Texas Instruments TINSPIRECX manual First Steps with TI-Nspire Tutorial 1 TI-Nspire documents

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First Steps with TI-Nspire™

Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents

Scroll downwards with the Touchpad and you will see all the problems in the document. If you move the highlight onto Problem 2, say, and press ¡ the pages of that problem will close up. Pressing ·or /¤ takes you back to single page view on the page currently selected.

Each page of a document contains one (or more) of the TI-Nspire applications.

As a reminder, these are the same applications that can be accessed from the Home screen, i.e.:

• Calculator

• Graphs

• Geometry

• Lists & Spreadsheet

• Data & Statistics

• Notes

• Vernier DataQuest™

The use of each of the applications which you might want to use for data logging is covered in the tutorials that follow. Any page can be divided into as many as four work areas, allowing up to four different applications to be used per page. To do this, See ‘Splitting the Screen’ in Tutorial 3, page 23.

Shown here is a page that has been split into two with the Lists & Spreadsheet application on the left, and the Notes application beside it.

If the ‘Getting Started 3_0’ document is present on your handheld, work through it now as far

as page 2.5. This will allow you to revise what has been covered so far in this tutorial

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Contents First Steps About this document Contents Appendix TI-Nspire CX Keypad Layout TI-Nspire Documents Nothing on the screen?Memory Battery Life Charging the handheldHome Screen First Steps with TI-Nspire Tutorial 1 TI-Nspire documents Documents, Problems and Pages ScratchpadNavigating Documents First Steps with TI-Nspire Tutorial 1 TI-Nspire documents Contextual Menus Check list of some key points in Tutorial Calculator Application Basic operationsHistory Lesson Approximate CalculationsTemplates Menu of maths templatesDocument settings dialog box Effect of changed settingsGetting Set Some Algebra Ways to define variablesUse of function notation Calculator Menu Statistical Distribution TablesLists of random integers Variables Linked to Documents List of defined variablesWhy use Notes? Making NotesVarious text formatting Instructions Recording results Splitting the Screen Format sub-menuWays to split the screen You must press /e and then b An inserted comment Use of proof template and symbols More Options from the Notes MenuInteractive Notes Use of Q+A templateAsking Questions Check list of some key points in Tutorial Graphing Graphs & Geometry Two ViewsGraphing Functions Graphing ViewGrab and Drag Practice Changing the AxesOpen-hand cursor Grabbed tick mark on the axesZoom settings Grabbed-sheet icon Editing, Deleting or Hiding a FunctionChanging f2 in the function history Tracing Graphs Points and coordinatesTrace picks out significant points Points of intersectionAnalyse Graph Menu Coordinates and labelled pointsUsing Sliders Manually Moving GraphsAlternative icons Transformed graph and equation Sequence Plotting Check list of some key points in Tutorial Geometry View for Plane GeometryTwo Parallel Lines Drawing the base of the triangleWhat’s grabbable? Construct the TriangleMany options in the Construction menu Making Measurements Variables and TextMeasurement menu Storing the measurement as a variableTidying Up and Using Attributes Dynamic ChangesReady to grab a and slide it Changing the attributes of the triangleArea is now locked Unlocked/Unpinned Points B and C. Try Moving point BCheck list of some key points in Tutorial Lists & Spreadsheet Entering Data as ListsUsing Formulae Conflict resolutionOne way to enter a formula Typical Spreadsheet Actions Capturing Data Function TablesHand-made function table Simple function table Options for function tables Graph and table side by sideFrequency Charts Charts with One Variable One and Two Variable StatisticsShoe Sizes and Hand Spans Charts for Categorical Data Pie Chart displaying categorical dataComparing Boxplots Upper quartile displayedCharts with Two Variables Fitting a Line by Hand and EyeReady to add a 2nd variable Drawing the Regression Line Getting the StatsCalculated regression line Statistics Calculations menu Dragging on the Charts Working with Frequency DataSets of statistics Effect of moving a point from here … … to hereTexas Instruments Education Technology Check list of some key points in Tutorial Multiple Representations Draw and Measure a CircleMeasured circle Setting up a scatter plot Data capture is under way Spreadsheet for Data CaptureTwo Scatterplots Collecting Just a Little DataGo to Town with Data Collection Fit a Straight LineLinear relationship Moving a straight line by hand Not a linear relationshipDifferent Approach to Scatterplots RegressionBasic quadratic ready for fitting… … and dragged into place