Polar Necessities
Students graphically and algebraically find the slope of the tangent line at a point on a polar graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polar-necessities
Riemann Rectangle Errors
Use three Riemann sums used to estimate the area of a plane region.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/riemann-rectangle-errors
Mean Value Theorem
Calculate slopes of secant lines, create tangent lines with the same slope, and note observations about the functions and slopes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mean-value-theorem_1
Maximums, Minimums, and Zeroes
Determine when a function has a maximum or minimum based on the derivative of the function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/maximums-minimums-and-zeroes
MacLaurin Polynomials
Students will use TI-Nspire technology to explore MacLaurin polynomials. They will develop polynomials that approximate very special functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/maclaurin-polynomials_1
Local Linearity
Visualize the idea of derivative as local slope.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/local-linearity
Conditional Probability
This lesson involves thinking about probability when additional information is given.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/conditional-probability
NASA - Space Shuttle Launch
Student examine the ascent stage of a NASA space shuttle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-shuttle-launch
NASA - Space Shuttle Guidance, Navigation, and Control Data
In this activity, students will see how the position of the shuttle is deteremined and how the GNC officer ensures that the space shuttle arrives at its pre-determined destination as outlined by mission objectives.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-shuttle-guidance-navigation-and-control-data
NASA - Space Shuttle Ascent
This activity will engage students in a space shuttle launch and introduce them to the different events that take place during the space shuttle's ascent into space.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-shuttle-ascent_1
Are They Truly Random?
Students will develop lists of random numbers generated by the TI-Nspire handheld. They will explore their set of numbers and engage in a discussion of whether the random number generator is truly generating numbers at random. In addition, students will look at statistical models of their num...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/are-they-truly-random
MVT for Integrals
Demonstrate how the average value of a function over an interval is related to the definite integral.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mvt-for-integrals
The Classic Box Problem - Calculus
The Box_Problem_Calculus.tns document takes a classic problem from calculus and uses the dynamic linking capabilities of TI-Nspire to enact the problem in multiple representations: diagramatic, graphic, numeric, geometric, and symbolic. The problem is posed on the title screen shown at the right.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-classic-box-problem--calculus
Binomial Experiments
Students use the multiplication rule for independent events to find the probability of the first success in the nth trial. Students use their results to derive and test a general formula. Then, students expand on this foundation to derive and test a rule for the probability of x successes in n tr...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/binomial-experiments
Rectangle and Trapezoid Approximations to Definite Integrals
Use visual representation of area estimation methods in order to determine which is most accurate.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/trapezoid-and-midpoint-rules
Exponential Growth
The purpose of this exploration is to investigate properties of exponential functions including the relationship between the graphical and algebraic forms of the functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-growth
Difference in Means
This activity involves investigating whether a difference really seems to exist between two sample means.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/difference-in-means
Velocity, Position, Distance
Work with linked representations of the horizontal motion of an object.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/velocity-position-distance
Graphical Analysis
Students will analyze graphs of polynomials finding intervals over which the function is increasing or decreasing and positive or negative, as well as the function’s relative minimum and maximum values and x- and y-intercepts.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphical-analysis
Is it Rare?
Students use the Poisson distribution to determine the probabilities for various numbers of hurricanes hitting the United States in a given year. Students will also explore the graph of the Poisson distribution and how it behaves.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/is-it-rare_1
Simple Harmonic Motion
With an example of the motion of a child on a swing, the activity begins with the trigonometric function between time and displacement and differentiates up to acceleration.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/simple-harmonic-motion_1
Makin' It Through The Winter
Students simulate a binomial distribution and calculate probabilities for a variety of situations involving binomial probability distributions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/makin-it-through-the-winter_1
Looking Normal
This lesson involves examining multiple samples taken from a single approximately normal population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/looking-normal
Taylor Polynomials with CAS
Powerful tool for discussing graphs of Taylor polynomials.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taylor-polynomials
Somewhere in the Middle
In this activity, students will explore the Mean Value Theorem. Students will find out when the tangent line is parallel to the secant line passing through the endpoints of an interval to help them find the values of c guaranteed to exist by the MVT. Students will also test functions where the hy...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/somewhere-in-the-middle_1