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Texas Instruments: Jason: Tropical Forests Cleaning the Air?
Rainforests at the Crossroads: Measure the CO2 level in a bottle that contains spinach leaves when it is exposed to light. Then collect CO2 data and observe the effects of photosynthesis as you add leaves in the bottle.
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Texas Instruments: Solving Systems With Quadratic Equations: Systems of Conics
In this activity, students will plot the graphs of systems of equations and determine the number of real solutions of the system. Then find the solution of the system algebraically.
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Texas Instruments: Pyramid Slope
Students use their knowledge of linear equations to match a line to the edge of a pyramid image.
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Texas Instruments: Cooking the Thanksgiving Day Turkey
In this activity, students will analyze data using Newton's Law of Heating and an exponential equation. Asks students to make connections between Newton's Law of Heating and the exponential equation.
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Texas Instruments: Distance
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to distance.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Snow Is as High as an Elephant
The USA TODAY Infograph "When the snow is as high as an elephant" helps us understand snow from a more practical point of view. Students will answer several geometry questions about the different components of the graphic.
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Texas Instruments: Operations of Signed Numbers( Focus on Vocabulary)
This activity will explore operations on integers with a focus on different vocabulary used to describe changes in signs and changes in operations.
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Geometry: Cabri Jr.: Exploring Tangents
Students can use Cabri Jr. to explore some of the characteristics of tangents.
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Texas Instruments: California Cst Practice Exams Math Algebra
Students can use this resource to prepare for the following California CST practice math exams - Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry.
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 2: Graph Equations of Circles
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to graph equations of circles.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Magnetism
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson, designed for upper-level high school students, has students linearize the data describing the force of a magnet at various distances. While it is assumed students already know...
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Texas Instruments: Drawing on Your Knowledge
In this activity, students will understand the basic geometric concepts of parallelism and perpendicularity, and will also able to use rectangular coordinates to make congruent objects. They will display understanding of parts of...
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Texas Instruments: Slope Intercept Form
Students write linear equations in slope-intercept form and graph them. Students practice identifying slope and y-intercept and writing equations from a graphs.
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Texas Instruments: Storefront Signs
In this activity, students learn to find area and explore the quadratic function. They compare the areas and patterns of squares within a square.
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Texas Instruments: Solve Linear Systems by Graphing, Substitution, Elimination
Students will solve systems of linear equations by a variety of methods: graphing, substitution, and elimination. The questions are multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank.
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Texas Instruments: Matrix Transformation of Triangles
The symmetry of a trangle on the coordinate plane is discovered through the 2X2 matrix transformations.
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Texas Instruments: How Far to Your Birthplace
Examine one-variable data analysis through the creation and exploration of a birth place data set. Graphing calculators are used to analyze the data through mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, stem-and-leaf plots and box-and-whisker...
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Texas Instruments: Relationship of Vertical Angles
Students explore congruency of vertical angles.
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Texas Instruments: Slippery Slope
In this activity, students will create Distance versus Time plots and calculate the slopes of the plots. They explore the mathematical concept of slopes and understand how slopes can be used to interpret how one physical quantity changes...
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Texas Instruments: Light at a Distance: Distance and Light Intensity
In this activity, students can use a light sensor to record the light intensity at various distances from a bulb. They will compare the data to an inverse square and a power law model.
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Texas Instruments: Who's in the House
In this activity, students construct a model of a house, drawing pictures of the people and pets in the house. Students use skip counting strategies to find possible combinations of people and pets that live in their classmates houses...
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Texas Instruments: Flipping a Penny
In this activity, students will explore two functions which are inverses of each other. They also explore their characteristics and understand how they reverse each other's operation.
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Texas Instruments: Get Your Numbers in Shape
Students produce a sequence, explore patterns and find a linear or quadratic equation for a given pattern. They use inductive reasoning to make conjectures about patterns. Students also find the Y-value of a function if the X-value is...
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Texas Instruments: Keep It Bottled Up: Linear Rates of Pressure Increase
When two or more chemicals react, other substances such as gases may be produced. The rate at which the reaction takes place can be affected by a number of different factors including temperature. In this activity, you will see how...