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Texas Instruments: Good Vibrations Activity Modeling Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student will investigate Hooke's law and the position, velocity and acceleration of an object oscillating vertically on a spring.
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Texas Instruments: Active Wear Adventure 10

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this adventure, students test which solar collector--black, white, or silver-- absorbs the most heat. They compare the difference between absorption and reflection. They create, interpret and analyze graphs of data. They also relate...
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Texas Instruments: Got an Equilateral Triangle? With Cabri Jr.

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the Compass tool in Cabri Jr., students will construct an equilateral triangle, and check the length of each side. When a vertices is moved using the Alpha hand, the triangle remains equilateral.
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Texas Instruments: "The Sound of Music"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will use tuning forks and the CBR to gather sound wave data for students to use to write Sine (or Cosine) functions. In this activity we study waves of known musical notes before studying waves of unknown musical notes. I...
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Texas Instruments: Montana Itbs Middle School Practice Exam Grade 8 Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the ITBS exam.
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Texas Instruments: Periodicity of the Periodic Table

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Different properties of the elements of the periodic table will be plotted and from this, a system of organization for the elements will be developed.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Picks Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students interpret representations of functions of two variables. The Activity Center will be used to investigate equations that represent a company's income,...
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Texas Instruments: Triangle Inequality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity the Students can use Cabri Jr. to investigate the Triangle Inequality Theorm and make conjectures about their findings.
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Texas Instruments: Sampling Distributions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students study the distribution of sample proportions with a simulation. They find a small sample size leads to skewed distribution and as the sample size increases, the distribution becomes more normal.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Financial Futures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity shows students how money invested at different interest rates grow differently. The lesson focuses on aspects of interest such as compounding, length of time between...
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Texas Instruments: Box It Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students take a numerical and tabular look at finding the maximum value of an open box constructed by folding a rectangular sheet of material with cutout square corners. They also understand the concepts of independent and dependent...
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Texas Instruments: In Round Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will develop and test rules for rounding whole numbers and decimal fractions. They will use the information to solve real-world problems.
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Texas Instruments: Circle Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will practice their knowledge of circle equations in the y= form by matching equations with pictures of various circles.
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Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Hitting the Mark

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Since running a race car is VERY expensive, race engineers know a great deal about how speed, time and distance relate. In this activity, you will investigate the relationship between distance traveled, speed and elapsed time. You will...
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Texas Instruments: Discovering the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student will graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and use graphing to solve problems involving cartography.
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Texas Instruments: Parametric Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This questions set tests the following knowledge and skills in parametrics: graphing parametric equations; projectile motion; conversions between parametric and nonparametric forms. Solutions are provided.
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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...