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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Burning Volumes

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
An analysis of how the volume of various jars impacts the burning time of candles. Data collected will be used to explore modeling, line fitting and linear regression Using graphing calculators.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Bloodstain Pattern Doesn't Lie

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will formulate a hypothesis about the relationship (linear, direct, indirect, etc.) between the distance a drop of blood falls and the diameter of the splatter it makes. To test their hypothesis, the students will work...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Exponential Modeling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to exponential equations, their graphs, and their application in the real world. The lesson is framed in the context of the number of cell phone users for a...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if a Sse Modeling London's Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table of population data for the city of London and are asked to explore whether a linear, quadratic, or exponential function would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. They are next...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students graph normal distributions, shade desired areas, and find related probabilities. They graph Normal probability scatter plots to check the normal (linear) shape of a data distribution.