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Texas Instruments: Scatterplots and Correlation With Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to enter a list of data and use these lists to graph two-variable statistics. They learn how to analyze the resulting scatterplots to assess the correlation between two variables.
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Texas Instruments: You're So Dense Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the relationship between density of an object, its mass and its volume. They use mass and volume measurements to determine the density of pennies. They compare the density of pre-1983 and post-1984 pennies.
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Texas Instruments: The Calcumites Are Coming! Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students model the growth of a population and compare ideal growth with a population whose growth is limited. They use technology to find exponential and logistic regression equations and use them to plot models.
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Texas Instruments: Watching Your Weight Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine how moving a weight up along a board affects the downward force on the board. They explore how children with different weights can be balanced on a seesaw.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring the Vertex Form of the Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the changes in a graph of a quadratic function that occur when different transformations are applied to the vertex form of the equation. Students will need to have the transformation graphing application on their TI-83+...
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Texas Instruments: Points of Intersection and Zeros of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Solve equations and find zeroes of functions using the TI-83 in this lesson. Keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints are included to help students with the activity.
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Texas Instruments: Explore End Behavior

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Guide your students to the discovery that the end behavior of a polynomial function is determined by the degree of the polynomial and the sign of the leading coefficient by using this activity from Holt, Rinehart, & Winston's Algebra...
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Texas Instruments: Graphing Polynomial Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Here's a very detailed, step-by-step activity for students to do to learn about the relationship between the factored form of a polynomial function and its graph. Calculator instructions for the TI-83 are given, right down to the screen...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs Season 2 "Convergence" Where Is the Bullet?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Charlie uses parametric equations of projectile motion to figure out where to look for a fired bullet in the "Convergence" episode of the show NUMB3RS. The lesson plan includes a student page complete with keystroke instructions for the...
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Texas Instruments: Inverse Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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: Graphs of Quadratic Functions in Vertex Form

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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: Basic Trigonometry Love or Leave It!!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity has the teacher to create 3 triangles on Cabri Jr. on the TI-83 or TI-84. It will prove to students how trigonometry ratios are found. It will show to the students where the ratios are derived rather than just telling the...
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Texas Instruments: River Running: Vector Components

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use TI-Interactive! or TI-83/84's to explore the independence of vertical and horizontal velocity components for swimmers crossing a river.
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Texas Instruments: Spring Thing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses the CBL, TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus, force probe, and motion detector to investigate the acceleration of a mass on a spring. It also investigates Hooke's Law.
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Texas Instruments: Half Life Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students can use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life....
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Texas Instruments: Ball Bounce

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity allows students to use real data obtained by them to model quadratic equations. students can use the TI-83 and/or TI-84 and a motion detector to collect their data. The students will then manually fit both quadratic and...
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Texas Instruments: Inequality Graphing App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity investigates the use of the Inequality Graphing App of the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus to solve a linear programming problem.
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Texas Instruments: Confidence Intervals for Proportions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student will use the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus to calculate confidence intervals for proportions.
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Texas Instruments: Probability, Simulations, and Probability Distributions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use simulation on the TI-83 graphing calculator to teach students about the distribution of sample proportions, distribution of sample means, the Central Limit Theorem, normal probability plots, and the Law of Large Numbers. Pick and...
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Texas Instruments: Programming to Find Area Under a Curve

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how to program the TI 83/84 Plus graphing calculator to approximate the area under a curve using Left,Right,Midpoint Riemann Sums, and Trapezoid Rule, and Simpson's Rule.
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Texas Instruments: On Your Mark, Get Set, React

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This session will demonstrate a novel approach to reaction time experiments done in junior science and mathematics courses. Participants will use a Calculator-Based Ranger (CBR) and a TI-83+ to record their reaction times.
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Texas Instruments: The Pythagorean Theorem and Classifying Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use the converse of the Pythagorean Theorem to predict a triangle's classification. The Cabri Jr. App on the TI-83+/84+ family will be used to create triangles and find their measurements. Adobe PDF lab worksheets are included.
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Texas Instruments: Evaluating Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will evaluate expressions using pencil and paper and then use the editing features of the home screen and/or the table feature of the TI-83 Plus to provide immediate positive reinforcement.
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Texas Instruments: Modeling and Simulating Projectile Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity provides participants the opportunity to model and simulate projectile motion using a program and the TI-83/84 family of graphing calculators. It is a preliminary in-class activity used prior to actual launching an...

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