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Texas Instruments: Muddy Footprints Adventure 11

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this adventure, students will analyze the relationship between height and stride length, and then use that information to identify the biker who left the footprints. They create a scatter plot, find the linear regression equation for...
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Texas Instruments: Heart Rate and Body Position

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students can use a Heart Rate Monitor to measure their heart rate while sitting, lying down, and standing. They will analyze the data collected to determine the effect of body position on heart rate.
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Texas Instruments: The Stock Market Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students pick a stock that they would like to follow for a period of 2 weeks. Each day they look up the stock and chart its price. At the end of the two week period they graph their data using the graphing calculator. They compare their...
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Texas Instruments: Some Nonparametric Tests

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore nonparametric tests for dependent and independent data samples.
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Texas Instruments: Get on the Stick

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' use a motion detector to the measure the reaction time of students. They graph the data from trials conducted in the class and analyze trends. They then calculate drop distance from reaction time.
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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: How Cool Are You?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students collect and analyze data on a model of the perspiration process.
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Texas Instruments: Investigating Sine Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this one or two day lesson, students will review general knowledge of the sine graph using a LearningCheck quiz, generate a graph based on given parameters, and create a sinusoidal model using data extracted from the Web.
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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: Freezing and Melting of Water

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Freezing temperature, the temperature at which a substance turns from liquid to solid, and melting temperature, the temperature at which a substance turns from a solid to a liquid, are characteristic physical properties. In this...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sir Models

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand how diseases, epidemics, etc. are tracked by health organizations. Using the SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) model, students track the number of...
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Texas Instruments: Forecasting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use regression to forecast values from a data. They study exponential smoothing. They also use the program FORECAST to automate a multiplicative model.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will have the opportunity to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot "Is leisure time really shrinking?" into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Prime Time

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson helps students understand the Goldbach Conjecture (any even number greater than four can be written as the sum of two odd prime integers). Students explore how many pairs of odd...
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Texas Instruments: Sands of Time

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students can use a graphing calculator to find a regression equation and then interpolate the data from the equation using integration. They will explore the length of day during the winter and summer solstice at...
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Texas Instruments: Cell Sheet App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the CellSheet App to enter data and text in cells, create cell formulas and use built-in functions. Student explore the utility of this App in science classes, such as Chemistry and Biology. They calculate the molarity of a...
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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: Peas, Circles & Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will receive a circle and determine how many dried peas will fit on that circle. They will also calculate the area of the circle, and using the data of the entire class, determine if there is a linear association
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Texas Instruments: Election Night With Percent

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students will be working primarily with the concept of % of a number. They will calculate the number of people expected to vote when given the population and % of registered voters along with historical data on percentage of voter...
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Texas Instruments: Let Us Count the Ways!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students evaluate expressions using permutations and combinations of data elements on the calculator. They solve problems using these counting principles.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Functions: Slope as Rate of Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn to associate the slope of a straight line with a constant rate of change. They also learn to calculate the rate of change from data points on a line, using the correct units. Students also learn to read from a linear...
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Texas Instruments: Using Regression Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students experiment with regression features of the calculator to find a best fit for a data set.
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Texas Instruments: Simple Programs to Apply Formulas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to write simple programs to evaluate formulas in several variables for lists of data. They apply these skills to the computation of areas, volumes and surface areas of familiar geometric solids.
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Texas Instruments: Amazing Fetal Growth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity you will: graph data of human fetal growth and describe the rate of human fetal growth.