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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rational Functions: Predicting the Effects of Parameter Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Given parameter changes for rational functions, students will be able to predict the resulting changes on important attributes of the function, including domain and range and asymptotic behavior.
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Activity
Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Method of Variation of Parameters

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson shows how to solve a nonhomogeneous second order linear equation using variation of parameters and the Wronskian method.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Procedures With Parameters

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice using procedures with parameters for computer programming.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Procedures With Parameters

For Students 9th - 10th
When programming, we use procedures to make our code more reusable and to better organize our code. Often-times, we pass parameters to a procedure so that we can change the output of the code.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Procedures With Parameters

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice defining procedures with parameters for programs in the AP CSP pseudocode, in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Reese's Pieces Activity: Sampling From a Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students use Reese's Pieces to investigate the proportion of orange candies present in a set of 25. After collecting data for the class, they use a web applet to collect more data for random samples. This is compared to the actual...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: One Dimensional Noise Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
In this five-problem quiz/practice,students find the parameters to match a pattern generated using 1D noise. They can move the numbered control points up and down to change their value, and use the sliders to change the number of...
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Spring Mass System With Support Springs

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students practice changing the parameters in the simulation below. What sort of hairstyles can you make?
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Construction Tools: Interactive Function Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students draw a dynamic graph of the quadratic function with interactive parameters. They understand that there is only one graph of the function that changes dynamically as the values of the parameters change.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of a Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, you will change the parameters of the function and determine the effects on its graph and its vertex.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Behaviors Rational Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCard set teaches and tests on the rational function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the rational function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 7.1.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of the Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the vertex form of the parabola and discover how the vertex, direction, and width of the parabola can be determined by studying the parameters. They predict the location of the vertex of a parabola expressed in vertex form.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Behaviors Square Root Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCard stack teaches and tests on the square root function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the square root function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch....
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Behaviors Linear Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This StudyCard stack teaches and tests on the linear function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the linear function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 2.3, 4.1.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Quadratic Data With Transformation Graphing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students practice with the parameters of the vertex form of the parabola and their effect on the shape of the curve. They use this concept to find a quadratic model. They also use translation and dilation to change the general parabola.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Quadratic Function Investigations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use the interactive activity below to explore the effect of the parameters a,h,and k on the graph of the general quadratic function f(x) = a(x - h)^2+k.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Reforestation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn to solve a real-world environmental problem. They learn how to use the parameters of the final product to work out a reforestation plan.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Behaviors Quadratic Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCard set teaches and tests on the quadratic function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the quadratic function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 2.5, 9.1.
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Unit Plan
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Parametric Equations

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a discussion of how to graph parametric equations, how to enter them into your calculator, and how to eliminate the parameter. The site has examples to help clarify the concept of eliminating the parameter.
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Schwarzschild Light Impact

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Visualization using the Schwarzschild metric, showing the path light travels near a black hole. Adjust the impact parameter and observe effective potential well of the light particle.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How to Pull Something Heavy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students measure and analyze forces that act on vehicles pulling heavy objects while moving at a constant speed on a frictional surface. They study how the cars interact with their environments through forces, and discover which...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Power of Mechanical Advantage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the mechanical advantage offered by pulleys in an interactive and game-like manner. By virtue of the activity's mechatronic presentation, they learn to study a mechanical system not as a static image, but rather as a...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Far Does the Robot Go?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice their multiplication skills using robots with wheels built from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits. They brainstorm distance travelled by the robots without physically measuring distance and then apply their math skills to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Mummified Troll: Devising a Protection Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the parameters of an engineering challenge in which their principal has asked them to devise an invisible security system to cost-effectively protect a treasured mummified troll, while still allowing for...

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