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Texas Instruments: Math Today Population on the Move
In this activity students will determine the rate of change (slope) & build a linear model (y = mx + b) from this data. The model will be used to make a prediction about the future growth of the population of the U.S. if the current...
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Texas Instruments: Cross Fencing Pastures
In this activity, students use the Geoboard to determine the areas of polygons by dissecting them into parts that are squares, rectangles, and triangles.
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Texas Instruments: Reflections in the Plane
Students will learn how to perform a reflection using the Cabri Jr. application, and will explore the properties of reflections. This activity will extend the concepts of reflection to the coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments: Delaware Dstp Practice Exams Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - grade 10 Delaware DSTP math exam.
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Texas Instruments: Perpendicular or Parallel?
Students can use TI 73 calculators to explore equations that create parallel and perpendicular lines. Teacher will use the screen capture feature of the Navigator system to display students graphs and equations to discuss observations to...
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Texas Instruments: Matching Quadratics Equations With Pictures!
Students will submit equations in vertex form that will match the roller coaster using activity center. They will also find the intersection point of two roller coasters.
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Texas Instruments: Solving Absolute Values
The students can use a StudyCards stack to learn how to solve absolute value equations and inequalities. Later, they will learn how to use the calculator graphing capabilities to solve the same type of problems in a new way.
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Texas Instruments: Where Do I Belong?
In this activity, students use Venn diagrams to make several types of classifications.
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Texas Instruments: Future Value of an Ordinary Annuity & Sinking Funds
In this activity, students carry out financial computations, involving annuity, and the future value of annuities. Students also deal with computations involving sinking funds.
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Texas Instruments: Animal Skin Adventure 6
In this adventure, students make two models to simulate the cooling rate of different skin surface areas and determine the effect of skin surface area on the results. Students graph temperature as a function of time, interpret, and...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Escape Game
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to elementary game theory. The lesson is framed in the context of criminal who must get off at one of two subway stops -- will the officer choose the same stop...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Thumbs Up!
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to confidence intervals by using a simulation. Students use a calculator (or random number table) to simulate a situation with a certain success rate, and then...
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Texas Instruments: Ohio Ogt Practice Exams Science
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - 9th grade Science exam.
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Texas Instruments: Got Complements? With Cabri Jr.
Use the Axes and Measure Angle tool to explore and calculate complementary angles.
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Texas Instruments: Working With Point Rotations in the Coordinate Plane
Using Cabri Jr. and the properties of rotations to get a true understanding of how a figure is rotated about a point.
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Texas Instruments: Systems of Inequalities
Students will solve word problems and recognize in which quadrant solutions will appear.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Shaken, Not Stirred
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson extends upon the classic Handshake Problem (in which everyone at a party shakes hands with everyone else -- how many handshakes were there?) by not allowing guests to shakes hands...
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Texas Instruments: Absorption and Radiation
Different surfaces absorb and radiate radiation at different rates. In this activity you will analyze the absorption and radiation rates of two surfaces by monitoring the temperature changes of each of them.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Phreak Out!
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to modern applications of mathematics, namely espionage. Through this lesson, students will learn of Van Eck Phreaking, in which electromagnetic radiation...
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Texas Instruments: Virginia Sol Practice Exams Math Algebra
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - The Virginia SOL Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 Practice Exams
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Texas Instruments: Design Curves
Students plot points then use regression lines to design a vehicle.
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Texas Instruments: Pass the Ball
In this activity, students use mathematics to examine patterns that occur in a specific scenario and predict future events for the scenario. Data is collected on the time it takes to pass a ball. The students plot graphs, fit the data...
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Texas Instruments: Can You Take the Pressure?
In this activity you will: Use the EasyLink and the Gas Pressure Sensor. Determine the volume of a gas in a container under different pressures. Graph pressure/Volume data. Interpret the graphs.
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Texas Instruments: Programming to Find Area Under a Curve
Students will learn how to program the TI 83/84 Plus graphing calculator to approximate the area under a curve using Left,Right,Midpoint Riemann Sums, and Trapezoid Rule, and Simpson's Rule.