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    © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 1  Fir stSteps with  T ec hnolog yf orteac hingand lear ningma thema tics  Se v enIntr oductor yT utorialsforthe Handheld  ?[...]

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      ™  Pag e 2 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology  This document includes seven in troductory tut orials to tak e ne w users thr ough many k e y fea tures of TI-Nspire™ maths and science learni[...]

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         .................................................................................................. P ag e 5   ................................................................................................................[...]

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      ........................................................................................................................ P age 35  • The Plane Geometry and Graphing vie ws • Lines, segments and r ay s • Construcon of par allel lines • Dra wing and labelling points on objects • Con[...]

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         Start by spending a f ew seconds looking a t the lay out of the k eypad.   ™  © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 5[...]

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      ™     Pag e 6 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology     This rs t tu[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 7   The TI-Nspire™ CX handheld comes with a r echargeable ba ery , whi[...]

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      ™     Pag e 8 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology  When you swit ched on a calculator y ou expect ed to see [...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 9 What is quite di er ent from the c omputer is that within one document y ou can ha ve mulple pages o[...]

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      ™     Pag e 10 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology   Because there ar e some occasions when you r eally just want t o carry ou[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 11 e is oen used to mov e to and highlight di erent parts of the scr een Name of Document T otal numbe[...]

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      ™     Pag e 12 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology If the ‘Geng St arted 3_0’ documen t is present on y our handheld, work through it now as f ar as [...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 13   Return t o the Home screen, and select ?[...]

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      ™     Pag e 14 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Then open a document in the bro wser and press b ag ain. It is important t o realise that b will alw ay s[...]

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      ™      © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 15 NB mulplicaon and division. What do you e xpect the result of this calculaon [...]

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      ™      Pag e 16 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Noce how entering an oper aon a t the beginning of an expr ession (the power ope[...]

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      ™      © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 17 A menu of maths templates Derivav e of x 2 +2x -3 at x=5 Integr al of x 2 +2x -3 be[...]

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      ™      Pag e 18 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Document sengs dialog bo x With dialog box es it is importan t to remember that you[...]

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      ™      © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 19 3 ways to dene variables What you type is not necessarily wha t you ge t: above πr[...]

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      ™      Pag e 20 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Noce that the e xpression d1+d2 produces a lis t of 100 sums of the corresponding v[...]

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      ™      © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 21 List of dened variables   [...]

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      ™     Pag e 22 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology V arious t ext f ormang Recording results Instrucons    ?[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 23 The Format sub-menu W ays to split the screen Y ou must press / e and then b ?[...]

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      ™     Pag e 24 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology An inserted commen t Use of proof template and s ymbols Use of Q+A template The MathsBo x aributes [...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 25 There ar e a number of dier ent queson types which can be used [...]

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      ™     Pag e 26 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology W e then ent er the queson in the top bo x and answer s in the elds below . T o add mathemaca[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 27      The Graphs and Geome try applicaons are pr obably the most visually e xci[...]

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      ™     Pag e 28 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology The open-hand cursor Grabbed ck mark on the axes If you do end up moving the wr ong item, remember tha t /Z or /d can be used to undo t[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 29 The Zoom sengs The grabbed-sheet icon Changing f2 in the funcon history T o hide a funcon’ s graph click on the Hide/Show bu[...]

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      ™     Pag e 30 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Noce the T race icon in the top le  corner of the work ar ea. This is typical of many of the opons fr om the menus. T race picks [...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 31 Coordinates and labelled points It ’ s easy to change the number of decimal places display ed: move the cur sor over a display ed value [...]

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      ™     Pag e 32 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology T ransformed graph and equaon Alternave icons   Y ou saw earlier t[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 33 Next add a second funcon f4(x)=f3(x -d) by pr essing eF3(X-D)· , this funcon is a trans forma on of the original funcon by ?[...]

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      ™     Pag e 34 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology     ?[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 35 Drawing the base of the triangle Noce that as usual the rele vant ic on appears in the t op le corn[...]

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      ™     Pag e 36 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology The next st ep is to dr aw a line par allel to BC. This is a construcon so y ou need to press bA . Choose opon  ?[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 37 Measurement menu Storing the measurement as a variable Noce the rang e of other possible measurements a vailable from this menu. [...]

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      ™     Pag e 38 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Ready t o grab A and slide it Changing the aributes of the triangle Now move t o the top of the screen and en ter some te xt, perhaps g[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 39 Area is now lock ed This brings up the   which gives the opons av ailable for the opon [...]

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      ™     Pag e 40 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology     ?[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 41 Dierences from a spreadsheet? Dening the list in column C Lists can also be de ned in the Calcul[...]

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      ™     Pag e 42 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology One way to ent er a formula Conict resoluon T ypical Spreadsheet Acons ?[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 43 A hand-made funcon table Capturing data by hand Instead of typing ‘ ar ea’ you can also pr ess h ,[...]

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      ™     Pag e 44 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology A simple funcon table Graph and table side by side The Funcon T able view is an alternav e for a[...]

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      ™     © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 45  Oen due to the quan ty of data it is mor e useful [...]

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      ™       Pag e 46 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Data ent ered in T utorial 6 Choosing a variable Three plots for numer[...]

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      ™       © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 47 Upper quarle displayed Comparing shoe sizes A Pie Chart displaying [...]

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      ™       Pag e 48 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Ready t o add a 2 nd variable Powerful opons in the Analyse menu T [...]

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      ™       © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 49 The calculated regression line The Stascs Calculaons menu [...]

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      ™       Pag e 50 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology It is also possible to arr ange side-by -side comparisons of correspon[...]

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      ™       © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 51 Press b411 to s tart the  ?[...]

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      ™       Pag e 52 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology   ?[...]

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      ™    © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 53     The pr[...]

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      ™    Pag e 54 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology    • Open a[...]

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      ™    © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology Pag e 55   • Return [...]

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      ™    Pag e 56 © 2012 T ex as Instruments E ducaon T echnology    ?[...]