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service that allows users to create charts and graphs of statistics from the NBA, NCAA Basketball, the NFL, NCAA Football, and NASCAR. Users select the data sets that they would like to compare and StatPlot creates a chart of that data

a fascinating discussion on the Mathematics of War. When your students ask where they'll use math in real life, have this video handy. Here's how the video is described on the Ted site: "By pulling raw data from the news and plotting it onto a graph, Sean Gourley and his team have come up with a stunning conclusion about the nature of modern war -- and perhaps a model for resolving conflicts."

In a project based on the “Pit and the Pendulum,” high school math students determine whether Poe’s story is mathematically sound.  They use graphing calculators and computers to create and experiment with model pendulums.  They conjecture, analyze data, study quadratic equations, explore curve fitting, and finally build a pendulum to test their theories.  

The purpose of this website is to provide teachers and students guidance in the use of Texas Instruments TI-83 plus graphing calculators and data collection devices in secondary mathematics