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Texas Instruments: Ball Bounce Revisited
This activity uses the peaks of the ball bounce data to produce an exponential function.
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Texas Instruments: Predicting Pi
In this activity, students explore the use of linear measurement and calculators to discover the existence of pi, the constant ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle.
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Texas Instruments: Washington Wasl Practice Exams Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - Washington grade 10 math exams.
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Texas Instruments: Exploration of Trigonometry
Using TI Navigator, Cabri Jr and LearnCheck, students will explore how changing an angle in a triangle changes the ratio of the sides, and changing the sides can make changes an angle in a triangle. Students will then explore two...
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Texas Instruments: West Virginia Westest Middle School Practice Exam Grades 6
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the WESTEST exams.
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Texas Instruments: Finding Limits
This activity allows the student to understand limits using both graphical and tabular methods.
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Texas Instruments: Centers of a Triangle
The centroid, circumcenter, orthocenter, and incenter are the four classic centers of a triangle that are studied in geometry. In this activity, you will construct these center points and discover their properties. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Box It Up (A Graphical Look)
Students graph the relationship between the length of the sides of the cut-out squares and the volume of the resulting box. They trace the graph to decide the best square-size which can result in a box of maximum volume.
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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: Transformations With Cabri Jr.
In this activity, get instructions on how to perform transformations using the Cabri Jr. Application on the TI-84 Plus.
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Texas Instruments: What Goes Up Must Come Down
In this activity, students use the calculator to solve quadratic equations. They use the quadratic formula to determine the vertex and the x-intercepts of the graph of a quadratic function.
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Texas Instruments: Evaluating Expressions
Students will evaluate expressions using pencil and paper and then use the editing features of the home screen and/or the table feature of the TI-83 Plus to provide immediate positive reinforcement.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System College Costs Surge
During this activity, students will explore the expected cost of college and also look at methods of saving money for the future. Comparing simple and compound interest will help students make decisions about their future. Students will...
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Texas Instruments: Do You Have a Temperature?
In this activity, students represent and analyze climate data. They use linear regressions to understand the relationship between temperatures measured in the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales and examine conversion factors.
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Perform Linear Regression
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to enter data, do a scatter plot and find the line of best fit and explain how they could use it to predict future values.
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Texas Instruments: Midsegments of Quadrilaterals
In this activity, students will extend their understanding of midsegments by investigating the midsegments of a quadrilateral and the midsegment quadrilateral. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Fours and Sevens, Oh My!
Based off the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of random numbers and shows how human-generated random numbers are not always "really" random. This is done by framing the lesson in terms of...
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Texas Instruments: West Virginia Westest Practice Exams Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - West Virginia Algebra exam.
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Texas Instruments: What's the Angle?
Students discover properties of interior and exterior angles of convex polygons using the TI-89 and Geometer's Sketchpad.
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Texas Instruments: Bird Hipped Dinosaurs Time Line
A time line showing Bird-Hipped (Ornithischia) dinosaurs.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Binomial Theorem
Students expand expressions using Pascal's Triangle and verify the results on a Computer Algebra System CAS tool.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Chase
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students develop the concept of pursuit curves, in which one object moves according to the movements of another object. This lesson is framed in the context of an officer...
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Texas Instruments: Fast Nines and Fast Tens
Students learn how to solve a mathematical equation with a missing addend. Students will learn the combinations of addends to find the sums of nine and ten. Students practice math facts with accuracy and immediacy for sums of nine and ten.
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Texas Instruments: Zeros of a Cubic
This activity involves some of the prerequisites of calculus relating to functions and equations. It also contains an application of differentiation. (Continued. See "before the activity.")