Rotations in the Plane
In this activity, students will explore the properties of rotations and the relationships between the original and image figures.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rotations-in-the-plane
Triangle Inequality Theorem
In this activity, students will explore the concepts underlying the Triangle Inequality Theorem by comparing side lengths and angle measures of a triangle. They will use an interactive construction to see why this theorem is true.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-inequality-theorem_1
Rotations in the Plane - Cabri Jr: Interactive
In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rotations-in-the-plane--cabri-jr-interactive
Transformation
In this activity, students study different types of transformations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformation
Transformational Puppet
This activity is designed to reinforce the concepts of reflections and translations by having the students create a virtual puppet using Cabri Jr. As they construct their puppets, students will reinforce their understanding of reflections and translations by making predictions about the location...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformational-puppet_1
Ratios in Right Triangles
The study of properties of right triangles is a major topic in mathematics. In this activity, you will investigate three common right triangle trigonometric ratios.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-in-right-triangles
Measure Up
Students compare their height with the average height of students in the classroom. They create histograms to analyze the data, and construct boxplots to summarize the height statistics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/measure-up_1
Reflecting a Triangle in the Coordinate Plane
In this activity, students use the drawing and measurement tools of Cabri™ Jr. to blend coordinate geometry with drawing tools. They visualize symmetry and reflect a point across the y-axis. NCTM Geometry Standards: Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry a...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/reflecting-a-triangle-in-the-coordinate-plane
Drawing a Line Tangent to a Circle
Students use the drawing and measurement tools of Cabri™ Jr. to draw a line tangent to a circle. NCTM Geometry Standard covered: Analyze characteristics and properties of 2- and 3-dimensional geometric shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/drawing-a-line-tangent-to-a-circle
Reflections in the Plane
Students' will learn how to perform a reflection using the Cabri™ Jr. application, and will explore the properties of reflections. This activity will extend the concepts of reflection to the coordinate plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/reflections-in-the-plane
Dynamic Geometry: Basic Constructions
Students use the Cabri™ Jr. application to draw triangles and construct perpendicular bisectors on the sides of a triangles. They study the properties of a triangle and understand how the measures of angles of a triangle is always 180 degrees.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dynamic-geometry-basic-constructions
Sin, Cos, and Tan of Right Triangles
In this activity, students explore a right angled triangle and its trigonometric concepts. They investigate the trigonometric ratios for the angles of the triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sin-cos-and-tan-of-right-triangles
Dynamic Geometry: Program Basics
Students use the Cabri™ Jr. application to draw triangles and explore properties of perpendicular bisectors of the three sides of different types of the triangles. They study the measures of angles of a triangle and understand that the sum of the measures of angles of a triangle is always 180 deg...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dynamic-geometry-program-basics
Simple Constructions
In this skill activity, students will use the Constructions Tools Menu in Cabri™ Jr. to contruct a parallelogram. They will also construct an altitude, an angle bisector and a median of a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/simple-constructions
NUMB3RS - Season 2 - "Better or Worse" - Creating Random Numbers
Random numbers are used every day in many different ways. Banks use random numbers to make codes to send information over the internet; lotteries use random numbers to choose winners; computer games use random numbers to determine what will happen next. Depending on their use, it may be important...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/numb3rs--season-2--better-or-worse--creating-random-numbers
Special Parallelograms
In this activity, students will study special types of parallelograms like rhombus and rectangle, and investigate properties related to their diagonals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/special-parallelograms_1
Similar Triangles and Proportions
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship among the similar triangles formed when a segment is constructed parallel to one side of a triangle. They will explore the various ratios that exist between the lengths of the sides of similar triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/similar-triangles-and-proportions
NUMB3RS - Season 2 - "Double Down" - A Bit of Basic Blackjack
In "Double Down," three students are tied up in a money-laundering scheme involving money won in the card game blackjack. In this activity, we discuss a simplified version of blackjack and analyze the probability of winning in various situations. Because cards are drawn from the deck and not re...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/numb3rs--season-2--double-down--a-bit-of-basic-blackjack
NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Killer Chat" - Stylometry
In "Killer Chat," the FBI has obtained a collection of online chat dialogues from a suspected killer. Charlie proposes he use Statistical Linguistic Analysis to identify the author. The style and language can essentially fingerprint the writing. Stylometry, the practice of applying statistical an...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/numb3rs--season-3--killer-chat--stylometry
Segments Formed by Intersecting Chords, Secants, and Tangents
This activity is designed to help students discover several important theorems concerning lengths of segments formed by intersecting chords, secants, and tangents.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/segments-formed-by-intersecting-chords-secants-and-tangents
Too Many Choices!
Students investigate the fundamental counting principle, permutations, and combinations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/too-many-choices
To Replace or Not to Replace? That Is The Question
In this activity, students explore situations that involve compound events with and without replacement. They use different ways to conceptualize theoretical probability.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/to-replace-or-not-to-replace-that-is-the-question
The Spread of Disease
In this activity, students simulate the spread of a disease in a population. They use the Probability Simulation application to learn that certain sums occur more often than others because of combinations of addends of those sums.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-spread-of-disease
You're Probably Right, It's Wrong - TI-83
In this activity, students perform a simulation to guess answers on a test and determine the experimental probability of passing the test. They then compare it with the theoretical probability.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/youre-probably-right-its-wrong--ti83
NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Democracy" - No Desk Left Behind
In "Democracy", Charlie calculates the likelihood that five people who knew each other would have died by accident in a two-week period. He estimates that the odds of this are 700 million to 1. To estimate likelihood of an event, a simulation can be used. In this activity, students use a simulati...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/numb3rs--season-3--democracy--no-desk-left-behind