Saturday Jan. 30th

Today I have been working on Module 1 for the TI project. After a while of trying to look up basic activities online, I stumbled upon a great mathematics website that a man named Tom Reardon created. Here he has multiple things including great N-Spire activities for multiple classes and grade levels. There were great tools for classes and just fun things that I can incorporate into my future classroom. Also Module 1 is very difficult to complete because there aren't a lot of intro things to this calculator. The greatest contribution to Module 1 would be the examples in the calculator itself. However, these are self explanatory and seem to be difficult to create an activity based on these. The activity itself seems like it would be these examples in the calculator. One downfall is that we noticed differences in these intro lessons from the TI-Nspire and the TI-Nspire CAS. These differences, though, are very minute in the fact that the functions and numbers are different. There is a difference also in the TI-CAS that you had given Christian and the one Chris Braden has. These differences are much more noticeable and worse. Christian's calculator went off in a completely different direction, while Chris's did the same things as mine and Trent's. I think we will state this in activities and say that they are based on a certain calculator. In this case, I believe we are using the simple TI-Nspire that comes with the 84-plus face plate. We all agree that this module is very confusing, in that we are not entirely sure what exactly it should entail.