Calculator Time!

This week we pulled out the calculators in Algebra.  I am both excited and nervous to be using our new TI-Nspire calculators!  These are very different than the older versions of graphing calculators, but they proved to actually be a little friendlier to use.  We practiced inputting points into a spreadsheet, creating new document pages, graphing our data, and experimenting with different functions on the calculator.  The students like that the calculator has a touchpad function and found that they could "grab" points and shift their picture around.  Here are a few pictures from our day's work.

You can see that the students were very focused and while they may have looked a little frustrated, the activity went fairly well and most students felt good about what they accomplished.  Our final product was a picture of a fleur-de-lis.