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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Robots

For Students 9th - 10th
The owner of a factory has two expensive robots to automate a manufacturing process. Use the topological concept of a configuration space to coordinate their actions and maximize their efficiency on the manufacturing floor.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Are You Sure?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Place Left to Hide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this "simple" lesson will actually give students a lot to think about. Given a graph, students are to establish how many searchers are needed to find an infinitely fast criminal who is on the...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Ants Go Marching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students experiment and make observations on a directed graph. The lesson is framed in the context of an ant colony which is in search of the best path to get to food. If an...
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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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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Graph Creator

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this vertex-edge tool to create graphs and explore them. Investigate ideas such as planar graphs, complete graphs, minimum-cost spanning trees, and Euler and Hamiltonian paths.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Edge Connectivity

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of edge connectivity, that relates to vertex connectivity.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Vertex Connectivity

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of vertex connectivity, that relates to edge connectivity.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Edge Coloring

For Students 9th - 10th
This site displays a description and diagrams dealing with edge coloring.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Vertex Coloring

For Students 9th - 10th
You will find a definition and diagrams dealing with vertex coloring.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Graph Coloring

For Students 9th - 10th
A very brief description of graph coloring.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Types of Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the use of graphs. Bar graphs, tables and circle graphs are discussed.
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Primary
Other

Medium: Decision Trees Algorithms

For Students 10th - 12th
Decision trees are used for both classification and regression problems, this story we talk about classification.