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Texas Instruments: Sunrise, Sunset: Weather Match

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine the relationship between temperature and light intensity. They use a Temperature Sensor and a Light Intensity Sensor to collect temperature and light intensity data for a period of 24 hours. They understand the effect...
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Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students graph normal distributions, shade desired areas, and find related probabilities. They graph Normal probability scatter plots to check the normal (linear) shape of a data distribution.
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Texas Instruments: Influence and Outliers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will identify outliers that are influential with respect to the least-squares regression line. Students will describe the role of the location of a point relative to the other data in determining whether that...
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Texas Instruments: An Olympic Plot

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students find lines of best fit to model Olympic data.
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Texas Instruments: Are Your Bones Normal?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use the TI-Navigator to investigate mathematics in Forensic Science.
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Texas Instruments: Help, a Pipe Is Leaking!!!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will simulate a pipe leaking and collect data. Students will then use the TI-73 calculator to determine how many gallons would leak at that rate for a 30-day month.
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Texas Instruments: Domain and Range of Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity will allow the students to determine the domain and range of many different graphs presented to them through TI-Navigator using the activity center.
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Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Titanium

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a fact sheet with information on the basic data and properties of Titanium. It also includes some of its uses.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Applications of Variance and Standard Deviation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Calculate the variance and standard deviation of a data set.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Applications of Histograms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use calculators to create graphical representations of data, such as histograms.
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Texas Instruments: Line Up #2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses baseball's slugging average and number of games to explore a bivariate association.
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Texas Instruments: Forensics Case 7 Drug Tests: Identifying an Unknown Chemical

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students distinguish between physical and chemical properties. They also understand the differences between qualitative and quantitative observations. They use quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify an...
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Texas Instruments: Forensics Case 9: Killer Cup of Coffee: Using Colorimetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, Students can use colorimetry to determine the concentration of a colored species in a solution and use a linear relationship to model Beer's law. They use Beer's law to determine the concentration of...
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Texas Instruments: Science Today Breast Cancer Risks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The USA TODAY Snapshot? "Breast cancer risks" shows the percentage of women in several age categories that, statistically, develop breast cancer. Students will notice that the percentages increase as women get older. In this activity,...
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Texas Instruments: Science Today: Clearing the Bar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will explore the effects of two critical physical factors on potential success in the pole vault event in track and field.
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Texas Instruments: The Candy Caper

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity students learn to use estimation to determine the number of candies in various size cylinders. They compare estimated numbers to actual numbers and investigate the relationship between the two numbers.
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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: Forensics Case 8: Using Soil Characteristics to Link Suspects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students measure pH, conductivity, and water absorbency of different samples of soil. They use these characteristic properties to identify soil samples. They use the physical and chemical characteristics of soil samples...
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Texas Instruments: Statistical Graphs & Economics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What types of statistical graphs are there and when and how are they used and read? How are statistical graphs used in Economics?
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Probability: Exponential Distributions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers exponential distributions. Presents examples using a graphing calculator as well as guided and independent practice questions.
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Texas Instruments: Making Motion Graphs With Toys

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Intended for the beginning lessons in derivative and function graphs, this activity uses motion detectors and battery operated toy cars to generate constant velocity graphs on a TI-83/84. Then students take a free-wheeling car and roll...
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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: Numb3 Rs: Random Thoughts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students that random patterns often contain seemingly un-random subpatterns. Students experiment by flipping a coin a number of times and then looking for "runs" of heads or...
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Texas Instruments: Overdue Fines

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn to solve a real-world problem comparing overdue fines at different libraries.