Classroom Activities
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Students comprehend the order of operations and apply this understanding to simplify and evaluate expressions. They also learn to represent problems that involve variable quantities with expressions and use the calculator as a tool to solve problems.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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2540
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Students investigate patterns that show relationships between powers and roots. They learn to identify strategies to be used to find important patterns in data.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-30Xa
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1294
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Students will draw and color scaled drawings of traditional quilt block designs. They then find the appropriate fraction, decimal, and percent of the overall design for each color.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1049
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Students learn to organize data, look for patterns, and solve problems. They will count the number of "coins" in a variation of The Twelve Days of Christmas song. They will also generalize the patterns through symbolic expressions.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-30Xa
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1417
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Students estimate the heights of people and compare the estimates to the actual heights in a scatter plot.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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914
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Students develop patterns using two or more rational number quantities. They comprehend the concept of functions by understanding the relationship between these quantities and their sums.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1846
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Concepts and skills covered in this activity include writing keystroke sequences for formulas and converting between temperature scales.
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- TI-15 Explorer™
- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-30Xa
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1170
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Students use the calculator to compute the value of expressions involving order of operations.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-30Xa
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1492
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Concepts and skills covered in this activity include roots, powers of 10, and problem solving.
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- TI-15 Explorer™
- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-30Xa
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1262
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Concepts and skills covered in this activity include number theory, divisibility rules, multiples, factors, and problem-solving skills.
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- TI-10
- TI-15 Explorer™
- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-30Xa
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1073
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Students will explore patterns related to place value in calculations.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1385
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Students use the calculator to improve their number sense, analysis, and reasoning. They find numbers, given their product.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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3657
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Students explore concepts in probability and statistics. In this activity, they model a situation to find experimental probability and construct a box-and-whisker plot. They compare the experimental and theoretical probabilities for the situation.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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931
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Students examine data and make graphs to represent the data. They interpret the data and answer questions. They also learn to calculate percentages and angle measures.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-30Xa
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1314
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Students write rules for real world functions. They make a table to compare function values and graph linear functions on the coordinate plane.
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- TI-30X IIB
- TI-30X IIS
- TI-34 II Explorer Plus™
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1319
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