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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Matrix Operations
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students how using matrix multiplication can lead to solving real-world problems. In this situation, a painting is missing and the probability of travel betweek five cities...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Driving With Djikstra
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to one of the prominent algorithms in graph theory used to find shortest paths -- the Djikstra Algorithm. The lesson includes four graphs of increasing...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Pile It On
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses on the age-old problem of whether to accept a large sum of money, or to accept a proposition in which a chessboard is filled with grain (each square getting double the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Cycloid Ii
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson provides an introduction to the integral in the sense of finding the length of a curve. In the lesson, student deconstruct a cycloid (formed by following a piece of tape on the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Harmonizing Means
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson exposes students to a different type of average, the harmonic mean. Although it is briefly reviewed in the lesson, students are expected to already be familiar with arithmetic and...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Pythagorean Triples
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore the notion of Pythagorean triples, the "traditional" method for finding Pythagorean triples, and a method to find triples which utilizes the Fibonacci...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Konigsberg Bridge Problem
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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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Graph Tells the Story
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson exposes students to graphs using logarithmic scales. Although the graphs are at first non-intuitive, students should quickly "get used" to the scale. The lesson leads to a good...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: All in the Family
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students the scientific reasoning behind the societal taboo of incest. Students complete a Punnett square to determine the chances of an offspring inheriting two recessive...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Making "Fingerprints"
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students simulate a forest fire based on probability of the fire spreading. Different probabilities will yield different results, and as such all students should attain...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: To Pythagoras and Beyond
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students discover the Pythagorean relationships of different triangle types. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to take three given side lengths and compute...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Perfect Out Shuffles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity give students a real-life context in which to use both compositions of functions and piecewise functions. The lesson is framed in the context of shuffling cards in such a way so...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Turing Origami
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson briefly introduces students to the idea of the Turing Machine. In this lesson, students evaluate a number string, where each number corresponds to a certain lengthening procedure...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Are You Sure?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of decision (or probability) trees. The lesson is framed in the context of drawing aces from a deck of cards, and in predicting bomb threats...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Matter of Half Life and Death
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the topic of exponential decay and half-life. The lesson is built around Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, and it's declining radioactivity over the course...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Set the Trap
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students a real-world application to matrices and matrix operations. Framed in the context of a stolen painting which the thief may hide at different warehouses, students...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Set the Trap
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students a real-world application to matrices and matrix operations. Framed in the context of a stolen painting which the thief may hide at different warehouses, students...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Coded Messages
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson uses matrices (inverse and multiplication) to decode messages hidden within digital pictures -- a process known as steganography. This method of hidden communication is known to...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guess My Type or Lose
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students take a greater look at tree diagrams, especially in relation to decision making. Game theory figures in on this lesson, as students try to determine which choices...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Changing Sines
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to the various parameters used in graphing the elementary sine function. Technology use is very heavy, as students are encouraged to graph different sinusoidal...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: I, It, Itera, Iteration
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the notion of Brownian motion and has students graph a sample Brownian particle. In Brownian motion, each "step" depends on the "steps" taken previously,...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Telling Time With the Sun
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity is a very basic introduction to the tangent function and it's applications (such as measuring distances). Through this lesson, students will learn the definition of the tangent...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Four Bugs Problem: Step on No Pets
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this simulation has students model the Four-Bug Problem in order to see the general concept of pursuit curves. Each student takes on the role of a bug, and are placed at each corner of a...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Velocity of Circulation
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson simulates a closed market in which goods are bought/sold for money. After the five minute activity, students calculate the amount of money dispersion, and based off of this...