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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Muddy Water Adventure 8

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a light sensor to analyze the effect of storm water run-off on the turbidity of local water. They interpret and analyze scatter plots and understand exponential relationship.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Discount Savings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is intended to help students develop an understanding of sale information to compute discounts, discount rates, original prices and sale prices.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Slope

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards set promotes understanding of the meaning of slope and evaluation of slope using y/x definition.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Much Can They Win?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students create data points from given information, plot those points, and then create a line of best fit. This is done in the context of playing blackjack, although the...
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PBS

Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A geometry lesson that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages students in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive lesson that considers students with diverse learning styles. Math concepts introduced...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Phone Bill Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student is given actual data and asked to find a line of best fit and to give "real world" interpretations of the slope and y-intercept. A great introduction to the 83/84 and its features.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Connecting Factors and Zeros

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will determine if a quadratic formula is factorable, then they will factor the equation, set each factor equal to 0, and solve for x.
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Other

Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
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Disfruta Las Matematicas

Disfruta Las Matematicas: Introduccion Al Algebra

For Students 6th - 8th
This unit could be used as supplementary material for Algebra. It has good examples with illustrations and some interactive activities.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Population Growth, Ecological Footprints, and Overshoot

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this three-part activity, students apply linear, exponential, and rational functions to explore past and projected U.S. population growth, carbon footprint trend, ecological overshoot, and effectiveness of hypothetical carbon dioxide...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Fitting an Equation to Bivariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students fit a linear least-square regression line to population data. They explore various functions to model the given data.