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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Width of a Parabola
Use TI-Navigator to explore the width of a parabola. All directions are provided on the teacher's guide.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Polar Equations
In this activity, students will explore polar equations. They learn that by changing values a, b, and n, different polar curves can be generated.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Linear Equations
This activity uses the Transformation Graphing Application to explore the linear equation after entering data into lists and doing a statistical plot of the data.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Pythagorean Theorem and Its Applications
Students discover the Pythagorean Theorem by exploring right triangles using Cabri Jr. They apply the Pythagorean Theorem to real-world problems. Also, students create a scatter plot of the data and find an equation that fits the data.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Slope Intercept Form of a Line
Use TI-Navigator to explore the relationship between a linear function and its graphs. See how the value of the slope and y-intercept affect the graphs.
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Texas Instruments: Explore Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Students can use a graphing calculator to explore graphs of parallel and perpendicular lines. Students will find that parallel lines have the same slope and different y-intercepts and that the slopes of two perpendicular lines are...
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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
In this Derive activity, students investigate the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and explore examples of Riemann Sums for approximating the Definite Integral: the Midpoint Sum, the Left Hand Endpoint Sum, the Right Hand Endpoint Sum,...
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Probability Simulations App
Explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates the rolling of dice, tossing of coins and generating random numbers. Evaluation options include bar graphs, table of trials data, settings for specifying the number of...
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Texas Instruments: The Standard Form of a Quadratic Equation
In this activity, students explore the standard form of a quadratic equation, y = ax 2 + bx + c. They explore how the x-intercepts (zeros), y-intercept, and vertex are related to the graph of the standard form of a quadratic function.
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Texas Instruments: Swing Thing Activity Math and Science in Motion
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 10 in the Explorations book, Math and Science in Motion: Activities for Middle School by Chris Brueningsen, Elisa Brueningsen, and Bill Bower (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997).
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Texas Instruments: Graphs of Quadratic Functions in Vertex Form
TI Explorations books has a great activity for TI InterActive! in graphing parabolas in vertex form. What if you don't have TI InterActive! or a lab to take your students, but you do have a class set of TI-83 or TI-84. This activity...
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Texas Instruments: Flipping a Penny
In this activity, students will explore two functions which are inverses of each other. They also explore their characteristics and understand how they reverse each other's operation.
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Texas Instruments: Slippery Slope Activity: Math & Science in Motion
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 6 in the Explorations book, Math and Science in Motion: Activities for Middle School by Chris Brueningsen, Elisa Brueningsen, and Bill Bower (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997). Students...
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Texas Instruments: Probability Simulations App
This App allows students to explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates rolling dice, tossing coins, and generating random numbers. They use evaluation options such as bar graphs and table of trials data....
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Texas Instruments: Jason: Does Oxygen in the Water Matter
JASON Aquatic Field Study: Explore how dissolved oxygen is one of the best indicators of the health of an aquatic ecosystem. Measure the dissolved oxygen level of a local aquatic site and explore how it affects water quality.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: We're Number 1!
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the not-so-well known Benford's Law, which helps identify random number sets that may have been fabricated. Students learn about Benford's Law by exploring...
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Ti Navigator: Compound Interest
This lesson introduces students' to Activity Center. In this lesson, students will explore the effect of compound interest on the amount of an investment over time. Students will work in small groups (or individually) to calculate...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: An Irrational Approach to Music
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of approximating irrational numbers using a continued fraction. For most exercises in the lesson, the values which are to be substituted into...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Wing Tabs Save Fuel
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, 'Wing tabs save fuel', ratios and proportions will be used to explore the concept of similarity between a drawing/model and the actual dimensions. The effects of dilation (size change) on an image and...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Risky Business
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore odds ratios and risk ratios. Framed in the context of a possibly contaminated playground on which children who play show signs of toxic exposure, students...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Reliable Is the Test?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students how conditional probability can be used in the real world and can, in fact, impact them. The lesson is framed around drug users and drug tests (namely, steroids)....
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Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System: More Students Apply Early
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, "More students apply early," students will explore scatter plots and independent and dependent variables. Students will determine a best-fit regression model for the real-life data set and then use the...
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Texas Instruments: Quadratic Functions
Students will explore the effect the coefficient of x^2 has on the graph of a quadratic function; they will also explore the effect of adding a constant to the quadratic function.
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Texas Instruments: Windows
This is a partner activity. One calculator is used to explore and the other is used to continue the learn check. It was designed to help students understand the concept of windows and what happens with the various window settings. Using...