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Educational Attainment and Marriage Age - Testing a Correlation Coefficient's Significance
Do women with college degrees get married later? Using a provided scatter plot of the percentage of women who earn bachelor's degrees and the median age at which women first get married over time, pupils conduct a linear regression...
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Texas Instruments: Stretching Slinkies
This lesson provides students with the opportunity to explore the TI-84 graphing calculator in conjunction with Microsoft Excel. Students can use the "Stretching Slinkies" worksheet to record and enter data. They will either: enter data...
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Texas Instruments: Inequality Graphing App
This activity investigates the use of the Inequality Graphing App of the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus to solve a linear programming problem.
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 2: Graph Equations of Circles
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to graph equations of circles.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Judgement Call: Filtering Suspects
This brief activity clarifies to use Bayes' Rule and conditional probability to narrow down searches. Students then have the opportunity to calculate some conditional probabilities using the same technique. Graphing calculator technology...
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Texas Instruments: "You're Hired!"
This activity will use linear programming and the Inequalz apps on the TI-84+ calculator to solve real world problems.
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Texas Instruments: Programming to Find Area Under a Curve
Students will learn how to program the TI 83/84 Plus graphing calculator to approximate the area under a curve using Left,Right,Midpoint Riemann Sums, and Trapezoid Rule, and Simpson's Rule.
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Texas Instruments: Modeling and Simulating Projectile Motion
This activity provides participants the opportunity to model and simulate projectile motion using a program and the TI-83/84 family of graphing calculators. It is a preliminary in-class activity used prior to actual launching an...
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Texas Instruments: Car Stopping Distances
This activity uses the tranformation graphing application on the TI-84 calculator to discover the equation for the stopping distance of a car on dry pavement.