Successful Grant Writing Strategies
...y and a challenge. Many state and local education budgets have been altered in response to accountability and achievement requirements or reduced because of funding shortfalls. In response, government and foundation grant programs are trying to assist schools, districts and community agencies in ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/successful-grant-writing-strategies
Probability Diagrams and Tables
... The probability of a compound event can be found by listing the outcomes for one event followed by the other, creating a probability tree, or by using the product rule for independent events. What to look for Students should understand when it is appropriate to multiply the probabilities of ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-diagrams-and-tables
Probability and Simulation
Probability and Simulation website In this lesson, students use a simulation to collect data and estimate probabilities for a real situation, in which the theoretical probabilities are no...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-and-simulation
Outliers
Outliers website In this lesson, students develop a working definition of outliers and use it to analyze data sets. 409872 Outliers Planning and Resources Objectives Students learn...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/outliers
Modeling Linear Relationships
...terpret the association in context. They model relationships between two quantitative variables with linear equations and assess the fit of the model using the sum of the absolute value of the deviations. Vocabulary association linear regression rate of change residual In this lesson...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/modeling-linear-relationships
Introduction to Histograms
Introduction to Histograms website In this lesson, students are introduced to how histograms are used to represent and analyze data. 409871 Introduction to Histograms Planning and Resou...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-histograms
Intro to Data
...9 Intro to Data Planning and Resources Objectives Students should understand the idea of a distribution of a set of data. They can identify clusters, peaks, and gaps, and recognize common shapes in graphical representations of data (skewed, symmetric, uniform, mound shaped). Vocabulary di...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-data
Choosing Random Samples
...ZIP PDF DOC TNS Lesson Snapshot Numbers used in describing a characteristic of the population (typically measures of center, spread, maximum and minimum) can be estimated by calculating t...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/choosing-random-samples
Median and Interquartile Range
...the median of a set of data. This knowledge of median is the foundation for understanding interquartile ranges. What are the students doing? Students use dot plots to observe and describe the relationship between the IQR and the median of the distribution of a set of data. What is the teacher doi...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/median-and-interquartile-range
Mean as Fair Share
...on a number line. What to look for The mean is often called the average. Students should recognize the mean as a convenient summary statistic that is used extensively in the world around them. Sample Assessment What is the mean of the numbers: 4, 8, 3, 2, 5, 8, 12? a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7 e. 8 Ans...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
Law of Large Numbers
... PDF DOC TNS Lesson Snapshot The frequency is just the count for how many times a color was drawn. The relative frequency is how many times a certain color jellybean occurred divided by the tota...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/law-of-large-numbers
Comparing Distributions
Comparing Distributions website In this lesson, students extend their previous work on describing a single data distribution to comparing several distributions collected from different po...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/comparing-distributions
Box Plots
...e relationship between dot plots and their corresponding box plots explicit: i.e., 1) a summary as represented in a box plot will not show gaps and clusters and 2) very different distributions can have the same box plot. What to look for Help students realize that the number of data values in any...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/box-plots
Sample Proportions
...e successful or to a large hospital where on average 75% of the operations are successful? Give a reason 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 variabili...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/sample-proportions
Sample Means
Sample Means website In this lesson, students use simulation to explore how sample means (and medians) vary from sample to sample when repeated samples are taken from the same population....https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/sample-means
Scatter Plots
...ontext of the variables. They describe trends in a scatter plot and identify possible associations among variables. Students identify and interpret clusters, gaps, and unusual points in a scatter plot. Vocabulary scatter plot association response variable In this lesson, students wil...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/scatter-plots
Two Way Tables and Categorical Data
Two Way Tables and Categorical Data website In this lesson, students will use two-way tables to investigate associations between two categorical variables. 416975 Two Way Tables and Categ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/two-way-tables
Transforming Data
...caling to assist in its analysis. Sample Assessment One of the problems on a mathematics test was incorrectly stated. The teacher decided to add 3 bonus points to everyone's test score. If the mean grade on the test was originally 84 with a mean absolute deviation (MAD) of 10, what would the new ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/transforming-data
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
Linear Inequalities in One Variable
Linear Inequalities in One Variable website In this lesson students focus on inequalities and methods of solving them, building on the concept of solution- and order-preserving moves in t...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/linear-inequalities-in-one-variable
What is a Variable?
What is a Variable? website In this lesson students evaluate expressions, write expressions that correspond to given situations, and use expressions and formulas to solve problems. 398117...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/what-is-a-variable
Visualizing Quadratic Expressions
... \(x^2 + 4x + 16\) \((x + 2)^2 + 4(x + 3)\) \((x + 5)^2 - 4(x + 1)^2\) Answer: c. \((x + 2)^2 + 4(x + 3)\) Understanding Using geometric shapes as tools to visualize the algebraic structure of expressions can help in thinking about equivalent expressions involving qua...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/visualizing-quadratic-expressions
Building Concepts Fraction Practice | Texas Instruments
...is a Fraction? Planning and Resources Objectives Students should understand that a fraction can be represented as a point on a number line. They use a number line to interpret the following: 1. (a/b) is a copies of (1/b) 2. (a*n/n) is a fraction 3. (0/n) is equal to 0 Vocabulary fraction num...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/fractions
Adding Ratios
...at to look for At the end of the lesson, have students change the ratios for the blue and pink segments and explain what each segment represents. Discuss as a class the effects the rates associated with the two ratios have on the steepness of the segments. Sample Assessment The ratio 50:100 is eq...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/adding-ratios