This this task about mixing paint requires students to graph ratios on a coordinate plane. It is a standard language in ratio problem.

This this task about mixing paint requires students to graph ratios on a coordinate plane. It is a standard language in ratio problem.

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“The Art of the Probable” addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of mathematical probability. But it is neither meant to be a history of the exact sciences per se nor an annex to, say, the Course 6 curriculum in probability and statistics. Rather, our objective is to focus on the formal, thematic, and rhetorical features that imaginative literature shares with texts in the history of probability. These shared issues include (but are not limited to): the attempt to quantify or otherwise explain the presence of chance, risk, and contingency in everyday life; the deduction of causes for phenomena that are knowable only in their effects; and, above all, the question of what it means to think and act rationally in an uncertain world.
Our course therefore aims to broaden students’ appreciation for and understanding of how literature interacts with – both reflecting upon and contributing to – the scientific understanding of the world. We are just as centrally committed to encouraging students to regard imaginative literature as a unique contribution to knowledge in its own right, and to see literary works of art as objects that demand and richly repay close critical analysis. It is our hope that the course will serve students well if they elect to pursue further work in Literature or other discipline in SHASS, and also enrich or complement their understanding of probability and statistics in other scientific and engineering subjects they elect to take.

This article discusses how to use murals as an interdisciplinary, cooperative activity to blend science, art, and math concepts.

This activity is designed to determine the appropriate instructional level for a student in a one-on-one interaction with the teacher.

This activity is designed to determine the appropriate instructional level for a student in a one-on-one interaction with the teacher.

In this assessment in a one-to-one setting, a student is shown the numbers from 1Đ10, one number at a time, in random order. The teacher asks, Ňwhat number is this?"

This assessment task can be used with a single student or a small group of students. Each student needs his or her own set of numeral cards.

This assessment may be used in a small group or whole group setting, give each student a piece of paper. Students who have trouble writing certain numbers can then get targeted practice.

A guide for use in assessing young children and their knowledge of mathematics.

In this real world problem students solve questions based on the relationship between production costs and price.

In this video segment from TV411, figure skaters compute their average daily practice time.

Khan Academy video tutorial with practice exercises. Introduction to averages and algebra problems involving averages.

On this webpage you will find several open Mathematics textbooks along with supplemental material and a few lecture videos.
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September is a great time for data collection activities as students are naturally curious about their new classmates. Ask questions that require students to analyze data and support their conclusions.

This task provides a real world context for interpreting and solving exponential equations. There are two solutions provided for part (a). The first solution demonstrates how to deduce the conclusion by thinking in terms of the functions and their rates of change. The second approach illustrates a rigorous algebraic demonstration that the two populations can never be equal.

Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students tabulate and graph data on bacteria density vs. time for a culture. Data start with innoculation and progress through the peak and decline.