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Texas Instruments: Naming Polygons
Students will identify polygons and learn the names of polygons based on the number of sides.
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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: Wrapping It All Up
Students recognize the effects of changes in parameters on the graphs of linear, quadratic, and exponential functions.
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Texas Instruments: Undefined Terms and Definitions
This is a LearningCheck quiz on undefined terms in the beginning of Geometry.
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Texas Instruments: Behaviors Exponential Function
This StudyCard stack teaches and tests on the exponential function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the exponential function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 6.1.
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Texas Instruments: Setting the Trend
In this activity you will - Determine the trend in atomic radius for the periodic table. Determine the trend in first ionization energy for the periodic table. Determine the trend in electronegativity for the periodic table.
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Texas Instruments: Graphing Families of Quadratic Functions
Students can use the Transform app to explore families of quadratic functions. Generalization about the effect of a, b and c coefficients have on the shape and position of the graph in general form, and the effect of a, h, and k in...
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Calculus Tools App
This user-friendly application extends the build-in power of your TI-89 and TI-92 Plus by providing more specialized functionality. Use Calculus to investigate applications of differentiation, compare numerical integration techniques and...
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Texas Instruments: Celebrity Plots
Students can use celebrity ages to find central tendency and create scatter plots.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Where's Cheetah?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students set up a search region for a yacht that sank into the ocean. Using cylindrical coordinates and a little trigonometry, students are able to block off a certain portion...
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Texas Instruments: Mitosis Vocabulary
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying mitosis.
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Texas Instruments: Chill Out: How Hot Objects Cool
In this activity, students can use a temperature probe to collect data as the warmed probe cool. Students will investigate Newton's law of cooling and model cooling data with an exponential function. They will fit the data to a...
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Texas Instruments: Area Formulas App
Students review the definition and area formula for the rectangle, square, parallelogram, triangle, trapezoid, and circle.
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Texas Instruments: Macromolecules
This activity on macromolecules is designed to assess knowledge of important macromolecules, their structures and compositions.
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Texas Instruments: The Golf Ball Challenge
In this activity, students will measure the bounce heights of golf balls dropped from a height. They examine the geometric sequence in the successive bounce heights and determine the constant or common ratio and the rate of decay of the...
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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: Match the Graph
In this activity, students walk in front of a calculator-based ranger CBR and try to match a distance-time graph. They examine the rate of change, and analyze and interpret the graph of a function.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Geometric Probability Using Ti Navigator
In this activity students will contribute a set of random points to a graph of a circle of radius 1 inscribed in a square. They will estimate the area of the circle using geometric probability.
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Texas Instruments: Need for Speed Adventure 2
Students use a radio controlled car and weights to record the time of each run and determine velocity. They represent motion graphically and determine the relationship between speed, time, and weight. Students create and interpret...
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Texas Instruments: Velocity Test: Interpreting Velocity Graphs
In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to record the distance versus time data for the simple motion of a walker. They will calculate velocity from this graph and compare it with the velocity graph generated by the...
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Periodic Table App
In this activity, explore the periodicity of the periodic table with the Periodic Table App.
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Texas Instruments: The Factor Game
In this activity, the teacher and students play a game which involves identifying the factors of a number.
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Texas Instruments: The Remainder Theorem, Polynomial Expansion, and Tangent Line
In this Derive activity, students use the Remainder Theorem to find a tangent line to the graph of a polynomial function.
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Texas Instruments: Modeling and Simulating Projectile Motion
This activity provides participants the opportunity to model and simulate projectile motion using a program and the TI-83/84 family of graphing calculators. It is a preliminary in-class activity used prior to actual launching an...