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
Confidence Levels for Proportions
This activity involves generating a confidence interval for a population proportion from a random sample of size 100 and considering how certain one can be that this interval contains the actual population proportion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/confidence-levels-for-proportions
Confidence Levels for Means
Students will interpret a confidence level as the average success rate of the process used to produce an interval intended to contain the true mean of the population. Students will recognize that as the confidence level increases, on average, the confidence interval increases in width.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/confidence-levels-for-means
Local Linearity
Visualize the idea of derivative as local slope.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/local-linearity
Confidence Levels
Students will interpret a confidence level as the average success rate of the process used to produce an interval intended to contain the true mean of the population. They will recognize that as the confidence level increases, on average, the confidence interval increases in width.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/confidence-levels
Confidence Intervals for Proportions
This lesson involves the concept of confidence intervals as a tool to make statements about a population proportion based on a given sample.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/confidence-intervals-for-proportions_1
Confidence Intervals for Means
This activity investigates generating a confidence interval for the mean of a random sample of size 100 from an unknown population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/confidence-intervals-for-means_1
Confidence Intervals for 2 Sample Proportions
Do senior citizens and college students have different memories about high school? The activity Confidence Intervals: 2-Sample Proportions involves investigating random samples from two populations from a large Midwestern city with respect to the question: "When you were in high school, did you h...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/confidence-intervals-for-2-sample-proportions
Properties of Logarithms
Logarithms are just another way of writing exponents. Just like exponents, logarithms have properties that allow you to simplify expressions and solve equations. In this activity, students Will discover some of these properties by graphing and confirm them with algebra.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-logarithms
Cancer Clusters
Students will investigate cancer incidence rates in a number of states. Hypothesis testing is introduced and used along with a two-proportion z-test to compare cancer rates. This activity helps students to determine when a difference in data is actually statistically significant. This should enco...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cancer-clusters
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
Are You Confident?
A brief review of the normal distribution in Problem 1 followed by a visual development of confidence intervals in Problem 2 using simulated data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/are-you-confident
But What Do You Mean?
In this activity, students learn about the concept of mean or average, in addition to learning several ways to find the mean on the TI-Nspire handheld (including using a spreadsheet and the mean command). Students also use these methods to find the mean when given the frequencies of each number i...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/but-what-do-you-mean
Box Plots Introduction
This lesson involves representing distributions of data using box plots. The emphasis is on helping students understand the relationship between individual data values and the five-number summary. Students will move data within a dot plot and observe the changes within the corresponding box plot...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/box-plots-introduction
Exploring Complex Roots
In this activity, you will explore the relationship between the complex roots of a quadratic equation and the related parabola's graph. Open the file CollegeAlg_ComplexRoots.tns on your TI-Nspire handheld device to work through the activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-complex-roots
Difference Between Two Proportions
Students use confidence intervals to estimate the difference of two population proportions. First they find the intervals by calculating the critical value and the margin of error. Then, they use the 2-propZInterval command. Students find confidence intervals for differences in proportions in rea...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/difference-between-two-proportions_1
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
Exponentialis ~ Logarithmus
In this story-style activity, students work through a step-by-step review of solving exponential equations using logarithms. At first, they are guided through process of using logarithms and checking them, with the help of 'Terry Plotter the mathemagician'. Then, students review identities and pr...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponentialis--logarithmus
Slopes of Secant Lines
Collect data about the slope of a secant line and then predict the value of the slope of the tangent line.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slopes-of-secant-lines
How Many? (Precalculus)
Students will be presented a situation in which they must use linear programming to determine the optimum production level to maximize profits.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-many-precalculus
Slope Fields Forever
Dynamically explore a particular solution to a differential equation for different initial conditions and investigate slope fields.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slope-fields-forever_1
One- and Two-Variable Statistics--Review
In this activity, students will review the concepts that they have learned thus far in statistics. The first part of the activity includes one-variable topics such as graphing quantitative variables, calculating measures of central tendency and spread, and making comparisons. The second part incl...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/one-and-twovariable-statisticsreview_1
Hypothesis Testing: Means
Students test a claim about a mean with a large sample size using the test statistic and the critical value. They also find the area under the curve to find the p value. Then, students will see how the result would change if they used a one-percent significance level or smaller sample size. An op...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hypothesis-testing-means_1
Secant/Tangent Line Connection
Students will explore a real situation by minimizing the distance between two points on a secant line; ultimately making a connection to the slope of the tangent line and the difference quotient. Students will explore this graphically, numerically, and analytically. An extension at the end allo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secanttangent-line-connection
Looking Normal
This lesson involves examining multiple samples taken from a single approximately normal population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/looking-normal