Beyond Basics
...ite) keys start at x = 10. Each natural key has a width of 30 pixels. You have eight natural keys in your picture. The sharp () keys start at x = 35. Each sharp key has a width of 10 pixels. They are also 30 pixels apart. There are six sharp keys in your picture. Step 5 To represen...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/ti-codes/84/beyond-basics
Building Concepts Math Activities | Texas Instruments
...is the rate at which lawns were being mowed? Answer: (7/4) hours to mow one lawn or 1 and (3/4) hours per lawn. b. How many lawns could be mowed in 35 hours? Answer: 20 lawns Understanding Every ratio has an associated unit rate. The unit rate is the numerical part of the rate; the “...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities
Teaching and Learning with Graphing Calculators
...d to stimulate pedagogical reflection and the motivation to learn in new teachers. Florida State University A case study introducing TI-Nspire to 35 pre-service math teachers in 2 cohorts found that: the new technology served as a tool or stimulator in fostering pedagogical reflection among...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/research/research_teachingandlearning
TI-SmartView for MathPrint End-User License Agreement | Texas Instruments
...r LGPL covered code. Texas Instruments offers no support for this software. For your convenience, the source code of the Chromium engine used (108.0.5359.125) may also be found at the project website at https://www.chromium.org/. End of Chromium license ___________________________________________...https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/eula/smartview-mp
Graphs of Antiderivatives
Students use their TI-Nspire to graph the anti-derivative of a function and investigate aspects of the this function and how it relates to the primitive function. For example, if a continuous derivative function changes from negative to positive, what does this produce on the primi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphs-of-antiderivatives
Damped and Driven Harmonic Motion
Students explore the properties of waveforms representing damped and driven simple harmonic motion. First, they identify the functional form of the damping in a simple harmonic oscillator. Then, they discover the relationship between the driving frequency, the fundamental frequency, and the dampi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/damped-and-driven-harmonic-motion
Pendulum Swing – Part 1
Students use a motion detector (CBR) and pendulum (fishing float) to collect data for the motion of a pendulum. The quality of the data never ceases to amaze students and teachers. Students align practical knowledge, logic and familiarity with the various parameters to transform a basic trigono...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pendulum-swing--part-1
Gradient of a function
This activity introduces the notion of the gradient of a curve. Initial exploration involves a dynamic tangent where students can use prior knowledge of the gradient of a straight line to determine if the slope is negative, zero or positive. The second stage of the activity goes one step further ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gradient-of-a-function
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
... press the 2nd key followed by the right or left arrow to take the cursor to the end or the beginning of the expression, respectively. For additional fun tips, see the Webinar “How-To” With Your TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator, Part 1 and the subsequent webinars in this series. Happily,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...4, 1776. Americans celebrate the day with family, friends, barbeques and parades, and end it with a bang of fireworks! We thought we’d join in on the fun with some patriotic-themed programming. Here are three patriotic-themed activities you can try using Python programing on the TI‑Nspire™ CX I...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Interesting Properties of Cubic Functions
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity encourages students to investigate numerical and graphical properties of cubic functions, and to verify the results using CAS.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interesting-properties-of-cubic-functions
Concavity
Examine the relationship between the first and second derivative and shape of a function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/concavity
Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
Students will use the graph of the sine function to estimate the graph of the cosine function. They will do this by inspecting the slope of a tangent to the graph of the sine function at several points and using this information to construct a scatter plot for the derivative of the sine. Students...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/derivatives-of-trigonometric-functions
Applications of Critical Points
Students will examine the relationship between critical points and local extrema through real-world examples. Students will zoom in on the critical points to see if the curve becomes linear to determine if the function is differentiable at the critical point. They will then discover that the sign...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-critical-points
Extrema
Students will learn how to find and label extrema using first and second derivatives, be able to inspect a graph and determine which extrema the function has, and be able to use Trace, fMin, and fMax to verify the computed answers and find critical values for parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/extrema
Exponential Functions and the Natural Logarithm
Discover a surprising property involving the relative growth rate of an exponential function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-functions-and-the-natural-logarithm
Inscribed Regular Polygons
Students will calculate the changing area and perimeter of inscribed polygons as the number of sides increase. The measurements will be recorded in a spreadsheet for analysis. Students will be learning to use the measurement tools and the Hide/Show function of the TI-Nspire. Students will be aske...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inscribed-regular-polygons
Helping students learn how to use built-in functions on the TI nspire
Students will follow step-by-step directions to become familiar with how to use the TI nspire's built in functions. Tutorial includes converting to decimal, approximating fractions, finding remainders, finding LCM, using factorials, creating mixed numbers, and factoring numbers to their prime fac...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/helping-students-learn-how-to-use-builtin-functions-on-the-ti-nspire
Mean Value Theorem
Calculate slopes of secant lines, create tangent lines with the same slope, and note observations about the functions and slopes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mean-value-theorem_1
MacLaurin Polynomials
Students will use TI-Nspire technology to explore MacLaurin polynomials. They will develop polynomials that approximate very special functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/maclaurin-polynomials_1
Volume by Cross Sections
Students will be introduced to the concept of finding the volume of a solid formed by cross sections of a function that form certain shapes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/volume-by-cross-sections_1
Exponential Growth
The purpose of this exploration is to investigate properties of exponential functions including the relationship between the graphical and algebraic forms of the functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-growth
Graphs of Polynomial Functions
The activity begins by having students compare functions to introduce the concept of end behavior. Then they graph cubics and quartics, noting the respective end behaviors for positive and negative leading coefficients. Finally, they compare quadratics to quartics and cubics to quintics to discov...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphs-of-polynomial-functions
Secant/Tangent Line Connection
Students will explore a real situation by minimizing the distance between two points on a secant line; ultimately making a connection to the slope of the tangent line and the difference quotient. Students will explore this graphically, numerically, and analytically. An extension at the end allo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secanttangent-line-connection
Solids of Revolution
Students will investigate 3D visualizations of volumes created by rotating a function about the x-or y-axis. They will understand the concept and reason for the volume formula in order to be prepared for generalizations. Students will solve the definite integral by hand using the fundamental theo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solids-of-revolution