Properties of Parallelograms
In this activity, students will discover the properties of a parallelogram. Students will measure various components of a parallelogram to make conjectures about its properties.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms
Exploring Midpoints
This is a quick activity to help students see the relationship of the midpoint of a segment.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-midpoints
Exploring Midsegments of a Triangle
Students will discover the relationships between a midsegment of a triangle and its third side.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-midsegments-of-a-triangle
Corresponding Parts of Similar Triangles
Change the scale factor (r) between similar triangles; identify the corresponding parts and establish relationships between them.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/corresponding-parts-of-similar-triangles
Chords of a Circle
Explore the relationship between chords of a circle and their perpendicular bisectors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chords-of-a-circle
Balancing Act
Students will explore the centriod of a triangle. They will discover that it is the center of gravity. They will balance a cardboard triangle on the end of a pencil. Then they will construct the medians with folds and pencil. After students have seen that the center of gravity is the point ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-act
Limits of Functions
Investigate limits of functions at a point numerically.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/limits-of-functions
Constructing Regular Polygons - Angles of Rotational Symmetry
This activity is designed to be used with the Geometry textbook "Math Connections - 2B" p. 295: #4https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/constructing-regular-polygons--angles-of-rotational-symmetry
Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles
Explore corresponding parts of congruent triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/corresponding-parts-of-congruent-triangles
Exterior Angle Sum Theorem
This activity illustrates the exterior angle sum theorem by taking regular polygons with an exterior angle constructed, one at each vertex, and pulling all the vertices together to show that all exterior angles form a circle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exterior-angle-sum-theorem
Arcs and Central Angles of Circles
Students discover the central angles of circles plus minor and major arcs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arcs-and-central-angles-of-circles
Maximizing a Paper Cone's Volume
The net for a conical paper cup is formed by cutting a sector from a circular piece of paper. What sector angle creates a net that maximizes the cone's volume? In this activity students will build concrete models, measure the dimensions and calculate the volume. Next, students will use a const...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/maximizing-a-paper-cones-volume
Altitudes of Triangles
Students investigate the intersection of the altitudes of a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/altitudes-of-triangles
Angle and Perpendicular Bisectors in a Triangle
The students will examine where the perpendicular bisectors and angle bisectors of a triangle intersect. The students will circumscribe a circle around the triangle and will inscribe a circle within the triangle. There is a page at the end of each activity with the circle constructed if the s...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angle-and-perpendicular-bisectors-in-a-triangle
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 Mailbox
In this lesson, students will visualize that areas of irregular shapes can be found by determining the sum of smaller, more familiar shapes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-mailbox-hs
Ratios of Similar Figures
Students explore the ratio of perimeter, area, surface area, and volume of similar figures in two and three dimensional figures.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-of-similar-figures_1
The Lunes of Hippocrates
In this activity, students will explore a figure that involves lunes - the area enclosed between arcs of intersecting circles. When lunes are constructed on the sides of a right triangle, an interesting result occurs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-lunes-of-hippocrates_1
Tangents to a Circle
Explore properties of tangent lines and how they differ from secant lines.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tangents-to-a-circle
Special Angles formed by Parallel Lines
This activity will help students see the relationship among the angles formed by two parallel lines and the transversal cuts through the lines.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/special-angles-formed-by-parallel-lines
Points & Lines & Slopes (Oh My!)
In this activity, students will use coordinates to better understand that relationship, as well as the relationship between coordinates of points and their quadrant locations, slopes and y-intercepts, and parallel and perpendicular lines.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/points--lines--slopes-oh-my_ns_ib
Points on a Line
Develop an understanding of the slope of a line.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/points-on-a-line_1
Dog Days or Dog Years?
Students use ordered pairs, table of values, and a scatter plot to determine a function that represents real world data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dog-days-or-dog-years
Simple Inequalities on a Number Line
Observe the differences in the graphs when , and ≥ are used.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/simple-inequalities-on-a-number-line
Ratios of Similar Triangles
In this activity, students will explore two ways of comparing side lengths of similar triangles. They will calculate ratios and change the triangles to see how the ratio changes. Then they will write proportions using the ratios.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-of-similar-triangles_1