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Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines
This file contains questions related to parallel lines cut by a transversal and the angles formed. The questions can be used to asses your students' understanding of this topic in geometry.
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Texas Instruments: 2 Step Equations
The following LearningCheck can be used to review 2 step equations.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Inequalities
In this question set, students are asked to solve inequalities in one variable, graph linear inequalities, and graph systems of linear inequalities. Questions are multiple choice and true/false; solutions are included.
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Texas Instruments: Missouri Map Practice Exams Science
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - grade 10 science exam.
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Texas Instruments: Tennessee Middle School Practice Exam 6, 7 & 8 Science
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the TCAP exams.
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Texas Instruments: Using Traffic Data to Reinforce Inflection Points in Calculus
Real data from the morning rush on the Chicago expressways is the basis for a piece-wise regression. The students' success depends on their understanding of inflection points. Students need to use the Select command to split the data...
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Texas Instruments: Spin Me Along
Students explore probability and patterns in fractions, decimals, and percents by spinning three spinners and recording and analyzing the results.
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Texas Instruments: Exponential Equations
After students have learned about basic exponential functions, this activity can be used to test understand of transformations of exponential equations.
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Texas Instruments: Hooke's Law
In this activity, students study Hooke's Law. They understand that stretch on a spring is directly proportional to the force applied to the end of the string. Students observe a spring being stretched as candies are added to a cup...
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Texas Instruments: Statistical Significance
These questions involve p-values and statistical significance. The student examines the definition of p-value, and why it is a natural and useful method of distinguishing the long-range truth about a population from a coincidence or fluke.
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Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines, Transversals and Angles
This activity allows students to: 1. Identify the pairs of angles formed when a transversal intersects two lines.: 2. Measure angles Using Cabri Jr. 3. Identify relationships between pairs of angles when a transversal intersects parallel...
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Texas Instruments: River Running: Vector Components
In this activity, students use TI-Interactive! or TI-83/84's to explore the independence of vertical and horizontal velocity components for swimmers crossing a river.
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Texas Instruments: Investigating Segments in a Right Triangle
In this activity, students review definitions of terms such as right triangle, hypotenuse, midpoint, vertices, and equidistant. They also discover an important characteristic of the midpoint of the hypotenuse.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Equations: Using Algebra
Students learn to solve one-step and two-step linear equations. They understand algebraic concepts relating to linear equations such as isolating the variable, balancing equations, and checking solutions. Students also learn the...
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Texas Instruments: Construction Tools: Interactive Function Graphs
Students draw a dynamic graph of the quadratic function with interactive parameters. They understand that there is only one graph of the function that changes dynamically as the values of the parameters change.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Transformations
The students will explore reflections of an object over the x-axis, y-axis, and origin.
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Texas Instruments: Exponential Functions: Growth and Decay
Students can use exponential functions to study growth and decay. Students will solve word problems ranging from population to interest rates.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today: Red Meat Consumption Continues to Drop
The USA TODAY Snapshot, "Red meat consumption continues to drop," will allow students to work with two sets of data over the same time period. This activity will show how a system of equations can be used to answer questions about the...
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Texas Instruments: Evaluating Simple Expressions
This set of questions involves placement of parentheses, evaluating and simplifying expressions, and order of operations. The problems are multiple choice and true/false; solutions are included.
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Texas Instruments: An Average Lunch?
Students explore the meaning of the average (mean) value for a set of data.
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Texas Instruments: Electrolysis of Water
Students will learn to write the half reactions that occur at each electrode during the electrolysis of water, performed in microscale using a 9V battery as a power source. In monitoring the pH at each electrode, studens will learn that...
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Texas Instruments: Adding Marbles
Each time students add ten marbles to a container filled with a small amount of water, they measure the height of the water. Students will examine their data and develop linear equations.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Four Bugs Problem: Step on No Pets
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this simulation has students model the Four-Bug Problem in order to see the general concept of pursuit curves. Each student takes on the role of a bug, and are placed at each corner of a...
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Texas Instruments: Exponential Growth Experiment
Students will work in pairs and will conduct a growth experiment. They will record their answers for 7 to 10 trials. They will make a scatterplot of their data and share their graphs with the class.