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Texas Instruments: Beverage Tests

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students determine the pH of liquid samples. They get familiar with the pH scale, create graphs comparing pH levels, and compare data displayed as a scatter plot, a boxplot, a histogram, and a bar graph.
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Texas Instruments: Car Sales

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will create a box and whisker plot using a list. The list will be sent using TI-Navigator and contains the number of car sales since 1970. They will determine the values in the box plot and answer some...
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Texas Instruments: Illinois Psae Practice Exams Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - 11th grade Illinois PSAE math exam.
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Texas Instruments: Vectors Vocabulary Quiz

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This can be used as a short vocabulary quiz for vector definitions.
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Texas Instruments: Kentucky Kcct Practice Exams Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the grade 9 Kentucky KCCT math exam and grade 12 Kentucky KCCT math exam.
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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: Numb3 Rs: A Mathematics Sampler

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the notion of conditional probability, by having them consider a jar of various colored gumballs. The lesson makes brief use of the Probability Simulator on...
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Texas Instruments: Application of the Derivative

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students learn and explore two common applications of the derivative: optimization and related rate.
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Texas Instruments: Golden Rectangles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students measure rectangles and calculate ratio between the sides. They compare the ratio to the Golden Ratio.
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Texas Instruments: Smart Shoppers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will compare ratios with different denominators, and then with common denominators. They will also find unit rates.
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Texas Instruments: Piecewise Defined Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn how to graph a piecewise defined function on the TI-89 graphing calculator. Precise keystroke instructions and calculator screenprints are included in this lesson plan and student activity page.
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Texas Instruments: M&m's and Decay Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Observe exponential decay with the classic M&M lab, here written up and ready to go. At the end, the author intends for students to send equations and data to the teacher via TI-Navigator, but this step can done on paper if the...
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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: Lemon "Juice"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"Juice" is a slang term sometimes used for electricity. Batteries are made up of one or more cells. Cells often consist of two different materials in a solution that are connected to each other by a wire. In this experiment, you will...
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Texas Instruments: Comparing Rate of Change for Skate Rental

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will compare charges from two skate rental shops and, using data from their lists & graphs, determine the conditions required for one shop to be less expensive than the other.
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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: Is What Should Happen What Will Happen?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will investigate the differences between theoretical and experimental probability.
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Texas Instruments: Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This plate tectonic activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to the physical processes that shape the Earth's surface.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Spies Like Us

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses on a spy trying to penetrate a fort's entrance, which is subsequently being guarded by three sentries. One student controls the spy and has a choice of where to move;...
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Texas Instruments: Jason: How Do Pinnipeds Stay Warm?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
From Shore to Sea: Pinnipeds have adapted to extreme weather conditions by developing layers of insulation materials. In this activity, students will perform an experiment to explore how different types of insulation materials work.
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Texas Instruments: Jason: Can You Breathe Like a Pinniped?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
From Shore to Sea: Pinnipeds are marine mammals that spend a great deal of time in the water. Like all marine mammals, pinnipeds breathe air through their lungs. In order to breathe, they must come up to the surface for air.
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Texas Instruments: Points on the Perpendicular Bisector of a Segment

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use the drawing and measurement tools of Cabri Jr., to learn and understand the concept of "equidistant from the endpoints of a segment." They observe the changes if they move a point on the perpendicular...
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Texas Instruments: Remember Me?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the calculator to compute the value of expressions involving order of operations.
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Texas Instruments: More Input and Output

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This procedural exercise demonstrates the use of the TI-86 in basic programming techniques.