NUMB3RS Activities Curriculum Alignment

Season’s 1 – 3
All activities are hyperlinked and
can be downloaded from the Texas Instruments Activity Exchange
by CTRL-clicking the activity title.

NUMB3RS Episode Activity Title Topic

Algebra
Composite Functions
episode #: 305 "The Mole" Coded Messages Inverse Matrices
episode #: 213 "Double Down" Perfect Out-Shuffles Card Shuffling
Expressions
episode #: 304 "Provenance" Checkbook Algebraic Expressions, Linear Diophantine
(Mis)Calculations Equations
Equations
episode #: 214 " Harvest " Meltdown Direct Variation With the Square
episode #: 313 "Finders Barging In Rates, Direct and Inverse Variation, Algebra
Keepers"
episode #: 323 "Money for Velocity of Circulation Economics, Simulation, Using Formulas
Nothing"
episode #: 310 "Brutus" The Crowded Ballroom Area, Perimeter, Percentages
episode #: 220 "Guns and Seeing in the Dark Using Sound Waves to measure Distance
Roses"
episode #: 220 " Guns and Bat Sonar Echolocation in Bats
Roses "
episode #: 320 "Burn Rate" Energy Solving Equations
episode #: 308 "Hardball" The Pythagorean Algebra and Sabermetrics
Expectation
episode #: 111 "Sacrifice" Sabermetrics Linear Modeling
episode #: 102 "Uncertainty Checksum Checksum Algorithms
Principle"
episode #: 214 " Harvest " Getting In Focus Ellipses
episode #: 214 " Harvest " Waxing Elliptical Ellipses
episode #: 207 "Convergence " Two-Dimensional Locating GPS Receivers
Trilateration
episode #: 224 "Hot shot" Parabolic Food Flight Parabolas and Curve Fitting – Matrix Method
Sys of Eq.
Functions
episode #: 303 "Traffic" Up to Speed Elementary Traffic Flow Models
episode #: 222 "Backscatter" What Are You Implying? Explicit and Implicit Functions
episode #: 304 "Provenance" Magnetism Data Collection, Modeling
Graphs
episode #: 220 "Guns and Seeing in the Dark Piecewise functions and sound waves
Roses"
episode #: 301 "Spree" The Chase Introduction to Pursuit Curves
episode #: 213 " Double Down” How Much Can They Win? Time Series Analysis – Graphing functions
episode #: 213 " Double Down How Much Can They Win? Time Series Analysis – Graphing functions
“
episode #: 310 "Brutus" The Orchard Problem Lattice Points in the Coordinate Plane
episode #: 322 "Under Seeing Everyone Visible Lattice Points
pressure”
episode #: 222 " Backscatter " The Graph Tells The Story Interpreting graphs Linear Regression & Scatter
Plots
episode #: 301 "Spree" The Chase Introduction to Pursuit Curves
episode #: 305 "The Mole" Branch and Bound Linear Programming
episode #: 302 "Spree, part II " Spiraling Out Graphs of Polar Spirals
 episode #: 211 "Scorched " Mapping Fireprints 3-Dimensional Graphing
episode #: 313 "Finders Where’s Cheetah? Simulation, Cylindrical Coordinates
Keepers"
Logarithms &
Exponentials
episode #: 301 "Spree" A Pursuit Curve Problem Data collection, Graphs, Distance Formula
episode #: 324 "The Janus List" Pile It On Exponents and Powers of Two
episode #: 110 "dirty bomb" A Matter of Half-Life and Exponential Decay
Death
episode #: 108" Identity Crisis" Exponential Growth Exponential Growth
episode #: 103 "Vector" Logistics Growth Logistics Growth
episode #: 222 " Backscatter " Chains and Pyramids Geometric Progressions and Exponential Growth
episode #: 218 "All's Fair " Logging Witnesses Probability and Logistic Regression
episode #: 210 "Bones of How to Get a Date Exponential Decay
Contention”
episode #: 209 "Toxin" How Hard Can It Be? Entropy
episode #: 205 "Calculated Financial Futures Compounding Interest
Risk"
episode #: 222 " Backscatter " Chains and Pyramids Geometric Progressions and Exponential Growth
episode #: 301 "Spree" The Four Bug Problem Data Collection, Graphs, Distance Between
Parabolas
episode #: 104 "Structural Exploring Parabolas Parabolas
Corruption"
episode #: 224 "Hot shot" Parabolic Food Fiight Parabolas and Curve Fitting
episode #: 224 "Hot shot" Clearing All Obstacles Parabolic Equations
Parametric
Equations
episode #: 305 "The Mole" Cycloid I Geometry and Algebra
episode #: 302 "Spree, part II " Trawling for an Intersection Solving Parametric Equations
episode #: 113 "Man Hunt" The Great Escape Dynamic Parametric Equations
episode #: 207 "Convergence " Where is the Bullet? Projectile Motion
episode #: 315 “End of Watch” Angling for Distance Maximizing the Distance Traveled by a
Projectile
episode #: 319 "Pandora’s Box" Fresh Air and Parabolas Parametric Equations, Quadratic Equations
Properties
episode #: 207 "Convergence" 1+1=2 Group Theory

