Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rational Functions: Predicting the Effects of Parameter Changes
Given parameter changes for rational functions, students will be able to predict the resulting changes on important attributes of the function, including domain and range and asymptotic behavior.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Method of Variation of Parameters
This lesson shows how to solve a nonhomogeneous second order linear equation using variation of parameters and the Wronskian method.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Procedures With Parameters
Practice using procedures with parameters for computer programming.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Procedures With Parameters
When programming, we use procedures to make our code more reusable and to better organize our code. Often-times, we pass parameters to a procedure so that we can change the output of the code.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Procedures With Parameters
Practice defining procedures with parameters for programs in the AP CSP pseudocode, in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Self Driven Particle Model
An interactive tutorial that introduces the particle model incrementally and depicts the computation of the order parameter, critical parameter, and critical exponent.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Reese's Pieces Activity: Sampling From a Population
Students use Reese's Pieces to investigate the proportion of orange candies present in a set of 25. After collecting data for the class, they use a web applet to collect more data for random samples. This is compared to the actual...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Math World: Hexagon
Gives a detailed overview of hexagons, particularly of regular hexagons. Be sure to use the links for unfamiliar notation or variable representation. This site gives formulas for inner radius, circumradius, parameter, and area of a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: One Dimensional Noise Practice
In this five-problem quiz/practice,students find the parameters to match a pattern generated using 1D noise. They can move the numbered control points up and down to change their value, and use the sliders to change the number of...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Bryan Winston, Contesting Immigration Incarceration
This article focuses on an example of Enrique Betancourt, a Mexican immigrant who was incarcerated for larceny and was released in an unusual manner. This case shows how both Mexican migrants and Mexican officials initiated deportations...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Spring Mass System With Support Springs
In this activity, students practice changing the parameters in the simulation below. What sort of hairstyles can you make?
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Construction Tools: Interactive Function Graphs
Students draw a dynamic graph of the quadratic function with interactive parameters. They understand that there is only one graph of the function that changes dynamically as the values of the parameters change.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of a Quadratic Function
In this activity, you will change the parameters of the function and determine the effects on its graph and its vertex.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Behaviors Rational Functions
This StudyCard set teaches and tests on the rational function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the rational function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 7.1.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of the Quadratic Function
Students explore the vertex form of the parabola and discover how the vertex, direction, and width of the parabola can be determined by studying the parameters. They predict the location of the vertex of a parabola expressed in vertex form.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Behaviors Square Root Functions
This StudyCard stack teaches and tests on the square root function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the square root function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch....
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Behaviors Linear Function
This StudyCard stack teaches and tests on the linear function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the linear function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 2.3, 4.1.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Behaviors Exponential Function
This StudyCard stack teaches and tests on the exponential function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the exponential function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 6.1.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring Quadratic Data With Transformation Graphing
Students practice with the parameters of the vertex form of the parabola and their effect on the shape of the curve. They use this concept to find a quadratic model. They also use translation and dilation to change the general parabola.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Quadratic Function Investigations
Use the interactive activity below to explore the effect of the parameters a,h,and k on the graph of the general quadratic function f(x) = a(x - h)^2+k.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Reforestation
In this activity, students learn to solve a real-world environmental problem. They learn how to use the parameters of the final product to work out a reforestation plan.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Behaviors Quadratic Functions
This StudyCard set teaches and tests on the quadratic function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the quadratic function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 2.5, 9.1.
Richland Community College
Richland Community College: Parametric Equations
This is a discussion of how to graph parametric equations, how to enter them into your calculator, and how to eliminate the parameter. The site has examples to help clarify the concept of eliminating the parameter.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Schwarzschild Light Impact
Visualization using the Schwarzschild metric, showing the path light travels near a black hole. Adjust the impact parameter and observe effective potential well of the light particle.