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Texas Instruments: Delaware Dstp Practice Exams Grades 6 8 Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the Delaware DSTP math exams.
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Texas Instruments: Unit Conversions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn to convert temperature readings on the Fahrenheit scale to temperature readings on the Celsius scale.
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Texas Instruments: Yards of Tin

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students solve a problem involving surface area of cylinders. They find the surface area and the amount of tin needed to make the cylindrical parts of ten long open pipes.
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Texas Instruments: The Slope of the Tangent Line (Part2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students graph the cubic and quadratic functions. They also graph the slope values of the tangent lines for each of the function graphs.
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Texas Instruments: Simple Constructions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this skill activity, students can use the Constructions Tools Menu in Cabri Jr. to contruct a parallelogram. They will also construct an altitude, an angle bisector and a median of a triangle.
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Texas Instruments: Visualizing Particle Motion: A New Look

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the parametric mode of the graphing calculator to visualize a particle motion problem.
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Texas Instruments: Curve Ball

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students collect data for a bouncing ball using a motion detector. They analyze the data and attempt to find a model for the height of the ball as a function of time.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students plot points in the coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Comparing Decimals Wider Isn't Always Larger

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn to compare and order decimals. They learn to measure decimals by using the Number Line application.
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Geometry: Investigate Proportionality

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family with Cabri Jr. to segment lengths in a triangle.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Random Thoughts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students that random patterns often contain seemingly un-random subpatterns. Students experiment by flipping a coin a number of times and then looking for "runs" of heads or...
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Texas Instruments: Hello Dolly

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will draw a model of a Punnett Square on the calculator and discover all possible combinations of Genotypes. They explore theoretical and experimental probabilities. They also collect data through experimental probability and...
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Texas Instruments: Rolle's Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student will be able to understand Rolle's Theorem using tabular, graphical, and numerical methods.
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Texas Instruments: Cabri Geometry Tour

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will practice some of the basic functions of the Cabri Geometry software, including use of the Pointer, Point, Line, Measure, and Construct toolbars.
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Texas Instruments: Data Analysis

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students learn to design data investigations, describe data, and draw conclusions. They learn to choose the best type of graph, graph and interpret the data, and look for patterns and trends. They also use the calculator to investigate...
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Texas Instruments: Kansas Sa Middle School Practice Exam Grade 7 Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the SA exam.
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Texas Instruments: Standard Form of a Parabola

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will help students work with the standard form of a parabola y = a(x - h)^2 + k by writing an equation given the vertex and a point.
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Texas Instruments: Science Today Breast Cancer Risks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The USA TODAY Snapshot? "Breast cancer risks" shows the percentage of women in several age categories that, statistically, develop breast cancer. Students will notice that the percentages increase as women get older. In this activity,...
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Texas Instruments: Number Line

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the Number Line application to represent distance moved in a particular direction (West or East) using vectors.
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Texas Instruments: Rational Number Rampage App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This App helps students sharpen fraction, decimal, and percentage representation skills with three games: Rational Timer, Rational Match, and Percent Square.
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Texas Instruments: Graph of Common Functions 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This StudyCard stack tests students on their ability to study graphs and write functions that represent the relationship between two variables displayed by the graph.
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Texas Instruments: Jason: Mixing Soil and Water Let's Settle This?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Disappearing Wetlands: Investigate how particles settle by measuring the amount of light passing through the water as particles settle. Make connections to the process by which sediment settles out of the Mississippi River to form...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Onion Peeler

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of changing number bases, as well as gives some insight into Internet privacy through "onion routing." Students translate hexadecimal numbers...
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Texas Instruments: What Quadrilateral Is It?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will algebraically determine what type of quadrilateral that is pictured in the activity center.