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Texas Instruments: Mad Minutes
This activity should help kids to perform quick computations using mental math, become less reliant on calculators for computation, and remember algorithms for common math problems by using repetition and practice.
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Texas Instruments: Metabolic Magicians
In this activity, students understand the relationship between enzyme reaction rates and various environmental factors such as pH and temperature. They recognize the metabolic differences between endotherms and exotherms. They generate...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Implicit Orbits
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson describes what would happen to various satellites if their planets vanished. Implicit differentiation is used to determine the tangent to each satellite's orbit, which is the path...
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Texas Instruments: Dew Point Temperature
In this activity, students use an EasyTemp Temperature Probe to measure the temperature of air next to a can of ice water. They also observe the formation of condensation and determine the Dew Point temperature. EasyData is needed for...
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Texas Instruments: Classifying Quadrilaterals
Students will be sent ordered pairs through lists using the TI-Navigator. These pairs will then be graphed as a line graph and students will classify the shape of the quadrilateral and justify their choice.
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Texas Instruments: A Good Cold Pack
Students use the EasyTemp temperature probe to determine temperature changes as different solid substances dissolve in water. They then develop and test a plan for making the best cold pack using three grams of one of the substances....
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Texas Instruments: Angles in Circles
The student will use the Cabri Jr. APP to discover the relationship between inscribed and central angles in a circle.
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Texas Instruments: Writing Linear Equations Using Activity Center and Houses!
Students will write linear equations given two points. The two points will be the location of the students' houses. They will partner with someone and try to make an equation that will go through the two houses which are coordinates...
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Texas Instruments: Two Hot, Two Cold
In this activity, students collect both Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature data for several water samples of varying temperatures. They use the data to find a conversion equation that will calculate the Fahrenheit temperature for any...
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Texas Instruments: Logistic Growth, Differential Equations, Slope Fields
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students investigate differential equations analytically, graphically and numerically and see relationships between the three approaches.
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Texas Instruments: Saving for Graduation
In this activity, students use the CellSheet Application to calculate accrued interest on a principal. During the activity students solve a problem to calculate the interest on a principal, for a specified period.
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Texas Instruments: Multiplication of Integers
Students use StudyCards(tm) to practice completing multiplication equations that include positive and negative integers.
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Texas Instruments: Congruent Triangles
After students have learned all postulates and theorem to prove triangles congruent, this short quiz can be used to test understanding.
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Texas Instruments: What's the Trig?
Students will be introduced to right triangle trigonometry. They will use the TI-89 and Geometer's Sketchpad to construct a right triangle and calculate sin, cosine, and tangent of various acute angles.
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Texas Instruments: North Carolina Nchsee Practice Exams Science
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - High School Science exam.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Experimenting With Paper Airplanes
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this "fun" lesson has students creating paper airplanes and testing different variables (weight, wings, etc.) to see what type of plane flies the best. Data Analysis and imagination are both...
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Texas Instruments: Investigating Properties of the Diagonals of Quadrilaterals
In this activity, students will explore the properties of the diagonals of various quadrilaterals. They will use a quadrilateral hierarchy chart to examine the relationship between the quadrilaterals.
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Texas Instruments: Jason: Tropical Forests Cleaning the Air?
Rainforests at the Crossroads: Measure the CO2 level in a bottle that contains spinach leaves when it is exposed to light. Then collect CO2 data and observe the effects of photosynthesis as you add leaves in the bottle.
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Texas Instruments: Solving Systems With Quadratic Equations: Systems of Conics
In this activity, students will plot the graphs of systems of equations and determine the number of real solutions of the system. Then find the solution of the system algebraically.
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Texas Instruments: Pyramid Slope
Students use their knowledge of linear equations to match a line to the edge of a pyramid image.
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Texas Instruments: Cooking the Thanksgiving Day Turkey
In this activity, students will analyze data using Newton's Law of Heating and an exponential equation. Asks students to make connections between Newton's Law of Heating and the exponential equation.
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Texas Instruments: Distance
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to distance.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Snow Is as High as an Elephant
The USA TODAY Infograph "When the snow is as high as an elephant" helps us understand snow from a more practical point of view. Students will answer several geometry questions about the different components of the graphic.
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Texas Instruments: Operations of Signed Numbers( Focus on Vocabulary)
This activity will explore operations on integers with a focus on different vocabulary used to describe changes in signs and changes in operations.