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This scavenger hunt is a great introduction to the TI-84+CE handheld or online version. It's a great intro to the calculator for middle and HS students, and for teacher workshops. Hand them an 84+CE and this four-page handout and they'll be ready to do basic calculations, work with fractions, and graph functions and data in no time. Let them work at their own pace and be there to help if they can't find the correct keys. A color-coded answer key is included.

The ability to display and analyze data is a crucial skill in today's world, and the TI-Nspire CX or CXII makes it easy for your math students to master! This step-by-step instruction sheet (8 pages), shows them several ways to calculate the statistical values that middle grades students need to understand: mean, median, mode, the five-number summary, and mean absolute deviation (MAD). Also included are links to resources for other related activities. Note: this is one section of my "Graphing, S

The ability to display and analyze data is a crucial skill in today's world, and the TI-Nspire CX or CXII makes it easy for your math students to master! This step-by-step instruction sheet (11 pages), shows them how to set up the spreadsheet and then create and modify histograms to accurately display their data. Also included are helpful hints and FAQs about "why doesn't my graph look right?" as well as links to resources for other related activities. Note: this is one section of my "Graphing,

The ability to display and analyze data is a crucial skill in today's world, and the TI-Nspire CX or CXII makes it easy for your math students to master! This step-by-step instruction sheet (11 pages), shows them how to set up the spreadsheet and then create dot plots and box plots to accurately display and analyze their data. Also included are helpful hints and FAQs about "why doesn't my graph look right?" as well as links to resources for other related activities. Note: this is one section of

Creating colorful bar graph and pie/circle graphs is easy on a TI-Nspire! Your students can create and customize graphs, and analyze their data. Understanding data is a crucial skill in today's world, and this step-by-step instruction sheet will help them learn to do it with today's technology. Note: This is one section of my "Graphing, Statistics & Data Analysis in Middle Grades Using TI-Nspire" handbook, also available here on Teachers Pay Teachers.

TI has introduced new, faster models of their NSpire handheld calculators, the NSpire CX II and CX II CAS! This scavenger hunt (which includes a some CAS activities) is a great way to introduce Nspires to middle and high school students, as well as teachers! Hand them an NSpire CX II and this activity and they'll be ready to do basic calculations, work with fractions and graph functions in no time. This new version includes more information about graphing inequalities and vertical lines, as well

This 30-page handbook ties together everything you need to use TI-Spire technology to teach middle school level data graphing and statistics. It will show you, step-by-step, how to create bar graphs, pie graphs, dot plot, box plots and histograms, and several methods for finding mean and quartiles, as well as an easy way to calculate Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) with TI-Nspire. It also answers all those student questions about "why doesn't my graph look right?" Developed though several years of

A great first-day activity with TI-84 Plus CE handheld calculators! It can also be used with older model TI-83's and TI-84's and the new-for-2022 Online TI-84 for Mac, PC and Chromebook! (https://84plusce.ti.com/8eu/). Part 1: Getting to Know the Keypad scavenger hunt. Part 2: Performing Calculations, with 12 examples for student to work out; each example illustrates a different skill or set of calculation keystrokes, including cube roots and mixed numbers. If you've used my Getting to Know yo

This scavenger hunt is a great introduction to the TI-NSpire CX handheld. I've used it with students (7th and 8th graders) and in teacher workshops. Hand them an NSpire CX and this three-page handout and they'll be ready to do basic calculations, work with fractions and graph functions in no time. Let them work at their own pace and be there to help if they can't find the correct keys. It was written for OS 4.0, but you can use it with other OSs. A color-coded answer key is included.