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Texas Instruments: Geometry: Parallel and Perpendicular Slopes
This activity will help students understand the relationship between the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines.
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Texas Instruments: Absolutely Silver Dollar City Christmas
Students will be challenged to submit an equation that "fits" a picture of a Christmas tree. Then they will generate an equation based upon a transformation of the picture.
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Texas Instruments: A Penny for Your Height
In this activity, students study English to Metric conversions. They investigate the relationship between inches and centimeters by measuring their height in these units and converting the measurements.
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Texas Instruments: Radius, Diameter, and Circumference of a Circle
In this activity, students will learn the basic concepts of the circle. They explore the relationship between the diameter and the radius, and between the diameter and circumference of a circle. They also get familiar with the Greek...
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Texas Instruments: Circle Around
In this activity, students compute the circumference and area of circles. They understand that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter is a value called pi. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: The Garbage Problem
Students examine data about garbage production and graphically represent data in a scatter plot. From the data students make predictions. They develop an understanding of the environmental impact of trash accumulation and the need for a...
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Texas Instruments: Buying a Car
Students will explore various financial aspects of buying a car including calculating interest rates, payments, and total cost of the car over time.
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Texas Instruments: Start With Ti Navigator: Braking and Total Stopping Distances
This lesson is intended to introduce students' to Activity Center and is intended to help students develop an understanding of the formulas for braking distance and stopping distance for a variety of vehicles. Students will apply these...
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Texas Instruments: Multiplication of Integers Repeated Addition and Subtraction
In this activity, students investigate how repeated addition or subtraction is related to multiplication.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Riding the Waves
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the idea of vector fields. While no "formal math" is done in this lesson, students will learn to follow a vector field both forward and backward to see...
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Texas Instruments: Slippery Slope Activity: Math & Science in Motion
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 6 in the Explorations book, Math and Science in Motion: Activities for Middle School by Chris Brueningsen, Elisa Brueningsen, and Bill Bower (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997). Students...
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Texas Instruments: North Carolina Practice Exams: Physical Science & Biology
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - Physical Science and Biology.
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Texas Instruments: Charging Up, Charging Down: Exponential Models
In this activity, students' will use a voltage probe to collect voltage data from a discharging capacitor. They will model potential data using an exponential function.
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Texas Instruments: Quadratic Intercepts
This set of multiple choice questions asks students to find the intercepts and vertices of quadratic functions. Solutions are included.
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Texas Instruments: Colorado Csap Middle School Practice Exam Grade 8 Science
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the CSAP exam.
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Texas Instruments: To Replace or Not to Replace? That Is the Question
In this activity, students explore situations that involve compound events with and without replacement. They use different ways to conceptualize theoretical probability.
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Texas Instruments: Atomic Nuclear
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary associated with atoms and nuclear chemistry.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Regular Polygon Centroids
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students different ways to find centroids of regular polygons. The traditional way (using medians) is presented, as well as the triangulation method, the diagonals method,...
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Texas Instruments: Patterns in Division
Students investigate how the quotients and remainders from integer division relate to the quotients from rational number division in both fraction and decimal form.
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Texas Instruments: Parallel and Perpendicular Slopes
This activity is for use as a formative assessment tool after the introduction and overview of parallel and perpendicular slopes.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Desk Left Behind
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson simulates a situation at a school, in which a principal is determining the number of desks needed in order to accommodate left-handed students. A simulation is used in which 10%...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dial the Phone
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson gives students some insight into the connection between graph theory and triangular numbers, using telephone networks. Similar to the famous Handshake Problem, students will find...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Logging Witnesses
Charlie determines the probability that a suspect is male or female based on the suspect's height and logistic regression in the "All's Fair" episode of the show NUMB3RS. The lesson includes calculator keystrokes and screenprints to help...
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Texas Instruments: Breakeven Analysis
In this activity, students perform breakeven analysis using the cost and revenue of an enterprise. They will determine the relationship between fixed and variable costs, profits, pricing policy, and the volume of output.