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What's the Spin?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners use the CABRI application for their graphing calculator to rotate, translate, and reflect triangles. They use graphing calculators and follow detailed directions to manipulate triangles in specified ways. There are three...
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Reference Angles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learn how to measure the reference angles in degrees and radians.  Learners find reference angles that are coterminal with a given angle.
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Complex Roots: A Graphical Solution

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using their Ti-Nspire to determine the solutions of parabolas, students explore the concept of complex roots.  Students determine if parabolas have real or complex roots.  Students determine the the axis of symmetry and the...
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Gateway Arc Length

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners differentiate and calculate the length of an arc. They define an arc and relate it to the area of a circle and integrate the function to solve the equations. Students use their TI calculators to graph the equation.
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Epsilon-Delta Window Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students graph functions and analyze them. In this calculus lesson, students define limit formally using Epsilon-Delta. They use the TI to graph the function and analyze it.
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Integration By Substitution

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young scholars calculate the solution using integrals in this calculus lesson. They use the TI to create a visual of how to compute integrals. Learners also use substitution by integration and all its properties.
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Parametric Races & Slopes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate the slopes and parametric equations. In this calculus lesson, students solve parametric equations with specific parameters. They relate lines and slopes based on the derivative of the equation.
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Points, Lines, and Planes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students solve problems dealing with points, lines and planes. In this geometry lesson plan, students differentiate between parallel lines and planes. They find the intersection of lines and planes.
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The Ambiguous Case

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the relationship of triangles with its sides and angles. In this geometry lesson, students create visual on the graphing navigator as they study triangles. They move the sides around to create different angle-side...
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Energy Content of Foods

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners collect data, organize and analyze the data and compare it to real life scenarios. This assignment requires two class periods.
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Light and Day

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Pupils explore the concept of collecting data as they collect data on their graphing calculator about time, temperature, and light. Learners plot the data and create histograms and box and whisker plots to analyze the data.
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Angling for Distance

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the concept of projectile distance through determining the angle that will provide the maximum distance of a launched projectile.  Learners launch baseballs on a football field and video tape the path of the ball.
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Graphing the Absolute Vaule Function

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate the graph of the absolute value function and the relationship between the parameters of the equation and the graph of the function.
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FCAT Real World Solving Linear Equations/Systems

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Pupils relate real life situation to the equations, graphs and inequalities. They model real life scenarios using matrices and draw conclusions from their data. This lesson plan is aligned with FCAT.
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Augmented Matrices

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils write systems of equations in an augmented matrix and enter it into their calculator. They use the reduced row echelon function on the calculator to solve the system of equations.
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Chill Out: How Hot Objects Cool

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Teach how to explore exponential equations.  In this Algebra II lesson, students investigate the graph that occurs as a hot liquid cools.  Students model the data algebraically.
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Curve Fitting

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Pupils investigate linear, quadratic, and exponential regressions. They plot sets of data points, determine the regression equation that best fits the data and lastly investigate the coefficient of determination.
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NUMB3RS Activity: Exponential Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Mathematicians investigate exponential growth by exploring two different options for receiving allowance.  Students use technology to compare a linear function with a constant rate of growth to a function that grows exponentially...
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Getting Started with the TI-Navigator™ System: What's My Line?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Learners analyze linear functions in this algebra lesson. They explore the meaning of slope and the slope-intercept form of a line as they investigate the effect changing parameters on the graph of a linear function.
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Rational Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Young scholars investigate rational numbers in this algebra lesson. They graph systems of equations and use technology to find the point of intersection. They need a TI for this assignment.
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Tight Rope

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learn how to explore the concept of linear functions.  In this linear functions lesson, students collect linear data from a motion detector.  Students walk to create a linear function.  Students plot the points on a graph...
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NUMB3RS Activity: Settling The Score

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learn how to investigate matrix multiplication.  In this secondary mathematics instructional activity, students examine matrix multiplication in the context of a Homes-Rahe stress test which is similar to the process used to score...
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NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Provenance" - Set the Trap

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate concept of matrices through iteration in this probability lesson. They investigate probability by creating a lesson based on a famous painting. This assignment contains extensions to the...
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Quadratic Function Investigations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners perform investigation of quadratic functions while taking part in the solving of various types of problems. They explore the changes in the coefficients on the quadratic function to observe the patterns. The lesson includes...