Connecting Ratios to Graphs
... The graph of a collection of equivalent ratios lies on a line through the origin. What are the students doing? Students notice patterns that occur - in tables and on a graph - when a collection of equivalent ratios is graphed in a coordinate plane. What is the teacher doing? Emphasize the ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/connecting-ratios-to-graphs
Proportional Relationships
Proportional Relationships website This lesson focuses on the relationship between the unit rate - or slope - of a line and the equation. 393708 Proportional Relationships Planning and R...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/proportional-relationships
Ratio Tables
...is another equivalent ratio. This “additive” property of equivalent ratios can be used to solve both multiplication and division problems by creating appropriate and “easy” equivalent ratios. What are the students doing? Students generate a table of equivalent ratios in any order and that are any...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/ratio-tables
Intro to Rates
...it rate. The unit rate is the numerical part of the rate; the “unit” in “unit rate” is the 1 in “1 per student,” “for each 1 minute,” or “for every 1 cup.” What are the students doing? Students should pay attention to the words used to describe a rate such as per and each. What is the teacher doi...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/introduction-to-rates
Ratios Within and Between Scaled Shapes
...le factor? Answer: 3 Understanding Students can set up proportions in tables or equations. Students can also reason multiplicatively by 1) applying a scale factor that relates lengths in two different figures, or 2) considering the ratio of two lengths within one figure, finding a mult...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/ratios-within-and-between-scaled-shapes
Space: STEM Behind Hollywood
...em lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Maecenas faucibus mollis interdum. Pharetra Ornare Mattis Magna Commodo The simulation opens with discussion-provoking depictions of the catastrophic events resulting from a massive asteroid striking the Earth. NASA is calling for the best and brig...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/stem/stem-behind-hollywood/space
Analyzing Distributions
Analyzing Distributions website In this lesson, students associate distributions with appropriate measures of center and spread. 409868 Analyzing Distributions Planning and Resources ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/analyzing-distributions
Ratios and Rational Numbers
... compare the ratios and slopes of the lines. What is the teacher doing? Have students name some points that lie along the ray. Guide students in a discussion of to remind them that the points are on the same ray because they are associated with a collection of equivalent ratios. The Big Idea ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/ratios-and-rational-numbers
Solving Proportions
... TNS Lesson Snapshot Students consider ratio problems that involve an additional constraint on the quantities. In particular, the two quantities involved add to a given sum as well as have a proportional relationship. Students look at the problem using a table, a gr...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/solving-proportions
What is a Ratio?
... TNS Lesson Snapshot What is a ratio and when are two ratios equivalent? What are the students doing? Students discuss the similarities and differences between the groups of shapes that illustrate equivalent ratios. What is the teacher doing? Reinforce the defi...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/what-is-a-ratio
Why Random Samples
... the distribution of “judgment” sample means with a distribution of sample means selected by random sampling. What to look for It is worthwhile to discuss how biases might impact a judgment sample. For example, it is much easier to overlook the small segments (length 1 for example) than it is to ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/why-random-samples
USA TODAY Education
...ience educators Based on USA TODAY's articles, snapshots and infographs Designed to enhance middle school or high school level math and science curriculum Math activities for Pre-algebra, Algebra, Geometry, Precalculus, Calculus and Statistics Science activities for Biology, Chemistry, ...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/usa_today_educate
NCSM
...rvisors of Mathematics (NCSM) with support from Texas Instruments. The K-5 book includes extension activities using the TI-10 and TI-15 Explorer™ calculators. The grades 6-12 book includes helpful information on integrating TI-Nspire™ technology and TI-84 Plus graphing calculators into these ta...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/ncsm
30xiis activities
30xiis activities global website This activity book is designed to help teachers prepare students to use technology appropriately to solve everyday problems. The 15 activities include topics in number t...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/exploration-series/30xiis-activities
advocacy
advocacy global website Educators and parents can support their students’ education by advocating for high quality teachers and high education standards. Below are some documents that will to h...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/advocacy
Visualizing Equations Using Mobiles
... PDF DOC TNS Lesson Snapshot Students understand how mapping a balanced mobile to an equation provides a foundation for reasoning about strategies for solving equations. What to look for Some stude...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/visualizing-equations-using-mobiles
Outliers
.... 409872 Outliers Planning and Resources Objectives Students learn to identify outliers in a set of data through both visual and computational approaches. They can describe the impact of outliers on measures of center and spread. Vocabulary outlier upper quartile lower quartile interquarti...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/outliers
Choosing Random Samples
... Numbers used in describing a characteristic of the population (typically measures of center, spread, maximum and minimum) can be estimated by calculating the corresponding statistic using the data in the sample. What to look for To understand how a sampling process works, students need to un...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/choosing-random-samples
Mean as Fair Share
Mean as Fair Share website This lesson introduces students to mean as a way to describe the center of a set of data. Often called the average, the mean can also be visualized as “leveling...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/mean-as-fair-share
Mean as Balance Point
Mean as Balance Point website In this lesson, students focus on how the mean can be described as the balance point for the distribution of a set of data. 397184 Mean as Balance Point Pla...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/mean-as-balance-point
Comparing Distributions
...t populations with respect to the same attribute. 409870 Comparing Distributions Planning and Resources Objectives Students use statistical calculations of center and spread to compare different distributions. They identify the advantages and disadvantages of using different graphical repr...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/comparing-distributions
Box Plots
...They recognize that the sizes of the four intervals determined by the box plot reflect the spread of the data values and that each interval contains approximately 14 of the data. Vocabulary median upper quartile lower quartile minimum maximum interquartile range (IQR) box plot In th...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/box-plots
Sample Proportions
...eason for your answer. Response: The large one because a small sample can have a lot of variability and it did not say it was random. When something happens “On average” there will be some variability but the variability will be close to the 75%. Understanding A statistic computed from ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/sample-proportions
Sample Means
...e likely that a sample mean will be farther from the population mean. Answer: False b) The larger the sample size the more likely a sample mean will approximate the population mean. Answer: True c) All simulated distributions of sample means, no matter what sample size, will be mound shaped and...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/sample-means
Tables and Measures of Center and Spread
Tables and Measures of Center and Spread website In this lesson students will focus on how to find measures of center and spread when data are organized in a frequency table. 409956 Tabl...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/tables-and-measures-of-center-and-spread