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Title

Case Study#31-Exploring quadratic curves with TI-NspireTM NavigatorTM 

Alternate Title

Case Study#31-Quadratic curves 

Year

2009

Publisher

Texas Instruments 

Author

Clark-Wilson- Teacher: Jay Timotheus  

Language

English

Institution

University of Chichester 

Department

Math Education 

City

Blue Coat Church of England School, Walsall, England 

Abstract

Blue Coat School is a state secondary school for students aged 11-18 years in Walsall, UK.  This class have used the TI-NspireTM handhelds previously and this was the first time I had also used TI-NspireTM NavigatorTM with them. In this lesson I used Screen Capture.
The TI-NspireTM NavigatorTM Screen Capture view enabled students to communicate their findings and consider alternative solutions - some students’ curve families were larger/different to other students’ curve families. TI-NspireTM NavigatorTM gave me continual updates on the progress the class was making so that I could target interventions better. Also students could ‘see’ that other students were progressing in ways that were different to them.  Some students had clearly got screens that matched my hand-drawn diagram of a family of curves better than other students.  This made them aware that the possibility existed of solving the task (as others in the room had clearly done so)

Reference

Case study

Keywords

Case Study, UK, TI-Nspire, TI-Navigator, TI-Nspire Navigator, Secondary School, Screen Capture, quadratic curves 

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Case Study 31-Quadratic curves.pdf    
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Last modified at 1/19/2010 3:43 PM  by SP017\rfoshay