Real-World Math made Easy contains 31 activities that explore real- world applications of math concepts using TI Graphing Calculators.
Author(s): Chris Brueningsen, Bill Bower, Linda Antinone, Elisa Kerner
Revised from Real-World with the CBL 2 and Labpro by John Gastineau, Will Cortez, Kelly Redding.
Table of Contents 1. Walk the Line: Straight Line Distance Graphs 2. Making Cents of Math: Linear Relationship Between Weight and Quantity 3. Pool Plunge: Linear Relationship Between Water Depth and Pressure 4. Funnel Volumes: Volume and Weight 5. Keep It Bottled Up: Linear Rates of Pressure Increase 6. Graph It To Pieces: Piecewise-defined Functions 7. Mix It Up: Mixing Liquids of Different Temperatures 8. Spring Thing: Newton's Second Law 9. Stretch It to The Limit: The Linear Force Relation for a Rubber Band 10. What Goes Up: Position and Time for a Cart on a Ramp 11. That's the Way the Ball Bounces: Height and Time for a Bouncing Ball 12. Walk This Way: Definition or Rate 13. Velocity Test: Interpreting Velocity Graphs 14. From Here to There: Applications of the Distance Formula 15. Under Pressure: The Inverse Relationship Between Pressure and Volume 16. Light at a Distance: Distance and Light Intensity 17. Chill Out: How Hot Objects Cool 18. Charging Up, Charging Down: Exponential Models 19. Bounce Back: The Exponential Pattern of Rebound Heights 20. Sour Chemistry: The Exponential pH Change 21. Stepping to the Greatest Integer: The Greatest Integer Function 22. Swinging Ellipses: Plotting an Ellipse 23. Crawling Around: Parametric Plots 24. Lights Out: Periodic Phenomena 25. Tic, Toc: Pendulum Motion 26. Stay Tuned: Sound Waveform Models 27. Up and Down: Damped Harmonic Motion 28. How Tall? Describing Data with Statistical Plots 29. And Now, the Weather: Describing Data with Statistics 30. Meet You at the Intersection: Solving a System of Linear Equations 31. Titration Curves: An Application of the Logistic Function