Graphing Calculator Strategies

Integrate TI Graphing Calculator technology into your mathematics instruction with these resource books. Lesson plans are easy to follow and each lesson explains the concepts, demonstrates how to use the calculator, and applies the concept. Differentiate instruction with "Extension Ideas" and strategies that simplify the lessons for students needing extra support. Teacher Resource CD includes a "Using the Calculator" section to help students visualize the concepts-great for English language learners. Practice pages help prepare students for testing situations that include the use of graphing calculators.

Integrate TI Graphing Calculator technology into your mathematics instruction with this award-winning resource book. Perfect for grades 6-8, this resource includes lessons, problem-solving practice, and step-by-step instructions for using graphing calculator technology. 224pp plus Teacher Resource CD with PDF files of the tables, templates, activity sheets, and student guides for TI-83/84 Plus Family and TI-73 Explorer™. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards, is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and supports core concepts of STEM instruction.

Integrate TI Graphing Calculator technology into your algebra instruction with this award-winning resource book. Perfect for grades 6-12, this resource includes lessons, problem-solving practice, and step-by-step instructions for using graphing calculator technology. 238pp plus Teacher Resource CD with PDF files of the tables, templates, activity sheets, and student guides for TI-83/84 Plus Family and TI-73 Explorer™. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards, is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and supports core concepts of STEM instruction.

Integrate TI Graphing Calculator technology into your mathematics instruction with this award-winning resource book. Perfect for grades 6-8, this resource includes lessons, problem-solving practice, and step-by-step instructions for using graphing calculator technology. 224pp plus Teacher Resource CD with PDF files of the tables, templates, activity sheets, and student guides for TI-83/84 Plus Family and TI-73 ExplorerTM.

Chapter 1 provides a review of the literature on the effects of using graphing calculators on students' mathematics achievement. General findings suggest that calculators can have a positive effect on students' performance on assessments. In particular, students using graphing calculators seem to do better on some types of problems, such as those requiring translation between different representations of a function, and perform about the same as students without calculators on procedural symbolic-manipulation problems. In order to identify possible mechanisms for these changes, the chapter explores four possible reasons for students' improved performance: improved representational fluency, wider repertoire of solution strategies, increased reification of mathematical concepts, and changes in classroom processes. While the general trend of improved achievement appears robust, none of the four hypothesized reasons for improvement were substantiated by enough data to be confirmed. While it appears that the basic effects of graphing calculators are relatively well determined, mechanisms for those effects are poorly understood. Chapter 2 presents the result of a study whose goal was to investigate how the presence of graphing calculator technology influences the mathematical ideas that students encounter while solving algebra problems. Thirty-three Algebra II students, divided randomly into two conditions, participated in task-based interviews. In one condition, students were encouraged to solve algebra problems using their graphing calculator, and in the other condition, students solved the same problems with no access to technology. Results indicate that when students used graphing calculators, they were more likely to interpret letters as variables rather than fixed unknowns, used a wider range of strategies, were more likely to use more than one strategy to solve a problem, and expressed deeper levels of conceptual understanding. The differences in conceptual understanding and interpretation of letters were strongly related to the types of strategies that students used to solve problems, with graphing and tables encouraging more sophisticated interpretations and evidence of conceptual understanding.

Get up-to-speed on the functionality of your TI-84 Plus calculator Completely revised to cover the latest updates to the TI-84 Plus calculators, this bestselling guide will help you become the most savvy TI-84 Plus user in the classroom! Exploring the standard device, the updated device with USB plug and upgraded memory (the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition), and the upcoming color screen device, this book provides you with clear, understandable coverage of the TI-84's updated operating system. Details the new apps that are available for download to the calculator via the USB cable Walks you through menus and basic arithmetic Addresses graphing and analyzing functions as well as probability and statistics functions Explains how to use the calculator for geometry Reviews communicating with PCs and other calculators TI-84 Plus Graphic Calculator For Dummies, 2nd Edition is the perfect solution for getting comfortable with the new line of TI-84 calculators!

Based on the popular "Workshop Approach", which has been hailed by the community for its hands on approach, these new versions of the popular Workshop Calculus allow the easy incorporation of a graphing calculator. Like the originals, these volumes cover topics in calculus while simultaneously reviewing precalculus concepts. Activities, experiments, and exercises are found throughout.

Simple Secrets and Savvy Strategies for Acing the SAT! Today's SAT is harder, longer, and more daunting than ever before, but students armed with the proven success strategies in this one-of-a-kind study program will have all the skills and confidence they need to ace it! Renowned test prep expert Lisa Muehle explains every detail of the SAT, including what to expect and how the questions will look, ways to carefully manage time, and techniques to greatly enhance performance. She shows students how to reduce stress and minimize test anxiety, boost concentration and focus, and increase speed and accuracy. This well-illustrated edition covers the Mathematics section of the SAT with chapters on essential topics such as arithmetic and basic math; algebra; coordinate geometry and graphs in a coordinate plane; plane and solid geometry; data charts; miscellaneous math topics; and classic word problems. This indispensable guide includes: A suggested study plan as test day approaches (both an eight-week and a four-week version) A detailed breakdown of the math scoring procedure for multiple-choice and grid-in response problems A straightforward explanation of the SAT guessing penalty Tools and hints for educated guessing and avoiding attractive but wrong answer choices A smart approach to grid-in problems Tips, pointers, and step-by-step key sequences for using a graphing calculator to solve advanced algebra problems Success Strategy sidebars with seasoned advice and practical equations Sample sets for practicing new and classic SAT math problems with thorough explanations of the solutions Together with its companion guide, Strategies for Success on the SAT: Critical Reading and Writing Sections this is the comprehensive program for mastering the SAT and gaining admission into the top universities.