Did you learn to calculate using a 7-foot-long slide rule? Did you learn about the properties of numbers using brightly colored Cuisenaire rods? Ever wonder who invented the graph paper you used in geometry class? Go back to the...

Here's an activity to use to teach students how to use the TI-86 graphing calculator to graph functions in parametric or polar modes. Calculator keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints are given in this student activity.

In this activity, students use the TI graphing calculator to calculate compound interest. They understand that in compound interest computations, the interest from the previous period is added to the current principal and the new total...

Use simulation on the TI-83 graphing calculator to teach students about the distribution of sample proportions, distribution of sample means, the Central Limit Theorem, normal probability plots, and the Law of Large Numbers. Pick and...

Many aspects relating to the motion of a bouncing ball can be modelled mathematically. The first stage in modelling the motion is to collect some data. The Calculator Base Laboratory or CBR is a motion detector that can be connected to a...

How many boxes of cereal must you buy to collect all six different prizes? Calculating this using probability rules is much more difficult than finding the answer using simulation. This lesson plan includes worksheets for students that...

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....

Learn to use the TI-89 to construct confidence intervals either using data or using sample statistics. The activity has step-by-step calculator instructions along with calculator screen prints.

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to explore the TI-84 graphing calculator in conjunction with Microsoft Excel. Students can use the "Stretching Slinkies" worksheet to record and enter data. They will either: enter data...

Learn how to graph a piecewise defined function on the TI-89 graphing calculator. Precise keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints are included in this lesson plan and student activity page.

This App allows a student to use the TI-73 Explorer calculator to add matrix entry, edit it, and calculate functions.

This brief activity clarifies to use Bayes' Rule and conditional probability to narrow down searches. Students then have the opportunity to calculate some conditional probabilities using the same technique. Graphing calculator technology...

This activity will use linear programming and the Inequalz apps on the TI-84+ calculator to solve real world problems.

This electrical engineering activity uses a TI graphing calculator to analyze AC circuits including sine waves, capacitance and inductive reactance, solving series AC circuits, and RMS calculations.

In this activity, you will explore the Science Tools App by using the "Significant Figures" feature and the "Vector Calculator".

Students will take a pretest to assess their prior knowledge about calculating earnings.

Examine the changes in a graph of a quadratic function that occur when different transformations are applied to the vertex form of the equation. Students will need to have the transformation graphing application on their TI-83+...

This activity enables students to practice various skills such entering lists, comparing data, and utilizing statistical terms on the graphing calculator.

In this activity you will learn how to use the Sig-Fig Calculator. Determine the sig-figs of some measurements and check this work using the Sig-Fig Calculator.

Read about the near-simultaneous discovery of Calculus by Liebniz and Newton, then see some examples worked through of finding derivatives of functions using the limit definition of derivative. Following the examples are exercises with...

In this TI InterActive! activity, students analyze statistical data using the calculator or the TI InterActive!software. They approximate Cable TV Revenues using logistic regression.

Solve equations and find zeroes of functions using the TI-83 in this lesson. Keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints are included to help students with the activity.

Learn to use the TI-86 to solve many types of equations by following this lesson plan and activity. Included are keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints to guide students.

Guide your students to the discovery that the end behavior of a polynomial function is determined by the degree of the polynomial and the sign of the leading coefficient by using this activity from Holt, Rinehart, & Winston's Algebra...