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Texas Instruments TINSPIRECX manual Check list of some key points in Tutorial

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First Steps with TI-Nspire™

Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents

Then open a document in the browser and press b again. It is important to realise that b will always provide access to the features of the current environment. For example, within the Notes application, this menu offers only the available options for that application (as shown to the right).

There are a number of tools that are available for managing documents when you choose the use the Document menu by pressing the ~button. Several options are marked by the symbol ¢ and pressing ¢ on the Touchpad opens their submenus.

Within any application, this Document menu retains the same features but any options that are currently unavailable are greyed out.

The next tutorial describes creating a new document and using a first TI-Nspire application.

Check list of some key points in Tutorial 1:

•Understanding, the terms document, problem, page, application, and home screen

•Use of the / key and keyboard shortcuts

•The Home Screen

•Scratchpad

•Memory

•Battery Life

•The Document Browser to navigate around documents and folders

•The Page Sorter to navigate inside documents

•The use of e and d

•Why b produces different menus in different contexts

•The Document menu

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Texas Instruments TINSPIRECX manual Check list of some key points in Tutorial

Contents

First Steps About this document Contents Appendix TI-Nspire CX Keypad Layout Memory TI-Nspire DocumentsNothing on the screen? 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 templatesGetting Set Document settings dialog boxEffect of changed settings Use of function notation Some AlgebraWays to define variables Lists of random integers Calculator MenuStatistical Distribution Tables Variables Linked to Documents List of defined variablesVarious text formatting Instructions Recording results Why use Notes?Making Notes Ways to split the screen You must press /e and then b Splitting the ScreenFormat sub-menu Interactive Notes An inserted comment Use of proof template and symbolsMore Options from the Notes Menu Use of Q+A templateAsking Questions Check list of some key points in Tutorial Graphing Functions GraphingGraphs & Geometry Two Views Graphing ViewOpen-hand cursor Grab and Drag PracticeChanging the Axes Grabbed tick mark on the axesChanging f2 in the function history Zoom settings Grabbed-sheet iconEditing, Deleting or Hiding a Function Trace picks out significant points Tracing GraphsPoints and coordinates Points of intersectionAnalyse Graph Menu Coordinates and labelled pointsAlternative icons Transformed graph and equation Using SlidersManually Moving Graphs Sequence Plotting Check list of some key points in Tutorial Two Parallel Lines GeometryView for Plane Geometry Drawing the base of the triangleMany options in the Construction menu What’s grabbable?Construct the Triangle Measurement menu Making MeasurementsVariables and Text Storing the measurement as a variableReady to grab a and slide it Tidying Up and Using AttributesDynamic Changes 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 ListsOne way to enter a formula Typical Spreadsheet Actions Using FormulaeConflict resolution Hand-made function table Capturing DataFunction Tables Simple function table Options for function tables Graph and table side by sideFrequency Charts Shoe Sizes and Hand Spans Charts with One VariableOne and Two Variable Statistics Comparing Boxplots Charts for Categorical DataPie Chart displaying categorical data Upper quartile displayedReady to add a 2nd variable Charts with Two VariablesFitting a Line by Hand and Eye Calculated regression line Statistics Calculations menu Drawing the Regression LineGetting the Stats Sets of statistics Dragging on the ChartsWorking with Frequency Data Effect of moving a point from here … … to hereTexas Instruments Education Technology Check list of some key points in Tutorial Measured circle Multiple RepresentationsDraw and Measure a Circle Two Scatterplots Setting up a scatter plot Data capture is under waySpreadsheet for Data Capture Collecting Just a Little DataLinear relationship Go to Town with Data CollectionFit a Straight Line Moving a straight line by hand Not a linear relationshipBasic quadratic ready for fitting… … and dragged into place Different Approach to ScatterplotsRegression