Calculus
episode #: 308 "Hardball" Implicit Orbits Implicit Differentiation
episode #: 305 "The mole" Cycloid I Arc length
episode #: 223 "Undercurrents" Riding the Waves Vector Fields
episode #: 223 "Undercurrents" Where's the Source? Vector Fields
episode #: 313 "Finders Where’s Cheetah? Cylindrical Coordinates
Keepers"
episode #: 320"Burn Rate" A "Normal" Explosion Calculus Derivatives

Discrete
Mathematics
Graph Theory
episode #: 209 "Toxin" The Koenigsberg Bridge Graph Theory
Problem
episode #: 315 “End of Watch” Critical Maths Critical Path Analysis (CPA)
episode #: 210 " Bones of Location! Location! Voronoi Diagrams
Contention " Location!
episode #: 322 "Under Close Encounters Social Networks, Connected graphs, Mean
Pressure"
episode #: 323 "Money for Driving With Dijkstra Graph Theory, Dijkstra’s Algorithm
Nothing"
 episode #: 310 "Brutus" Dial the Phone Triangular Numbers, Networks
episode #: 307 "Blackout" Navigating Networks Networks, Directed Weighted Graphs
episode #: 224 "Hot shot" Sinks & Sources Directed Graphs
episode #: 216 "Protest" A Party of Six Graph Theory and Ramsey Numbers
episode #: 212 "The O.G." It's All Connected Social Network Analysis
episode #: 209 "Toxin" Slippery Paths Steiner Paths and Trees
episode #: 314 "Take Out" Restaurant Ranking Probability and Directed Graphs
Algorithms
episode #: 317 "One Hour" The Labyrinth Logic Mazes
episode #: 324 "The Janus List" Pack It In Knapsack Problems
episode #: 317 "One Hour" Have Your Cake And Eat It Discrete Mathematics / Fair Division
Too
episode #: 323 "Money for Truth or Dare Logic Riddles
Nothing"
episode #: 324 "The Janus List" Straddling Checkerboard Cryptography, Number Theory, Math History
episode #: 201 " Assassin " Code Crackers Simple Codes
episode #: 220 " Guns and DNA Sequence Alignment Bio-Mathematics DNA Sequencing
Roses "
episode #: 106 "Sabotage" Breaking the Code Cryptography
Mathematical
Modeling
episode #: 206 "Soft Target" Escape Percolation Theory
episode #: 206 "Soft Target" Percolation Theory Percolation Theory
episode #: 221 "Rampage" Tesseract Tesseracts and Hypercubes
episode #: 218 "All's Fair" Sudoku Puzzles Sudoku Puzzles
episode #: 207 "Convergence " The Dating Game Algorithms for Calculating Dates
episode #: 315 “End of Watch” Ants Go Marching Ant Colony Optimization
episode #: 321 "The Art of No Place Left to Hide Pursuit Evasion, Families of Graphs, and Proof
Reckoning"
episode #: 303 "Traffic Up to Speed Elementary Traffic Flow Models
episode #: 309 "Waste not" Hide and Seep Visual Mathematical Modeling
episode #: 312 "Nine Wives" Lost And Found Modeling a Lost Person’s Path
episode #: 111 "Sacrifice" Phreak Out! Van Eck Phreaking
episode #: 208 "In Plain Sight" Follow the Flock Introduction to Flock Behavior
Matrices
episode #: 305 "The Mole" Coded Messages Inverse Matrices
episode #: 304 "Provenance" Matrix Operations Matrix Operations
episode #: 304 "Provenance" Set the Trap Probability Matrices
episode #: 224 "Hot shot" Parabolic Food Flight Parabolas and Curve Fitting
episode #: 220 " Guns and Settling the Score Using Matrices for scoring mechanisms
Roses "
episode #: 214 "Harvest" Markov Chain Links Markov Chains
episode #: 201 "Assassin" The Escape Game Game Theory
episode #: 207 "Convergence " Air Hockey Matrices: Meaning and Operations

