GEAR UP Grant Partnerships
...rships Support TI Provides Creating a foundation for success Texas Instruments successfully works with current and potential GEAR UP grant recipients across the country to provide the foundation for GEAR UP success through a combination of math, science and STEM technology, professional developme...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/funding_gearup
Visualizing Equations Using Mobiles
Visualizing Equations Using Mobiles website In this lesson students explore interactive mobiles for modeling one or more equations. Students are given specific constraints and use solutio...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/visualizing-equations-using-mobiles
Probability Diagrams and Tables
... outcomes in order to determine the probability of a compound event. Sample Assessment A nickel, a dime, and a quarter are flipped at the same time. Each coin can land either heads up (H) or tails up (T). List all the different possible outcomes for this event in the chart below. The list has bee...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-diagrams-and-tables
Probability and Simulation
...r a real situation that is complex and where the theoretical probabilities are not obvious. What to look for Students should observe that chance will account for some variability, but overall the estimates of the probability of success from simulated distributions should be fairly close, provided...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-and-simulation
Outliers
...9872 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 interquartile ra...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/outliers
Modeling Linear Relationships
...ttern. Students assess the fit of their model using the sum of the absolute values of the errors between observed and predicted values. What is the teacher doing? Make sure students understand the "error" as the difference between the observed value for a given input and the value predicted by th...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/modeling-linear-relationships
Introduction to Histograms
... Students explore how changing the bin width can change the story in the distribution of the data. What to look for Note that histograms are ordered according to a number line and are used with quantitative data while bar graphs have no inherent order and are used to indicate some feature of qua...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-histograms
Intro to Data
Intro to Data website The lesson helps students develop a sense of the distribution of data, the number of times each possible outcome occurs. 397179 Intro to Data Planning and Resources...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-data
Comparing Populations using Sample Statistics
Comparing Populations using Sample Statistics website In this lesson, students compare two populations based on samples of the same size from each population. 416971 Comparing Population...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/comparing-populations-using-sample-statistics
Choosing Random Samples
... strategies for selecting a random sample and recognize differences between a sample and a population. Vocabulary sample random sample population characteristic statistic In this lesson, students will explore different methods of generating random samples from a population of interes...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/choosing-random-samples
Median and Interquartile Range
...g? 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 doing? Counting to the middle of an ordered set of data will give the number such that that half of the values are greater than that number a...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/median-and-interquartile-range
Mean as Fair Share
...e the standard definition of mean by totaling the number of bags of dog food and sharing the amount equally between the number of dogs. What is the teacher doing? Give students time to repeat the activity and reflect on their observations before discussing as a group. The Big Idea Column...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/mean-as-fair-share
Mean as Balance Point
...sum of the absolute deviations for values above the mean. What to look for Have the students think about the number of steps that the teams in last place are from 6. Depending on your focus, you can introduce the concept of absolute value or you can just refer to distance as always being positive...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/mean-as-balance-point
Law of Large Numbers
Law of Large Numbers website In this lesson, students investigate how the relative frequency of an outcome approaches the actual probability of that outcome, as the number of repetitions ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/law-of-large-numbers
Comparing Distributions
...r women? Answer: 35 points Understanding Graphs and summary statistics can be used to make comparisons among distributions of the same characteristic for different populations. What are the students doing? Students evaluate advantages and disadvantages of using dot plots, box plots, hi...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/comparing-distributions
Box Plots
...orresponding box plot. 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 ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/box-plots
Sample Proportions
...e variability will be close to the 75%. Understanding A statistic computed from a random sample can be used as an estimate of that same characteristic of the population from which the sample was selected. What are the students doing? Students investigate the relationship between sample ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/sample-proportions
Sample Means
...or In order to have a predictable shape and spread for a simulated sampling distribution, the sample size must be large. Sample Assessment Identify each statement as true or false. a) The larger the sample size the more likely that a sample mean will be farther from the population mean. Answer:...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/sample-means
Publisher Connection | Texas Instruments
...he classroom and/or after school clubs. Publisher connections Sollicitudin Purus Condimentum Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Justo Risus Sem Fusce Fermentum Vulputate Adipiscing...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections
Scatter Plots
Scatter Plots website In this lesson, students will investigate scatter plots of paired variables. Students practice interpreting points in context and look for overall trends among the d...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/scatter-plots
Two Way Tables and Categorical Data
...al Data Planning and Resources Objectives Students recognize whether there is an association between categorical data using two-way tables and stacked bar graphs. They also determine conditional probabilities given information in a two-way table. Vocabulary two-way table categorical data rel...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/two-way-tables
Transforming Data
Transforming Data website In this lesson, students investigate what happens to the summary measures for the distribution of a set of data when a constant is added to each data element or ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/transforming-data
Tables and Measures of Center and Spread
...ing? Students investigate data summarized in frequency tables to determine the mean, median, interquartile range, and MAD for the data. What is the teacher doing? Be sure students use precise language when explaining what the summary measures each describe for a set of data. The Big Idea ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/tables-and-measures-of-center-and-spread
Expressions & Equations
Expressions & Equations website This lesson allows students to investigate exponents and learn how to use exponents as a compact way to write expressions involving whole number multipli...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions
Linear Inequalities in One Variable
...at can be applied to inequalities and how these moves relate to the solution set for an inequality. What to look for Students will encounter the fact that multiplying both sides of an inequality by a negative number does not preserve order. Sample Assessment What are all the possible whol...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/linear-inequalities-in-one-variable