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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Konigsberg Bridge Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the world of Graph Theory, by having them explore the Konigsberg Bridge Problem. Through this lesson, students will be able to determine if Euler paths...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Shaken, Not Stirred

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson extends upon the classic Handshake Problem (in which everyone at a party shakes hands with everyone else -- how many handshakes were there?) by not allowing guests to shakes hands...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Party of Six

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson use graph theory to examine social network analysis. Students form complete graphs with different colored edges (representing acquaintance or non-acquaintance), and determine how...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: It's All Connected

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson uses students' knowledge of graph theory (networks) to introduce two measures of centrality (how connected a particular node is to the entire network), known as degree centrality...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Restaurant Rankings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson combines the topics of graph theory and matrix multiplication in order to see the path of customer referrals to different fictional restaurants. Students create a matrix based off...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Navigating Networks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students analyze different networks to determine the maximum flow rate of each network. This is done in the context of power plants supplying the community with electricity....
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: All Shook Up

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson is an extension on the classic Handshake Problem, in which one discovers how many handshakes have taken place among a group of people (assuming each person shakes everybody else's...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Seven Bridges of Konigsberg

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia site introduces the seven bridges of Konigsberg problem, a classic graph theory problem solved by the mathematician Euler in the 18th century.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Graph Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an introduction and overview of graph theory. In addition to introducing the basic terms, there are related links to classic problems in graph theory such as the traveling salesman problem and Dijkstra's algorithm.
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Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Graph Theory Activities

For Students 9th - 10th
This series of activities incorporates the concept of graph theory into the discrete mathematics classroom. Students work in a group to solve problems using graph theory.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guarding the Goods (Part Ii)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Art Gallery problem, in which guards must be placed so that an entire area is guarded. This lesson may be used concurrently with Guarding the Goods...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guarding the Goods (Part I)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Art Gallery Problem, in which the number of guards necessary to guard a two-dimensional space (the "art gallery") must be found. This lesson keeps the...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Critical Maths

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to critical path analysis (CPA), in which tasks are broken into subtasks with prerequisites. In such a situation, subtasks must be completed in a certain order...
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Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site, there are several math problems to explore and solve. Look through some solutions by famous mathematicians and expand your thinking about some interesting math concepts. Teachers of elementary grades may want to use this...
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Interactive
Other

Digital First: Eulerizing a Graph

For Students 10th - 12th
In this applet, students use the tools to eulerize each graph.
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Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Hamiltonian Path Problem

For Students 10th - 12th
Brief description of Hamiltonian Path and solving the Hamiltonian Path problem.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Study.com: Critical Path Analysis

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Critical path analysis is a project management tool used to understand task dependencies and their effect on the project schedule. In this lesson, we show how the critical path can be derived
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Lesson Plan
Mathigon

Mathigon: Mathematical Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The mathematical treasure hunt allows students to follow a trail of clues and mathematical problems around the school site; each clue contains a hint to where the next clue is hidden.
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Lesson Plan
Mathigon

Mathigon: Mathematical Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The mathematical treasure hunt allows students to follow a trail of clues and mathematical problems around the school site; each clue contains a hint to where the next clue is hidden.
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eBook
Other

Discrete Mathematics: Euler Paths and Circuits

For Students 10th - 12th
Explanation and questions about Euler paths and circuits with solutions to the questions.
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Handout
Other

Geeks for Geeks: Chinese Postman or Route Inspection Set 1 (Introduction)

For Students 10th - 12th
Introduction to the Chinese postman problem with diagrams.
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Combinatorics: World of Math

For Students 6th - 8th
This lesson focuses on Combinatorics, a branch of mathematics which is about counting. It includes 5 sections: Factorials, Permutations, Combinations, Combinatorics and Pascal's Triangle, and Combinatorics and Probability with examples...
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Graphs and Networks: Graphs in Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on graphs in everyday life including virtual graphs such as the Internet or physical computer networks of computers. It puts graph theory into practice and provides examples and learning exercises.
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Activity
Other

Mega Mathematics: Graphs and Graph Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a clear explanation of the basic terminology of graph theory. The useful for a first introduction to graphs and graph theory.