Parabolic Hoops
In this coding activity for the TI-84 Plus CE Python, students will create a virtual basketball court. Using the location of the hoop and the vertex, the shooter will calculate the amplitude, a, needed to “Swish” nothing but net!https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parabolic-hoops_84
Fraction Tic Tac Toe
In this TI-84 Plus CE Python 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_84
Putt Putt with Python
In this coding activity for the TI-84 Plus CE Python edition, 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_84
Inference for Two-way Tables
Students use the chi-square test to analyze whether two categorical variables are independent or dependent calculating expected frequencies, the test statistic and the critical values.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inference-for-twoway-tables
Inference for Correlation and Regression
In this activity, students test if a significant relationship exists between a bivariate data set, and then calculate the confidence and predictive intervals. They also improve the interval-prediction capabilities by automating the process.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inference-for-correlation-and-regression
Independence is the Word
Students use a simulation to find the experimental probability of independent events.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/independence-is-the-word_1
Shortest Distance Problem
This is a great follow-up to the Introduction to Properties in Reflections. Students may have trouble producing a scaled drawing. Using a scale of 1 to 5 works well. See the figure below for a possible scaled construction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/shortest-distance-problem
Similar Figures
In this activity, students investigate the properties of similar triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/similar-figures_1
Perimeter and Area of a Square
Students study the perimeter and area of a square, and explore the relationship between them and the length of the side of the square.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perimeter-and-area-of-a-square
Perimeter of a Rectangel with Fixed Area
Students will investigate the relationship between the base of a rectangle with area of 35 or 36 and its perimeter.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perimeter-of-a-rectangel-with-fixed-area
Perimeters, Areas, and Slopes - Oh, My!
Students create geometric figures, and use analytic and coordinate geometry to investigate their attributes. They go through the process of proving that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perimeters-areas-and-slopes--oh-my
It's a Two-Way Street
Students will be introduced to two-way tables by calculating marginal and conditional distributions using formulas in a spreadsheet.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/its-a-twoway-street
Perpendicular Bisector Theorem
This activity uses distance measures to investigate the relationship between a point in the plane and the distance to the endpoints of a segment. Students will investigate the implication these relationships have for the position of the point in the plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perpendicular-bisector-theorem
NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "The Art of Reckoning" - Spies Like Us
In "The Art of Reckoning," Charlie discusses the security of a prison. "It's a hyper-secure system, but prisoners have nothing to do except think about how to crack it. Like two opposing armies." Charlie explains that analyzing such a situation involves determining the 'probabilities of penetrati...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/numb3rs--season-3--the-art-of-reckoning--spies-like-us
Forecasting
Students use regression to forecast values from a data. They study exponential smoothing. They also use the program FORECAST to automate a multiplicative model.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forecasting
Follow the Golden Rule - TI-83
Students find ratios and calculate measures of central tendency for sets of data. They understand the concept of the Golden Ratio. They use box-and-whisker plots to analyze data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/follow-the-golden-rule--ti83
F Distribution
Students study the characteristics of the F distribution and discuss why the distribution is not symmetric (skewed right) and only has positive values.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/f-distribution
Properties of Parallelograms
In this activity, students go through the process of proving a quadrilateral to be a parallelogram. They understand the various characteristics of a parallelogram.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms_5
Properties of Quadrilaterals
This activity focuses on the properties of special quadrilaterals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-quadrilaterals_2
Estimating and Finding Confidence Intervals
In this activity, students estimate statistical measures and find confidence intervals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/estimating-and-finding-confidence-intervals
Properties of Reflections
I use this activity in the beginning of the school year when introducing terminology such as angles, lines, segments, measures, perpendicular etc. The original material is from the SIMMS Integrated Mathematics Using Technology, I have adapted the activities to fit my objectives. Students have be...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-reflections
Properties of the Centers of a Triangle
Students investigate the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a triangle. This activity explores interior angles, and their relationship with the exterior angles of a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-the-centers-of-a-triangle
Does a Correlation Exist?
Students determine, by examining a graph, if a data set has a positive or negative correlation coefficient.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/does-a-correlation-exist_1
Properties of Parallel Lines with Cabri Jr.
Cabri Jr. activity to study the properties of parallel lines.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallel-lines-with-cabri-jr
How Far Am I Off?
Students calculate a confidence interval using the chi-square distribution to estimate a population variance.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-far-am-i-off