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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Desk Left Behind

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson simulates a situation at a school, in which a principal is determining the number of desks needed in order to accommodate left-handed students. A simulation is used in which 10%...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dial the Phone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson gives students some insight into the connection between graph theory and triangular numbers, using telephone networks. Similar to the famous Handshake Problem, students will find...
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Texas Instruments: Breakeven Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students perform breakeven analysis using the cost and revenue of an enterprise. They will determine the relationship between fixed and variable costs, profits, pricing policy, and the volume of output.
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Texas Instruments: Going, Going, Gone!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity gives students an opportunity to select and create the most appropriate graph to represent a given data set.
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Texas Instruments: North Carolina Nceoc Practice Exams Math Algebra Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the North Caroline Algebra 2 exam.
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Texas Instruments: Changing Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use as an assessment-discovery lesson after talking about reflections and transformations of functions
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Texas Instruments: Jason: The Greenhouse Effect a Good Thing?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Rainforests at the Crossroads: Simulate the greenhouse effect by collecting and analyzing temperature data in three conditions: an open beaker, a covered beaker, and a covered beaker into which they breathe. Simulate the sun with a lamp...
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Texas Instruments: Coordinate Graphing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A lesson that help students visualize coordinate graphing and discover the four quadrants of the coordinate plane. Students will be able to graph ordered pairs and then make conjectures about the values of x and y coordinates and the...
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Texas Instruments: Ball Bounce Revisited

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses the peaks of the ball bounce data to produce an exponential function.
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Texas Instruments: Predicting Pi

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students explore the use of linear measurement and calculators to discover the existence of pi, the constant ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle.
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Texas Instruments: Washington Wasl Practice Exams Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - Washington grade 10 math exams.
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Texas Instruments: Exploration of Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using TI Navigator, Cabri Jr and LearnCheck, students will explore how changing an angle in a triangle changes the ratio of the sides, and changing the sides can make changes an angle in a triangle. Students will then explore two...
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Texas Instruments: West Virginia Westest Middle School Practice Exam Grades 6

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the WESTEST exams.
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Texas Instruments: Finding Limits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity allows the student to understand limits using both graphical and tabular methods.
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Texas Instruments: Centers of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The centroid, circumcenter, orthocenter, and incenter are the four classic centers of a triangle that are studied in geometry. In this activity, you will construct these center points and discover their properties. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Box It Up (A Graphical Look)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students graph the relationship between the length of the sides of the cut-out squares and the volume of the resulting box. They trace the graph to decide the best square-size which can result in a box of maximum volume.
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Texas Instruments: Transformations With Cabri Jr.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, get instructions on how to perform transformations using the Cabri Jr. Application on the TI-84 Plus.
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Texas Instruments: What Goes Up Must Come Down

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use the calculator to solve quadratic equations. They use the quadratic formula to determine the vertex and the x-intercepts of the graph of a quadratic function.
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Texas Instruments: Evaluating Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will evaluate expressions using pencil and paper and then use the editing features of the home screen and/or the table feature of the TI-83 Plus to provide immediate positive reinforcement.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System College Costs Surge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this activity, students will explore the expected cost of college and also look at methods of saving money for the future. Comparing simple and compound interest will help students make decisions about their future. Students will...
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Texas Instruments: Do You Have a Temperature?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students represent and analyze climate data. They use linear regressions to understand the relationship between temperatures measured in the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales and examine conversion factors.
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Perform Linear Regression

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to enter data, do a scatter plot and find the line of best fit and explain how they could use it to predict future values.
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Texas Instruments: Midsegments of Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will extend their understanding of midsegments by investigating the midsegments of a quadrilateral and the midsegment quadrilateral. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Fours and Sevens, Oh My!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of random numbers and shows how human-generated random numbers are not always "really" random. This is done by framing the lesson in terms of...