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Texas Instruments: Which Way?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students' use a motion detector to examine how different types of motion affect the shape of the distance versus time plot. They explore how changes in direction and other factors affect the shape of the plot.
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Texas Instruments: Systems of Linear Equations Using Substitution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use the substitution method of solving systems of linear equations.
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Texas Instruments: Investigating Properties of Kites

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students construct kites and investigate their properties. They also relate the properties to squares and rhombi.
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Texas Instruments: Problem Solving: Modeling the Marathon

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the TI InterActive! and exponential functions to predict if, and when, women will better the men's record in the marathon event in the Olympic games.
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra: Graph Quadratic Curves of Best Fit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will find the best-fit quadratic model for the given points
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Texas Instruments: What Is Linear Regression?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will explore finding the line of best fit based on the sum of the squares of the residuals and determine what the linear regression line is.
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Texas Instruments: Solar System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to the planets and other astronomical bodies in the Solar System.
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Texas Instruments: Average Value

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The definite integral is used to find the average value of a function. It will show the steps of the 2nd Fundamental Theorem and also the alternate approach of having the capabilities of the graphing calculator work the entire problem at...
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Texas Instruments: Wyoming Paws Practice Exam Grades 6 8 Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the PAWS exams.
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Texas Instruments: California Practice Exams Science Earth Science & Physics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - California CST Earth Science and Physics practice exams.
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Texas Instruments: Jason: Leaf Litter, It's a Critter's World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Rainforests at the Crossroads: Use a Berlese Funnel to extract arthropods from leaf litter; count and sort the species of arthropods; and use a TI-73 Explorer to make a circle graph showing the different groups represented in their...
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Texas Instruments: Remainder Rules

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use calculators, whole-number division, multiplication, addition, and subtraction to generate mathematical expressions that describe the relationships between dividends, divisors, quotients, and remainders.
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Texas Instruments: Easy Data App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This App brings a new level of simplicity to calculator-based data collection, making data collection simple and fast.
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Texas Instruments: Making Conjectures and Planning Studies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This activity introduces students to the concept of collecting and analyzing data and using conjectures to formulate new questions.
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Texas Instruments: Connecticut Capt Practice Exams Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - Grade 10 Science exam.
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Texas Instruments: Matrices and Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity encourages students to investigate addition, subtraction, and multiplication of matrices. They find the inverse of a matrix. Students also solve a set of linear equations by using matrices.
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Texas Instruments: Learn How to Manage Calculator Memory Through the Mem Key

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This tutorial shows you how to access the Memory screen and use it to find the latest operating system you have installed as well as how to free up Memory Space.
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Texas Instruments: Falling Objects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, Students can use a Motion Detector to measure distance and velocity.
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Texas Instruments: Writing Linear Functions With Traffic Tickets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use traffic tickets to demonstrate their understanding of writing linear functions.
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Texas Instruments: Buried Objects Adventure 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the CBR 2 to gather data and identify "buried" objects. They interpret and analyze graphs of height as a function of time, and use the change in the y-coordinates of an ordered pair to determine the height of an object.
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Texas Instruments: Phases of the Moon

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this TI InterActive! activity, students study the phases of the moon, plot the fraction of the moon showing each day in a month, and fit the data with an appropriate trigonometric function.
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Texas Instruments: Form a Line Using Ti Navigator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson concept we use the Activity Center to build some basics in students understanding of linear functions. The linear relationship is clearly one of the big ideas of the algebra curriculum, and it paves the way for a deeper...
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Texas Instruments: Piecewise Functions on Ti Interactive

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Despite what most of us veiw as an excellent TI InterActive! Help file, my students have a difficult time getting the appropriate graphs after reading it. This is visual directions on how to enter piecewise functions in TI InterActive!...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students think about fair way to divide a quantity into even parts. Different algorithms are presented, including "I cut, you choose," and students are to choose which...