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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Spies Like Us
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses on a spy trying to penetrate a fort's entrance, which is subsequently being guarded by three sentries. One student controls the spy and has a choice of where to move;...
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Texas Instruments: Jason: How Do Pinnipeds Stay Warm?
From Shore to Sea: Pinnipeds have adapted to extreme weather conditions by developing layers of insulation materials. In this activity, students will perform an experiment to explore how different types of insulation materials work.
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Texas Instruments: Jason: Can You Breathe Like a Pinniped?
From Shore to Sea: Pinnipeds are marine mammals that spend a great deal of time in the water. Like all marine mammals, pinnipeds breathe air through their lungs. In order to breathe, they must come up to the surface for air.
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Texas Instruments: Points on the Perpendicular Bisector of a Segment
In this activity, students use the drawing and measurement tools of Cabri Jr., to learn and understand the concept of "equidistant from the endpoints of a segment." They observe the changes if they move a point on the perpendicular...
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Texas Instruments: Remember Me?
In this activity, students use the calculator to compute the value of expressions involving order of operations.
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Texas Instruments: More Input and Output
This procedural exercise demonstrates the use of the TI-86 in basic programming techniques.
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Texas Instruments: Elimination
This activity uses geometric examples to illustrate the method of elimination to obtain a Cartesian equation using the Computer Algebra System CAS tool.
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Texas Instruments: Random Remainders
Students explore the use of a calculator to investigate the relationship between divisors and remainders in whole-number division.
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Texas Instruments: Exponential Growth and Decay : M&m's Activity
In this activity, students use the TI InterActive! to model exponential growth and decay.
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Texas Instruments: Video Tutorial Using the Catalog Feature
This video tutorial shows you how to use the "CATALOG" functionality (found above the 0 key of the calculator.
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Texas Instruments: Ti 89 Activities for Pre Calculus and Ap Calculus
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use the statistical, graphical, and symbolic capabilities of the calculator to make it a powerful tool for investigating and developing mathematical concepts. Includes teacher...
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Texas Instruments: Polynomial Functions
In this set of questions, students will find the x-intercepts of a polynomial function, factor a polynomial, and determine the number of solutions of a polynomial equation. Questions are multiple choice and true/false; solutions are...
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Texas Instruments: Probability
Using the counting principle, permutations, combinations, probability, and odds, students will solve problems encountered in day to day experiences.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Functions With Cas
In this activity students use the CAS tool to explore sin, cos, and tan functions. They expand the functions and find the domain. They also prove the conjectures.
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Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Exploring Change
This activity introduces students to Activity Center. In this activity, students will explore change in the context of cellular telephone charges. Students will create a scatter plot showing that the rate per minute for a "pay as you go"...
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Texas Instruments: Sas Triangle Congruence
This activity will help learners visualize the construction of congruent triangles and conceptualize properties through measurement and movement of their construction. Students will need access to the TI-84 Plus Family.
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Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Avalanche Rescue
When hikers and skiers go into terrain with a risk of avalanches, they take safety equipment including avalanche rescue beacons. An avalanche rescue beacon sends and receives electromagnetic field signals that travel in circular...
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Texas Instruments: Getting From Point a to Point B
This activity features a map of the state of Michigan. Students are instructed to give the teacher driving directions from one point in the state to another. The students accomplish this task by finding the correct linear equation that...
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Texas Instruments: Using the Equation Solver to Find a Solution
In this tutorial, you will see how to use the Equation Solver (under the MATH) key to find the value of a missing variable in an equation.
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Texas Instruments: Repeated Skip Counting and Multiplication
Students will explore how to write equivalent repeated addition and multiplication number sentences with the aid of calculators.
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Texas Instruments: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Time Line
A time line showing when the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were built.
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Texas Instruments: Celsius and Fahrenheit Time Line
A number line comparing temperatures in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
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Texas Instruments: Multiplying and Dividing Monomials
Students should know how to multiply and divide monomials.
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Mid. School Science: Effect of Acid Rain on Limestone
Students will collect rainwater and measure its acidity. They will use the rainwater to determine the effect that acid rain has on limestone.