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Texas Instruments: Evaluating Simple Expressions
This set of questions involves placement of parentheses, evaluating and simplifying expressions, and order of operations. The problems are multiple choice and true/false; solutions are included.
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Texas Instruments: An Average Lunch?
Students explore the meaning of the average (mean) value for a set of data.
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Texas Instruments: Electrolysis of Water
Students will learn to write the half reactions that occur at each electrode during the electrolysis of water, performed in microscale using a 9V battery as a power source. In monitoring the pH at each electrode, studens will learn that...
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Texas Instruments: Adding Marbles
Each time students add ten marbles to a container filled with a small amount of water, they measure the height of the water. Students will examine their data and develop linear equations.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Four Bugs Problem: Step on No Pets
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this simulation has students model the Four-Bug Problem in order to see the general concept of pursuit curves. Each student takes on the role of a bug, and are placed at each corner of a...
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Texas Instruments: Exponential Growth Experiment
Students will work in pairs and will conduct a growth experiment. They will record their answers for 7 to 10 trials. They will make a scatterplot of their data and share their graphs with the class.
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Texas Instruments: North Carolina Eog Practice Exam Grade 6 8 Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the North Carolina EOG math exams.
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Texas Instruments: Number Curiosities App
This App illustrates and animates interesting facts about numbers 0 through 25. Students investigate factorization, geometric characteristics, and both mathematical and real-world interesting facts related to that number.
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Texas Instruments: Celestial Sphere Study Cards
Multiple choice study cards for reviewing the Celestial Sphere.
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Texas Instruments: Kentucky Kcct Middle School Practice Exam Grade 7 Science
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the KCCT exams.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Group of Symmetries
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students examine a set of transformations to determine if certain properties (such as associativity and closure) exist for equilateral triangles. Students create tables of...
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Texas Instruments: Calculus and the Ti 89
The graphing calculator's symbolic capacities make it ideal for teachers and students of calculus. Here are some examples of how teachers and students can use the calculator to better understand calculus.
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Texas Instruments: Which Hot Dog Cools Faster?
Different types of hot dogs will cool at different rates after they have been cooked. This activity takes the first steps in investigating this phenomenon by measuring the rate that a warmed hot dog cools. Students can compare the...
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Texas Instruments: Jason: Nutria and the Disappearing Marsh
Disappearing Wetlands: Nutria are rodents associated with the loss of marshes in Louisiana's wetlands through a process known as eat out. This activity examines changes in the nutria population, vegetation density, and marsh area over time.
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Texas Instruments: Relating Graphs of a Function to Derivatives
Students will be lead to discover the relationship between the graph of a function, graph of first derivative, and graph of the second derivative using TI-InterActive!.
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Texas Instruments: Investigating the Parabola in Vertex Form (Y = Ax2
In this activity, students investigate the standard form of the quadratic function, y = ax^2 + bx + c. They investigate the changes on the graph of a quadratic equation that result from changes in A, B, and C. They also locate the vertex...
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Texas Instruments: Flipping Over the Coordinate Plane
In this activity, students review basic geometry vocabulary while investigating reflections on a coordinate grid.
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Texas Instruments: Concurrent Lines, Medians, and Altitudes With Cabri Jr.
An introduction to concurrent lines, medians, and altitudes using Cabri Jr.
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Texas Instruments: General Cell Questions
This StudyCards stack enables students to review general concepts regarding cells.
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Texas Instruments: Photosynthesis and Respiration
Students use the gas sensors to measure the amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide consumed or produced by a plant during respiration and photosynthesis. They also determine the rate of respiration and photosynthesis in a plant.
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Texas Instruments: Biological Models With Differential Equations
In this activity, students explore several models representing the growth (or decline) of a biological population. They study models of a single population that have a closed-form solution, and models of several interacting populations...
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Texas Instruments: Compound Interest
In this activity, students use the TI graphing calculator to calculate compound interest. They understand that in compound interest computations, the interest from the previous period is added to the current principal and the new total...
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Texas Instruments: Midsegment of a Triangle
Students explore the properties of triangles formed by connecting the midpoints of two sides of a triangle, and examine the relationship between the two triangles. They study the Triangle Midsegment theorem. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Conics in Standard and Parametric Form
This is a second learn check to use after completing the intro to changing from rectangular form to parametric form of the equations of conics.