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Texas Instruments: Are Your Bones Normal?
Students can use the TI-Navigator to investigate mathematics in Forensic Science.
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Texas Instruments: Car Stopping Distances
This activity uses the tranformation graphing application on the TI-84 calculator to discover the equation for the stopping distance of a car on dry pavement.
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Science: Endothermic and Exothermic Process
Students can use TI graphing calculators and data collection to find equations of lines using slope-intercept format and graph.
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Texas Instruments: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In this activity, students analyze statistical data using the calculator and the TI InterActive! software. They use linear regression to study the increase in levels of carbon dioxide emission over the years.
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Texas Instruments: Help, a Pipe Is Leaking!!!
In this activity, students will simulate a pipe leaking and collect data. Students will then use the TI-73 calculator to determine how many gallons would leak at that rate for a 30-day month.
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Texas Instruments: Measuring Polygons an Introduction to Cabri Jr.
This activity is designed as an introduction to using the Carbri Jr. application on the TI-83+/84+ calculators. Students are guided through the menu system and are shown how to draw triangles, quadrilaterals and and a pentagon. Perimeter...
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Texas Instruments: Cabri Jr. Getting Started With Triangles
This activity was developed as an introduction to the Cabri Jr. application on the TI-84 calculator. It investigates some basic properties of triangles. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Implicit Differentiation
Students differentiate an equation in two variables with respect to one. They calculate points where the tangent line is horizontal, vertical, or oblique and use the graphing capacity of the TI-89 to display the graph of the implicit...
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Texas Instruments: Transformations, Rotations, Dilations 1
This StudyCards stack tests students' understanding of translation, transformation, symmetry, dilation, and rotation of a point to form images. Teachers require TI StudyCards Creator Software and students will need the StudyCardApp on...
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Texas Instruments: Inverse Functions
Review inverse functions with your students using this TI-83 activity. Students will find inverses of given functions, determine whether the inverse is a function, graph both, and check for symmetry through the line y=x. The lesson...
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Texas Instruments: Biggest Box
A classic problem looking at maximizing volume by varying the height of a box. Uses graphing calculators to analyze data collected and to model a cubic equation. Look for points that maximize volume while developing a preliminary notion...
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Texas Instruments: Drawing 3 Dimensional Figures
In this activity, students learn to draw a three-dimensional figure using Isometric Dots in the Explorer Draw App on the calculator. They also find the area and volume of a rectangular prism. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Dynamic Algebra
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity shows how the method of dynamization by parameterization works with almost all classical math problems, which produces problems for CAS calculators quickly.
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Texas Instruments: Quotient Rule
This activity will use the capabilities of the graphing calculator to illustrate the symbolic derivative quotient rule.
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Texas Instruments: Eating Out
In this activity, students examine data and make graphs to represent the data. They interpret the data and answer questions. They also learn to calculate percentages and angle measures.
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Texas Instruments: Busy Hands
In this activity, students will make their own finger signs for the numbers from zero to ten. Students will relate each finger sign to its numeral and then explore number sentences using the calculator.
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Texas Instruments: Old Mac Donald's Pigpen
In this activity, students solve a standard maximum value problem using the calculator. Students help Old MacDonald build a rectangular pigpen with 40 m fencing that provides maximum area for the pigs. They graph scatter plots, analyze...
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Texas Instruments: Boxing It Up
In this activity, students will experiment with creating a box from a standard size piece of paper. They will then use the concept of related rates on the graphing calculator to find the maximum volume of a box made from the piece of paper.
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Texas Instruments: Creating Word Problems
In this activity, students write word problems based on the whole numbers generated by the calculator. They decide on an operation to solve the problems. They analyze the problems to determine the problem characteristics when using...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today the Next Frontier for Flight
This activity provides students the opportunity to gain experience in creating circle graphs on the calculator and provides an excellent real-world review of computation with percents.
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Texas Instruments: Binomial Distribution
Questions cover the binomial distribution. Students identify characteristics of a binomial distribution and calculate probabilities for different ranges. Binomial mean and variance are covered in the link between the binomial and normal...
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Texas Instruments: Reflectivity of Light
In this activity, students can use a Light Sensor to measure reflection values from paper of various colors and compare these values to reflection values of aluminum foil. They will also calculate percent reflectivity.
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Texas Instruments: General Quadratics, Cubics, and Quartics
This activity explores the characteristics of the graphs of quadratic, cubic, and quartic functions. The graphing calculator will be used to generate graphs and derivatives of these functions.
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Texas Instruments: Nitrate
Student uses the Nitrate Ion-Selective Probe to measure the Nitrate ions concentration in water samples. In another method, student converts nitrate ions to nitrite and uses the Colorimeter to measure nitrite and calculate the nitrate...