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Texas Instruments: Cas Your Girl Friend
In this activity, students find the time a man takes to catch a moving train. They solve the problem with and without using calculus.
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Texas Instruments: Area of a Regular Polygon
This activity has the students derive the formula for finding the area of a regular polygon. Demonstrating the procedure of constructing a regular polygon in front of the class maybe necessary depending on the students prior experience
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Texas Instruments: Conserving Energy
In this activity, students will find both the kinetic and potential energies as the cart rolls down the ramp. They will find the sum of the two energies, and show that this value is constant at all times.
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Texas Instruments: Gambler's Fallacy: Longest Streaks
In this activity, students explore longest the streak for 7 tosses of a coin. They understand the relationship between relative frequency and Theoretical probability. They will be able to clear misconceptions about probabilities of streaks.
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Texas Instruments: Trig Review
These LearningCheck files are designed to determine if students know the unit circle.
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Texas Instruments: Double Your Design
Students learn to use pattern blocks to investigate symmetry by building a design, making its mirror image, and using the calculator to determine the value of both the design made and its reflection.
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Texas Instruments: A Day at the Beach Adventure 9
Students compare the heating rates of wet sand and dry sand and study the effect of evaporation on heating rates. They create, interpret and analyze graphs of data. They also relate slope to rate of change.
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Texas Instruments: Greatest Common Factor
Students use a graphing calculator to find the Greatest Common Factor of two or more numbers.
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Texas Instruments: Climate and Temperature: Sinusoidal Models
The average temperature in any location changes with the season. In this activity, you will develop a model for the average temperatures in your hometown.
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Texas Instruments: Measuring Angles in a Quadrilateral
In this activity, use an interactive, and investigative approach to determining the sum of the interior angles of a quadrilateral. They use Cabri Jr. to draw, measure, and calculate the characteristics of the angles of quadrilaterals.
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Texas Instruments: Gambler's Fallacy: Lucky Streaks and Slumps
In this activity, students determine the probability of independent and compound events. They design simulations and collect data to explore streaking behavior.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dna Sequencing Alignment
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has student find the level of similarity between two different-length strands of DNA. Connections to Djikstra's algorithm are mentioned, and students learn more to follow careful...
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Texas Instruments: Verify Absolute Value Inequalities With a Graphical Approach
Find the solution sets of absolute value inequalities like abs(x-3)5 using the equation editor (y=). Focus on finding the boundaries of inequality intervals.
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Texas Instruments: Rational Functions Asymptotes and Holes
These multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions ask students to identify asymptotes, holes, and domain for rational functions.
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Texas Instruments: Parent Graphs
Here's a file that shows the graphs of eight major mathematical functions. Save it on your computer to use individual graphs in documents you create.
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Texas Instruments: Ti 92 + Cabri Geometry for the Not Necessarily Advanced User
This activity is a tutorial on using the Cabri Geometry application. Students' perform geometric constructions which range from simple triangles to complex conics.
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Texas Instruments: Selection Direction
In this activity you will produce histograms using the Data Graphs Wizard and learn about the concept of biological variance.
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Texas Instruments: Parabolic Applications
Students will analyze a parabola graphed from word problems. Students can use the calculator to find the roots and vertex of the graph to answer questions based on the word problems.
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Texas Instruments: Direct, Inverse, and Joint Variation
This set of questions pertains to direct, inverse, and joint variation. Students are asked to recognize equations of each type and to solve applications problems. Solutions and explanations are included.
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Texas Instruments: Washington Wasl Practice Exam Grades 6 & 7 Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the WASL exams.
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Texas Instruments: Prehistoric Parabola Match
This activity center is used as a formative assessment after a full unit on the different transformations of vertical parabolas.
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Texas Instruments: The Midpoint Formula
The purpose of the activity is for students to verify the results of the Midpoint Formula using the dynamic capabilities of Cabri Jr.
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Texas Instruments: Zeros of a Parabola
Students are introduced to an interesting property of parabolas and a method of proving that property using the TI-89 scripts. They then use the CAS of their TI-89 to generalize upon specific results.
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Texas Instruments: Analyzing Number Cube Sums
In this activity, students extend their understanding of theoretical probability and patterns. They use number cubes, to build awareness that a fraction and its decimal and percent representation on the calculator are "close," but not...