Discovery-based Investigations provide in-depth contextual content, real-life data, and the integration of technology to let students explore a problem before solving it Students analyze data, which they are given or gather themselves, to make sense of the mathematical relationships they observe Examples are fully worked out and include reasons that justify the process Support the use of graphing calculators, which let students easily manipulate large amounts of data and see the ?big picture? of the math being used Optional interactive Explorations, included on the Student CD, use Microsoft® Excel to build spreadsheets for Activities in which students investigate algebra concepts
