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Texas Instruments: Making Picture Graphs
Students learn to make picture graphs with symbols that represent more than one piece of data.
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Texas Instruments: Can a Lemon Power a Light Bulb
You will learn about a voltaic battery and to see if it's powerful enough to light up a light bulb
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Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity: Archeologist Frieze Patterns
Archeologists, when classifying artifacts, often take note of the physical properties or attributes of artifacts, such as the materials from which the artifacts are made, and their size, shape, function, and decoration. Friezes are often...
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Texas Instruments: Chemical Reactions
This activity is designed to be used a pre-test over types of chemical reactions and balancing.
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Texas Instruments: Solving Systems of Equations: The Method of Elimination
Whenever a system of n equations with n unknowns is given there are several methods that can be used to find the solution to the system if a solution exists. In this activity, you will use the method of elimination to solve systems of...
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Texas Instruments: Square Roots
In this activity, students develop an understanding of the relationship between a number and its square root.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Stick or Switch
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson creates a simulation of the famous "Monty Hall Problem" (also known as the Three Doors Dilemma). In the simulation, students discover whether making certain decisions increase or...
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Texas Instruments: Illinois Isat Practice Exams Grades 6 8 Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the Illinois ISAT math exams.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Party of Six
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson use graph theory to examine social network analysis. Students form complete graphs with different colored edges (representing acquaintance or non-acquaintance), and determine how...
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Texas Instruments: Translations of Parent Graphs
This activity utilizes the TI-Navigator and Activity Center to explore translations of a parent graph.
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Texas Instruments: Half Life Lab
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students can use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life....
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Texas Instruments: Transformations, Reflections and Translations
Students will discover how to move a function up, down, to the right or left or reflect it.
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Texas Instruments: Heat Transfer by Conduction
The purpose of this activity is to monitor the transfer of heat between 2 materials by measuring the temperature changes in them.
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Texas Instruments: Now You See It, Now You Don't
In this activity, students study the relationship between age and near point accommodation (NPA). They predict a person's age using NPA distance values. They use exponential regression, create box-and-whisker plots and histograms.
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Texas Instruments: Matrices App
This App allows a student to use the TI-73 Explorer calculator to add matrix entry, edit it, and calculate functions.
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Texas Instruments: Estimating Square Roots
By estimating the value of a square root students will get practice in identifying perfect squares, in checking for reasonableness of an answer, and in mental math.
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Texas Instruments: South Dakota Sat Practice Exams Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - grade 11 math exam..
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Texas Instruments: Linear Inequalities: Using Algebra
Students learn to solve inequalities using one and two steps. They review the properties of inequalities.
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Texas Instruments: I Am Your Density
In this activity you will: Model data using a linear equation; interpret the slope and intercept values from a linear model; identify a characteristic property of a substance; and examine the relationship between mass, volume, and density.
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Texas Instruments: Roots
Concepts and skills covered in this activity include roots, powers of 10, and problem solving. Roots is taken from "Investigating Mathematics with Calculators in the Middle Grades".
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Texas Instruments: The Effect of Temperature on the Rate of Dissolving
In this activity, students will use a Temperature Sensor to collect data and then analyze that data to determine the effect of temperature increases on the rate of dissolving. They will identify temperature as a factor in dissolving rate...
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Texas Instruments: The World Population: Logistic Model
Students will collect world population data from the Internet, find a logistic model for the data, and use their model to predict future populations.
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Texas Instruments: Funnel Volumes: Volume and Weight
In this activity, students' will use a force sensor to measure the weight of a water filled funnel as it drains. They analyze the weight versus time data and describe it using concepts of slope and intercepts of a linear function.
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Texas Instruments: Ball Bounce
This activity allows students to use real data obtained by them to model quadratic equations. students can use the TI-83 and/or TI-84 and a motion detector to collect their data. The students will then manually fit both quadratic and...