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Texas Instruments: Up and Down: Damped Harmonic Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to record the motion data for a plate bouncing at the end of a light spring, and analyze the data to determine frequency, period and amplitude. They will then find an appropriate...
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math: Graph Linear Functions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will graph the equations and determine if the viewing window is appropriate for the graphs.
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Texas Instruments: Maximizing Your Efforts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use linear programming to solve problems involving maximum and minimum values. They use the Inequality Graphing application to solve linear programming problems.
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Texas Instruments: Parametric, Vector, Polar and 3 D Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate and graph parametric functions, vectors, polar functions, and 3D functions.
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Texas Instruments: Body Cooling Rate of Animals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make two models to stimulate the cooling rate of different skin surface areas. They use a Temperature Sensor to measure the cooling rate of the models. The students also compare the cooling rates of the models to determine the...
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Texas Instruments: Modeling Exponential Decay With a Look at Asymptotes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use sample data to approximate models with the Transformation Graphing Application. They are introduced to the idea of discrete data sets being used with continuous function models. They also identify non-zero asymptote form of...
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Texas Instruments: Asa Triangle Congruence

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students construct and analyze triangles that are congruent by ASA.
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Texas Instruments: Ordered Pair (Month, Day)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will contribute points in the form of a significant date. (month, day). They will look for vertical and horizontal patterns. Study the list for similiarities and then discover the equation for vertical and horizontal lines.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Matrix Operations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students how using matrix multiplication can lead to solving real-world problems. In this situation, a painting is missing and the probability of travel betweek five cities...
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Texas Instruments: What Is a Linear Pair?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use Cabri to investigate relationship of linear pairs.
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Texas Instruments: Wisconsin Wkce Practice Exams Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - grade 12 science exam.
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Texas Instruments: Nys Math B Regents Exam, August 2002

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is the MathB exam that was administered in NYS in August, 2002.
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Texas Instruments: Applications of Integrals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use the TI-89 to find the area between curves, find arc length, and solve first and second order differential equations. Examples in the activity use calculator screenprints and keystroke instructions to demonstrate the use of the...
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Texas Instruments: Applications of Integrals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students investigate various applications of integration. They learn and explore to use analytic method as well as numerical, and graphical methods for solving various mathematical problems.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Escape

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity gives students a brief introduction to percolation theory, framed in the context of a criminal trying to evade officers. The lesson makes use of random numbers completing a path...
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Texas Instruments: Mapping a Leaf

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students will identify and record ordered pairs from a coordinate plane. They will examine symmetry about the axes, reflections, and symmetry in nature. They understand geometric concepts like area and perimeter, and...
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Texas Instruments: Constant Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of constant acceleration.
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Texas Instruments: Real Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn to identify real numbers as rational numbers and irrational numbers. They review rational numbers as repeating decimals, and irrational numbers as non-repeating decimals. They also review commutative, associative,...
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Texas Instruments: Graphing the Rational Function F(x)=1/x

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is designed for Algebra 2 students to help them develop an understanding of transformations, asymptotes, domain and range.
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Texas Instruments: Winning Inequalities (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students graph systems of linear inequalities and investigate the concepts of constraints and feasible polygons.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs of the I Ching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity was developed to be used in conjunction with the NUMB3RS episode "Undercurrent," in which a victim is found with a Chinese hexagram tattoo. Students will learn about trigrams and hexagrams, Chinese characters made from...
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Texas Instruments: Gcd and Lcm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students use the Computer Algebra System CAS tool to compute greatest common divisor (GCD) and least common multiple (LCM) of numbers and expressions.
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Texas Instruments: Personal License Plates

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students explore concepts related to the counting principle and exponential notation. They write rules for calculations involving the counting principle and find the total number of possibilities from a set of rules.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Close Encounters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore how "closely connected" a network structure is. Framed in the context of a terrorist cell, students must find which setups would allow organizations to still...