Texas Instruments TI-89 Tip List page 448

Scripting Guide for the TI-92 and TI-92 Plus: PreCalculus and Calculus Applications
J. Douglas Childs, Texas Instruments, 1998, ISBN 1-886309-20-5
(TI Explorations series, High School and University Pre-Calculus and Calculus, $16.00)
"The TI-92 provides instructors with a broad array of new teaching options. You can de-emphasize
algebraic manipulation and, at the same time, focus on more powerful methods of solving problems
using mathematics and the TI-92. This guide is designed for instructors, but is also useful for students,
since it contains scripts and activities for students. By reading sections of this guide, students can gain
insights about learning mathematics that they would not obtain from textbooks. This guide can be a
valuable resource for teaching and learning calculus and precalculus with the TI-92 Plus.
"This guide has several purposes:
! To present some ideas about how to use the TI-92 to do calculus and precalculus calculations and
processes.
! To make instructors aware of this new scripting feature in computer algebra graphing calculators.
! To describe a large number of learning activities for students. I recommend that you modify the
scripts and activities to suit the needs of your students and your particular situation.
! To help mathematics instructors develop a pattern for using this somewhat complicated machine in
a minimally obtrusive way.
! To help instructors think about what their students are actually learning and to provide an
environment that may suggest some alternative instructional goals.
! To help students effectively use a TI-92 to learn and to do calculus and precalculus.
"Remember that this guide is designed to provide ideas and an opportunity to make improvements in
your calculus course. Tools like the TI-92 will eventually change the way students learn mathematics -
how and when this actually occurs is up to you. This guide is more of a beginning than an end. Most
scripts and activities need to be modified by individual instructors to achieve their particular goals."
Contents: Getting Started with Scripts. Foundations. Functions. Applications. Limits. Derivatives. Integrals.
Sequences and Series. Differential Equations. MultiVariable Calculus. Appendix.
Skill and Practice Masters in Calculus Using the TI-89
David P. Lawrence, Pencil Point Press, Inc., ISBN 1-58108-040-9
Skill and Practice Masters in Calculus Using the TI-92
David P. Lawrence, Pencil Point Press, Inc., ISBN 1-881641-91-2
Teachware Series, Support in Learning:
Optimization - Graphically, Numerically and Symbolically with the TI-92
ISBN 3-901769-20-X
Ti-92 Lab Manual for Calculus
Ron Larson, John Musser, Houghton Mifflin College
Statistics
Advanced Placement Statistics with the TI-89
Extensions for Advanced Placement Statistics with the TI-89
Larry Morgan, Roseanne Hofmann, Charles Hofmann, Texas Instruments, 2001
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