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Texas Instruments: Finding Linear Models

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students graph a scatter plot, find average rate of change, develop a linear model, find a linear regression and a median/median line for a set of data graphed in a scatter plot and predict profit.
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Perform Linear Regression

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to enter data, do a scatter plot and find the line of best fit and explain how they could use it to predict future values.
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Texas Instruments: Shoe Size vs Height

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be sent empty lists and need to send back their shoe size and height in inches. TI-Navigator will compile all lists and send compiled list to students. Students will then use the compiled list to make scatterplot and find...
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Texas Instruments: Muddy Water Adventure 8

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a light sensor to analyze the effect of storm water run-off on the turbidity of local water. They interpret and analyze scatter plots and understand exponential relationship.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Golden Arches

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using given nutritional information of popular items from McDonald's, the students will develop and test a conjecture based on the given information. The students will analyze the two-variable data using the graphics calculator by...
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math: Making Data Displays

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will create data displays using a scatter plot and a line graph of the data and a circle graph of survey data.
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Texas Instruments: Add Them Up

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students explore the total voltage provided by several batteries in a series to a battery-operated device. They graph scatter plots, understand multiplication as repeated addition, and use a pattern to develop a...
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Texas Instruments: The Ordinary Man

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students estimate the heights of people and compare the estimates to the actual heights in a scatter plot.
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Texas Instruments: How High Will It Bounce?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. They find the relationship between the bounce number and the bounce height. They learn to graph scatter plots, calculate the maximum value...
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Texas Instruments: How Do You Measure Up?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students graph scatter plots to investigate possible relationships between two quantitative variables. They collect data and analyze several sets of data pairing the two quantities.
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Texas Instruments: Bivariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding bivariate data: scatter plots, the least-squares regression line, and their interpretation. The student is asked about the meaning of the various strengths and directions of linear...
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Texas Instruments: Bouncing Ball

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this experiment, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. This activity investigates the values of height, time, and the coefficient A in the quadratic equation, which describes the behavior of...
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Texas Instruments: Nevada's Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine patterns and use these patterns to try to predict different aspects of an event. They study the statistical patterns for the population of the state of Nevada over a period of hundred years, and predict...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System Cropland Value Grows

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create a scatter plot for the data in the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Cropland value grows," and identify the independent and dependent variables for the data. The students will find the rate of change for the data and label this...
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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: Discovering the Derivative of the Sine and Cosine Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students discover the derivative of sin(x) and cos(x) by analyzing a scatter plot of x-values and the function's numerical derivatives at these x-values.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today More Students Apply Early

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will explore scatterplots and independent and dependent variables. Students will find the mean value of the number of students applying under the early decision plan.
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Texas Instruments: Boat Registration and Manatee Deaths in Florida

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will explore the data on boat registrations and manatee deaths in Florida. They will use the data, the graph of the data and the line of best fit to make predictions about the relationship of the data.
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Texas Instruments: Maximizing the Area of a Rectangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is adapted from one of the TI books. Students measure lengths and widths of rectangles and record for the class to see. Each group's rectangle has the same perimeter, but different areas. After a discussion, students make...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Exponential Modeling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to exponential equations, their graphs, and their application in the real world. The lesson is framed in the context of the number of cell phone users for a...
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Texas Instruments: Old Mac Donald's Pigpen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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: Math Today More of Us

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will investigate exponential functions and their graphs using real-life data. Students will analyze population data for the United States and create an exponential model for the scatter plot.
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Texas Instruments: Exponential Growth Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will work in pairs and will conduct a growth experiment. They will record their answers for 7 to 10 trials. They will make a scatterplot of their data and share their graphs with the class.
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Texas Instruments: A Wet Welcome Home Adventure 4

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students perform an experiment that simulates a leaking pipe and gather data on volume of water lost over time. They graph the data collected as a scatter plot, find the equation of the line of best fit, find the total volume of water...

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