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Texas Instruments: Circumcenter and Incenter
In this activity, students examine the location of the circumcenter and incenter for different triangles.
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Texas Instruments: Solving Rational Expressions
Students will solve rational equations for unknown variables, use given information to create rational equations, and determine the relationship between rational expressions.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Fresh Air and Parabolas
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson examines a plane crash, and gets students to try to find the location of various pieces of wreckage. This is done using parametric equations which form a parabolic trajectory....
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Texas Instruments: Spring Thing: Newton's Second Law
In this activity, students' use a force sensor and a motion detector to collect force and acceleration data for an object moving up and down hanging from a spring. They use the data to test Newton's second law, and to estimate the mass...
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Texas Instruments: Spring Thing
This activity uses the CBL, TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus, force probe, and motion detector to investigate the acceleration of a mass on a spring. It also investigates Hooke's Law.
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Texas Instruments: Isosceles Triangles
Questions on the basic characteristics of an isosceles triangle
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Standard Form of a Quadratic Function
Students explore y=ax^2+bx+c using the transform graphing application. Teacher calculator is used with Navigator to send device settings, the equation format and initial coefficient values to all students. Worksheet includes all student...
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Texas Instruments: Midpoint of a Segment
Students review the basic geometry definitions of segment and midpoint, and learn to use drawing and measurement tools. They explore changes in measurements as the figure is altered.
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Texas Instruments: Differential Equations and Slope Fields Activity 7
In this activity, students investigate the use of the differential equation graphing mode to solve various differential equations. They learn and explore to use numerical and graphical methods for solving various differential equations.
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Texas Instruments: Simple Harmonic Motion
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of simple harmonic motion.
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Texas Instruments: Approximation of Pi Using Archimedes' Method
Students can use trigonometric ratios to discover the circumference of regular polygons inscribed within and circumscribed about a circle. These ratios will help approximate a value of pi.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Barging In
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson exposes students to equations of variation (direct, inverse, and joint) in the real world, as well as having students work with such equations in the real world context. The...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Breaking the Code
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: Least Squares Data Fitting
This activity will allow the student to generate an equation from data points based on minimizing the sum of squares of the vertical distances from each point.
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Texas Instruments: Knowing About Numbers
Students experience square roots, perfect squares, and absolute value to enhance their knowledge of numbers. Taking this awareness, students apply it to operations with integers.
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Texas Instruments: Holt Modern Chemistry: Acid Base Titration
This activity Acid-Base Titration from the chapter Acid-Base Titration and pH uses the calculator program TITRAFC4 to display titration curves for the titration of a strong or weak acid with a strong base. The titration curve shows the...
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Texas Instruments: Welcome Survey
This activity is a great kickoff for the new year--it will help you learn more about your students and their knowledge of the new technology.
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Texas Instruments: Massachusetts Mcas Practice Exams Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - 10th grade Massachusetts MCAS math exam.
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Texas Instruments: Solving System of Equations: The Method of Substitution
In this activity, students learn to solve a system of equations using the substitution method.
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Texas Instruments: Warming Up to Heating Curves
In this activity, students use the CBL 2 to collect temperature data as a sensor warms up in a cup of water. They find an appropriate mathematical model for the resulting data set.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: What Is Random
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore the conceptness of randomness, and to hopefully squash some student's ideas of what random really is. For example, the lesson points out that in a completely...
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Texas Instruments: Element to Number
This StudyCards stack enables students to practice associating an element's name to its chemical number.
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Texas Instruments: Montana Mont Cas Practice Exam Grade 6 8 Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the Montana MontCAS math exams.
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Texas Instruments: Comparing and Ordering
In this activity, students can use a number line to locate and compare rational numbers.