- Twenty Tosses (TEAMS) - Jeannie Toshima; TEAMS Distance Learning, Los Angeles County Office of Education
Toss a coin twenty times, and share class results. Students predicted how many heads or tails they might get if they toss a coin 20 times; tossed coins 20 times and recorded their results; compared their predictions with the actual results; teachers collected
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- Undergraduate Mathematics Resources (COMAP) - Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications
Products developed in print, video, and multimedia formats, supporting the NCTM Standards. College undergraduate resources include real world mathematics texts and resources in print, video, software, and student contests. Products: Principles and Practices
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- Utilizing the Graphing Calculator in the Secondary Math and Science Classroom - Region IV Education Service Center, Houston, Texas
Step-by-step Flash illustrations on the use of Texas Instruments' TI-83+ graphing calculators and data collection devices such as the calculator based ranger (CBR), Graphlink, and calculator based laboratory (CBL).
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- Vernier Software - Vernier Software
Products and services for classroom data collection. Calculator-Based Laboratory System (CBL) products, such as motion detectors, accelerometers, colorimeters, radiation monitors, and other sensors and curricular materials, allow students to collect and
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- ViSta: the Visual Statistics System - Forrest W. Young
ViSta features visual tools for revealing structure in data; for showing the results of statistical analyses; for guiding the analyst through an analysis; and for structuring the analyst's data analysis process. ViSta is designed for a wide range of users,
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- Visualization of Complex Dynamical Systems - Visualization and Animation Group, Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology
Software or technical reports to download (in gzipped PostScript format) related to the graphical representation of complex dynamical systems.
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- Waldomaths - Ron Barrow
Original applets on number, algebra and graphs; shape, space and measure; probability and data handling, including histograms; investigative tools (quadratic and cubic sequences); core (pure) mathematics; decision mathematics (network graphs and linear
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- Water Tidbits: Questions and Answers - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Topics covered include: Water use in the United States, USGS water data and measurements; Water use in your home; Chemistry and water. Links to other sites about water.
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- WAVE: Web Access Virtual Education - University Laboratory High School; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Illinois WAVE Project provides Mathematica Tutorial notebooks categorized as pertaining to Algebra, Applications, Calculus, Conics, Geometry, Pre-calculus, Statistics, or Trigonometry, for use in the high school mathematics curriculum. From the University
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- Weather Plots (MSTE) - John Meseke; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Students use current weather data to observe and answer questions about the relation between temperature and humidity.
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- Weather Underground - University of Michigan
One Sky, Many Voices: resources for collaborative study of current weather events for K-12 classrooms, after-school groups, and at-home learning. Gather data on weather information on the Web, current conditions around the world, historical weather patterns,
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- Welcome to WebDice! (MSTE) - Nicholas Exner; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
A Java applet that simulates the rolling of a set of dice. Use the pull-down menus to set the parameters for the trial.
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- What on Earth is Greater Than? - Ric Cooley; SCORE Mathematics
Students use deductive reasoning skills to compare and place in order planets according to size. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics Lessons.
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- Whelk-Come to Mathematics: Using Rational Functions to Investigate the Behavior of Northwestern Crows (i-Math Investigations) - Illuminations; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
An online, interactive, multimedia math investigation in which students use rational functions to explore the possible reasons behind the observation that northwestern crows consistently drop a type of mollusk called a whelk from a height of 5 meters.
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- Where do I want to live? - Jorretta Folley; SCORE Mathematics
Part of a larger Social Studies Project. Students use a variety of Internet sources to gather income and population data. They then use the data to compare states and make decisions. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California
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- WhizGraph - a program for data analysis and graphic presentation on your Mac - Hans Timm
WhizGraph is a data analysis and graphic presentation shareware program for the Macintosh. It combines professional graphing and versatile layout options with clear data management and comfortable macro calculation. The website provides more specifications,
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- Wildlife Trade: Buyer Beware - Shelly Peretz, Thornridge High School, Dolton, IL
Collecting and analyzing consumer values, attitudes, and beliefs regarding wildlife trade and endangered species: a project that demonstrates the feasibility of integrating learning strategies, math, social studies and science within a traditional high
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- World's Fastest Man - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The 1998 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records features an article about Donovan Bailey, billed as the fastest man alive. The article begins: "Canadian Donovan Bailey rocketed into the record books when he set a new world mark of 9.84 seconds
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- Yellowstone Caldera - Tina DeBuff; Harlowton High School, Harlowton, MT
This Webquest for high school math and science students requires that they make predictions based on historical data about volcanic activity and damage related to the Yellowstone Park Caldera.
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- Zero-Knowledge Proofs - John Scammell
"Random thoughts about teaching math" from a high school math consultant who taught math for 18 years prior. Scammell's blog posts, which date back to May, 2010, have included "Lecture Method vs. Peer Instruction," "Mozart’s Dice Game," "Let the Kids
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- Z Systems, Inc.
Developers of data analysis, acquisition, and visualization software. Evaluation copies available for download. Graphing and data analysis software includes Graph++, a graphing application that evaluates equations and mathematical functions graphically.
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- Zunzun.com Online Data Modeling - James R. Phillips
Curve and surface fit 2D and 3D data online with a rich set of error histograms, error plots, curve plots, surface plots, and contour plots. The site also has a "Function Finder" to help determine the best equation to fit data.
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