Agenda
7:30 8:30 Arrive, sign in, breakfast (full, hot breakfast)
8:30
9:45 Welcome and Introductions - Carolyn Bronson
Meeting the Indiana Standards with Graphing
Calculators Part I - John LaMaster
Location: Barcelona C and D
Activity: Some Like It Hot!
10:00 11:30 Breakout Sessions
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Investigations on the Home
Screen and with Graphs and Tables -
Kelly Fifield
Location: Greenhouse (accommodates up to 24 max)
Grade level: any level
Technology: Beginner to Advanced, TI-73 will be primary calculator, TI-84
users welcome
Activities: Investigating Rational Numbers, Graphing on a Calculator,
Tables on a Calculator
Guess My Rule
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Using Lists to Bridge
Arithmetic to Algebra - John LaMaster
Location: Barcelona C (accommodates up to 49 max)
Grade level: any level
Technology: Beginner to Advanced, TI-73, TI-84
Activities: Creating Lists using Formulas, Ruby's Pier
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Activities with the
Calculator-Based-Laboratory (CBL2) and the TI-84
- Dale Nowlin -
Location: Barcelona D (accommodates up to 35 max)
Grade level: 9-12
Technology: Non-Beginner, TI-84
Activities: Oh, Deer! (The m&m lab),
Dead Body, Transformations of Temperature Graphs,
How to transfer any data between two calculators
11:30 12:30 Lunch
12:30 2:00 Breakout Sessions (Bring a laptop to the session if you want to take a screen capture.)
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Transformations -
Kelly Fifield
Location: Greenhouse (accommodates up to 24 max)
Grade level: any level
Technology: Beginner to Advanced, TI-73 will be primary calculator, TI-84
users welcome
Strands: Algebra, Geometry
Activities: Keep Your Eye on the Grand Old Flag, The Blob Ate My
Homework
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Probability Simulations,
Finding Zeros, and Factoring - John
LaMaster
Location: Barcelona C (accommodates up to 49 max)
Grade level: 8-12
Technology: Beginner to Advanced, TI-73, TI-84
Activities: Calculator Coin Toss, Table of Random Digits, Herbert's
Patio, Zeros and Factoring
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Activities Using the
Calculator-Based Ranger (CBR2) - Dale
Nowlin -
Location: Barcelona D (accommodates up to 35 max)
Grade level: any level
Technology: Beginner to Advanced, TI-73, TI-84
Activities: Take a Hike, Great Balls of Fire
2:15
3:15 Meeting the Indiana Standards
with Graphing Calculators Part II -
John LaMaster and Randy Miller
Location: Barcelona C and D
Handouts: Changes in Operating System (OS) Versions,
Useful Internet Links for Graphing Calculator Users,
Preview of the latest handheld technology from TI: The TI-Nspire
CAS
3:15 3:30 Wrap up and evaluations