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TI
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15: A
Guide for Teachers
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
About the Teacher Guide
........................... v
About the TI
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15
........................................... vi
Activities................................................ 1
Patterns in Percent ....................................2
The
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Key
Fraction Forms ........................................... 6
Auto and Manual Mode
Comparing Costs........................................ 11
Division with quotient/remainder,
fraction, or decimal result
Number Shorthand ...................................15
Scientific Notation
Related Procedures..................................20
Constant operations
In the Range............................................... 24
Rounding
The Value of Place Value ..........................29
Place value
What’s the Problem?................................34
Number sentences, Problem solving
How to Use the TI
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15....................... 38
1 Display, Scrolling, Order of
Operations, Parentheses..................39
2 Clearing and Correcting..................... 42
3 Mode Menus.........................................45
4 Basic Operations................................48
5 Constant Operations.........................55
6 Whole Numbers and Decimals..........63
7 Memory .................................................68
8 Fractions ............................................... 71
9 Percent................................................. 80
10 Pi.............................................................84
11 Powers and Square Roots ............... 88
CHAPTER PAGE
How to Use the TI-15
(continued)
12 Problem Solving: Auto Mode............ 94
13 Problem Solving: Manual Mode ......100
14 Place Value..........................................106
Appendix A ................................................A-1
Quick Reference to Keys
Appendix B.................................................B-1
Display Indicators
Appendix C ............................................... C-1
Error Messages
Appendix D ...............................................D-1
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