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Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Newton Knew
For race car engineers, F = m a, is the backbone of the vast majority of calculations. The selection of gear ratios is one example. Investigate and create a mathematical model for the relationship between force, speed, mass, distance and...
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Texas Instruments: Say What You Mean!
This is a fun activity that has students determining how grades could be adjusted should a curve be given. Students will experiment with lists and stat plots to determine if their adjustments create a line or a curve when plotted on a...
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Discount Savings
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: New Mexico Nmaa Practice Exams Math: New Mexico Hsce Practic
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - Grade 9 New Mexico math exam / Grade 11 New Mexico math exam.
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Texas Instruments: Statistics With List Editor App
The list editor provides a means for viewing, editing, and working with data lists. Students can explore distributions, tests, intervals, multiple regression, random sampling, goodness of fit and inferential statistics.
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Texas Instruments: Coordinate Plane
Short quiz covering the coordinate plane, axes, quadrants, origin, and plotting points.
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Texas Instruments: Cubic, Zeros and Tangents
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use CAS to prove a theorem regarding cubic functions, their zeros [roots], and tangents to the curves.
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Texas Instruments: Piecewise Functions
In this activity, students investigate piecewise functions for continuity and differentiability.
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Texas Instruments: Just How Many Are There?
This activity introduces students to the concept of using proportional reasoning to estimate the size of an animal population.
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Texas Instruments: The Shrinking Dollar
In this activity, students examine the long term effects of inflation. They compute the increase in cost price due to compounding of inflation rates every year. They recognize that this increase in cost price is exponential.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Functions: Slope Intercept Form
Students learn to develop the equation of a line from its graph. They also learn to write the equation of a line from the slope and the y-intercept, a point and the slope, and two points. They also investigate slopes of lines that are...
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Texas Instruments: Finding the Roots of a Cubic Equation Math History
In this Derive activity, students understand how the software solves cubic equations and relate it to contributions made by del Ferro, Tartaglia, and Cardan in finding the method of solving cubic equations.
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Texas Instruments: Temperature Conversions
In this activity you will: review the different temperature scales and use the List Editor to convert from one temperature scale to another.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Wildfire Deaths
In this activity, students will be asked to use the "Wildfire deaths" data to determine a linear model. They will examine the affect an outlier has on the model and compare methods to determine the best model.
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Texas Instruments: Chi Square Test for Independence, and Homogeneity
This set contains questions about statistics regarding the chi-square tests for independence and for homogeneity of proportions. The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion.
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Texas Instruments: Use Random Numbers
Students use a graphing calculator to find experimental probabilities by generating random numbers, using the random integer function. This Technology Lab accompanies Lesson 10-5 from the 2007 Holt, Rinehart and Winston Algebra 1 textbook.
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Texas Instruments: Calculator Help
A list of the most frequently asked questions by new users, teachers and students. Originally authored to help teachers who weren't familiar with the calculator to enable them to quickly help a student who was "stuck".
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Texas Instruments: The Standard Form of a Quadratic Equation
In this activity, students explore the standard form of a quadratic equation, y = ax 2 + bx + c. They explore how the x-intercepts (zeros), y-intercept, and vertex are related to the graph of the standard form of a quadratic function.
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Texas Instruments: Let's Do Summagic
Students learn to quickly add lists of numbers by adding like terms and using the distributive property.
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Texas Instruments: Significant Figures/accuracy
This StudyCards stack enables students to review definitions and the rules for rounding numbers and using significant figures.
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Texas Instruments: Geoboard and Area
In this activity, students find areas of figures which are displayed on a grid. They also use the Geoboard application to find areas of figures they draw.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Telling Time With the Sun
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity is a very basic introduction to the tangent function and it's applications (such as measuring distances). Through this lesson, students will learn the definition of the tangent...
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Texas Instruments: Specific Heat of Metals
In this activity, students' will use a Temperature Sensor to understand how heat is transferred between substances and the concept of thermal equilibrium. They learn about specific heat and how it can be used to identify an unknown sample.
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Texas Instruments: Eileen's Work Week: Solving Systems of Inequalities
Studenst solve a real-life application problem of systems of inequalities.