NASA - Weightless Wonder
In this activity, students explore quadratic functions through the real-world example of weightless flight and the gravitational pull of the earth on objects in orbit.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--weightless-wonder
Forensics Case 3 - Name That Tune: Matching musical tones through waveform analysis
In this activity, students analyze sound waves to calculate the frequency or pitch of musical notes. They use a Microphone to detect the waveform of a musical note. Students calculate the frequency of a musical note from the period of its waveform and use this knowledge to identify the musical n...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-3--name-that-tune-matching-musical-tones-through-waveform-analysis
Expanding -- Using CAS
This is a group work activity that allows students to use the CAS capabilities of the TI-Nspire to explore patterns emerging from the product of two binomials.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/expanding--using-cas
Laws of Sines and Cosines - IB
In this activity, you will explore the proofs of the Laws, investigate various cases where they are used, and apply them to solve problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/laws-of-sines-and-cosines_84_ib
To Infinity and Beyond!
Students' develop an understanding of what it means to take a limit at infinity. They learn to estimate limits from graphs and tables of values.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/to-infinity-and-beyond
Infinite Geometric Series
Students explore infinite geometric series. They will consider the effect of the value for the common ratio and determine whether an infinite geometric series converges or diverges.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/infinite-geometric-series
Interesting Properties of Cubic Functions
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity encourages students to investigate numerical and graphical properties of cubic functions, and to verify the results using CAS.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interesting-properties-of-cubic-functions
2D or Not 2D, That is the Question - IB
In this activity, students will differentiate between 2D and 3D polygons and shapes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/2d-or-not-2d_84-@-ib
Amortization - IB
In this activity, students will discuss and use multiple ways to answer financial questions involving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/amortization_84-ib
Optimization - IB
In this activity, students will learn how to use the second derivative test to find maxima and minima in word problems and solve optimization in functions and parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/optimization_84_ib
Rose Curve
This lesson involves clicking on sliders to observe the effect of changing the values of a and n in the equation r = asin(nθ).https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rose-curve_1
Linear Inequalities
Students observe tables of values to see that inequalities are true for some values of the variable and not for others.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-inequalities_2
Exponential Reflections
In this activity, you will investigate the inverse of an exponential function. You will also investigate the symmetry of the exponential function and its inverse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-reflections_1
The Classic Box Problem - Exploration
This lesson takes a classic optimization problem and uses the dynamic linking capabilities to visualize the problem in multiple representations: diagramatic, geometric, graphic, numeric.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-classic-box-problem--exploration
World Population
Students use their handhelds to explore world population data from the years 1950-2006. They will develop various equations to model the data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/world-population_1
Change Of Base
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
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
Critical Points and Local Extrema
Visualize the connections between the critical points and local extrema.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/critical-points-and-local-extrema
Tesselations
In this activity students will explore what causes some regular polygons to tesselate. They will explore sketches of regular polygons, measure the interior angles, and test to see whether the shapes tesselate.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tesselations
Secrets in the Triangle
Students will use the geometry screens of the TI-Nspire™ to find points of concurrency by constructing the altitudes, perpendicular bisectors, and medians in triangles. The Euler Line will be found and extensions given.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secrets-in-the-triangle
Tessellations
Students will explore tessellations of triangles and quadrilaterals. They will use the transformation tools of symmetry, reflections, rotations, and/or translations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tessellations_1
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 Radian Sector
In this activity, students will explore properties of sectors. Students will derive the formula for the arc length of a sector and the area of a sector.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-radian-sector