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Texas Instruments: Probability, Simulations, and Probability Distributions
Use simulation on the TI-83 graphing calculator to teach students about the distribution of sample proportions, distribution of sample means, the Central Limit Theorem, normal probability plots, and the Law of Large Numbers. Pick and...
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Texas Instruments: The Derivative as a Limit
Read about the near-simultaneous discovery of Calculus by Liebniz and Newton, then see some examples worked through of finding derivatives of functions using the limit definition of derivative. Following the examples are exercises with...
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Texas Instruments: Experimental Design
Here's a list of multiple choice questions to use to review different sampling techniques and types of studies. While this is intended to be an activity that utilizes TI-Explorer by having students send their answers to each other, it...
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Texas Instruments: Parametric and Polar Graphing
Here's an activity to use to teach students how to use the TI-86 graphing calculator to graph functions in parametric or polar modes. Calculator keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints are given in this student activity.
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Texas Instruments: Parent Graphs
Here's a file that shows the graphs of eight major mathematical functions. Save it on your computer to use individual graphs in documents you create.
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Texas Instruments: Functions and Their Extrema
Model the trajectory of the longest home run ever hit while studying extrema of functions on the TI-89. Another real-world problem in this activity involves minimizing the amount of tin used in a cylindrical tank. Following the worked...
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Texas Instruments: M&m's and Decay Graphs
Observe exponential decay with the classic M&M lab, here written up and ready to go. At the end, the author intends for students to send equations and data to the teacher via TI-Navigator, but this step can done on paper if the...
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Texas Instruments: Points of Intersection and Zeros of Functions
Solve equations and find zeroes of functions using the TI-83 in this lesson. Keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints are included to help students with the activity.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs of the I Ching
This activity was developed to be used in conjunction with the NUMB3RS episode "Undercurrent," in which a victim is found with a Chinese hexagram tattoo. Students will learn about trigrams and hexagrams, Chinese characters made from...
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Texas Instruments: Symbolic and Graphical Functions
Test your incoming Calculus students' readiness for the course by using this pretest. Students must understand functions both graphically and symbolically.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Logging Witnesses
Charlie determines the probability that a suspect is male or female based on the suspect's height and logistic regression in the "All's Fair" episode of the show NUMB3RS. The lesson includes calculator keystrokes and screenprints to help...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today: Humidity Makes Air Feel Hotter Iii
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: Numb3 Rs: Getting in Focus
In an episode of "Numb3rs" called "Harvest," Charlie figures out that an ambulance did not travel in a straight line. Knowing the starting point and the ending point (the foci), Charlie finds the ellipse that shows all the possible...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Breast Cancer Risks
Cross curricular lines while integrating technology into your classroom to study a real-world application of logistic regression. This activity shows students how to enter data into their graphing calculators and perform a regression in...
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Texas Instruments: Confidence Intervals
Learn to use the TI-89 to construct confidence intervals either using data or using sample statistics. The activity has step-by-step calculator instructions along with calculator screen prints.
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Texas Instruments: Solving Equations
Learn to use the TI-86 to solve many types of equations by following this lesson plan and activity. Included are keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints to guide students.
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Texas Instruments: The Closer I Get to You Ti 83
Here's a group activity your students can do to learn about rational functions. Students will use properties of reflections together with measuring tapes, mirrors, and masking tape to find a function that relates height of a reflection...
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Texas Instruments: How to Find the Equation of an Angle Bisector Usin
Challenge your advanced algebra or pre-calculus students to finding the equation of an angle bisector given two intersecting lines. Students can do this in several ways; the lesson plan here walks through two of them in this interesting...
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Texas Instruments: Learning Pre Calculus With the Ti 89
See examples of how to use the TI-89 in Pre-Calculus. Example topics include equations with radicals, trigonometric identities, composition of functions, and inverse functions.
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Texas Instruments: Explore End Behavior
Guide your students to the discovery that the end behavior of a polynomial function is determined by the degree of the polynomial and the sign of the leading coefficient by using this activity from Holt, Rinehart, & Winston's Algebra...
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Texas Instruments: Collecting Pens
How many boxes of cereal must you buy to collect all six different prizes? Calculating this using probability rules is much more difficult than finding the answer using simulation. This lesson plan includes worksheets for students that...
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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of the Quadratic Function
Examine the changes in a graph of a quadratic function that occur when different transformations are applied to the vertex form of the equation. Students will need to have the transformation graphing application on their TI-83+...
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Texas Instruments: Graphing Polynomial Functions
Here's a very detailed, step-by-step activity for students to do to learn about the relationship between the factored form of a polynomial function and its graph. Calculator instructions for the TI-83 are given, right down to the screen...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs Season 2 "Convergence" Where Is the Bullet?
Charlie uses parametric equations of projectile motion to figure out where to look for a fired bullet in the "Convergence" episode of the show NUMB3RS. The lesson plan includes a student page complete with keystroke instructions for the...