Lights on the International Space Station
In this lesson, students will discover how various factors affect lighting by using different types of flashlights and battery strenghts.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lights-on-the-international-space-station
Cybersecurity 3 - Hail, Caesar!
Building on the concepts learned in Activity 2, this activity introduces students to Caesar ciphers. Students will experiment with encoding messages by using a Caesar shift, which is used to switch up the order of letters in the alphabet to transform plaintext into a ciphertext.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-3
Ratios Within and Between Scaled Shapes
This activity allows students to reason about ratio tables, which helps their understanding of what a ratio describes in a context and what quantities in equivalent ratios have in common.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-within-and-between-scaled-shapes
Connecting Ratios and Scaling
This activity allows students to reason about ratio tables, which helps their understanding of what a ratio describes in a context and what quantities in equivalent ratios have in common.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/connecting-ratios-and-scaling
Graphing Transformations
Combine movement and mystery while graphing transformation and piecewise functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-transformations
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
Modeling Herd Immunity
In this TI-84 activity, students investigate the concept of herd immunity and the role vaccines/interventions can play in helping to control the spread of a communicable disease.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-herd-immunity_84
Ready, Set... Solve!
In this coding activity for the TI-84 Plus CE Python, students will create a fast-paced game to help practice solving multi-step equations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ready-set-solve_84
Shortest Distance Problem
This is a great follow-up to the Introduction to Properties in Reflections. Students may have trouble producing a scaled drawing. Using a scale of 1 to 5 works well. See the figure below for a possible scaled construction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/shortest-distance-problem
Properties of Reflections
I use this activity in the beginning of the school year when introducing terminology such as angles, lines, segments, measures, perpendicular etc. The original material is from the SIMMS Integrated Mathematics Using Technology, I have adapted the activities to fit my objectives. Students have be...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-reflections
Ryan's Puppy Problem
This problem can be used in Geometry of Algebra. Ryan desires to build a rectangluar fence to keep his puppy in. What shape should he use if he has 8 meters of fencing?https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ryans-puppy-problem
The Tangent Ratio
In this activity students explore the tangent ratio. Students construct a right triangle using perpendicular lines, and a line that forms the hypotenuse of the triangle. When students construct the hypotenuse line it is very important that the second point that forms the line is not on the perpen...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-tangent-ratio
Special Parallelograms
In this activity, students will study special types of parallelograms like rhombus and rectangle, and investigate properties related to their diagonals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/special-parallelograms_1
Using Venn Diagrams to Find the GCD
In this activity, students use Venn Diagrams to classify numbers. They will first classify multiples of 3, 5, and 6, deciding where to place the least common multiple. Then, students will use the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition™ integer division and remainder features to help them classify fact...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/using-venn-diagrams-to-find-the-gcd
Area of a Regular Polygon
This activity has the students derive the formula for finding the area of a regular polygon. Demonstrating the procedure of constructing a regular polygon in front of the class maybe necessary depending on the students prior experiencehttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-of-a-regular-polygon
Say What You Mean!
This is a fun activity that has students determining how grades could be adjusted should a curve be given. Students will experiment with lists and stat plots to determine if their adjustments create a line or a curve when plotted on a graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/say-what-you-mean
Math TODAY: Ballooning Inside the Box
Using the USATODAY® Infograph, "Ballooning Inside the Box," students will explore geometric relationships using similar triangles. Identifying triangles with two pairs of congruent angles to explore similarity properties of the triangles is an essential part of this activity.Students will learn w...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/math-today--ballooning-inside-the-box
Math TODAY: When a Ruler Isn't Enough
Using the USA TODAY® Infograph, "When a Ruler Isn't Enough," you will explore the geometric relationships in similar right triangles. The altitude to the hypotenuse will create two right triangles that are similar to each other and to the original. Students will determine measurements indirectly ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/math-today--when-a-ruler-isnt-enough_1
Generating Recursive Sequences to Explore Exponential Patterns
Students will understand patterns, relations, and functions and use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationshipshttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/generating-recursive-sequences-to-explore-exponential-patterns
Winning Inequalities (Part 1)
Students write and interpret a linear equation and an inequality with two variables and use the Inequality Graphing Application to map inequalities on a coordinate plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/winning-inequalities-part-1
Winning Inequalities (Part 2)
Students graph systems of linear inequalities and investigate the concepts of constraints and feasible polygons.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/winning-inequalities-part-2
Home for the Holidays
Thanksgiving Holiday activity for Algebra students. Linear data taken from the internet and used to create a linear model of the class data.Students will then discover the slope of the line is the speed of the car in miles per hour. Activity can be modified to be used for Algebra I or Algebra II....https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/home-for-the-holidays
Binomial Probability in Baseball
In this activity, students will explore the link between Pascal's Triangle, the Binomial Theorem, and Binomial Probability Experiments.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/binomial-probability-in-baseball
At a Snail's Pace
In this activity, students plot a mathematical relationship that defines a spiral. They use technology to create a spiral and to plot a set of ordered pairs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/at-a-snails-pace
Looking at Statistics Through Circles
Students will measure round objects to determine the circumference and diameter, and use the data to explore geometric concepts of the circle with statistics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/looking-at-statistics-through-circles