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Proportional Flag

Students will use the concepts of similarity to create a scale drawing of the national flag, that is large enough to cover most of a football field.
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Fractions and Skittles

Students will predict how many of each color will be in one pack of skittles before they open the package. Once they open the package, they will determine how close their predictioins are to the actual amount. Students then will come up with ratios and averages.
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Set Design

Students will use similarity concepts, and the dimensions of the carvings on Mt. Rushmore to create a proportional representation of the carvings for a stage backdrop.
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Quilt Blocks

Students will see how fractions, decimals, and percents are interrelated, then explore and learn how to convert between them. Students will also practice estimating.
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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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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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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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Making Cookies

Students will reduce a cafeteria recipe to suit a household recipe. They use compatible numbers to choose smaller measurements while retaining the original proportions.
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Meal Manager

Students will use percentages and proportional reasoning skills to solve problems.
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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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Creating piece wise functions using CBR system

In this lesson, students will use the CBR ranger to model walking distance over time. They will walk away from the sensor, back towards the sensor and finally away from the sensor over an interval of 10 seconds. The result should be 3 lines. They will then use algebra skills to get the three eq...
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Volumes of Rectangular Prisms

This lesson will introduce students to many of the algebraic graphing features of the TI-89 calculator, especially the Maximum command. This will be accomplished by solving volumes of right rectangular prisms. (Algebra / geometry activity)
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Fast nines and Fast tens

Students learn how to solve a mathematical equation with a missing addend. Students will learn the combinations of addends to find the sums of nine and ten. Students practice math facts with accuracy and immediacy for sums of nine and ten.
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What's So Special About 11?

Students will compute multiples of numbers in search of patterns. As a class, they'll discover patterns in multiples of 9; then they'll do the same with patterns in multiples of 11. They will then practice writing the rule for 11, both verbally and algebraically, to summarize the discovered patte...
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What's the Fastest Way to Get Rich?

Students investigate exponential growth and discover patterns by exploring different scenarios involving money. They will learn how repeatedly doubling, or multiplying by two, can also be expressed exponentially.
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The Best Cell Phone Plan

Students will compare two cell phone plans and determine which plan is better for a specific situation. They will utilize both tables and graphs to make their decisions. For this activity, students need prior experience writing linear models.
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Prehistoric Parabola Match

This activity center is used as a formative assessment after a full unit on the different transformations of vertical parabolas.
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Let's Count the Ways

Students will be introduced to the different ways to calculate numbers of outcomes, including using the counting principle. They will also evaluate expressions using permutations of data without repeat elements, both manually and on the TI-34 MultiView™ calculator.
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The Ordinary Man

Students will estimate the heights of various celebrities in feet and inches. They will use the TI-34 MultiView™ scientific calculator to convert actual heights in inches to feet and inches, and they will compare the actual heights with their estimated heights. Finally, they will graph the estima...
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Absolute Values

Students will review the set of integers along with the addition and subtraction of integers using a number line. Then, they will learn that the absolute value of a number is defined as the distance from zero. Students will learn how to interpret the absolute value symbol algebraically, as well a...
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Solution 13401: Creating a DeviceInfo File Using TI Connect™ for Windows®.

Solution 13401: Creating a DeviceInfo File Using TI Connect™ for Windows®. Solution 13401: Creating a DeviceInfo File Using TI Connect™ for Windows®. global Solution 13401: Creating a DeviceInfo File Using TI Connect™ for Windows®. website ...
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Solution 37037: Computer operating systems that TI Connect CE™ supports.

Solution 37037: Computer operating systems that TI Connect CE™ supports. TI Connect CE Software OS Solution 37037: Computer operating systems that TI Connect CE™ supports. global Solution 37037: Computer operating systems that TI Connect CE™ supports. website ...
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Solution 11147: Correcting the Error Message "Cannot Load Procedure. In Order To Use Windows Only (Black Cable), Please Reinstall TI-GRAPH LINK".

Solution 11147: Correcting the Error Message "Cannot Load Procedure. In Order To Use Windows Only (Black Cable), Please Reinstall TI-GRAPH LINK". Solution 11147: Correcting the Error Message "Cannot Load Procedure. In Order To Use Windows Only (Black Cable), Please Reinstall TI-GRAPH LINK". ...
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