Stay Tuned Lab Sound Waveform Models
In this activity, students' will record the sound waveform of a tuning fork and analyze the waveform to determine frequency, period and amplitude information. They will model the waveform using trigonometric functions. This activity has been modified for TI-Nspire with the data in the activity file.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/stay-tuned-lab-sound-waveform-models
Transitions
Students will explore converting rectangular equations to polar form and vice versa. Familiar trigonometric identities and circle relationships are applied in making the conversions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transitions_1
Trig Proofs
Students perform trigonometric proofs and verifying each proof through graphing.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/trig-proofs
Can You Hear Me Now?
Students will explore logarithmic equations relating to sound intensity and pH.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/can-you-hear-me-now
Let the Sun Shine
Students will explore daylights times of cities at different latitudes. They will create a scatterplot of the data and then find the cosine equation that matches the data. This should be worked in groups of 4, each student choosing a city of a different latitude. An extension at the end would ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/let-the-sun-shine
Find That Sine - IB
Sinusoidal regression is used to determine equations to model various data sets and the equations are used to make inferences.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/find-that-sine
Higher Order Derivatives
Students calculate the second derivative of functions, inspect a graph and give the intervals for concave up and concave down and find the point of inflection.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/higher-order-derivatives_1
Would You Work For Me?
Expanding the Notion of Function Representationhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/would-you-work-for-me
Polly, Want Some Division?
In this activity, students will use polynomial calculations to determine quotients and remainders when performing polynomial division using CAS commands. The Remainder Theorem is introduced and applied to identify roots or zeros and to determine function values. Graphs are incorporated to visuall...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polly-want-some-division
Exponential Dice
This lesson involves using a simulation to generate data that can be modeled by exponential growth and decay functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-dice
Story of e!
This activity is an exploration of how the value of e is derived. It includes graphs, questions, and some practice problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/story-of-e
Logarithmic Transformations of Data
This lesson involves three real-world data sets in which the relationship between each pair of variables is non-linear. Students will be asked to describe the original relationship between each pair of variables, and observe how each transformation is used to achieve a linear relationship.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/logarithmic-transformations-of-data
Trig Ratios - IB
Students will use the handheld to discover the relationship between the trigonometric functions: sine, cosine and tangent and the side length ratios of a right triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/trig-ratios_1
Radian Measure
This lesson involves exploring the relationship between the central angle, the arc, and the radius of a circle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/radian-measure
Sinusoidal Modeling
This lesson involves writing an equation to predict the average monthly temperature for a certain location based on past data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sinusoidal-modeling
Nonlinear Systems of Equations
Students will be introduced to nonlinear systems of equations. It begins by allowing students to move figures around the screen to see ways certain types of graphs (linear/conic and conic/conic) can intersect each other and how many possible intersection points are possible. The activity conclude...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nonlinear-systems-of-equations
Ride the Rollercoaster
Students use polynomial regression to develop and assess the fit of equations modeling data. The equation models are then evaluated for reasonableness in their use for extrapolating beyond the given data sets.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ride-the-rollercoaster
Cryptology and Matrices
This lesson involves using matrices to encode and decode a message.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cryptology-and-matrices
Accelerated Returns
Students compare periodic and continuous compounding and apply continuous compounding to a variety of problem situations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/accelerated-returns
Transitions
In this activity, students review some basic relationships relating to the unit circle and apply these relationships in the conversion of a rectangular circle equation to polar form.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transitions
Properties of an Ellipse
Students discover properties of an ellipse, such as the set of all points such that the sum of the distances from these points to two fixed points is constant.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-an-ellipse_1
It's a Parallelogram, You Say?
Students represent complex numbers in the complex plane as points or vectors and display the sum and difference of two complex numbers as diagonals of the parallelograms they define.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/its-a-parallelogram-you-say
Exploring the Parabola
Students explore the key features of the parabola, both geometrically and algebraically.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-parabola
Very Interesting
Students explore interest related to consumer loans, credit, and savings accounts.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/very-interesting
Reduce It!
Students write augmented matrices for systems of equations and then solve the system by writing the augmented matrix in reduced row-echelon form.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/reduce-it