Compound Interest: Show Me the Money
This is an activity at the conclusion of the exponential relationship unit where students have experience with equations in the form y=a*b^x. Students use the random integer function on the TI-83 Plus to generate a rate of return for the investment profile they choose.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/compound-interest-show-me-the-money
Guppies and Frogs
In this activity, students will create equations with two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities. They will also graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/guppies-and-frogs
e – The Natural Number Coding Challenge
Celebrate the natural number by having your students write a program to approximate e. Students will apply a convergent series to approximate e.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/e-the-natural-number-coding-challenge
Cell Phone Range
Students will learn to identify the domain and range of various real-world step functions. They will graphically explore numerical data points and observe step functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cell-phone-range
Happy New Year
Students are challenged to recreate the countdown clock, fireworks and song.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/happy-new-year
Approaching the Golden Ratio
Students will observe that the ratio of consecutive terms in all Fibonacci-like sequences approaches the Golden Ratio.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/approaching-the-golden-ratio
The Impossible Task
Students are given a manufacturing situation and asked to write and graph an inequalities to represent it and find the solutions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-impossible-task
Mapping Success
In this activity, students will load a background image of a map and use the scale on the map to estimate distances.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mapping-success
Testing for Truth
Students identify whether points lie within a shaded region that is bounded by linear inequalities.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/testing-for-truth
Probability
Activity will prompt user for the x-coordinate and y-coordinate of a starting point that lives in QuadranI. In other words, one must enter a value, for each, between 0 and 1, say 0.2 for x and 0.5 for y.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/probability
Graphing linear equations in slope-intercept form
See attachedhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-linear-equations-in-slopeintercept-form
Multiplying and Dividing Monomials
Students should know how to multiply and divide monomials.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/multiplying-and-dividing-monomials
Multiplying Monomials
This is an examination (quiz) on multiplying monomials.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/multiplying-monomials
Graphing Systems at the Races
This activity involves solving a system of equations created from a problem I wrote about a greyhound racing to catch a toy rabbit on a mechanical arm. The ending activity involves solving a similar system, only involving another problem I wrote based on the end of a NASCAR race.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-systems-at-the-races
Triangle in the Matrix
Students represent a triangle with a matrix and use the determinant to find the area of three given triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-in-the-matrix_1
AP Precal Live: Difference Quotients and AROC
In this AP Precalculus Live session, we will explore average rates of change.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ap-precal-live_diff-quotients
Compound Interest
This activity for the TI-84 Plus CE family, involves exploring the formula for compound interest as a function of the initial deposit, interest rate, and the number of pay periods per year.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/compound-interest_84
What is Log - 84
In this activity, students will solve simple logarithmic equations and verify solutions using the corresponding exponential equations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-is-log-@-84
AP Precal Live: Trig Identities
In this AP Precalculus Live session, we will explore several examples on solving trigonometric equations and inequalities using both a restricted domain and finding all solutions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ap-precal-live_trig-identities
AP Precal Live: Exam Prep
In this AP Precalculus Live session, we will explore questions which use technology to prepare for the AP Precalculus Exam.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ap-precal-live_exam
Ain't No River Wide Enough
Students simulate the process a surveyor would use to measure the width of a river by measuring length on one side of the river and angles formed by various reference points.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/aint-no-river-wide-enough
Stretching the Quads
Students stretch and translate the parabola given by y = x2 and determine the effects on the equation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/stretching-the-quads
Exploring Vertical Asymptotes- 84
This lesson involves observing how changing the values in a rational function affects the continuity of the graph of the function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-vertical-asymptotes_1
Dilations with Matrices
Students use matrices to perform dilations centered at the origin of triangles. Students will explore the effect of the scale factor on the size relationship between the preimage and image of a polygon.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dilations-with-matrices
AP Precal Live: Rational Functions
In this AP Precalculus Live session, we will explore several examples on finding zeros, holes, vertical asymptotes, and end behavior of rational functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ap-precal-live_rational-functions