Solution 11989: Solving a Quadratic Equation Using Numeric Solver on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus.
... the first solution, enter a new initial guess or new bounds to look for the second solution. Follow the steps below to solve the example equation: x^2=5x-6. 1) First, re-write the equation to make it equal to zero. The new equation would be: x^2-5x+6=0. 2) On the TI-84 Plus family or the TI-Nsp...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/11989
Solution 11936: Changing the Language to English on the TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus, and TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.
...e? To change the language to English on a TI-83 Plus family, TI-84 Plus family, or TI-Nspire handheld in TI-84 Plus mode: 1) Press the [APPS] key. 2) Under the applications listed, select the language currently on the calculator (for example, if the calculator is in Spanish, select Espanol) an...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/11936
Solution 11793: Unable to Graph Multiple Functions on the TI-83 Plus Family and TI-84 Plus Family Graphing Calculators.
...d to be turned off on the TI-83 Plus Family and TI-84 Plus Family. Below are the steps to successfully turn off the Application. 1) Press [APPS] key 2) Select Transfrm from the menu Next follow the step that matches your calculator: TI-84 Plus CE and TI-84 Plus C Silver Edtion: 1) Press 2: Q...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/11793
Matholutions Bulletin Board Décor
Celebrate New Year’s with this Matholutions Bulletin Board Décor display. Celebrate New Year’s with this Matholutions Bulletin Board Décor display. This download includes multiple calculator models in party hats, borders with encouraging sayings, numbered pennants for many years of ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/matholutions-bulletin-board-decor
Change Of Base
In this activity, students discover the change of base rule for logarithms by examining the ratio of two logarithmic functions with different bases.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/change-of-base
Segments and Chords in a Circle
This activity is designed to allow students an opportunity to gain an understanding of the relationship among the segment measures formed by intersecting chords in a circle. It includes an interactive geometry page, some circle problems, and a Euclidean proof.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/segments-and-chords-in-a-circle
The Sprinkler and the Lawn
Students will apply the concepts of angle bisector, incenter of a triangle, and percentages to solve a real-world problem involving a circular sprinkler and a triangular-shaped lawn.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-sprinkler-and-the-lawn
Shortest Distances
Students will explore three situations involving distances between points and lines. First, the minimum distance between two points leads to the Triangle Inequality Theorem. Then, the shortest distance from a point to a line is investigated. Finally, students find the smallest total distan...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/shortest-distances
Patterns in Area - Impact of Changes in Length and Width
Students will explore what happens to the area of a rectangle if you double the length and width.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/patterns-in-area--impact-of-changes-in-length-and-width
Transformational Puppet
This activity allows students to practice their skills of reflecting on a line and translating on a vector. The instructions don't ask for creativity but students who finish early can enjoy being creative with this activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformational-puppet
Transformations: Reflections and Rotations
This activity is designed to be used in a middle-school or high-school geometry classroom. An understanding of labeling points in the coordinate plane is necessary. This is an exploration using reflections to move a polygon about the coordinate plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations--reflections-and-rotations
Equations of a Circle
In this activity, the students can be partnered up and will discover how the equation of a circle changes when you move the circle around the coordinate plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/equations-of-a-circle
Polygons & Angles: Looking for Patterns
This activity explores the relationships of various polygons and their angles. This is a discovery lesson and leads students through data and asks them to make conjectures about the angles of a triangle, quadrilateral, and pentagon. This lesson explores interior angles, exterior angles, and as...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polygons--angles--looking-for-patterns
Properties of Parallel Lines
This activity is designed to incorporate the TI-Nspire Navigator system to provide a paperless activity. Students will investigate the relationships formed when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. They will make observations from angle measurements. This is a great activity for beginn...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallel-lines
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 Parallel Lines and Angles
Students will explore the relationships between pairs of angles formed when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. They will identify special pairs of angles, measure all the angles formed by two parallel lines cut by a transversal, and then look for patterns among the measures.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-parallel-lines-and-angles
Cell Phone Towers
In this activity students explore the locus of a point that is located twice as far from a given point A as it is from given point B. The locus is Apollonius circle. Students discover that the locus is a circle and then prove it. The key property: If a ray bisects an angle of a triangle, then it ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cell-phone-towers
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
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
Congruent Triangles - Conditions that Prove Congruency
Students will investigate what conditions are necessary to prove two triangles are congruent.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/congruent-triangles--conditions-that-prove-congruency
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
Addition of Parts
This activity is a self-contained discussion of the topic of segment and angle addition and allows the teacher to focus on the flow of the class rather than explanation. Students will be able to work through this activity easily and reach usable conclusions on their own. Also, examples are prov...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/addition-of-parts
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