TI-84 Plus Family Featured Activities Archive for Middle Grades
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The Same Name Game
Students explore the meaning and purpose of equivalent fractions. They also practice writing fractions that meet a given criteria.
Calculating Sale Prices
Students will find discounts and sale prices by using tables. They will then find the general rules, using a variable, for finding those discounts and prices.
The Rule of Four
Students will look at problems algebraically, graphically, verbally, and numerically to represent situations.
Visualizing Fractions
Students will explore multiplication and division of fractions using several representations to develop fluency.
Where Did the Parentheses Go?
Students use the order of operations and number properties to create a unique expression from a set of numbers that must equal another number.
Using Venn Diagrams to Find the GCD
Students investigate the number relationships using Venn diagrams.
Ordering Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Students compare and order fractions, decimals, and percents using a number line.
Common Denominator
Students use an interactive spreadsheet to create a common denominator for two fractions and discuss why a common demoniator is needed to add and subtract fractions.
Taxes & Tips
Students explore commonly used taxes and tips percentages to develop the pattern for converting a percent to a decimal.
Factoring Composite Numbers
Students will review some of the terms associated with prime factors. A Frayer Model (Square) is provided allowing the teacher to assess students’ knowledge of the concept prime.
Drawing Conclusions
Students learn about the concept of collecting and analyzing data and using conjectures to formulate new questions.
Creating Boxes
Students will graph the relationship between the length of the sides of the cut-out squares and the volume of the resulting box.
The Variables of Renting
Students will identify what a variable is, construct a table of values, graph the ordered pairs from the table, and graph the equation.
Calculating Unit Prices
Students will compare ratios with different denominators, and then with common denominators.
Square Tables
Students will use a table to discover patterns in square numbers and will use the patterns as a model to solve problems.
The Magical Growth of Numbers
Students learn to use tools for performing computations with lists of numbers and to explore the Distributive Property.
