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Rice University: Who Wants Pizza? A Fun Way to Learn About Fractions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
These introductory lessons on fractions provide clear explanations and directions with interactive practice problems. Also includes a "teacher's notes" section with resource and standards information. Each section focuses on a different...
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Galileo Project: Tycho Brahe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Rice University contains information about his life, his father, eduction, religion, nationality, scientific discipline, means of support, patronage, technical involvement, scientific societies, and a bibloigraphy on...
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Can there be a connection between map making and math? Explore the mathematics of cartography in this resource that integrates web-based instruction, mathematical problem solving, geometry, history, and art. Interesting information and...
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Stressed Out: Slope as Rate of Change

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site may be used as a lesson for understanding graphs of functions and goes into slopes of a curve. The site helps students notice when a slope of a curve is increasing and decreasing and general interpretations of graphs.
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Rice University: The Chi Squared Goodness of Fit Test

For Students 9th - 10th
This discussion of the chi-squared goodness-of-fit test for statistical data also includes an example and a link to a critical values tables.
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Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Visualizing an Infinite Series

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the infinite series through visualization.