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Triangle Midsegment Theorem

Students will use Cabri Jr. to discover that the midsegment of a triangle is parallel to the third side and half the length of the third side.
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Triangle Properties Assessment

This activity uses Cabri Jr. to assess the students' knowledge of various segements related to triangles: perpendicular bisector, median, angle bisector, midsegment, and altitude.
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Rotations in the Plane - Cabri Jr: Interactive

In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.
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Ratios in Right Triangles

The study of properties of right triangles is a major topic in mathematics. In this activity, you will investigate three common right triangle trigonometric ratios.
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REAL LIFE REAL WORLD - Avalanche Rescue

When hikers and skiers go into terrain with a risk of avalanches, they take safety equipment including avalanche rescue beacons. An avalanche rescue beacon sends and receives electromagnetic field signals that travel in circular patterns. The search pattern used to locate a beacon buried in the...
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REAL LIFE, REAL WORLD Activity - Architecture

Architects and Interior Designers use scale drawings that represent the house or room they are designing. This activity uses Cabri Jr. Geometry software to create a scale drawing with dilations.
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REAL LIFE REAL WORLD Activity - Carpentry

Carpenters use applications of geometry in their work, including the properties of right triangles and circles. This activity uses Cabri Jr. Geometry software to make measurements and solve problems based on carpentry situations.
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REAL LIFE REAL WORLD Activity - Forestry

Forest industry professionals make measurements in their work using tools including the Clinometer and the Biltmore Stick. These tools are based on the concepts of similar triangles and trigonometric ratios in a right triangle. This activity uses Cabri Jr. Geometry software to model and solve f...
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Too Many Choices!

Students investigate the fundamental counting principle, permutations, and combinations.
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"Snail Mail" Postal Rate History

This is a listing of the First Class Postal Rates for students to create a scatter plot and appropriate model. It generates good discussion as to which data is appropriate which changes models from exponential to linear.
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Run Me a Hypothesis Test

This activity is designed to give students' practice in determining which type of test to run given certain background information. Additionally, it provides practice towards understanding the meaning of rejecting or failing to reject a null hypothesis.
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You're Probably Right, It's Wrong - TI-83

In this activity, students perform a simulation to guess answers on a test and determine the experimental probability of passing the test. They then compare it with the theoretical probability.
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NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Contenders" - Choosing Contenders

In "Contenders," the FBI asks Charlie and Amita to look at official league rankings of each fighter and compare them with their own 'rankings,' created using the skill levels and past performances of each fighter. They find that one fighter has had an easy path to the championship because this fi...
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What is Linear Regression?

In this activity, students will explore finding the line of best fit based on the sum of the squares of the residuals and determine what the linear regression line is.
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NUMB3RS - Season 2 - "Toxin" - How Hard Can It Be?

In "Toxin," the FBI tracks a serial poisoner who uses contaminated drugs. In this activity, the FBI intercepted an encrypted message they believe contains a phone number that could lead to an "insider" who may be helping the poisoner. Don suggests using a computer to start trying to break the cod...
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NUMB3RS - Season 2 - "The Running Man" - The Eyes Have It

The FBI is investigating a robbery at the research facility of a large company. The FBI believes that the robbers were employees of the company, because they were able to bypass the iris recognition security scan and gain entrance. However, a security camera was able to capture a partial image of...
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Car Sales

In this activity, students' will create a box and whisker plot using a list. The list will be sent using TI-Navigator™ and contains the number of car sales since 1970. They will determine the values in the box plot and answer some additional questions.
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Interpreting Confidence Intervals

This activity is used in conjuntion with the famous M&M's experiment for introducing confidence intervals in AP Statistics. Navigator is used to allow each student to contribute the endpoints of a CI obtained from their own sample of M&M's. Quick polls are used to questions student confidence i...
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NUMB3RS - Season 2 - "Mind Games" - Right or Wrong

In "Mind Games," a psychic shocks Charlie by incorrectly guessing the color (black or red) of 25 cards in a row. As Larry says, "the probability of getting them all wrong is the same as getting them all right." This activity applies the binomial theorem to the probability of correctly guessing a ...
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Approximation of Pi Using Statistical Testing

Students will use a Monte Carlo method to collect data. This data, along with an area model of pi, will be used to approximate pi.
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Explore Transformations with Matrices

Students will use a graphing calculator to explore transformations with matrices. They will analyze how each element of the matrix affects the position of the image. This Technology Lab accompanies Lesson 12-3 from the ©2007 Holt, Rinehart and Winston Geometry textbook.
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Discovering the Quadrilateral Properties

This activity will use Cabri™ Jr. to allow students' the ability to discover all of the properties of each quadrilateral, rather than simply copying them out of a textbook.
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Dilations in the Plane

In this activity, students will learn to use the Dilation tool on the Cabri™ Jr. application. They will also investigate the properties of dilations and the effects of dilations in the coordinate plane.
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Got an equilateral triangle? with Cabri Jr.

Using the Compass tool in Cabri Jr., students will construct an equilateral triangle, and check the length of each side. When a vertices is moved using the Alpha hand, the triangle remains equilateral.
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Finding the Endpoint of a Segment Given One Endpoint and the Midpoint

The purpose of the activity is for students to verify how to determine the coordinates of an endpoint of a segment, given the midpoint and other endpoint, using the dynamic capabilities of Cabri Jr.
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