The Mysterious Constant
Students investigate a pattern using the constant function on the calculator, record the ordered pairs in a table, describe the pattern, and predict what will come next.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-mysterious-constant
Taxicab Geometry
In this activity, students begin a study of taxicab geometry by discovering the taxicab distance formula. They then use the definition of radius to draw a taxicab circle and make comparisons between a circle in Euclidean geometry and a circle in taxicab geometry. Lastly, they construct taxicab pe...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taxicab-geometry
Calculations at the Crazy Cookie Company
Performing matrix multiplication for the first time, students are prompted to use reasoning skills to determine if matrix products are possible for given pairs of matrices. The tutorial leads them through matrix product operations to find rules for matrix multiplication and predicting dimensions ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/calculations-at-the-crazy-cookie-company
Taxicab Geometry
Students begin a study of taxicab geometry by discovering the taxicab distance formula. They then use the definition of radius to draw a taxicab circle and make comparisons between a circle in Euclidean geometry and a circle in taxicab geometry. Lastly, they construct taxicab perpendicular bisect...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taxicab-geometry_1
Arithmetic and Geometric means
This activity relates the concepts of the arithmetic and geometric means of two numbers. Students, with the aid of their TI calculators and TI-Navigator system, compute the arithmetic and geometric means for four different pairs of numbers. They send their results to the teacher's computer where ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arithmetic-and-geometric-means
Modeling Probabilities
This activity approaches probability distributions as functions taking information about a dataset as inputs and outputting a set of probabilities. This is analogous to the familiar process of choosing a function to model a set of x-y pairs. Students use simulations to explore increasing number o...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-probabilities_1
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
...TI-Innovator Hub and uses coding, math and science logic to do things like draw, crash or even dance. At Travis Vanguard, students were divided into pairs and given 30 minutes to program Rover to dance. Given the simple programming language on TI graphing calculators, the students were able to g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...ctor trees” (figure 3). Being the enthused math student, I'm sure I took great delight in breaking down a number into its prime factors, then finding pairs of common factors to help simplify a radical. However, I wonder how much of the process of simplifying a radical, the end goal, was lost in t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
... could accomplish if each student in your class created a flash card stack with a different list of vocabulary. After a few days of practice, partner pairs could link calculators and swap vocabulary lists. Let’s take a look at how the code might look: (Note that #1, #2 a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...a TI-Nspire™ file on their handhelds where a parent function can be manipulated using a slider to observe how the function rule, graph and coordinate pairs of a parent function change based on defined parameters. For example, the video below demonstrates a file I use to introduce students to tran...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Using TI-Nspire™ Technology To Creatively Solve ACT® Math Problems
...reat method is to use the Such That command on TI-Nspire™ technology to substitute numbers into the equations. In this problem, there are two ordered pairs that can be substituted into the equations. If the equation is true for both ordered pairs, you may have found the answer. There are s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/actmathproblems
Perimeter Patterns
Students investigate patterns in ordered pairs generated by constructing a sequence of similar shapes. They then use the patterns and the calculator to predict the perimeter of a specific shape in the sequence.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perimeter-patterns
Area Patterns
Students investigate patterns in ordered pairs generated by constructing a sequence of similar shapes. They will then use the patterns and the calculator to predict the number of blocks it will take to build a specific shape in the sequence.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-patterns
Vernier - Boyle's law
...change will be monitored using a Pressure Sensor. It is assumed that temperature will be constant throughout the experiment. Pressure and volume data pairs will be collected during this experiment and then analyzed. From the data and graph, you should be able to determine what kind of mathematica...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--boyles-law
Similar Figures
Observe what happens to ratios of pairs of side of rectangles and triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/similar-figures
Lines with Transversals and Angle Pairs
Students will use the TI-Nspire file and record their answers on the Word worksheet. The TI-Nspire file has been created to allow students to explore and measure the relationships of angle pairs with and without parallel lines.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lines-with-transversals-and-angle-pairs
Angle Relationships
In this activity, students explore the angle relationships that exist when two lines intersect. They begin by exploring vertical angles and linear pairs, and then expand their study to two lines and a transversal. They will see what relationships hold true when the two lines intersected by a tran...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angle-relationships
Exploring Graphs of Inequalities
Test ordered pairs to determine if they are part of the solution set to an inequality.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-graphs-of-inequalities
Dog Days or Dog Years?
Students use ordered pairs, table of values, and a scatter plot to determine a function that represents real world data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dog-days-or-dog-years
Back In Time?
Students will explore the definition of a function through use of a graph, a set of ordered pairs, and an input-output diagram.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/back-in-time_1
Equations from Unit Rates
This lesson involves finding a linear equation and confirming the equation represents a proportional relationship with numeric values in ordered pairs or in functions tables.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/equations-from-unit-rates
Folding Parabolas
In this activity, students graph a quadratic function and investigate its symmetry by choosing pairs of points with the same y-value. They then calculate the average of the x-values of these points and discover that not only do all the points have the same x-value, but the average is equal to the...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/folding-parabolas
Functions and Inverses
Grab and drag a point along graphs of different functions to determine the relationship of ordered pairs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/functions-and-inverses
Radical Functions
Students use a nomograph to investigate functions defined by square roots. Nomographs consist of two or more parallel axes, one for inputs and another for outputs. Input, output pairs that belong to the function are graphed as corresponding points on the axes connected by a ray drawn from the inp...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/radical-functions_1
What is a linear pair?
Use Cabri to investigate relationship of linear pairs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-is-a-linear-pair