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Tom ReardonFitch High SchoolAustintown, Ohio

www.TomReardon.com

TI-Nspire Summer Institute

August 14 – 16, 2007

Boardman, OH (Youngstown)

Registration Information will be online in April.www.TomReardon.com

"To those to whom much is given, much is expected."

TI-NspireThe proposed next graphing calculator for Europe, Canada, Australia and the U.S.

Integrates: GraphingSpreadsheetsNote-takingCalculatorAll on one screen(split into up to 4 parts)

I have described it as a TI-84 on steroids(but that's just me).

TI-Nspire:Comes in 2 “flavors”:

84 (non CAS) version89 (CAS) version

Some of these slides were done with CAS.

Some sample screen shots...

Graphs (and Geometry)

Lists and Spreadsheets

Notes

Calculator (Computer Algebra System) ***only on the CAS version

And you can split screens, too...

Notes and Spreadsheet (vertical split)

CAS and Notes (horizontal split)

Notes and Geometry(horizontal split)

Graph and Notes(horizontal split)

How about a screen divided into 4?

Notes GraphSpreadsheet CASAnd they all talk to one another!

Piecewise functions, anyone?

Solve systems of equations...

Matrices...

Show how a problem can be created in stages.

Find the rectangle of maximumarea that can be inscribed ina given parabola.

Illustrate Notes, CAS, Geometryand Graphing, and Spreadsheets.

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

I foresee this changing the way we teach, the way we make assignments and assessments.

The Phone Bill Problem

Student Version

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(NOTE: This is a problem that I developed for the 82 back inthe 90’s. An oldie but now redone with Nspire.)

There is also a Teacher Versionto this. With all the notes and solutions.

"Mathematics is the garment that we continuously alter with our students, and technology should be seamlessly interwoven throughout its fabric."

- Tom Reardon