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Texas Instruments: Dilations in the Plane (Transformations)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will explore the properties of dilations and the relationships between the original and image figures.
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Texas Instruments: Translations in the Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will perform a translation, and explore the properties of translations. In the second part of this activity, they will extend the concept of translations to the coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane Cabri Jr: Interactive

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Taylor Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students explore the Taylor's series. They investigate the approximation of numbers in sequences and series and find their interval of convergence using various methods.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of the Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the vertex form of the parabola and discover how the vertex, direction, and width of the parabola can be determined by studying the parameters. They predict the location of the vertex of a parabola expressed in vertex form.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Transformations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will explore reflections of an object over the x-axis, y-axis, and origin.
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Texas Instruments: Explore Transformations With Matrices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use a graphing calculator to explore transformations with matrices. They will analyze how each element of the matrix affects the position of the image.
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Texas Instruments: Sail Problem (Parallel Lines & Segment Relationships)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will explore the proportional relationships involved in multiple parallel lines being cut by transversals. These relationships are approached through exploration of a sail design problem, where students are to...
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Functions With Cas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity students use the CAS tool to explore sin, cos, and tan functions. They expand the functions and find the domain. They also prove the conjectures.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Linear Equations With Activity Center

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use the attached word document to guide your class exploration on linear equations and their graphs.
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Geometry: Cabri Jr.: Exploring Tangents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use Cabri Jr. to explore some of the characteristics of tangents.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Ti Navigator: Exploring Linear Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces students' to Activity Center. In this activity, students will explore data on Women's Olympic 400 Meter Freestyle Swimming records. Concepts of domain and range will be investigated in the context of this problem...
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Standard Form of a Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore y=ax^2+bx+c using the transform graphing application. Teacher calculator is used with Navigator to send device settings, the equation format and initial coefficient values to all students. Worksheet includes all student...
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the relationship between the center and radius of a circle and the equation of the circle. Collect data and determine regression equations related to various combinations of data, and use the regression equations to make...
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Texas Instruments: Arcs and Angles: Explore Inscribed & Central Angle Properties

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activitie uses the power of Cabri Jr. to explore the relationship between inscribed angles and central anlges in cirles.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Width of a Parabola

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.