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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Sets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page discusses sets and set theory in mathematics and probability, and it discusses the notation and properties of sets.
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Other

We Are Teachers: How to Do Goal Setting With Your Students This School Year

For Teachers K - 1st
There's no shortage of teachers doing innovative work around goal setting for students. This article is a compilation of favorite resources. Included are books to read to your class, a goal planning worksheet, classroom activities,...
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Other

Earlham College: A Crash Course in Infinite Sets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site aims to provide all essential information on infinite sets in a way the reader will immediately understand.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Decisions and Goals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a graphic organizer that will help students with goal setting. This graphic organizer with also help with understanding controversies, solving dilemmas, and making decisions.
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: History of Set Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This page, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, traces the history of Set Theory as well as the concept of infinity and the infinite set.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Sets and the Venn Diagram

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan offers lots of tools and interactive materials to teach the idea of sets and make use of the Venn Diagram.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Set Notation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains concepts related to set notation and gives examples for each.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.3 Describing Data Sets With Outliers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For certain data sets, such as home prices and household or individual income, is often described using the median instead of the mean. This lesson explores the mean and median in some different situations to help you understand the...
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Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Solutions and Solution Sets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that introduce and define basic ideas involved in solving equations and inequalities and solution sets.
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Beginnings of Set Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of St. Andrews offers a wonderful introduction to set theory that makes the topic interesting and understandable. Includes numerous links to related philosophers, mathematicians, and topics.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sets of Things

For Teachers 2nd
Multiplication sounds cool to second graders, but we have to know what it is first. Creating and counting sets is one way to get there.
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Other

Jeff Miller: Uses of Symbols of Set Theory and Logic

For Students 9th - 10th
This fun personal page offers the history of various symbols in set notation. (The bibliography link is located at the bottom of the page.)
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MsMoney

Ms Money: Joint Financial Goals

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses financial goals for a married couple. It also includes links to worksheets that can be used for planning goals. In addition, menu items on the left side can be clicked for similar topics for other people, such as a...
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Other

Julia Sets, Complex Deterministic Fractals

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's an example of "What a 2 Dimensional Julia Set will look like using modern computers with their sophisticated graphical displays." Gaston Julia published his theories long before computers and as the site's author remarks, "What a...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: The Mandelbrot Set

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore fractals by investigating the relationships between the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets.
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Other

The Iterative Conception of Set

For Students 9th - 10th
Conceptual explanation of set theory and the logical foundations of mathematics. Written clearly and avoids technical notation.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Julia Sets

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter a complex value for "c" in the form of an ordered pair of real numbers. The applet draws the fractal Julia set for that seed value.
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Virginia Tech

Spinning the Web: Setting Up World Wide Web Servers

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides helpful information to anyone wanting to set up a WWW server. Also gives good general information as to how WWW servers operate.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Character, Conflict, Resolution, Setting

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive lesson allows students to study and analyze the text concepts of character, conflict, resolution, and setting in a "Broadcast news," format.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Business & Personal Finance: Module 1: Financial Planning

For Students 9th - 10th
This self-guided course is designed to give you the tools necessary to help manage money and plan for your financial future. Topics discussed are setting goals, making financial decisions, setting a budget, information on careers and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Plan, Save, Succeed! Achieving Financial Literacy Goals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will understand how a budget is created and how it can support good financial decision-making. They will begin to consider the role that saving plays in financial planning.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Composition of Functions: Composing With Sets of Points

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth lesson that explains the notation and terminology of function composition, and demonstrates how to use composition. Successive pages look at composing functions at points, composing functions with functions, word problems...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The World Set Free by h.g. Wells

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the H.G. Wells novel "The World Set Free" about destructive and uncontrollable nuclear weapons.
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Other

The 101 Series: Setting Up a Web Based E Mail Account

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the 101 Series gives a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a web-based email account with Lycos, although other providers are listed.

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