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Modeling The Game of Hog

This activity engages students in a dice game with the goal of finding the optimum strategy for winning, in this case, maximizing the possible number of points when tossing dice as long as no sixes show up in a toss. 
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Paying off a Loan

In this coding activity, students will write a program that asks for the principle, annual interest rate and monthly payment.  The output will display the approximate number of months it will take to pay off as well as the total amount paid.
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Cybersecurity 7- Pick the Lock

This bonus activity challenges students to put all the concepts they’ve learned together in order to successfully pick a micro:bit lock. Will your students be able to discover what’s locked away inside the old treasure chest?
https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-7

Writing Chemical Formulas

In this lesson, students practice writing chemical formulas for ionic binary compounds.
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Cell-ebrating Life

In this lesson, students will explore and learn about the major components of animal and plant cells.
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FormulaPro

Like the famous "EEPro" and "MEPro" applications bundled with the TI-89 and TI-92, FormulaPro is a complete engineering solution mostly based around equation solving. It comprises a Equation Solving part (700+ equations grouped into 16 subjects/categories) and a Reference part. Made entirely i...
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Plane Mirrors

In this lesson, students will investigate the relationship between an object and its image in a plane mirror. Understanding how plane mirrors work provides a useful scaffold for understanding more complex situations, such as those involving concave and convex mirrors.
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NASA - Space Shuttle Roll Manuever

In this lesson, students will look at the RCS (Reaction Control System) and how firing jets affect the roll of the space shuttle.
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Vector Components

In this lesson, students will first explore the relationship between the magnitude and direction of a vector and the components of the vector. Students will then explore how two vectors are added to produce a resultant vector.
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Recombinant DNA

In this lesson, students complete the steps required to clone a single gene and express it in a model organism.
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You Are What You Eat

Students are introduced to modeling linear data through an investigation of comparing grams of fat and calories in fast food hamburgers.
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Vernier - Graphing Your Motion

In this activity, students use a Vernier Motion Detector to measure distance and velocity. Students prepare graphs of motion and analyze them. They compare and match graphs of distance versus time and velocity versus time.
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Buying a Car Activity with the TVM Solver (Time, Value, Money)

Students learn real-world math skills and financial literacy by calculating car payments with the TVM Solver.
https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/buying-a-car-w-tvm-solver

Graphing Transformations

Combine movement and mystery while graphing transformation and piecewise functions.
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Parallel Lines cut by a Transversal with Cabri Jr.

Using Cabri Jr, the students (with the teachers help) will create parallel lines cut by a transversal, measure angles, and compare the relationships of the angles formed using features of the Cabri Jr.
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Making Limits Exist

In this activity, students will graph piecewise functions and evaluate numerically and graphically the left hand limit and the right hand limit of the function as x approaches a given number, c.
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Old McDonald's Pigpen

In this activity, students explore – numerically, graphically, algebraically, and verbally – the mathematics involved in maximizing the area of a rectangle with a fixed perimeter.
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Limits of Indeterminant Forms

In this activity, students will graph f(x)=sin(x)/x in order to visually determine the limit as x approaches zero. They will confirm the answer numerically by tracing left and right limit points on a graph and looking at values in a table.
https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/limits-of-indeterminant-forms

Sampling

Students learn about each of the four types of random sampling methods and use the randInt command to find each kind of sample from a given population.
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Roll the Dice

Students compute sample spaces for coin flips, find the various probabilities associated, and graph the probabilities using the calculator.
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Give Me Five

In this activity, students will discuss and describe the center and spread of a univariate data set by way of a five number summary and visually by a box & whisker diagram. Students will then apply this knowledge to real life applications to enhance their ability to understand this math in st...
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Best Class

Students will create and explore a box plot and histogram for a data set. They then compare the two data displays by viewing them together and use the comparison to draw conclusions about the data.
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e – The Natural Number Coding Challenge

Celebrate the natural number by having your students write a program to approximate e. Students will apply a convergent series to approximate e. 
https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/e-the-natural-number-coding-challenge

Box Plots and Histograms

Students create and explore a box plot and histogram for a data set. They then compare the two data displays by viewing them together and use the comparison to draw conclusions about the data.
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Quadratic Equations with the CBL 2

Students will generate parabolas using the motion sensor. They will then determine the vertex form of the equation and compare it to the regression equation from the calculator.
https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/quadratic-equations-with-the-cbl-2