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Interesting Visual Statistics. "Death and Taxes:2009" is a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget; the amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress.

Interesting Visual Statistics

Basically, your federal income taxes. The data is from the President's budget request for 2009. It will be debated, amended, and approved by Congress by October 1st to begin the fiscal year. Play Game Show Probability. Probability problems are often among the hardest math concepts for students to wrap their heads around.

Play Game Show Probability

Often, your common sense says one thing—but the answer is something else entirely! The only way to really hammer this concept home is through practice, practice, practice, but it doesn't have to be all work and no fun. Here's a brainteaser that always leads to a lively debate. CensusAtSchool International. The CensusAtSchool International Project The Project aims to; Encourage children to get involved with data handling and learn statistical skills;Provide real data for data handling activities;Increase awareness of what national censuses are and what they are for;Show how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be used effectively to enhance teaching and learning especially in the area of data handling.

CensusAtSchool International

It is presently running in the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Japan and Korea. Data can also be obtained for Queensland (2001 & 2003) and South Australia (2003 & 2004). Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org. Data Analysis and Statistics in Excel. The Practice of Statistics, Fourth Edition.

EXAMPLES AND ACTIVITIES FOR CALCULUS. Calculus: An Active Approach with Projects. Overall, I heartily recommend ...

Calculus: An Active Approach with Projects

Calculus: An Active Approach with Projects. Though I have not yet experimented with such a broad implementation of activities and projects in my calculus classroom, Calculus: An Active Approach with Projects certainly provides concrete tools, helpful suggestions and the inspiration to try. — Susan D'Agostino, MAA Online This volume contains student and instructor material for the delivery of a two-semester calculus sequence at the undergraduate level. It can be used in conjunction with any textbook. It was written with the view that students who are actively involved inside and outside the classroom are more likely to succeed, develop deeper conceptual understanding, and retain knowledge, than students who are passive recipients of information. Calculus: An Active Approach with Projects contains two main student sections. Note: Teachers may copy or print out the activities or projects to use as handouts for their students. The First Week of Calculus - The Geometer's Sketchpad Resource Center.

Scott SteketeeKCP Technologies, Inc.Summer 2003 The five activities here are suitable for introducing the main topics of a calculus course.

The First Week of Calculus - The Geometer's Sketchpad Resource Center

You can either use all of the activities at the beginning of the course to give students an overview of the topics they will be covering, or you can use each activity as you introduce the particular topic covered in the activity. These activities are also useful at the end of a pre-calculus course. Math - Algebra 1 - Classroom Games. Composition of Functions: Word Problems using Composition. Composition of Functions: Word Problems using Composition (page 5 of 6) Sections: Composing functions that are sets of point, Composing functions at points, Composing functions with other functions, Word problems using composition, Inverse functions and composition This lesson is not yet availablein Purplemath Plus.

Composition of Functions: Word Problems using Composition

You may be given exercises where you need to think about what's going on, the order in which things are being done, and therefore the way in which modelling functions need to be composed: You work forty hours a week at a furniture store. You receive a $220 weekly salary, plus a 3% commision on sales over $5000. Well, ( f o g)(x) = f(g(x)) would mean that I would take my sales x, subtract off the $5000 that didn't get the commission, and then multiply by 3%.

So ( f o g)(x) does what we need it to do: ( f o g)(x) represents my commission. For each sales value, I first subtracted $5000 to see if I'd sold enough to earn any commission at all. Free Trigonometry Worksheets to Download. Graph Paper for High School Math. Grid Paper PDFs. Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs Downloadable and very printable, I find these PDFs extremely useful.

Grid Paper PDFs

Tip number one! Though I do return the correct header for a PDF, sometimes Explorer gets confused when downloading... So if you're running Windows, you may need to right-click a link and choose "Save link to disk". Tip number two! Some people may need to turn off the option in Adobe's Acrobat reader "shrink to fit" which may resize the grid slightly to fit your printer's printable area. Tip number three! If you want the hexes aligned with the other edge of the paper, just make your paper size "11 x 8.5" and print the result in landscape mode!

Graphing Calculator. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. BA - Balanced Assessment in Mathematics. The K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Center. 2 plus 2: The Home of Mathematically Correct.