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Texas Instruments: A Wet Welcome Home Adventure 4
Students perform an experiment that simulates a leaking pipe and gather data on volume of water lost over time. They graph the data collected as a scatter plot, find the equation of the line of best fit, find the total volume of water...
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Texas Instruments: Bounce Back
In this activity, students will explore the rebound height of a ball and develop a function that will model the rebound heights for a particular bounce. The model can then be used to predict the height of the ball for any bounce.
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Texas Instruments: Help, a Pipe Is Leaking!!!
In this activity, students will simulate a pipe leaking and collect data. Students will then use the TI-73 calculator to determine how many gallons would leak at that rate for a 30-day month.
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Texas Instruments: Social Security Issues
In this activity, you will look at the relationship between the age at which you start drawing social security and the amount drawn. Both graphs and spreadsheets will be used.
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Texas Instruments: Windows
This is a partner activity. One calculator is used to explore and the other is used to continue the learn check. It was designed to help students understand the concept of windows and what happens with the various window settings. Using...
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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: Step Up
Students learn to use measurements on a real model to develop the concept of slope and linear functions. They use a calculator to explore changing the slopes and Y- intercepts in the slope intercept form Y = MX + B.
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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: Watching Your Weight Ti 83
In this activity, students examine how moving a weight up along a board affects the downward force on the board. They explore how children with different weights can be balanced on a seesaw.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Slope Intercept Form of a Line
Use TI-Navigator to explore the relationship between a linear function and its graphs. See how the value of the slope and y-intercept affect the graphs.
University of Regina (Canada)
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...
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Equations of Lines
This tutorial covers x & y intercepts, point-slope form, slope-intercept form, graphing, and more. Use the practice problems at the end to check your skills.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Ph Et: Function Builder
Play with functions while you ponder Art History. Explore geometric transformations and transform your thinking about linear functions, then have fun figuring out the mystery functions.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Funciones Elementales
This is an interactive activity to recognize a liner, quadratic or radical function by its algebraic expression or by its graph.
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Resources for Implementation: Golf Balls in Water
A lesson in which students model linear data with a linear function to solve a real-world problem.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Funciones De Primer Grado
In Spanish. Interactive activities dealing with graphing equations in the form of y=mx+b.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Funciones: Expresion Grafica Y Verbal
In Spanish. Interpret the graph of linear and non linear functions with this interactive activity.
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Increasing, Decreasing, Maximum and Minimum Functions
This site provides a portion of a textbook that explores increasing and decreasing functions. Students are provided examples and then have practice problems they can attempt to master the concept.
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Linear Functions, Slope and Regressions
Find activities here for linear functions, slopes and regression lines. Use them for classroom work or individual assignments.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Tablas Y Expresiones Algebraicas
In Spanish. Interactive activities associating data tables with their algebraic graph
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Ecuaciones De Primer Grado Con Una Incognita.
Interactive activities that will help you solve first degree equations with one unknown in graphical and numerical form.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on Linear Functions
The online assessment demonstrates knowledge of advanced mathematical concepts in Algebra II. The questions test students on linear functions. Topics include modeling real-world data with linear functions, scatterplots, and regression...
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National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics:linear Function
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics: linear function provides a teacher learning module on how to effectively teach linear function and resources that would help to do this.
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National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics: Slope and Linear Functions
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics: similarity, slope, and graphs of linear functions provides a teacher learning module, on how to effectively teach similarity, slope, and graphs to develop skill in reasoning about reasoning...