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CA Standards
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NCTM Standards
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Corny Equations With
Computers and Calculators
Students use a graphing calculator, online calculators, and
other tools to explore the profitability of raising corn.
The lesson is most suitable for the end of the first year of
algebra when students have knowledge of using in/out tables,
identifying types of lines, and developing lines of best
fit, equations, and interpreting graphs.
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#8
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Curve Fitting and
the TI-85 calculator
This is a step-by-step guide for using the TI-85 Graphing
Calculator to do scatter plots using data obtained from
sources on the Internet. Some information will model linear
functions and some will be models of exponential
functions.
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#8
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9-12: 1,
3,
5,
6
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A Devious Investigation:
A Lesson in Standard Deviation
This investigation is designed have students develop an
informal understanding of standard deviation by having
students find the mean and standard deviation of their
hometown and comparing them to a town with a similar mean
but a different standard deviation.
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#6,
7
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9-12: 10
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How Popular Is Your
Favorite Site?
Keep track of the counter at you favorite site for several
months. Is it increasing, decreasing, or staying the same in
popularity? Can you find an equation that will allow you to
predict the amount of visitors your site will have in the
months to come?
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#8
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9-12: 1,
3,
4,
5,
6
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I want a credit card--or do
I?
Credit cards seem like a great way to pay for things. It
only takes a small payment each month to buy whatever your
heart desires. You can charge $1,000.00 for the paltry sum
of $25.00 per month. But, will you still be paying when the
thrill is gone?
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#8
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9-12: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5
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On The Line:
Predicting Results; Extending the Probability
Only 2 seconds remain in the big basketball game, and the
Up-State College Tigers are behind by one point.
However, your opponent has been "whistled" for a technical
foul and Upstate will receive two free throws. You're the
coach. Which player should you send to the line to give you
the best chance of winning? What is the probability that
that player will win the game, tie the game or lose the
game? This is one in a series of on-line interactive pages
exploring probability and statistics in real life.
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#1,
#3
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On The Line:
Predicting Results; Probability of Winning
Time has run out in the big basketball game, and the score
is tied. However, Up-State College has the
ball with time out. You're the coach. Which players should
you put into the game to give you the best chance of
winning? This is one in a series of on-line interactive
pages exploring probability and statistics in real life.
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#1,
#3
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Sampling: An Exercise in
Statistics Introduction
This lesson is designed to supplement the chapter on
sampling in an AP Statistics course. (Chapter 3 in Moore's
Basic Practice of Statistics, and Chapter 3 in Moore
& McCabe's Introduction to the Practice of
Statistics). Students use 5 articles from the Internet
to have information about surveys, experiments or
observational studies. The need to see which statistical
terms apply.
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#4
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Tides of
Change
This lessons deals with collecting data, charting data, and
interpreting data, based on the changing ocean tide.
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#3, #5, #6,
#8
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TI-83 Tutorial for
Statistics
An online tutorial designed to teach teachers and students
the uses of the TI-83 calculator for statistical
operations.
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9-12: 10
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Using Computers to
Produce Spreadsheets and Bar Graphs
Using data from the Glencoe Math book, from Internet sources
or data of your own choice, learn what information and
formulas to use to create a spreadsheet and the bar graphs
to show the data pictorially.
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#1, 5,
8
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5-8: 1,
3,
5,
7,
10
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