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Mackenzie Lawler "Sound of Music": uses tuning forks with music to collect data for students to graph sin and cos functions [] "Activity Center Golf Course": there are 9 tables each with a picture that has a hole and a white golf ball. The students must determine what equation will get the ball into the hole. []

Thomas Barone What is calculus? [] The Pythagorean Theorem []

Nate Cherpak [] []

Katie Patterson Solving Calculator Riddles [] Finding the Smallest and Largest Path thru the Maze by using your calculator []

Darcy Clark Guess My Coefficients This is a game to play with the calculator that allows students to examine the graph of a linear equation to determine the slope and y-intercept of the line. []

STOP Students use an interactive page to calculate the speed of the car, given a stopping distance, and then approximate stopping distance, given the rate of the car. []

Matt Byerly Breaking Up Over Model Bridges [] Hurricane Hunters:Tracking Katrina and Rita []

Rene Manges "Money for Nothing" - Classic logic and reasoning skills http://education.ti.com/calculators/downloads/US/Activities/Detail?id=8116&ref=%2fcalculators%2fdownloads%2fUS%2fActivities%2fSearch%2fSubject%3fs%3d5022%26sa%3d1010%26d%3d2

"Scavenger Hunt" - Actually written by a student so really easy to follow http://education.ti.com/calculators/downloads/US/Activities/Detail?id=8689&ref=%2fcalculators%2fdownloads%2fUS%2fActivities%2fSearch%2fSubject%3fs%3d5022%26sa%3d1010%26d%3d2

Kafatson Ng- Quadratic Formula - Written out step by step [] Box Method - very simple graphing []

Gretchen Gailey "Fishing for Points"- Transformations using Lists [] "A Move in the Right Direction"- Exploring making graphs []

Kaitlyn Kutchko Boats in Motion - Write/solve equations algebraically & graphically to find the speed of the boats []

Meausre Up - Students record eachother's heights and create a box and whisker plot to show recordings []