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Texas Instruments: Coast to Coast With Alice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this activity, young scholars learn to solve a real-world problem comparing automobile travel in the early 1900's and travel today. They follow the route taken by Alice in 1909 from New York City to San Francisco and determine how...
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Texas Instruments: Hat Trick

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students learn to solve a real-world problem in economics. Students get to understand how surveys often use a sample of people rather than all of the people involved. They also learn how to make decisions based on the...
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Ti Navigator: Parallel and Perpendicular

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students interpret whether lines are parallel or perpendicular. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Algebra 2: Graphing Calculator Investigation Systems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will solve systems of inequalities.
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Texas Instruments: Testing Goodness of Fit and Two Way Table Chi Square

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students perform chi-square tests to see if data follows a hypothesized distribution. They also study the two-way table analysis.
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Texas Instruments: Units and Conversion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review and practice using the metric system of measurement.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Quadrilateral Properties Using Cabri

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use Cabri Jr. to learn about the properties of quadrilaterals as well as learn about the relationships between quadrilaterals.
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Texas Instruments: What Are the Chances?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students determine the probability of a spinner landing on a certain number in eleven trials. They also learn to change the weightage and find subsequent effect on the probability.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Families of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity provides students an opportunity to discover the similarities involved in shifting the parent functions for absolute value, quadratic, cubic, radical, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Students will also be given the...
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Texas Instruments: Data and Statistical Methods 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this set of exercises, a set of data is provided; students can use appropriate statistical methods to analyze the data. Questions are multiple choice and true/false with solutions provided.
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Texas Instruments: South Carolina Middle School Practice Exam: 6, 7 & 8 Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the PACT exams.
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Texas Instruments: M&m's and Exponential Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use M&M's to model a decay equation - exponential equations.
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Texas Instruments: Attribute of Triangles With Vertices on Equilateral Hyperbola

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity illustrates the multiple representations of the attributes of triangles with their vertices on an equilateral hyperbola analytical, graphical and dynamic; addressing various conceptual levels of the students Using CAS.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Percolation Theory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the chaotic topic of Percolation Theory, in which the major question is "Can you get there from here?" Students use their calculators extensively in their...
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Texas Instruments: Place Value Small Group Activity

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Groups of 4 to 5 students follow teacher prompts to enter one part of a number (ex: 6 thousands), and then the next student adds the next part until the entire number is built, one digit at a time. Self-checking!
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Texas Instruments: Hawaii Hsa Practice Exams Grades 6 8 Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the grade 6-8 HSA math exams.
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Texas Instruments: At a Snail's Pace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students plot a mathematical relationship that defines a spiral. They use technology to create a spiral and to plot a set of ordered pairs.
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Texas Instruments: Lights Out: Periodic Phenomena

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students can use a light sensor to collect intensity data for fast and slow variations of intensities. They will then describe these variations using the concepts of period and frequency.
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Texas Instruments: A Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use the CellSheet Application to simulate a probability event. This activity simulates an experiment performing a survey. Students can see that the results of a random survey can vary widely if a small sample...
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Texas Instruments: I'm Melting, I'm Melting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity you will use the EasyTemp temperature sensor. Determine the change in thermal energy for a given mass of ice. Determine the heat of fusion of ice and the percent error.
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Texas Instruments: Florida Fcat Practice Exams: Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these practice exams to prepare for the 10th grade Science exam. Includes PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Texas Instruments: Switch or Stick?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will simulate a popular game to find experimental probabilities.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System Super Ticket Sales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will create two box-and-whisker plots of the data in the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Super ticket sales". Students will calculate central tendencies for both sets of data. Students will compare the two sets of data by analyzing the...
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Texas Instruments: Light and Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will collect temperature and light readings over a 25 hour time period and explore relationships between and within the data. They will discover the relationships of temperature with sunrise and sunset and look...