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    • Science: Chemistry: Skills of Science
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  • Author

    Texas Instruments

  • Level

    9-12

  • Activity Time

    30 Minutes

  • Device
    • ax-icon-color-device
      TI-Nspire™ CX/CX II
    • ax-icon-color-device
      TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
    • TI-Nspire™
    • TI-Nspire™ CAS
  • Software

    TI-Nspire™
    TI-Nspire™ CAS

  • TI-Nspire Version

    3.0

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Skills of Science - Doing Unit Conversions

Activity Overview

In this lesson, students will be introduced to doing unit conversions with TI-Nspire.

Objectives

  • Students will observe the relationships among different units of measure.
  • Students will convert between different units using dimensional analysis.

Vocabulary

  • unit conversion
  • dimensional analysis
  • conversion factors
  • metric equivalents

About the Lesson

This lesson introduces unit conversion and doing unit conversions with TI-Nspire.
As a result, students will:

  • Be able to convert between different units of measure.