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Texas Instruments: Statistics for Math B

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will determine the mean, median, mode and standard deviation of collected data. They will make a frequency histogram of the grouped data, both on graph paper, and on the TI 83+.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Quadrilaterals With Cabri Jr.

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use Cabri Jr. software on their TI-83/84 calculator to connect consecutive midpoints of different quadrilaterals and analyze and determine characteristics of the new quadrilateral formed.
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Texas Instruments: Measuring Polygons an Introduction to Cabri Jr.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed as an introduction to using the Carbri Jr. application on the TI-83+/84+ calculators. Students are guided through the menu system and are shown how to draw triangles, quadrilaterals and and a pentagon. Perimeter...
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Texas Instruments: Making Motion Graphs With Toys

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Intended for the beginning lessons in derivative and function graphs, this activity uses motion detectors and battery operated toy cars to generate constant velocity graphs on a TI-83/84. Then students take a free-wheeling car and roll...
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Texas Instruments: M&m's and Decay Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Observe exponential decay with the classic M&M lab, here written up and ready to go. At the end, the author intends for students to send equations and data to the teacher via TI-Navigator, but this step can done on paper if the...
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Texas Instruments: The Phone Bill Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student is given actual data and asked to find a line of best fit and to give "real world" interpretations of the slope and y-intercept. A great introduction to the 83/84 and its features.
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Texas Instruments: Trig Ratios Exploring Sine, Cosine and Tangent

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the Cabri Jr. App and the 83+/84+ calculators, students explore and calculate the various trig ratios. This is an easy construction but be sure to allow plenty of time for exploration and completion of the worksheet questions in...
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Texas Instruments: Compound Interest: Show Me the Money

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is an activity at the conclusion of the exponential relationship unit where students have experience with equations in the form y=a*b^x. Students use the random integer function on theTI-83 Plus to generate a rate of return for the...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Regression Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of lesson ideas, a practice activity, and teacher resources for exploring regression analysis.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Logging Witnesses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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: Math Today: Humidity Makes Air Feel Hotter Iii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the relationship among humidity, air temperature, and the heat index while learning about modeling data, evaluating functions, and describing the end behavior of a function. Students will use graphing calculator technology to...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Getting in Focus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In an episode of "Numb3rs" called "Harvest," Charlie figures out that an ambulance did not travel in a straight line. Knowing the starting point and the ending point (the foci), Charlie finds the ellipse that shows all the possible...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Breast Cancer Risks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Cross curricular lines while integrating technology into your classroom to study a real-world application of logistic regression. This activity shows students how to enter data into their graphing calculators and perform a regression in...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Judgement Call: Filtering Suspects

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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: Collecting Pens

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How many boxes of cereal must you buy to collect all six different prizes? Calculating this using probability rules is much more difficult than finding the answer using simulation. This lesson plan includes worksheets for students that...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs How to Get a Date for Episode

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how to estimate time of death by using a lab that models carbon dating and radioactive decay. Activity pages complete with calculator keystroke instructions and screenprints are included in this lesson plan based on...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Absolute Value Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The concept of absolute value equations is explained and then explored through several examples. Tips and suggestions are offered as to the common pitfalls to avoid. An all-class activity is also explained for the teacher to engage the...
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Ostermiller.org: Between Curves Tools

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides instructions for programs you can put into a graphing calculator to find the area between curves.