This lesson from Illuminations uses growth charts for girls and boys to examine rates of change. The material uses slope to approximate the rate of change in height. Students will learn how to translate this data into a...

This lesson from Illuminations uses the real world example of hanging chains to demonstrate how naturally occurring shapes relate to parabolic functions. Students will learn to substitute points on a graph into a...

Shodor is a national resource for computational science education, sponsored by the NSDL and CSERD. In order to help students better comprehend and learn the mathematical components of computer science, Shodor has...

This course provides an introduction to algorithms. Topics include sorting; search trees, heaps, and hashing; divide-and-conquer; dynamic programming; amortized analysis; graph algorithms; shortest paths; network flow;...

This math lesson from Illuminations helps students understand rational functions. The material uses the real-world problem. Students will write rational functions that model problem situations and use rational functions...