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Texas Instruments: Functions and Their Extrema

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Model the trajectory of the longest home run ever hit while studying extrema of functions on the TI-89. Another real-world problem in this activity involves minimizing the amount of tin used in a cylindrical tank. Following the worked...
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Texas Instruments: Integers! It All Adds Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students can use the number line to add integers and to justify and support the rules they develop.
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Texas Instruments: New Mexico Nmtp Practice Exams Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - grade 11 science exam.
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Texas Instruments: Oklahoma Epas Practice Exams Math: Oklahoma Plan Practice

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - grade 10 Oklahoma math exams.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Functions: Slope With Grid

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn to impose a grid on a line to quantify the steepness of a line. They learn that slope is the ratio of vertical change divided by the horizontal change. They also learn that lines can have slope that are positive, zero,...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Irregular Polygon Centroids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore finding the centroid of an irregular polygon by finding the mean of the coordinates of the polygon's vertices. Further, students find the centroid given that...
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Texas Instruments: Central Versus Inscribed Angles in Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using Cabri Jr. to explore the connection between central and inscribed angles along with their arc measure.
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Texas Instruments: Video Tutorial Using the Graph Screen to Factor Quadratics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial shows you how to factor quadratic functions using the graph screen.
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Texas Instruments: Key Curriculum Press Calculus: Concepts & Applications

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore the instantaneous rate of change of a function.
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Texas Instruments: Symbol to Element

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to practice associating the chemical symbol for an element to the element's name.
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Texas Instruments: Calculator Pattern Pizzles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will allow young children to explore number patterns and relationships while introducing the calculator at the same time.
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Texas Instruments: Ti 73 and Cbl in Data Collection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using the TI 73 and CBL to collect samples of water for temp, pH, etc connecting math and science curriculums in the middle school.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Bit of Basic Blackjack

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson explores a little probability in the world of the card game Blackjack. While gambling is not mentioned or used in the lesson, students do find the probability of attaining a...
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Texas Instruments: Hey, That's Not Fair! (Or Is It?)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students can use the calculator to simulate the dice rolls to play two different games. They will decide if the games give each player an equally likely chance of winning. They also compute the probability of an event...
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Texas Instruments: Meal Manager

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students can use percentages and proportional reasoning skills to solve problems.
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Texas Instruments: Recursive and Other Special Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set of questions includes problems on recursive sequences, piecewise and step functions, and translations of functions. Questions are multiple choice, true/false, and short answer with solutions included.
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Texas Instruments: North Dakota Ndsb Practice Exam Grade 8 Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the North Dakota NDSB exams.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Different or Not?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students examine cancer rates in population samples of the New England states to determine if the states' cancer rates are statistically similar. Hypothesis testing is...
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 2: Collect, Model Trigonometric Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use the TI-84 Plus family to collect data from a microphone and analyze. Students' will then write a trig function to model the data.
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Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Intersecting Chords, Secants, and Tangents

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will investigate properties of angles and arcs formed when chords, secants, and tangents intersect and intercept arcs in a circle. They discover several important theorems concerning circles and arc sizes. They...
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Texas Instruments: Properties of Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students create parallel lines and a transversal, and study the properties of the lines and their angles.
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Texas Instruments: How Totally Square Part Ii

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students understand the concept of perimeter of a square, and discover its formula.
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Texas Instruments: Applications of Finite and Infinite Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity shows students the power of finite and infinite series. It can be used as an introduction to infinite series provided that the student is adept at using the sigma notation to denote such series. (Continued: See before the...
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Texas Instruments: The Date Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These programs display a given date and you need to calculate the day of the week on which that date occurred. DATEGAME keeps track of how many questions you answer and the percent you get correct.