TI-Nspire™ Featured Activities Archive for Middle Grades
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Verbal to Visual
Students will create graphs that model different scenarios.
Recipe: Unit Rate
Students will use a ratio to create and plot points and will determine a mathematical relationship for plotted points. They will also compute the unit rate and predict ordered pairs.
Proportions in Stories
Students will analyze a scatter plot of data, generalize a rule to describe the data, and graph the function that describes the rule to verify that it matches the scatter plot.
Proportionality in Tables, Graphs and Equations
Students will recognize and identify the characteristics of proportional and non-proportional relationships by analyzing a table, equation, and graph.
Solving Percent Problems
Students will analyze the percent equation for problems and make connections between verbal, visual, and numerical representations to establish patterns in solving percent problems.
Bathroom Flooring
Students will use visual representations of fractions to estimate the area of irregular shapes.
Multiplication of Rational Numbers
This lesson involves using an interactive area model to solve multiplication and division problems with positive decimals and mixed numbers.
Multiple Representations
Students will explore information represented in tables, graphs, and symbols to interpret the meaning of slope and intercepts in the context of a real world situation.
Bathroom Flooring
Students will use visual representations of fractions to estimate the area of irregular shapes.
Growing Patterns
Students will build patterns with tiles and observe the data in a table and scatter plot. A formula for the pattern will be discovered.
Points on a Line
Students will grab and drag points on a fixed line to recognize that the ratio of the vertical and horizontal change is always correct.
Definition of Functions
Students will use a table and a plot of ordered pairs to determine the definition of a function.
Repeating Decimals and Fractions
Students will investigage repeating decimals and their equivalent fractions.
Exploring Exponents
Students will know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions.
Comparing Pi's and Roots
This lesson involves manipulating the radius of a circle and the sides of a right triangle in an attempt to set the circumference of the circle equal to the hypotenuse of the right triangle.
