Optimizing Resources Using Census Data
In this activity, students investigate how to optimize resources to maximize support for people in danger from flooding.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/optimizing-resources-using-census-data
Modeling: Optimal Locations for a Food Truck
In this activity, students will investigate where to locate a food truck in Washington DC to maximize the number of potential customers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/food-truck
Modeling Judging a Poster Contest
In this TI-Nspire family activity, students use the ratings made by five judges in a poster competition with the goal of deciding the top three posters based on the ratings made by the judges.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-judging-a-poster-contest
Big Data Sets- Well Being OECD
Students can explore the data in this activity from the OECD well-being survey updated July 2022.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-data@-well-being
Big Data Sets - Climate Change
Students can explore different sets of data associated with climate change with respect to variables such as temperature, precipitation, and natural disasters by state and by regions in the US.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-data-@-climate-change
Modeling Mantid Striking Distance
In this TI-Nspire activity, students investigate the relationship between how hungry a praying mantis (also called a “mantid”) is and the distance at which the praying mantis will strike (jump) at prey.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-mantid-striking-distance_nspire
Modeling The Game of Hog
This activity engages students in a dice game with the goal of finding the optimum strategy for winning, in this case, maximizing the possible number of points when tossing dice as long as no sixes show up in a toss.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-game-of-hog
Local Linearity
Students explore zooming in on various functions including piecewise functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/local-linearity
Martinsville Chase
In this activity, students will analyze attaching a wing to a Sprint Cup car.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/martinsville-chase
Shuffleboard Slide with Proportions
In this coding activity, students will create a shuffleboard game using Python and mathematics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/shuffleboard-slide
Unit Circle Cruncher
In this coding activity, students will create two Unit Circle Guessing games. The first version will request cosine and sine values in degree mode. The second version will request cosine and sine values in radian mode.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/unit-circle-cruncher
Putt Putt with Python
In this coding activity, students will create a golf game. The golf game gives the user two random points, one for the golf ball and one for the golf hole. The user will enter a value for the slope.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/putt-putt-with-python
Paying off a Loan
In this coding activity, students will write a program that asks for the principle, annual interest rate and monthly payment. The output will display the approximate number of months it will take to pay off as well as the total amount paid.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/paying-off-a-loan
Factor Darts
In this coding activity, students will create a dart game that generates four random quadratic expressions. For each question the player answers correctly, the player will get another shot at the dart board.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/factor-darts
Parabolic Hoops
In this coding activity, students will create a virtual basketball court. Using the location of the hoop and the vertex, the shooter will calculate the amplitude needed to “Swish” nothing but net!https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parabolic-hoops
Rational Quadratics Zeros
In this coding activity, students will extend the code from Integer Quadratic Zeros to create a game that allows exploration of other factored equation forms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rational-quadratics-zeros
Frisbee Golf Equations
In this coding activity, students will create a frisbee golf game, using Python and mathematics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/frisbee-golf-equations
Fraction Tic Tac Toe
In this coding activity, students will create a fraction based, tic tac toe game using Python and mathematics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/fraction-tic-tac-toe
Integer Darts
In this coding activity, students will create an integer dart game using Python and mathematics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/integer-darts
Lights on the International Space Station
In this lesson, students will discover how various factors affect lighting by using different types of flashlights and battery strenghts.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lights-on-the-international-space-station
Cybersecurity 3 - Hail, Caesar!
Building on the concepts learned in Activity 2, this activity introduces students to Caesar ciphers. Students will experiment with encoding messages by using a Caesar shift, which is used to switch up the order of letters in the alphabet to transform plaintext into a ciphertext.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-3
Cybersecurity 6- Brute Force
Building on the concepts learned in Activity 5, the student hacker will now attempt a brute force attack to decrypt the hashed password. The students will observe the key differences between this and the rainbow table method.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-6
Cybersecurity 7- Pick the Lock
This bonus activity challenges students to put all the concepts they’ve learned together in order to successfully pick a micro:bit lock. Will your students be able to discover what’s locked away inside the old treasure chest?https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-7
SAT Math Made Easy - Trial
In SAT Math Made Easy - Trial Edition, students will use TI-Nspire™ technology to explore common SAT math problems utilizing step-by-step processes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sat-math-made-easy-@-trial
Ratios Within and Between Scaled Shapes
This activity allows students to reason about ratio tables, which helps their understanding of what a ratio describes in a context and what quantities in equivalent ratios have in common.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-within-and-between-scaled-shapes