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Abstracts for Session 11
Saturday, 2:00pm

11A. Richard Gill, Blue Valley High School, Stilwell, KS TI-Graph Link - What, How, When, Where, and Why to Use It
This presentation will be divided into three parts:
  1. An introduction to what the program can and cannot do
  2. A description of the process to obtain the program and the necessary hardware
  3. (The main part) A list of uses for the classroom teacher with examples provided from the speaker's own lesson plans, worksheets, programs, etc. The three main uses for the program are:
  4. To access programs on the Internet from websites such as TI, especially for use with the CBL.
  5. To write programs for the computer in a much more friendly setting than on the calculator itself.
  6. To generate pictures to use with worksheets, tests, instructions, presentations and also to save student work/data/pictures on the computer.
Individuals using another make of calculator will be able to get ideas for better use of their particular calculator from this presentation. At the end of this session, there will be a drawing for the attendees at this session, for a TI-Graph Link, provided by Texas Instruments.
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11B. Libby Holmgren & Carl Anderson, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS EXPO Showcase: An Introduction to the TI-89
This is another in a series of sessions that are presented by members of the Math EXPO Steering Committee to showcase new technology. The purpose of this particular session is to highlight some of the unique characteristics of the TI-89 calculator. This is not a keystroke oriented tutorial, though keystroke handouts will be provided for the examples that are covered in the session and TI-89 calculators will be provided. This session is intended to inform instructors what the TI-89 can do so that they will have more knowledge on which to base a decision to allow/disallow or encourage/discourage its use by students. In addition, instructors may discover whether or not they themselves wish to pursue the use of the TI-89. At the end of this session, there will be a drawing for the attendees at this session, for a TI-89, provided by Texas Instruments.
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11C. Ken Eichman, Blue River Community College, Blue Springs, MO Projects for Elementary Statistics Using the TI-83
The speaker will share some student projects exploring the Central Limit Theorem, confidence intervals, correlation, regression, relationships between measures of central tendency and distribution shapes, standard deviation, etc. For some of these projects, students use programs he has written for the TI-83, and for others, students use features inherent in the TI-83. Participants with TI-83s will be able to download the programs he has written. The speaker will share what worked and what didn't work. Following the presentation, participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and/or to share and discuss their own suggestions and experiences. At the end of this session, there will be a drawing for the attendees at this session, for a TI-83, provided by Texas Instruments.
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