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Texas Instruments: What Causes the Seasons?
In this activity, students' will explore how the tilt of the earth's axis results in different amounts of solar radiation at different times of the year, causing seasons. They will simulate the earth's warming using a light bulb that...
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Texas Instruments: Old Mac Donald's Pigpen
In this activity, students solve a standard maximum value problem using the calculator. Students help Old MacDonald build a rectangular pigpen with 40 m fencing that provides maximum area for the pigs. They graph scatter plots, analyze...
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Texas Instruments: Boxing It Up
In this activity, students will experiment with creating a box from a standard size piece of paper. They will then use the concept of related rates on the graphing calculator to find the maximum volume of a box made from the piece of paper.
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Texas Instruments: Motion in One Dimension & Freefall Motion
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to motion in one dimension and freefall motion.
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Texas Instruments: Newton's Law of Cooling and the Calculus Behind It
In this activity, students investigate Newton's Law of Cooling and determine a model to represent the data.
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Texas Instruments: Differential Equations on the Ti 92 Plus
This activity acquaints students with the features and capabilities of the calculator that are used to study concepts related to differential equations. Students graph and solve a range of differential equation problems.
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Texas Instruments: Constructing Triangles
This activity focuses on the various ways to construct the different types of triangles such as isosceles, equilateral, right, and right isosceles triangles. Students will begin by constructing triangles based on a minimal definition of...
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Texas Instruments: Creating Word Problems
In this activity, students write word problems based on the whole numbers generated by the calculator. They decide on an operation to solve the problems. They analyze the problems to determine the problem characteristics when using...
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Texas Instruments: Algebra Vocabulary Terms
This StudyCards activity includes the definitions for 15 algebra terms for which the students need to identify the correct vocabulary term.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today the Next Frontier for Flight
This activity provides students the opportunity to gain experience in creating circle graphs on the calculator and provides an excellent real-world review of computation with percents.
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Texas Instruments: Going in Circles Inscribed Angles
This lesson has students discover properties of inscribed angles in a circle. Students use the Geometer's Sketchpad application for the TI-89 to construct a circle and an inscribed angle.
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Texas Instruments: Vertical, Adjacent, and Supplementary Angles With Cabri Jr.
Study Vertical, Adjacent, and Supplementary Angles with Cabri Jr. Page numbers come from Prentice Hall Geometry textbook.
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Texas Instruments: Graphing Your Motion
In this activity, students use a Motion Detector to measure distance and velocity. Students prepare graphs of motion and analyze them. They compare and match graphs of distance versus time and velocity versus time.
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Texas Instruments: Linear Equations Review
This Learn Check file is a review of linear equations. There are problems about slope, x- and y-intercepts, and writing equations of lines.
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Texas Instruments: New Jersey Hspa Practice Exams Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - 11th grade HSPA math exam.
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Texas Instruments: World Geography App
This classroom activity features geography facts of countries around the world. Students explore latitude, longitude, area, climate, and more. They examine maps of the area, and discover the location of a country with respect to other...
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Texas Instruments: Earthquakes
This StudyCards stack enables students to review facts and terms associated with earthquakes.
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Texas Instruments: Binomial Distribution
Questions cover the binomial distribution. Students identify characteristics of a binomial distribution and calculate probabilities for different ranges. Binomial mean and variance are covered in the link between the binomial and normal...
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Texas Instruments: Planets Time Line
A number line showing the average distance of the planets to the Sun.
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Texas Instruments: Classifying a Triangles by Their Angle Measure Using Cabri Jr
This activity uses Cabri Jr to classify triangles according to their angle measure. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Calculating the Area of a Triangle Using Heron's Formula
Students will measure the lengths of the sides of three different triangles and apply Heron's Formula to calculate the area in acres. The measurements for this activity may be done outside or, using a specified scale, completed inside....
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Texas Instruments: Clouds
This activity is designed to assess a student's comprehension of a basic meteorological phenomenon.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Taylor Series
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students explore the Taylor's series. They investigate the approximation of numbers in sequences and series and find their interval of convergence using various methods.
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Texas Instruments: Pennsylvania Pssa Practice Exams Math
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - 11th grade Pennsylvania math exam.