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Texas Instruments: Work vs. Leisure
Students can use lists of data and the correlation factor of various regressions to determine the best regression line.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Linear Equations
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center. The following lesson represents a suggested TI-Navigator classroom procedure for students to explore solving linear equations algebraically, numerically, and graphically.
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Texas Instruments: You Must Still Think Yourself, Cas Can Only Help
This activity illustrates the proof of having three zeros on a cubic function using CAS.
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Texas Instruments: Mix It Up: Mixing Liquids of Different Temperatures
In this activity, students' will use temperature sensors to measure temperatures of water samples before and after mixing. They compare the mixing temperatures to a linear prediction.
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Texas Instruments: Mix It Up: Combining Liquids of Different Temps
Students use the EasyTemp Probe to measure the temperature of hot and cold water before and after mixing. Students compare the mixing temperatures to a linear prediction. EasyData is needed for this activity.
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Texas Instruments: Sour Chemistry: The Exponential P H Change
In this activity, students' will use a pH sensor to record pH versus time data as an antacid tablet neutralizes acid in lemon juice. They will model the pH data with a modified exponential function.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Down to Basics
In this activity, students explore linear equation models for real-life situations. They learn to find a linear equation when two pairs of related points are on a line.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Linear Equations
This activity uses the Transformation Graphing Application to explore the linear equation after entering data into lists and doing a statistical plot of the data.
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Texas Instruments: Women's 5000 M World Record Progression: Median Median Line
In this activity, students will collect the Women's 5000 meter progression of world record data and find the median - median line and the linear regression for the data. They will investigate the appropriateness of each of the models.
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Texas Instruments: Finding Linear Models
Students graph a scatter plot, find average rate of change, develop a linear model, find a linear regression and a median/median line for a set of data graphed in a scatter plot and predict profit.
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Texas Instruments: Writing Equations of Lines in Algebra I
This activity will help students write equations of lines using two points. This activity will also help students review how to plot ordered pairs.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: What's My Line
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center and is intended to help students understand the meaning of slope and y-intercept. They will explore the relationships between symbolic expressions and graphs of lines by using Activity...
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Texas Instruments: Step by Step Activity Data Collection & Analysis
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: Linear and Quadratic Approximations
In this activity, students explore the linear and quadratic approximations of a logarithmic function and find properties the functions have in common.
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Texas Instruments: Using the Transform Application in an Algebra Class
This activity is intended to be a discovery activity for students to determine the effect that changing m and b have on the equation y=mx+b. There is a teacher guide and an activity to determine the student's level of understanding.
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Texas Instruments: Walk the Line: Straight Line Distance Graphs
In this activity, students' use a motion detector to create straight-line, or constant-speed, distance versus time plots, and analyze the linear equation that describes the plots.
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Texas Instruments: Understanding the Linear Equation (Function Families)
This activity can be used with ninth graders to assist their understanding of the parts of the equation y=mx+b.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Equations and Y Intercepts
These questions measure knowledge and skills: order of operations; solving equations in one variable; graphing linear equations; writing linear expressions and equations; finding the y-intercept of a linear function.
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Texas Instruments: Writing Linear Equations to Form Shapes
Students use their knowledge about writing linear equations to graph lines that form a given shape.
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Texas Instruments: What Is Gravity? Activity Modeling Motion
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 4 in the Explorations book, Modeling Motion: High School Math Activities with the CBR by Linda Antinone, Sam Gough, and Jill Gough (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997).
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Texas Instruments: Stretching a Penny
In this activity, students investigate how a spring stretches when different weights pull on it. They relate the stretch of the spring directly to the weight and vice-versa.
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Texas Instruments: Systems of Linear Equations
This activity is a series of LearningCheck documents to be used during a unit on solving systems of linear equations.
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Serc: Calzones vs. Mini Pizzas a Linear Programming Problem
This module presents a linear programming problem. An example of the revenue-maximizing product mix for a pizza parlor is developed. This is an example of a more general mathematical optimization (maximization or minimization) problem....
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University of Regina: Math Central: Writing Linear Equations
Three different lessons demonstrate how to write linear equations. The equations found from two points, slope and a point, and slope and y-intercept are all featured. The lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation...