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Curated OER

Starting With Stats

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Statisticians analyze a data set of student IQs by finding measures of central tendency and dispersion such as mean, median, mode, and quartiles. They practice using a graphing calculator to find the values and analyze box plots and...
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Curated OER

Palindromes

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students solve 56 multiplication problems. Students read about palindromes and discover patterns in multiplying by 11's and multiplying 8-digit numbers.
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Curated OER

Exploring Quadratic Data with Transformation Graphing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using a data collection device to collect data regarding a bouncing ball, high schoolers use various features on graphing calculators to experiment with the parameters of the vertex form of the parabola and their effect on the shape of...
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Saxon

Plotting Functions

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
Youngsters use a graphing calculator to assist in creating a function table. They graph the function on a coordinate plane. They explore the relationship between the domain and range in the graph. This four-page instructional activity...
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Curated OER

Graphical Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Get out your TI-nspire graphing calculator and explore polynomials. Learners determine where a given polynomial are increasing or decreasing, find maximums, minimums, and zeros of polynomials, and discuss end behavior of polynomials....
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Curated OER

Making Connections: Matrices, Graph, Linear Systems

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
In this set of activities, matrices and equations are explored. They work with matrices using pen and paper as well as graphing calculator. Additionally real-world problems are explored. 
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Curated OER

Map Your Favorite Sports Team's Next Road Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students track a sports team across the country. They use a map scale to calculate the number of miles traveled by their sports team on a trip, conduct Internet research, and calculate how much it would cost them to go along on the trip.
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Curated OER

Our Solar System - Comparing Planetary Travel Distances

For Teachers 7th - 8th
NASA presents a mini-unit on distances in our solar system. It incorporates scientific concepts of gravity, mass, density, and payload while your aspiring astronauts also employ mathematics skills. They calculate speed, they determine...
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Curated OER

Get a Half Life!: Student Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
Upper elementary or middle schoolers will explore non-linear functions, graphing, and the curve of best fit through real-life data collection and trial analysis. They explore the concept of half-life and radioactive decay using M&Ms,...
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Curated OER

Exploring Solving Equations

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Put out by Texas Instruments, this lesson involves learners in an activity focused on adding polynomials, solving equations, factoring trinomials, and expanding binomials. A TI-89 calculator is needed to complete this lesson.
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Curated OER

Coco Locomotion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Technology tutees read a description about coconuts and how they are used to make biodiesel fuel. Note that the link to the article does not work, and the article does not appear to be available online. There are, if you look for one,...
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Curated OER

Principles of Square Roots Lesson Plan

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Middle and high schoolers investigate all the different places in math that square root is present. In this geometry instructional activity, pupils discuss square roots as it relates to a right triangle and construction. They go over...
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EngageNY

Analyzing Residuals (Part 1)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Just how far off is the least squares line? Using a graphing calculator, individuals or pairs create residual plots in order to determine how well a best fit line models data. Three examples walk through the calculator procedure of...
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EngageNY

Why Were Logarithms Developed?

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Show your class how people calculated complex math problems in the old days. Scholars take a trip back to the days without calculators in the 15th installment of a 35-part module. They use logarithms to determine products of numbers and...
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Yummy Math

Parametric Equations and a Heart

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Trigonometry, art, and Valentine's Day come together in a creative activity about parametric equations. Learners calculate several equations before graphing them either by hand, on a graphic calculator, or Excel spreadsheet to curve...
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Curated OER

Using Matrices to Enter Data and Perform Operations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here's a TI step by step guided lesson plan on matrices. The class enters data into the TI calculator about movie ticket sales and uses matrices as a problem solving tool. They add and multiply matrices to determine profit.
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Curated OER

The "U's" Have IT!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the maximum and minimum values of parabola. In this exponential equations instructional activity, students use graphing calculators or TI Interactive Software to calculate values of parabola and graph x-intercepts of...
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The Candy Color Caper

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the concept of probability. They calculate the probability of an event happening and graph their results. Students determine the probability of winning a sweepstakes. They construct a bar graph to represent all the...
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Curated OER

Bouncing Ball

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers collect height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2™ data collection device. Using a quadratic equation they graph scatter plots, graph and interpret a quadratic function, apply the vertex form of a...
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Going Back to Your Roots

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Who doesn't need to know the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra? Use the theorem to find the roots of a polynomial on a TI calculator. The class explores polynomials with one solution, no real solutions, and two solutions. This less...
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Curated OER

Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The class practices, on paper and/or on a TI graphing calculator the concepts of how to add, multiply, divide and subtract complex numbers using the correct property.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Video Game Scores

For Teachers 5th Standards
Eric and Leila's video game scores are the inspiration for writing equations with parenthesis. The numbers are purposefully large to deter the class from calculating them: rather this activity meets the standard that asks 5th graders to...
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EngageNY

Margin of Error When Estimating a Population Mean (part 2)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Don't leave your classes vulnerable in their calculations! Help them understand the importance of calculating a margin of error to represent the variability in their sample mean. 
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EngageNY

Margin of Error When Estimating a Population Mean (part 1)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
We know that sample data varies — it's time to quantify that variability! After calculating a sample mean, pupils calculate the margin of error. They repeat the process with a greater number of sample means and compare the results.

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