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Texas Instruments: Units and Conversion
This StudyCards stack enables students to review and practice using the metric system of measurement.
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Texas Instruments: Estimation and Precise Measurement
Students will estimate various dimensions of objects located in a classroom. After estimations are completed, students will measure objects using appropriate measuring techniques for preciseness.
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Texas Instruments: Measurement and Geometry
In this activity students explore the use of manipulatives to conduct simple geometry and measurement activities.
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Alex: Weather Instruments for Sale
During this lesson, students will use knowledge they have learned about weather instruments to create a catalog advertisement. Students will use descriptive writing to advertise the use of the weather instrument. They will also use...
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Texas Instruments: Bingo!
This activity provides middle schoolers with an opportunity to use a familiar game to determine the most appropriate units for a given situation.
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Nasa: Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch
This lesson plan allows students to learn about the layers of the atmosphere and to learn how to graph real atmospheric data.
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Texas Instruments: Phosphate Analysis
One method of measuring phosphate concentration is by using a Colorimeter. This instrument measures the amount of light transmitted through a sample at a given wavelength.The amount of light absorbed is mathematically related to the...
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Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Intersecting Chords, Secants, and Tangents
In this activity, students will investigate properties of angles and arcs formed when chords, secants, and tangents intersect and intercept arcs in a circle. They discover several important theorems concerning circles and arc sizes. They...
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Elms Environmental Education Center: How to Use a Clinometer
Offers instructions in how to use a clinometer, an instrument used by foresters for measuring angles in order to determine the height of a tree. The mathematics behind a clinometer is also explained.
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Texas Instruments: Ratios in Regular Polygons
In this activity, students use linear measurement and calculators to investigate the ratios between corresponding parts of regular polygons.
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Texas Instruments: Go for the Gold
Students explore and use the concept of ratio in a real-world situation. They will make judgments regarding accuracy and precision of measurement.
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Texas Instruments: Perpendicular Bisector Theorem
This activity uses distance measures to investigate the relationship between a point in the plane and the distance to the endpoints of a segment. Students will investigate the implication these relationships have for the position of the...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator Usa Money in Circulation
Students will determine the approximate number of $20 bills in circulation as of December 31, 2001, using percent and total number of bills from the USA TODAY Snapshot "USA money in circulation." Students will write their answers in...
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Texas Instruments: Lemon "Juice"
"Juice" is a slang term sometimes used for electricity. Batteries are made up of one or more cells. Cells often consist of two different materials in a solution that are connected to each other by a wire. In this experiment, you will...
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Texas Instruments: Predicting Pi
In this activity, students explore the use of linear measurement and calculators to discover the existence of pi, the constant ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle.
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Texas Instruments: Cabri Geometry Tour
In this activity, students will practice some of the basic functions of the Cabri Geometry software, including use of the Pointer, Point, Line, Measure, and Construct toolbars.
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Texas Instruments: No More Peas, Please!
In this activity, students explore the use of nonstandard units of volume and calculators to estimate the number of peas it would take to fill a class room.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Clearing All Obstacles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students modeling a mock food fight using projectile motion. This lesson is very technology-intensive, and a CBR2 is used to measure the velocity of an object so that it's...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today the New Color of Money
The USA TODAY Snapshot allows students to use scientific notation with real-life data. Students will work with large numbers when determining the height of a stack of $20 bills. Unit conversion will be used from one unit of measure to...
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Texas Instruments: Classifying Quadrilaterals
Students receive two Cabri Jr. files of quadrilaterals on a coordinate plane. They use their knowledge of quadrilaterals to give each one the most precise name. They may find the length and/or slope of the sides using the measuring tools...
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Texas Instruments: Freezing Temperature of Ocean Water
This activity makes use of the Temperature Probe to measure the temperature of water as it cools and freezes. Students' determine and compare the freezing temperature of fresh water and ocean water.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Instruments of Climatology
Identify the tools used to measure various aspects of climatology like a barometer.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sabermetrics
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to lesser-known statistical analyses. The focus of this lesson is sabermetrics, a statistical procedure used to measure a baseball player's worth or the...
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University of California: Seawater Density & Salinity [Pdf]
Describes the properties of seawater and the variations depending on its location, e.g., near a shoreline, in an estuary, or as sea ice. Discusses the instruments scientists use to measure the density of water and explains other...