Geometry
episode #: 204-17 "Obsession" Guarding the Goods I The Art Gallery Problem
episode #: 204-17 "Obsession" Guarding the Goods II Securing Art Galleries
episode #: 319 "Pandora’s Box" Thinking Backwards Inverse Problems, Geometric Reflections
episode #: 310 "Brutus" The Crowded Ballroom Area, Perimeter, Percentages
episode #: 320"Burn Rate" Regular Polygon Centroids Geometry, Points of Concurency
episode #: 101 "Pilot" The Center of it All Circumcenter of Circles
episode #: 320"Burn Rate" Irregular Polygon Centroids Geometry, Points of Concurency
Reasoning and Proof
episode #: 309 "Waste not" A Group of Symmetries Symmetries of an Equilateral Triangle
episode #: 321 "The Art of No Place Left to Hide Pursuit Evasion, Families of Graphs, and Proof
Reckoning"
episode #: 318 "Democracy" Shaken, Not Stirred Application Of Inductive Reasoning In Problem
Solving
episode #: 221 "Rampage" Circling Around Venn Diagrams, Intersecting Circles and
 Intersecting Spheres
episode #: 318 "Democracy" All Shook Up An Elementary Introduction to Inductive
Reasoning
Pythagorean Ve
Int
Theorem
episode #: 303 "Traffic" To Pythagoras and Beyond Law of Cosines
episode #: 303 "Traffic" Pythagorean Triples The Pythagorean Theorem
episode #: 223 "Undercurrents" Narrowing the Search Length of an N-Dimensional Vector

Probability
episode #: 203 "Better or Creating "Random" Pseudo-Random Numbers
Worse" Numbers
episode #: 202 "Judgement Filtering Suspects Conditional Probability Leading to Bayesian
Day" Filtering
episode #: 309 "Waste not" Hide and Seep Visual Mathematical Modeling
episode #: 309 "Waste not" Sharpshooter Geometric Probability
episode #: 306 "Longshot" The Odds-On Favorite Probability, Odds, and Odds Ratios
episode #: 306 "Longshot" Not So Great Expectations Probability and Expected Values
episode #: 303 "Traffic" What is Random? Random Numbers, Monty Carlo method of
finding area
episode #: 303 "Traffic" What is Random? Random Numbers
episode #: 303 "Traffic" Birthday Surprise Probability Using Complementary Events
episode #: 304 "Provenance" Set the Trap Probability Matrices
episode #: 302 "Spree, part II “ Galton Board Probability

episode #: 113 "man hunt" Stick or Switch The "Monty Hall" or Three Door Problem
episode #: 221 "Rampage" I...It...Itera...Iteration Iterative Processes
episode #: 218 "All's Fair " Logging Witnesses Probability and Logistic Regression

episode #: 217 "Mind Games " Walkabout Random Walks & pi

episode #: 312 "Nine Wives" Lost And Found Modeling a Lost Person’s Path
episode #: 215 " The Running We're Number 1! Benford's Law
Man "
episode #: 215 " The Running The Eyes Have It Probability
Man "
episode #: 213 " Double Down” A Bit of Basic Blackjack Probability with Sampling/no replacement
episode #: 213 " Double Down That's So Random Randomization
"
episode #: 212 "The O.G." Is it Really Rare? Poisson Distribution
episode #: 211 "Scorched" Making "Fireprints" Modeling the Spread of Fire
episode #: 211 "Scorched " The Power of Powers Counting Techniques
episode #: 209 "Toxin" Message of the Bottle Code Breaking
episode #: 209 "Toxin" How Hard Can It Be? Entropy
episode #: 208 "In Plain Sight " Now You See It, Now You Steganography
Don't
episode #: 206 "Soft Target" Is This Seat Taken? The Math of Arranging Objects
episode #: 206 "Soft Target" Are You Sure? Mathematical Prediction
episode #: 205 "Calculated How Reliable is the Test? Conditional Probability Trees
Risk"
episode #: 205 "Calculated A Mathematics Sampler Conditional Probability: Sampling Without
Risk" Replacement
episode #: 312 "Nine Wives" All In The Family Genetic Probabilities
episode #: 312 "Nine Wives" A Breed Apart Inbreeding Coefficients
episode #: 313 "Finders The Leaf Drops Experimental Probability, Histograms
Keepers"
episode #: 313 "Finders Where’s Cheetah? Simulation, Cylindrical Coordinate
Keepers"
episode #: 314 "Take Out" Restaurant Ranking Probability and Directed Graphs
episode #: 318 "Democracy" No Desk Left Behind Probability and Simulation
 episode #: 320"Burn Rate" Random Thoughts Probability
episode #: 321 The Art of Spies Like Us Probability Game
Reckoning
episode #: 314 "Take Out" No Fly Zone Geometry and Probability
episode #: 306 "Longshot" Expected Value Geometric Probability, Expected Value

