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Texas Instruments: What Is Gravity? Activity Modeling Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 4 in the Explorations book, Modeling Motion: High School Math Activities with the CBR by Linda Antinone, Sam Gough, and Jill Gough (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997).
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Graphing a Scatter Plot

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will make a scatter plot and explore any patterns.
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Texas Instruments: Sack Race

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The primary focus should be on slope as rate of change and piecewise functions. This activity allows exploration of multiple types of slope; i.e., positive slope, negative slope, or zero slope for students to build their understanding of...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Dangerous Births

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, using the USA TODAY Snapshot "Dangerous births" students will explore the geometric relationships of triangles using perpendicular bisectors of the sides, bisectors of the angles and medians of the triangle. They will...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Ballooning Inside the Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity Using the USATODAY infograph, "Ballooning inside the box", students will explore geometric relationships using similar triangles. Identifying triangles with two pairs of congruent angles to explore similarity properties...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Eyes Have It

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson lands students as investigators who must explore the usefullness of iris scan (security) algorithms. In the first part of a lesson, a given probability is used to determine how...
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Texas Instruments: Spread Out #1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This exploration uses baseball's slugging average to explore variance and standard deviation.
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Texas Instruments: Why Aren't There More Reds in My Bag?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use small bags of M&M's to make predictions, gather data, and display color distribution results in a circle graph. They explore the concept of ratios and sample size.
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Texas Instruments: How Totally Square!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make a variety of sizes of squares using square color tiles. With the squares, the students discover patterns and make prediction. They explore and understand the concept of square numbers.
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Texas Instruments: Periodic Table App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This App provides students with a graphical representation of the elements of the Periodic Table. Information includes 15 properties and facts about the 109 known elements. Students get to explore graphs of the periodic nature of the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Pythagorean Triples

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore the notion of Pythagorean triples, the "traditional" method for finding Pythagorean triples, and a method to find triples which utilizes the Fibonacci...
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Texas Instruments: Busy Hands

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity, learners 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: What Causes the Seasons?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' will explore how the tilt of the earth's axis results in different amounts of solar radiation at different times of the year, causing seasons. They will simulate the earth's warming using a light bulb that...
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Texas Instruments: World Geography App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This classroom activity features geography facts of countries around the world. Students explore latitude, longitude, area, climate, and more. They examine maps of the area, and discover the location of a country with respect to other...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Konigsberg Bridge Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the world of Graph Theory, by having them explore the Konigsberg Bridge Problem. Through this lesson, students will be able to determine if Euler paths...
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Texas Instruments: Calculus With the Ti 89

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students will explore the concept of limits of functions, and use CAS to demonstrate the definition of derivative.
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Texas Instruments: Bonds and Bond Yield to Maturity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will deal with Bonds, that are long-term promissory notes, specifying that the creditor will receive regular interest payments for the term of the agreement and then receive the face amount of the bond....
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Texas Instruments: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity gives students an opportunity to explore the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.
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Texas Instruments: Dimensional Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explores dimensional analysis, the process of converting one unit into another.
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Texas Instruments: General Quadratics, Cubics, and Quartics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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: Integration Advanced Placement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students learn and explore two types of integrals: Indefinite and Definite.
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Texas Instruments: Transformations in Geometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity the teacher will send two lists, a window range, and an educational document via the TI-Navigator. Students will explore the reflections and rotations of a shape in the rectangular coordinate system.
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Texas Instruments: Bisectors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the Perpendicular Bisector Theorem and examine its converse. They also explore the Angle Bisector Theorem.
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Texas Instruments: Energy From Foods Part Ii

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students explore how an electrochemical cell works. They use a Voltage Sensor to measure the electrical energy produced when the distance between the electrodes is varied. They also determine the factors that affect the...