Filling the Urn
Work with linked representations of the related rates of change of volume and height of fluid.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/filling-the-urn
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
First Derivative Test
Visualize the connections between the first derivative of a function, critical points, and local extrema.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/first-derivative-test
Angle-Side Relationships
Investigate some necessary conditions for creating a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angleside-relationships
Construction of the Lute of Pythagoras to investigate polynomials
The student will construct the Lute of Pythagoras and investigate the many geometric shapes created.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/construction-of-the-lute-of-pythagoras-to-investigate-polynomials
Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles
Explore corresponding parts of congruent triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/corresponding-parts-of-congruent-triangles
Congruent Triangles
This activity is intended to provide students with an opportunity to discover three methods of proving triangles congruent: SSS, SAS, and ASA.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/congruent-triangles_2
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
Circles - Angles and Arcs
In this activity, students will investigate inscribed angles, central angles and intercepted arcs relationships in circles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/circles--angles-and-arcs
Classifying Quadrialterals
In this activity, students will classify quadrilaterals graphed on the Cartesian coordinate plane. Students will justify their classifications with segment and angle measurements as well as slope measurements. A review of the hierarchy of quadrilaterals is at the beginning of the document.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/classifying-quadrialterals
Applications of Similar Figures
Students will identify corresponding parts of figures and use the definition of similar figures to solve real-world applications involving rectangles and triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-similar-figures
Arc Length and Sectors
Investigate the mathematics of arc length and sectors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arc-length-and-sectors
Medians in a Triangle
Students will study medians and some of their properties. A median of a triangle connects a vertex of the triangle with the midpoint of the opposite side.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/medians-in-a-triangle
Area Formulas
Explore the relationships among the area formulas for parallelogram and rectangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-formulas
Area Formulas
Explore the relationships among the area formulas for parallelogram and rectangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-formulas_1
Approximating Pi -- Archimedes method
Students will be assigned different regular polygons to construct. They will then construct a circumscribed circle, measure diameter, circumference and perimeter. The measurements will be placed into a spreadsheet and the ratios of circumference/diameter and perimeter/diameter will be calculated.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/approximating-pi--archimedes-method
Lines with Transversals and Angle Pairs
Students will use the TI-Nspire file and record their answers on the Word worksheet. The TI-Nspire file has been created to allow students to explore and measure the relationships of angle pairs with and without parallel lines.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lines-with-transversals-and-angle-pairs
Making Hay While the Sun Shines & Not Losing It in the Rain (The Geometry of the Big Round Bale)
This activity explores the volume of the hay bale and the percent of loss as the radius of the bale decreases. The extension collects data from the constructed cylinder in a spreadsheet and graphs it. The graphs are modeled with quadratic functions and transformations of quadratic functions can...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/making-hay-while-the-sun-shines--not-losing-it-in-the-rain--the-geometry-of-the-big-round-bale
Alternate Interior Angles
Explore the relationships of the angles formed when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/alternate-interior-angles
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
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
Scale Factor Area Perimeter
Explore the relationship of perimeter and area in similar triangles when the scale factor is changed.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/scale-factor-area-perimeter
Regular Polygons - Angle Measurements
Students will investigate the number of degrees in each polygon with three through ten sides, then develop a formula for the relationship between the number of sides and the sum of the measures of the degrees of the polygons.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/regular-polygons--angle-measurements
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