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Shodor Interactivate: Mean, Median, and Mode Discussion
This is a virtual discussion between a mentor and student involving mean, median, and mode. Discusses when each is used and how they are found.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Introduction to Statistics
"The goal of this lesson is to introduce the concepts of mean, median and mode and to develop understanding and familiarity with these ideas." This lesson is provided by Shodor Education Foundation.
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Shodor: Newton Raphson Method
This page offers an explanation of the Newton-Raphson Method for finding the roots of a function. Includes both graphical and textual information and provides links to an online interactive tool for finding function roots.
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Shodor Interactivate: Intro to the Coordinate Plane and Coordinates Discussion
Contains a brief introduction to the cartesian coordinate system.
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Shodor: Background Reading for Ionization Energy
A very complete lesson on ionization energy, including tables and charts to illustrate the ideas presented in the text.
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Shodor Interactivate: Area (Elementary)
In this lesson students will practice finding the area of rectangular shapes and irregular shapes with right angles and understand why the area formula works for rectangular shapes. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.5.b A plane figure which can...
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Shodor: Enthalpy and Gibbs Free Energy Calculator
Interactive calculator that allows you to input reactants and products of a reaction and calculate the change in enthalpy and Gibbs Free Energy for the reaction.
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Shodor: North Carolina: Student Science Enrichment Program
The provides creative science enrichment activities for students in the 6th through 12th grades. It also provides lesson plans and resources for teachers and a special section on "Wildlife of the Alligator River" that features stories,...
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Bar Graph
This lesson is designed to give students practice creating and reading bar graphs as well as understanding how to accurately represent a graph with appropriate units.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Perimeter (Elementary)
In this lesson students will practice finding the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes with right angles and the appropriate units for measuring perimeter.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Estimation (Elementary)
In this lesson learners will practice estimation with computation, counting, length and area.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Area Explorations
In this lesson students will practice finding the area of irregular shapes with right angles and understand that there are different methods for calculating area.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Area (Elementary)
In this lesson students will practice finding the area rectangular shapes and irregular shapes with right angles and understand why the area formula works for rectangular shapes.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Angles (Elementary)
In this lesson students will learn what determines whether an angle is acute, obtuse or a right angle.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fire: Modeling Probability
In this lesson students will understand probability and chance and understand the results of probability and chance in real life situations.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Elapsed Time
In this instructional activity students will understand the concept of elapsed time and be able to calculate elapsed time given the starting and ending time.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Pascal's Triangle
In this lesson plan, students will participate in discussions and activities that will have them explore the number patterns and fractal properties of Pascal's Triangle.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: The Mandelbrot Set
In this lesson students will explore Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set. In the process they will learn about fractals and explore complex numbers and function iteration.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fractals and the Chaos Game
Use the "Fractals and Chaos Game" game as a follow up to previous work on geometric fractals. Included are related activities.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Impossible Graphs
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and a plotting-practice activity, examines impossible graphs.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Venn Diagrams
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and an interactive Venn diagram shape sorter, takes students through an examination of Venn diagrams.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Algorithm Discovery With Venn Diagrams
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and interactive resources, helps learners learn about algorithms using box plots and Venn diagrams.
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Shodor Interactivate: More or Less Estimator
Practice your estimation skills by comparing the number of objects shown, the length of a curve or the area of a shape to a given number. Your choices are "greater than" or "less than".
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Shodor Interactivate: Mixtures
This activity will help students develop their understanding of percents and proportional reasoning by solving mixture problems. Working with two piles of circles the student determines the number in each pile that will be colored. In...