a reasonable estimate for something which is too large to count accurately, the number of leaves on a tree, taking into account the tree size and the density of the leaves. Aligns with...

This task provides a real-world context for examining the power of exponential growth and decay. Students experiment, at the macro level, using scotch tape to pull a chip of graphite apart into two pieces. They are asked to find about...