Slope and Tangent
This lesson provides opportunities for students to explore the connections between the slope of a line and the tangent of the angle between the line and the horizontal.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slope-and-tangent
Focus/Directrix Definition of Conics
This lesson involves observing and describing relationships between the focus and the directrix of each conic: parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/focusdirectrix-definition-of-conics
Slider Template
In this activity, students learn to create a slider to use in various applications.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slider-template
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
Sine and Cosine Identities
Students will explore the relationship between the measure of an angle and its sine and cosine. Students will develop two trigonometric identities: sinA / cosA= tanA sin2A + cos2A = 1https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sine-and-cosine-identities
From Expressions to Equations
Substitute values for variables, evaluate expressions, and solve equations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/from-expressions-to-equations
Roots and Cobwebs
This lesson involves finding roots to equations using a method similar to those used by many calculators.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/roots-and-cobwebs
Graphs of Tangent, Cotangent, Secant, and Cosecant
The goal of this activity is for students to see how the graphs of tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant are generated and related to the unit circle. A point is animated around the unit circle as data points are captured to create a scatter plot. Students discover a way to relate each of th...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphs-of-tangent-cotangent-secant-and-cosecant
How Many Solutions to the System?
Understand the difference between systems that have one, infinitely many , or no solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-many-solutions-to-the-system
Transformations of Logarithmic Functions
This lesson involves the family of logarithmic functions of the form f(x) = c*logb(x+a).https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations-of-logarithmic-functions
Graphing the Tangent to a Curve
Students will graph a function and the graph of the tangent line's slope as a point moves around the curve.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-the-tangent-to-a-curve
Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple
Investigate GCD and LCM in applications.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/greatest-common-divisor-and-least-common-multiple
Horizontal and Vertical Lines
Examine the vertical and horizontal changes when moving from one point to another on a line.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/horizontal-and-vertical-lines
Polar Conics
This lesson involves exploration of polar equations for conic sections.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polar-conics
Particle Motion1
This lesson involves the motion of a particle along a straight, horizontal line.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/particle-motion1
Particle Motion 2
This lesson involves the motion of a particle along a straight, horizontal line associated with a general position function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/particle-motion-2
The Unit Circle
Students will be able to describe the relationship between the unit circle and the sine and cosine functions. They will be also able to describe the shape of the sine and cosine curves after "unwrapping" the unit circle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-unit-circle
Outbreak
Students explore a geometric sequence related to an outbreak of the flu, extrapolate to make predictions based on given data, and apply summation notation to determine the sum of any number of terms, n, in a series.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/outbreak
Laws of Sines and Cosines - IB
Students explore the proofs of the Laws of Sine and Cosine, investigate various cases where they are utilized, and apply them to solve problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/laws-of-sines-and-cosines_ns_ib
Graphic Designing with Transformed Functions
Create an image using transformed functions with restricted domains.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphic-designing-with-transformed-functions
Analyzing an Electricity Bill
This investigation guides the students through using a piecewise function to model an electric bill.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/analyzing-an-electricity-bill
Solving Systems using Elimination
Solve systems of three equations using the elimination method.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-using-elimination
Solving Systems of Equations Check
This is just a Nspire file that affords the teacher some flexibility in terms of approach. It consists of ten problems with simple substitution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-of-equations-check
Solving Exponential Equations
Numeric, graphical and algebraic solutions to an exponential equation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-exponential-equations
Solve Systems of Equations Activity Part 2
This activity was created to try to make solving systems more engaging for students by using images from three major movies.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solve-systems-of-equations-activity-part-2