How Many Solutions 2
Recognize that a system of two equations in two variables can have no solution, one or more solutions, or infinitely many solutions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-many-solutions-2
Coded Messages
Determine the product of two matrices and calculate the inverse of the 2 X 2 matrix.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/coded-messages
Calculations at the Crazy Cookie Company
Performing matrix multiplication for the first time, students are prompted to use reasoning skills to determine if matrix products are possible for given pairs of matrices. The tutorial leads them through matrix product operations to find rules for matrix multiplication and predicting dimensions ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/calculations-at-the-crazy-cookie-company
Discriminant Testing
Discover the relationship between the value of the discriminant and the nature of the roots of quadratic functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discriminant-testing
Dilations with Matrices
In this activity, students will 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_1
Constructing an Ellipse
Students will explore two different methods for constructing an ellipse. Students discover that the sum of the distances from a point on an ellipse to its foci is always constant. This fact is then used as the basis for an algebraic derivation of the general equation for an ellipse centered at th...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/constructing-an-ellipse_1
Birthday Problem
Investigate the probability of two people having the same birthday in a crowd of a given size.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/birthday-problem
The Painted Cube
This lesson involves having the students hypothesize about the different relationships that exist between the size of the cube and the number of cubes that have paint on one, two, three, and zero faces. In order to help students visualize the problem, interlocking cubes could be made available.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-painted-cube
Solving Systems of Linear Equations from Four Perspectives
Using the on-screen directions and the more detailed directions here, students will investigate four ways to solve systems of linear equations: graphically, numerically, with a data table and by matrices. Some prior familiarity with the basic functions of the TI-nspire CAS is needed. Students sho...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-of-linear-equations-from-four-perspectives
Radical Functions
Students use a nomograph to investigate functions defined by square roots. Nomographs consist of two or more parallel axes, one for inputs and another for outputs. Input, output pairs that belong to the function are graphed as corresponding points on the axes connected by a ray drawn from the inp...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/radical-functions_1
Expanding Binomials
In this activity, students will explore the link between Pascal's Triangle and the expansion of binomials in the development of the Binomial Theorem.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/expanding-binomials_1
Day at the Beach
In this lesson, students will explore temperature differences in two sets of sand, one dry and one wet.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/day-at-the-beach
Inverse of Two Temps
Students find a conversion equation that will calculate the corresponding Celsius temperature for any given Fahrenheit temperature. Students learn to graph scatter plots, analyze and graph linear equations, compute and model slope, derive and apply a conversion equation, and analyze inverse relat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inverse-of-two-temps
Vernier - Freezing and Melting of Water
In this experiment, the cooling and warming behavior of a familiar substance, water, will be investigated. By examining graphs of the data, the freezing and melting temperatures of water will be determined and compared.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--freezing-and-melting-of-water_1
Watch the Birdie Breathe
In this lesson, students will analyze a graph of data representing the relationship between the environmental temperature and the resulting metabolism of an endothermic animal.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/watch-the-birdie-breathe
Altitude to the Hypotenuse
Explore the relationship between the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse in a right triangle and the lengths of the two segments formed when this altitude intersects the hypotenuse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/altitude-to-the-hypotenuse
Contingency Tables and Chi-Square
This lesson involves deriving and interpreting the chi-square as an indication of whether two variables in a population are independent or associated.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/contingency-tables-and-chisquare
Arctic Wars - Lynx vs. Snowshoe Hare
In this lesson, students will investigate a population with cycling patterns that exist between a predator and its prey.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arctic-wars--lynx-vs--snowshoe-hare
Waves and Spectrum Exploration
In this lesson, students will study the relationship between wavelength, frequency, and color through an interactive simulation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/waves-and-spectrum-exploration
What Makes Us Stick Together?
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to understand a macroscopic view of what occurs microscopically when two nonmetals react.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-makes-us-stick-together
Swimming with Acids and Bases
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to observe at the molecular level the difference between strong and weak acids and bases.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/swimming-with-acids-and-bases
Beer's Law Data Collection Lab
In this lesson, students will use a Colorimeter to discover the relationship between absorbance and concentration of a solution to ultimately determine an unknown solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/beers-law-data-collection-lab
How Does It Stack?
In this lesson, students will visualize the relationship between density of solutions and the relative position of an object in the solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-does-it-stack
Watersheds
In this lesson, students will recognize the relationship between deforestations of a watershed and its effect on the biosphere.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/watersheds
Some Like It Hot
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to adjust the pH of a lake and draw conclusions about the relationship between pH and biodiversity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/some-like-it-hot