Counting and
Combinatorics
episode #: 302 "Spree, part II - Social Security Numbers Combinatorics
daughters"
episode #: 223 "Undercurrents" Numb3rs of the I Ching Counting, Symbolism and Encoding
episode #: 312 "Nine Wives" All In The Family Genetic Probabilities
episode #: 312 "Nine Wives" A Breed Apart Inbreeding Coefficients

Statistics
episode #: 311 “Killer Chat” The Perfect House Marketing (Conjoint Analysis)
x episode #: 309 "Waste not" Different or Not Two-Proportion Z-test
episode #: 306 "Longshot" Harmonizing Means Harmonic Mean
episode #: 217 "Mind Games" Right or Wrong The Binomial Theorem
episode #: 217 "Mind Games " Thumbs Up! Using Simulations to Understand Variability
x Episode #: 315 “End of Watch” Candy Land Chi-square Test for Goodness-of-fit
x episode #: 316 "Contenders" Choosing Contenders Weighted Averages, Z-scores
x episode #: 308 "Hardball" Less Is More Least Squares Regression

Data Analysis
episode #: 202 "Judgement How Tall is the Criminal? Scatterplots
Day"
episode #: 311 “Killer Chat” Stylometry Box-and-Whisker Plots
episode #: 308 "Hardball" Is It For Real? Data Analysis & Scatter Plots
episode #: 301 "Spree" The Missing City Logical Reasoning
episode #: 111 "Sacrifice" Sabermetrics Linear Modeling
episode #: 109 "Sniper zero" How Does it Fit Statistics – Regression
episode #: 104 "Structural Fours and Sevens, Oh My! Using Histograms To Analyze Data
corruption"
episode #: 224 "Hot shot" A Stab in the Dark Histograms, Relative Frequency and Probability
episode #: 314 "Take Out" Outliers Statistics and Outliers
episode #: 316 "Contenders" Dialing Ben Scatterplots, Least-squares Regression and
Residuals
episode #: 201 " Assassin " Experimenting With Paper Experimenting With Paper Airplanes
Airplanes

Sequence &
Series
episode #: 307 "Blackout" Maintaining Balance Center of Mass, Harmonic Series
episode #: 216 "Protest" A Recursion Excursion Sequences Defined Recursively
episode #: 215 "The Running An Irrational Approach to Simple Continued Fractions
Man" Music
episode #: 108 "Identity crisis” Growing Geometrically Geometric Sequences and Series

Trigonometry
episode #: 301 "Spree" Traveling on Good Circles Geodesics On a Sphere (Arc Length)
episode #: 107 "Counterfeit Let's Add Some Trig Operations with Trigonometric Functions &
reality" Graphs
episode #: 107 "Counterfeit Changing Sines Introduction to Trigonometric Graphs
reality"
episode #: 204 "Obsession" Telling Time With the Sun Uses of Trigonometry
Number
Theory
episode #: 106 "Sabotage" It All Started With a Pair of Fibonacci Numbers
Rabbits
episode #: 105 "Prime suspect" Prime Time Prime Numbers
episode #: 318 "Democracy" I Never Metadata I Didn’t Pattern Analysis and Recognition
Like

Game Theory
episode #: 302 "Spree, part II “ Tic-Tac-Toe Game Theory
episode #: 201 "Assassin" The Escape Game Game Theory
episode #: 321 "The Art of To C or Not to C The Prisioner's Dilemma
Reckoning"

Computer
Science

episode #: 311 “Killer Chat” Onion Peeler Onion Routing networks

episode #: 317 "One Hour" Turing Origami Computer Science, Logic
episode #: 208 "In Plain Sight " Error Correction Error Correction Codes

Other
episode #: 111 "Sacrifice" Phreak Out! Van Eck Phreaking
episode #: 221 "Rampage" Tesseract Tesseracts and Hypercubes
episode #: 218 "All's Fair" Sudoku Puzzles Sudoku Puzzles
episode #: 207 "Convergence " The Dating Game Algorithms for Calculating Dates
episode #: 203 "Better or Worse" Shifting Cells Finding Patterns Using Cellular Automata