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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Two Hot, Two Cold

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students collect both Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature data for several water samples of varying temperatures. They use the data to find a conversion equation that will calculate the Fahrenheit temperature for any...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Garbage Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine data about garbage production and graphically represent data in a scatter plot. From the data students make predictions. They develop an understanding of the environmental impact of trash accumulation and the need for a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today: Humidity Makes Air Feel Hotter Iii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the relationship among humidity, air temperature, and the heat index while learning about modeling data, evaluating functions, and describing the end behavior of a function. Students will use graphing calculator technology to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Breaking the Code

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to simple coding techniques (namely, the shift cipher). Students learn to translate codes from nonsense to English by quantifying each letter, and then...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering the Derivative of the Sine and Cosine Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students discover the derivative of sin(x) and cos(x) by analyzing a scatter plot of x-values and the function's numerical derivatives at these x-values.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Maximizing the Area of a Rectangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is adapted from one of the TI books. Students measure lengths and widths of rectangles and record for the class to see. Each group's rectangle has the same perimeter, but different areas. After a discussion, students make...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Prime Time

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand the Goldbach Conjecture (any even number greater than four can be written as the sum of two odd prime integers). Students explore how many pairs of odd...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Average Rates of Change and Trend Lines

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity, students calculate the average rate of change and graph a scatter plot of status high school dropout rate for 1975-2002. The module combines interpretation of rate of change in the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students graph normal distributions, shade desired areas, and find related probabilities. They graph Normal probability scatter plots to check the normal (linear) shape of a data distribution.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Linear Regression Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use a calculator to create a scatter plot and to determine the equation of the line of best fit.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Linear Regression Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Linear regression is a process of drawing a line through data in a scatter plot. The line summarizes the data, which is useful when making predictions.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Correlation Coefficient Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The correlation coefficient r measures the direction and strength of a linear relationship. Calculating r is pretty complex, so we usually rely on technology for the computations. We focus on understanding what r says about a scatterplot.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Scatterplots and Regressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the purpose of scatterplots, and demonstrates how to draw them.
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Other

Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
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Rice University

Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Chapter 3: Describing Bivariate Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This chapter of an online textbook begins with a description of scatterplots, then focuses on the Pearson Product Moment Correlation.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Boat Registration and Manatee Deaths in Florida

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will explore the data on boat registrations and manatee deaths in Florida. They will use the data, the graph of the data and the line of best fit to make predictions about the relationship of the data.
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Duke University

Duke University: Introduction to Linear Regression

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page discusses linear regression, its equations, background, and applications. Provides questions, answers, formulas, and explanations for understanding.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Applications of Integrals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use the TI-89 to find the area between curves, find arc length, and solve first and second order differential equations. Examples in the activity use calculator screenprints and keystroke instructions to demonstrate the use of the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dialing Ben

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students try to discover if there has been a significant change in cell phone use over the course of ten days. If so, this "change point" can be detected by creating a line of...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Linear Correlation Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use examples to determine and explain the linear correlation of independent and dependent variables.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id, F if Laptop Battery Charge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This task uses a situation that is familiar to learners to solve a problem they probably have all encountered before: How long will it take until an electronic device has a fully charged battery? Given data, students perform a variety of...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Quadratic Functions and Their Graphs

For Students 8th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn the anatomy of the graph of a quadratic function.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ballistic Statistics!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will collect examples of various statistical instruments and form an electronic scrapbook. These materials will be gathered from electronic sources in addition to periodicals and other print resources.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Statistically Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The object of this project is for learners to learn how to find univariate and bivariate statistics for sets of data. Also, the students will be able to determine if two sets of data are linearly correlated and to what degree. The...

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