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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Great Escape
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity introduces students to the concept of parametric equations. Using such equations, students model (on their graphing calculator) a scenario which questions whether a vehicle...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Social Security Numbers
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson is good practice for students who have already learned about permutations. U.S. Social Security Numbers are explained, and then students find the number of different SSNs which...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Perfect House
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of Multi-Attribute Compositional Models, in which market experts determine what features are most in demand for a given product. The lesson is...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: All Shook Up
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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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Trawling for an Intersection
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson is designed to draw a connection between polar and parametric equations, as well as to expose students to the Trawler Problem (involving a fast boat chasing a slower boat which...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Checkbook (Mis)calculations
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students create ways to check their calculations against the three most common checkbook errors. After students have completed this part of the lesson, they then solve a good...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Waxing Elliptical
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the ellipse, especially it's foci. Students create an ellipse on wax paper by repeatedly folding a circle to meet a chosen internal point. When finished,...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Crowded Ballroom
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore various methods of estimation. Framed in the context of a ballroom dance, students are to determine approximately how many people fit in the ballroom. A...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Prime Time
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand the Goldbach Conjecture (any even number greater than four can be written as the sum of two odd prime integers). Students explore how many pairs of odd...
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Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: When Does 1 + 1 Not Equal 2?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson will get students thinking outside the box about situations in which 1 + 1 is not necessarily equal to 2. Examples includes dozens of eggs and distances which are perpendicular.
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Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Fly Zone
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students calculate the probability that a spider web will catch a fly. The webs are modeled as standard geometric figures (circle, rectangle, triangle), and assumptions are...
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Texas Instruments: Activities: Numb3 Rs: Growing Geometrically
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to the concept of geometric growth and geometric series/sequences. Students explore some real-life examples of geometric growth, such as chain letters, bank...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Straddling Checkerboard
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to a ciphering technique called the Straddling Checkerboard. In such an encryption scheme, all messages are turned into a series of numbers for transmission....
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sudoku Puzzles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson concerns Sudoku puzzles and Latin squares, as well as their relationships and differences. Students learn about both of these puzzles, and hopefully become hooked in the logic...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Code Crackers
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to simple methods of cryptography, most notably the Caesar cipher. By sliding the alphabet a certain number of spaces, students code and decode messages, and...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Tall Is the Criminal?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to lines of best fit and their applications. While the extensions delve into correlation, the main lesson focuses only on collecting data, creating a...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dialing Ben
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students try to discover if there has been a significant change in cell phone use over the course of ten days. If so, this "change point" can be detected by creating a line of...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Tic Tac Toe
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses more on logic and deduction than on formal mathematics. The game of tic-tac-toe is simplified and given different variations, and in each variation students are to...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs How to Get a Date for Episode
Students will learn how to estimate time of death by using a lab that models carbon dating and radioactive decay. Activity pages complete with calculator keystroke instructions and screenprints are included in this lesson plan based on...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Traveling on Good Circles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this high-level math lesson has students delve into the topic of Great Circles on a sphere (specifically, the Earth), in order to find the shortest distances between locations. Students will...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Mapping Fireprints
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this diverse lesson has students perform linear regression analysis (to compare two fire variables), check three-dimensional points using a planar equation, and evaluate points to determine...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guarding the Goods (Part Ii)
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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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guarding the Goods (Part I)
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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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Critical Maths
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...