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Exploring Bivariate Data

Students graph scatter plots and understand the concepts of correlation and least-squares regression. They also perform transformations to achieve linearity in the data plot.
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Graphical Displays of Univariate Data

Students will sort data and construct stemplots, dotplots, histrograms, and frequency plots.
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Sampling Distributions

Students studies the distribution of sample proportions with a simulation. They find small sample size leads to skewed distribution and as the sample size increases, the distribution becomes more normal.
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Sampling Distribution of Differences

This activity covers the distribution of a difference between two independent sample proportions or two independent sample means.
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Summarizing Distributions of Univariate Data

Students understand statistical concepts like center of data and the amount of data variation from the center. They calculate the measures of the center of a distribution and the measures of spread for the data collected as a list. Students also create boxplots for the data. They examine the effe...
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Special Cases of Normally Distributed Data

Students perform single and two-sample t procedures to investigate special cases of normally distributed data. They explore inference for a least-square regression line, including the confidence interval.
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Similarity and Dilations

Students will discover properties of similar figures using the TI-89 and CABRI Geometry II to use dilations to dynamically manipulate figures. (Topic - Similar Figures and the Role of Dilations)
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What's the Trig?

Students will be introduced to right triangle trigonometry. They will use the TI-89 and Geometer's Sketchpad to construct a right triangle and calculate sin, cosine, and tangent of various acute angles. (Topic - Right Triangle Trigonometry)
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Parallel or Perpendicular-What's Your Inclination?

This activity has students discover the relationship between parallel and perpendicular lines and their slopes. After constructing these objects using CABRI Geometry II for the TI-89, slopes are measured. (Topic - parallel and perpendicular lines)
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Parallelograms - Discovering Their Properties

Students use the TI-89 with CABRI™ Geometry to discover properties of parallelograms. They will construct a figure and use the definition to disvoer the figure is a parallelogram. (Topic - parallelograms)
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Properties of Parallelograms

In this activity, you will construct the geometric object by following the instructions below, and then answer the questions about the object.
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Angle Theorem

Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to investigate the relationship between angle and ratio in a right triangle.
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What's the Spin?

Students discover properties of rotations using the TI-89 and CABRI Geometry II by rotating a triangle around a point and through a specified angle. They will discover the definition of a rotation. (Topic -- Rotations and their relation to reflect)
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Number and Operation Sense: Rational Numbers

Students learn to use the calculator to collect a set of data in order to identify patterns that illustrate important rational number concepts: the relationship between rational numbers and division, and equivalent fraction and decimal forms for rational numbers.
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What Makes a Food Nutritious?

Students will analyze select nutritional values of specific food products and then compare those values to the recommended daily allowances published by the U.S.D.A. They will calculate percentages and fractions based upon the information they find.
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Looks Right

Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to determine which given triangle retains its basic shape after its vertices are dragged around the screen.
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Match the graph

Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to reflect points from a graph across the axes.
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Area of Triangle

This Cabri Geometry activity enables students to review the relationship between the height of a triangle and its perimeter and area.
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Conics in Geometry

This lesson has students construct 3 conic sections through geometric definitions. Using the CABRI™ Geometry II application for the TI-89, students construct a parabola, an ellipse, and a hyperbola. (Topics - geometric shapes.
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Dilation

Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to investigate the geometric property of dilation. They vary the scale factor and examine the effect on the dilation of a triangle.
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Going in Circles - Inscribed Angles

This lesson has students discover properties of inscribed angles in a circle. Students use the Geometer's Sketchpad application for the TI-89 to construct a circle and an inscribed angle. (Topic - circles)
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Cottage Water Problem

Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to solve a geometry problem. They move the vertex point that is common to two right triangles along the base to find the smallest possible sum of the length of the hypotenuse.
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What's Half of a Half of a Half?

Students will use a physical model to determine what happens when they repeatedly halve a piece of paper, and then they reassemble the pieces into a whole. They then use an algebraic model to analyze the same situation, which leads to an introductory discussion of limits.
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Homestead-Miami Chase Activity

In this activity,  students will investigate whether it is better to take the shortest path or the fastest path.
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Number of Regions - An Introduction to the TI-Nspire CAS

This activity uses the problem of determining the maximum number of regions formed by n lines in a plane to introduce new users to the TI-Nspire CAS. It illustrates the variety of features available on the TI-Nspire CAS, as well as the ability to look at one problem from multiple representations ...
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