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Texas Instruments: Inverse of Two Temps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students find a conversion equation that will calculate the corresponding Celsius temperature for any given Fahrenheit temperature. Students learn to graph scatter plots, analyze and graph linear equations, compute and...
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Texas Instruments: The Tortoise and the Hare

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students develop patterns using two or more rational number quantities. They comprehend the concept of functions by understanding the relationship between these quantities and their sums.
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Texas Instruments: Special Midpoint Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Midpoint Quadrilaterals are quadrilaterals that are formed when consecutive midpoints of a quadrilateral are connected. This activity will use Cabri Jr. to investigate what properties an exterior quadrilateral has if its midpoint...
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Texas Instruments: Geometric Representation of Trig Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using similar triangles, a relationship is established between the six trigonometric functions of an angle and simple line segments. These relationships are then confirmed using line segment measurement capabilities of the graphing...
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Infinite Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students learn to identify geometric series. They determine if a sequence converges and also learn to calculate the sum of numbers in a geometric series.
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Texas Instruments: Dimensions and Area

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students discover the relationship between a change in the dimensions of a rectangle and the change in the corresponding area.
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Texas Instruments: Traveling Shapes Motion Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students describe how to move a shape from one place to another in a plane. They learn about translations, rotations, and line reflections. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Step by Step Activity Data Collection & Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students create a situation that produces linear behavior by stepping heel to toe and taking distance readings as each step is taken. Students then apply the properties of a linear function to develop a model for motion.
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Texas Instruments: Connecting Factors and Zeros

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will determine if a quadratic formula is factorable, then they will factor the equation, set each factor equal to 0, and solve for x.
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Texas Instruments: Nevada Hspe 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: What Is Boiling?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students investigate the effects of heat on matter by studying boiling water.
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Texas Instruments: Balloon

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students inflate a balloon and observe the relationship between the rate its volume is changing and the rate points on its surface are getting closer to each other. They use the their calculator to determine the exact rate of change.
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Texas Instruments: Alaska Tn and Hsgqe Practice Exams Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - 9th grade Alaska TN and HSGQE math and 10th grade Alaska TN and HSGQE math.
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Texas Instruments: A Move in the Right Direction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students physically provide motion data that is collected by a CBL and then graph the data. They determine if they "moved in the right directions" by comparing their graph with those printed in the activity.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Maintaining Balance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students determine center of mass for a series of objects (approximate JENGA blocks), and then to push each level so that it "hangs over" the level below it. Following this,...
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Texas Instruments: Video Tutorial Learn to Enter an Equation and Graph

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This tutorial shows you how to graph an equation and find a particular Y value when given an X value.
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Texas Instruments: How High Will It Bounce?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. They find the relationship between the bounce number and the bounce height. They learn to graph scatter plots, calculate the maximum value...
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Texas Instruments: 100 or Bust

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students explore the operations of addition and subtraction. They use estimation, a place value chart, and a calculator to place seven randomly generated numbers in the ones and tens position in a place-value chart to...
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Texas Instruments: Circulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary and physiology of the circulatory system.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Programming and the Inequalz App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses the Inequality Graphing Application to take some of the frustration out of linear programming.It allows students to concentrate on the important part of the lesson, so they can learn the basic concepts with greater depth.
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Texas Instruments: Absolute Values

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set contains questions about graphs of V - shaped absolute value functions. Students are asked to determine maximum and minimum values, state whether the graph is opening up or down, and solve absolute value inequalities.
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Texas Instruments: Maximizing the Area of a Rectangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is adapted from one of the TI books. Students measure lengths and widths of rectangles and record for the class to see. Each group's rectangle has the same perimeter, but different areas. After a discussion, students make...
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Texas Instruments: Discovering Integer Rules (Multiplying/dividing)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will determine rules for integer operations using the calculator.
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Texas Instruments: Freezing and Melting of Water

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Freezing temperature, the temperature at which a substance turns from liquid to solid, and melting temperature, the temperature at which a substance turns from a solid to a liquid, are characteristic physical properties. In this...