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Texas Instruments: Alabama Ahsge Practice Exams Math
Students can use these LearningCheck practice exams to prepare for the following exams - Grade 10 AHSGE math and Grade 11 AHSGE math.
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Texas Instruments: Water, Water
In this activity, students solve a real-world problem involving water consumption. They determine if an aquifer can be used as a water source for a new town with a population of 5,000 people.
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Texas Instruments: Floral Shop Math
Students will create quadratic functions that model revenue collected and profit earned from selling bouquets in a flower shop. The students can use graphing calculators to identify the maximum value for each function. Once they identify...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Turing Origami
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson briefly introduces students to the idea of the Turing Machine. In this lesson, students evaluate a number string, where each number corresponds to a certain lengthening procedure...
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Texas Instruments: How Strong Is Your Bridge?
Build a bridge of straw and straight pins. Data is collected and analyzed with handhelds by the students measuring the height of the bridge vs the number of marbles (in a cup.)
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Texas Instruments: Two Hot, Two Cold
In this activity, students collect Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature data for various cities across the world. They develop and test a mathematical relationship between the two temperature scales.
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Texas Instruments: Add Them Up
In this activity, students explore the total voltage provided by several batteries in a series to a battery-operated device. They graph scatter plots, understand multiplication as repeated addition, and use a pattern to develop a...
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Texas Instruments: Data Analysis and Probability
In this activity students explore the basics in data analysis and probability.
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Texas Instruments: Cell Structure/function
This StudyCards stack enables students to review information about the organelles of eukaryotic plant cell. They are tested on their ability to describe the structure, location, and function of different cell organelles.
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Texas Instruments: Swing Thing
In this activity, students will construct a pendulum and create a motion plot for a swinging pendulum. They will also identify characteristics that affect a pendulum's motion.
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Texas Instruments: Hot Coffee
This activity is an application of differential equations and slope fields. Students first go through the traditional paper and pencil method of solving a differential equation. (Continued. See "before the activity.")
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Texas Instruments: Something's Fishy
In this activity, students examine the size, mass, and growth rates for three species of fish. They interpolate and extrapolate from best-fit models. Students compare the growth rates of endothermic and exothermic animals.
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Texas Instruments: Metric Rules
In this activity, students will collect data by measuring different linear objects and develop a strategy to determine the conversion factors required to convert from one linear measurement to another.
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Texas Instruments: Intro to Chemistry
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary terms encountered in an introductory chemistry class.
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Texas Instruments: Measuring Air Pressure
This activity is intended for an Introductory Meteorology class; an earth science elective intended for Juniors and Seniors. (It was orginally modifed from an Introductory Meteorology Laboratory Assigment taught to undergraduates at...
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Texas Instruments: Louisiana Leap Middle School Practice Exam Grade 8 Science
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the LEAP exam.
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Texas Instruments: The Bigger the Better?
In this activity, students calculate the surface area and volume of different shaped cell models. They develop an understanding of the differences in cells and their function
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Algebra 1: Graphing Calculator Investigation Systems
Students will solve systems of equations.
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Texas Instruments: How Much Is That Phone Call?
Students will learn how step functions apply to real-world situations, about the notation associated with the greatest integer and least integer functions, and how to transform the greatest integer function.
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Texas Instruments: A Sweet Drink Adventure 7
Students determine how the temperature of water affects the dissolving time of a sugar cube. They create, interpret and analyze graphs of data, find an equation of the line of best fit, and relate slope to rate of change.
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Algebra 2: Augmented Matrices
Students will solve systems of linear equations.
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Texas Instruments: Combining Like Terms
Students can use this activity to practice the distributive property and combining like terms with positive integers.
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Texas Instruments: Visual Fractions
This activity provides students with an opportunity to use a visual model to represent fractions, decimals, and percents.
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Texas Instruments: Graphing the Rational Function F(x) = |X|
This LearningCheck document can be used as a self-discovery lesson. The student can explore the domain and range along with the transformations.