Activity Title & Overview
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Ballooning inside the box
In this activity. using the USATODAY infograph, "Ballooning inside the box," students will explore geometric relationships using similar triangles.
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Geometry |
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9-12 |
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Dangerous Births
Using the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Dangerous births," students will explore the geometric relationships of triangles using perpendicular bisectors of the sides.
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Geometry |
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9-12 |
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Snow is as High as an Elephant
The USA TODAY infograph, "When the snow is as high as an elephant," helps us understand snow from a more practical point of view.
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Geometry |
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9-12, 5-8 |
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When a Ruler Isn’t Enough
This activity illustrates a real-life problem that uses trigonometry to solve for an unknown.
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Geometry |
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9-12 |
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How Close is Florida
In this activity, students are going to recreate and verify the information in the USA TODAY Snapshot, "How close is Florida?"
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Algebra |
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5-8 |
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The Next Frontier for Flight
This activity provides students the opportunity to gain experience in creating circle graphs on the calculator and provides an … |
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Algebra |
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5-8 |
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Super Ticket Sales
Students will create two box and whisker plots of the data in the USA TODAY Snapshot(R). They will calculate central tendencie.. |
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Algebra |
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5-8 |
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Wildfires nearly snuffed
Students will use the data from the USA TODAY Infograph to explore the relationship between area and perimeter for rectangles a… |
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Algebra |
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9-12, 5-8 |
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Humidity Makes Air Feel Even Hotter
Students note the range of heat indexes on the overall data as well as specific humidity levels and air temperatures. They find… |
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Algebra |
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9-12, 5-8 |
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The New Color of Money
The USA TODAY Snapshot® allows students to use scientific notation with real-life data. Students will work with large numbe… |
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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Is leisure time really shrinking?
Students will have the opportunity to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot.
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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Population On The Move
In this activity, students will determine the rate of change (slope) & build a linear model (y = mx + b) from data.
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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Challenge – Paying College Tuition
Students write exponential equations based on the percent of increase of college costs and will graph and interpret these equat…
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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Home sales records
Students write exponential equations based on the percent of increase of college costs and will graph and interpret these equations.
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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New Color of Money
In this activity, students will read about the changes in the "new money" and then create a graph to represent various combinations of currency produced.
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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Heat Watch
Students will explore linear & quadratic functions to determine how they model the relationship between air temperature & heat index. |
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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Cropland Value Grows
In this activity students will determine the rate of growth of the U.S. cropland and find a linear model from the data to predict …
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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More of US
In this activity, students will investigate exponential functions and their graphs using real-life data.
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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Wildfire deaths
In this activity, students will be asked to use the "Wildfire deaths" data to determine a linear model.
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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More Students apply early
In this activity, students will explore scatterplots and independent and dependent variables.
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Algebra |
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9-12 |
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Breast Cancer Risks
Students will explore data that will be modeled by a logistic function.
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PreCalculus |
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9-12 |
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Internet Subscribers soar
Students will create a scatter plot of the number of Internet subscribers during 2004 through 2008 using the USA TODAY Snapshot. |
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Calculus |
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9-12 |
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Good to Fair Environment Declining
Students calculate the actual number of those surveyed who believe the environment is in "fair" condition.
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Probability & Statistics |
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9-12 |
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World Population in 2050
The data in the USA TODAY Snapshot, "World Population in 2050," is in a relative frequency form. Students will use the percents …
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Probability & Statistics |
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9-12 |
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More 10-digit Dialing
It used to be that a household had one phone number, which easily accommodated everyone in the family. But today, with personal… |
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Probability & Statistics |
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9-12 |
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