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Unexpected Answers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, ProbabilityThis lesson is designed to introduce students to statistical situations where the probabilities or outcomes might not be what is...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Tree Diagrams and Probability
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, ProbabilityThis lesson is designed to develop students' ability to create tree diagrams and figure probabilities of events based on those d...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0The Mandelbrot Set
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Measurement & Geometry, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 3 additional..In this activity, students can zoom in on the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets for different C-values. At any point, students can c...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Spy Game
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Algebra & Functions, Professional DevelopmentThis lesson is designed to introduce students to modular arithmetic and how it is used in cryptography to encrypt messages. This...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Spinner
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Curriculum Design and 2 additional..In this activity, students adjust how many sections there are on a fair spinner then run simulated trials on that spinner as a w...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Simple Monty Hall
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, ProbabilityIn this activity, students select one of three doors in an attempt to find a prize that is hidden behind one of them. After thei...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Sierpinski's Triangle
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Number Sense and 2 additional..In this activity, students step through stages of making a fractal known as Sierpinski's triangle. This activity allows students...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Sets and The Venn Diagram (Beginner)
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Number Sense and 2 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce students to sets, what it means to be part of a set, and how Venn diagrams relate to sets. ...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Sets and the Venn Diagram
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Number Sense and 2 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce students to sets, terms used with sets, and Venn diagrams. This lesson provides links to di...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Replacement and Probability
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, ProbabilityThis lesson is designed to develop students' understanding of sampling with and without replacement and its effects on the proba...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Recognizing Patterns
Grades: TK/K to 6, 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Number Sense and 2 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce familiarize students with patterns of shapes, sequences, and tessellations. This lesson pro...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Racing Game with One Die
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, ProbabilityIn this activity, students roll a die that will advance either a blue or red car in a race to the finish. Students can adjust wh...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Probability: Playing with Fire
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, ProbabilityThis lesson is designed to develop students? understanding of chaos and experimental probability by repeatedly burning a simulat...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Patterns in Fractals
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Number Sense and 2 additional..This lesson is designed to introduce students to the idea of finding patterns in the generation of several different types of fr...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Number Cruncher
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Addition & Subtraction, Coordinate Systems & Graphing, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 5 additional..In this activity, students enter inputs into a function machine. Then, by examining the outputs, they must determine what functi...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0More Complicated Functions: Introduction to Linear Functions
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics, Curriculum Design, Algebra & Functions, Professional DevelopmentThis lesson is designed to introduce students to the idea of functions composed of two operations, with specific attention to li...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Marbles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, ProbabilityIn this activity, students simulate placing marbles into a bag and finding the probability of pulling out certain combinations o...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0Koch's Snowflake
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Angles & Pythagorean Theorem, Geometric Figures, Measurement & Geometry and 4 additional..In this activity, students step through the stages to create a famous fractal called Koch's snowflake. The applet keeps track of...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0Julia Sets
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Number Sense and 2 additional..In this activity, students adjust the constant that is added on a two variable function that creates a Julia set. This activity ...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0Introduction to Functions
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics, Curriculum Design, Algebra & Functions, Professional DevelopmentThis lesson is designed to introduce students to functions as rules and independent and dependent variables. The lesson provides...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0