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Students are introduced to logistic growth curves using a graphing calculator. Lab data includes the number of bacteria over a 20-hour period. The activity numerically approximates the derivative and uses regression to find a curve fitting the data.
Navigator Activity: This is a review of the right triangle in the coordinate plane. Given two lines (2 really nice ones) the students write the equation of the 3rd line to create a right triangle. They find the vertices of the triangle and use the distance formula to find the length of each side. Using these lengths they find the measures of the two acute angles using the trig functions.
This resource gives a capsule biography of Fra Luca Pacioli. It includes portraits and has links to related topics.
Text of Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder."Provides source of the poem, but does not offer any commentary or notes about the poet or the poem. The best part is a link to a comprehensive collection of Herrick's work. Plus, they are presented in a logical manner.
A clickable list to selected full-text works by John Donne, including songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, and satires.
A complete guide to the works of Robert Herrick. Contains the text to a number of works by Herrick.
The resource is a lesson guide that teaches the basic mathematical concepts needed for teaching economics and financial economics. Topics include matrix transposition, matrix inversion, and operations with matrices. Applications of Excel can be used as a tool for teaching this topic.
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains resources about Renaissance Europe including numerous pieces of art from that period with images and lesson plans.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this is a timeline of the history of Mexico and Central America with descriptions, dates and relevant images.
In this adapted ZOOM video segment, cast members get hands-on in the recycling process by using old newspapers to make new paper.
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a seismometer and experiment with different ways to make it register movement.
In this activity, students investigate constructing arrangements of different number of manipulatives into equal groups. They learn to use mathematical language, identify patterns with numbers, recognize the commutative property, and transfer the arrangements made with manipulatives to grid paper.
These 1963 flyers announce the speakers and issues for the March on Washington; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
This resource is a place for exploring, asking questions, finding information, meeting scientists, and learning about marine ecosystems.
This unit teaches students how to become a wise consumer. Some of the topics discussed are income, budgeting, credit, saving, and loans. Five different activities include objectives, worksheets, evaluations, and resources.
Large manipulatives and hands-on activities are used to teach patterns to Kindergarten and Grade One.
This "Exploring Fractions" multimedia site offers a video, an interactive page and a 5 page PDF of exercises as an exploration of improper, mixed and equivalent fractions.
This interactive Java applet allows visualization of line segments and their slopes. The slope and how it is found is given for each line drawn by the user.
Follow steps and examples to see how easy it is to convert from one one unit to another using fractions.