Technology Integration
Calculators/Graphing Calculators
Lesson Plans
Practice Makes Perfect
Grade: K-2
Description: Students learn about differences in numbers from ten by using a calculator. This lesson is part of a larger unit.
What’s My Interest?
Grade: 3-5
Description: In this EconEdLink lesson, students learn about interest and how and why banks pay it. They learn about the benefits of saving money. They think about a future career, find out how much it would pay, and figure out how much interest they can earn on that amount. This lesson incorporates a student handout, an interactive interest calculator, and links to a variety of Web resources.
Patterns that Grow
Grade: 3-5
Description: This unit helps students use logical thinking to create and explore patterns.
Line ‘Em Up
Grade: 6-8
Description: Using free programs for TI Graphing calculators, students will learn how to plot points on a coordinate plane.
Show Me the Money: A Lesson on the Unforeseen Cost of Car and House Loans
Grade: 9-12
Description: Students will investigate unforeseen costs of car loans and/or house loans. They will then evaluate the economics of decision making, the ramifications of their choices, and options available to them. Students will compute costs and savings for a car and/or house loan with or without added insurance costs.
Dirt Bike Dilemma
Grade: 9-12
Description: This lesson helps students understand linear programming by walking them through the process using a free program for TI graphing calculators. Students will explain what happens and internalize the skills necessary to solve linear programming problems.
TI Activities
Thousands of lesson plans and activities that use graphing calculators in Mathematics, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx
Links to lesson plans and activities for art, economics, humanities, mathematics, reading and language arts, science, and geography.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
Hundreds of free lesson plans and online applications for k12 mathematics content (part of the Marcopolo site).
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