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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: What Is Random

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore the conceptness of randomness, and to hopefully squash some student's ideas of what random really is. For example, the lesson points out that in a completely...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Calculating Air Resistance Using the Monte Carlo Method

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will use Vernier motion detector and Logger Pro software to first discover if air resistance of an industrial size coffee filter is a vtm or vt2m relationship (vt = terminal velocity). Once this relationship is found it will be...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Custom Distribution of Random Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
A function that will generate random numbers but prefer higher numbers, the Monte Carlo Method is explaine.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Simulations: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain simulations. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Simulations."