Mystery Quadrilateral!
This activity could be used as an assessment after a unit on special quadrilaterals. Students are given an unknown mystery quadrilateral that looks like a square. By dragging the vertices of the mystery quadrilateral, students conjecture the true name of the quadrilateral. Students support their ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mystery-quadrilateral
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
Nested Similar Triangles
Discover the conditions that make triangles similar by moving the sides opposite the common angle in nested triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nested-similar-triangles
Angles and Similarity
Experiment with the measures of the angles of similar triangles to determine conditions necessary for two triangles to be similar.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-and-similarity
Triangle Sides & Angles
Students will explore side and angle relationships in a triangle. First, students will discover where the longest (and shortest) side is located relative to the largest (and smallest) angle. Then, students will explore the Isosceles Triangle Theorem and its converse. Finally, students will determ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-sides--angles
The Hinge Theorems
Students will explore the inequality relationships that arise when some of the triangle congruence conditions are in place but others are not. The SAS Inequality Theorem and the SSS Inequality Theorem are often referred to as the Hinge Theorem and its converse. These two theorems concern inequali...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-hinge-theorems_1
The Ladder Problem Revisited
In this activity students explore the locus of mid-point of the hypotenuse of a fixed length geometrically and algebraically and discover that the median a right triangle is equal to half the length of the hypotenuse. Students then prove this property. The problem: A ladder leans upright against ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-ladder-problem-revisited
The Lunes of Hippocrates
In this activity the students discover a property of this historical figure.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-lunes-of-hippocrates
The Pirate Problem
The classic geometry problem developed in 1947 by George Gamow comes alive with the interactive platform of TI-Nspire. Will the treasure still be found after the palm tree in the treasure map disappears? What begins with inductive reasoning ends with a formal proof. This lesson, easily adapte...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-pirate-problem
The Art Project
Students explore the locus of points in the interior of the right angle such that the sum of the distances to the sides of the angle is constant.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-art-project
Supplements and Complements
The attached files contain a supplementary angle and complementary angle for students to explore. They are asked which point changes the measure of the angle. They can move various parts of the construction. The files are designed to be used with your current instructional materials.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/supplements-and-complements
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
Secants and Angles in a Circle
This activity is designed to allow students to gain an understanding of the relationship between the arcs and angles formed by secants drawn from a common external point outside a circle. It includes an interactive geometry page, some circle problems, and a Euclidean proof.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secants-and-angles-in-a-circle
Square Root Spiral and Function Graphs
In this activity, students will investigate the spiral formed by square roots of consecutive numbers, numerical approximations for square roots, the plot of the square root spiral arm lengths, and the graph of the square root function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/square-root-spiral-and-function-graphs
Secants and Segments in a Circle
This activity is designed to allow students an opportunity to gain an understanding of the relationship among the segments formed by two secants drawn from a common external point to a circle. It includes an interactive geometry page, some circle problems, and a Euclidean proof.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secants-and-segments-in-a-circle
Solving for Sides in a Right Triangle
This activity was designed for the Grade 11 College Math course in the Ontario curriculum. Students are expected to solve problems, including those that arise from real-world applications, by determining the measures of the sides and angles of right triangles using the primary trigonometric ratio...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-for-sides-in-a-right-triangle
Special Segments in Triangles
In this activity, students construct medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors of triangles. They then drag the vertices to see where the intersections of the segments lie in relation to the triangle, and they measure distances to identify relationships. They see that the i...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/special-segments-in-triangles_1
Rhombi, Kites, and Trapezoids
Students discover properties of the diagonals of rhombi and kites, and the properties of angles in rhombi, kites, and trapezoids.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rhombi-kites-and-trapezoids_1
Sailing Away
In this activity, students will explore AAA and SSS relationships in triangles to support understanding of the concepts of triangle similarity and congruence.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sailing-away
Exploring Vertical Asymptotes
Students will be able to determine the domain of rational functions, use algebraic concepts to determine the vertical asymptotes of a rational function, determine the removable discontinuities of a rational function, and describe the graph of a rational function given the equation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-vertical-asymptotes
How far do you live from school?
Prior to this activity students determine how far they live from school and how long it takes them to get to school. They analyze this data using various types of graphs and draw conclusions regarding the relationship between time and distance. They also look at zip codes and explore factors that...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-far-do-you-live-from-school
Linear Modeling
This lesson involves modeling relationship between variables related to the operational cost of airplanes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-modeling
Lines of Fit
This lesson involves informally fitting a straight line for a given data set that represents mean verbal and mathematics scores on SAT in 2004 across all 50 states and Washington, D.C.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lines-of-fit
How Does a Spring Scale Work?
In this lesson, teachers will use a spring to help students learn that the constant of proportionality between two proportional quantities is the unit rate of change.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-does-a-spring-scale-work
Soda Problem: Finding the relationship between Sodium and Sugar
The students will use nutrition label data of certain sodas to create and analyze a scatterplot of the amount of sodium versus the amount of sugar in various soft drinks. They will put the data into lists, create scatterplots, discuss correlations, acquire the line of best fit, and predict other...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/soda-problem-finding-the-relationship-between-sodium-and-sugar