Addition of Parts
This activity is a self-contained discussion of the topic of segment and angle addition and allows the teacher to focus on the flow of the class rather than explanation. Students will be able to work through this activity easily and reach usable conclusions on their own. Also, examples are prov...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/addition-of-parts
Mystery Quadrilateral!
This activity could be used as an assessment after a unit on special quadrilaterals. Students are given an unknown mystery quadrilateral that looks like a square. By dragging the vertices of the mystery quadrilateral, students conjecture the true name of the quadrilateral. Students support their ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mystery-quadrilateral
The Lunes of Hippocrates
In this activity the students discover a property of this historical figure.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-lunes-of-hippocrates
The Lunes of Hippocrates
In this activity, students will explore a figure that involves lunes - the area enclosed between arcs of intersecting circles. When lunes are constructed on the sides of a right triangle, an interesting result occurs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-lunes-of-hippocrates_1
Reflections in Motion
Students will use reflected images of triangles to observe similarities retained under vertical and horizontal stretching and shrinking transformations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/reflections-in-motion
How far do you live from school?
Prior to this activity students determine how far they live from school and how long it takes them to get to school. They analyze this data using various types of graphs and draw conclusions regarding the relationship between time and distance. They also look at zip codes and explore factors that...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-far-do-you-live-from-school
Mystery Point!
Students will discover the nature of the 'Mystery Point' in a triangle. The Mystery Point is a triangle center, constructed through algebraic and vector means, so students can not "un-hide" the construction to discover the center. The students will have to test various center constructions to dis...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mystery-point
Investigating Parallelograms
The purpose of this activity is to use TI-Nspire to explore the properties of parallelograms. A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-parallelograms
Exterior Angle Theorem
In the activity, you will investigate the relationship found between an exterior angle of a triangle and its related remote interior angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exterior-angle-theorem
The Filly Zoo
During this activity, students are charged with the task of designing the shapes of the habitats of the animals that inhibit the Filly Zoo. The students are asked to use their TI-Nspire calculators to create geometric shapes, measure the dimensions of the shapes, and make informed decisions abou...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-filly-zoo
Polythagoras
This activity explores (a) relationships among non-square regular polygons constructed on the sides of a right triangle and (b) visual and numerical proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem using rotations and non-square polygons.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polythagoras
Angles formed by Parallel Lines cut by a Transversal
The purpose of this activity is to use the dynamic capabilities of the TI-Nspire to help students make conjectures about the measures of angles when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-formed-by-parallel-lines-cut-by-a-transversal
Introduction to Transformations
The purpose of this activity is to use the dynamic capabilities of the TI-Nspire to help students make conjectures about transformations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/introduction-to-transformations
Solving Systems of Linear Equations with Row Reductions to Echelon Form on Augmented Matrices
This activity shows the user how to interpret a system of linear equations as an augmented matrix, row reduce the matrix to echelon form, and interpret the output to give a unique solution, generate infinite solutions, or conclude no solutions exist. The activity also shows how to check unique so...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-of-linear-equations-with-row-reductions-to-echelon-form-on-augmented-matrices
The Mean Value Theorem
Students are presented with a several examples of functions to discover the hypotheses and conclusion of the Mean Value theorem. They will explore the concept of continuity and differentiability as related to the Mean Value Theorem.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-mean-value-theorem
Cardioid Patterns - Discover Using Graphs
This activity will give students an opportunity to discover a pattern in the graphs of cardioids.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cardioid-patterns--discover-using-graphs
Motorcycle Tire Balancing
In this activity, students will explore linear and angular velocities and the relationship between them. This exploration is based on using a spin balancer to balance motorcycle tires of different sizes. Since a spin balancer rotates at a constant velocity, the linear and angular velocities of th...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/motorcycle-tire-balancing
Application of Maximum-Minimum Problems
Students will use a graphing approach to find the minimum costs of running a new line from a power station to a point on an island. Students will begin with a scaled drawing and follow the prompts. They will also manually collect data and find a curve of best fit.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/application-of-maximumminimum-problems
Law of Sines
Students will investigate all the cases in which the Law of Sines can be used to solve a triangle. An animation is provided in the lesson which will help students to gain a better understanding of the ambiguous case SSA.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/law-of-sines_1
Verifying Trigonometric Identities
The student will look at the different tools needed to verify trigonometric identitites including reciprocals, cofunctions, quotient, and Pythagorean identities. Students will also be introduced to the "Hexagon".https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/verifying-trigonometric-identities
Law of Cosines
Students are introduced to the concept of the Law of Cosines. They will explore the concept graphically, numerically, and algebraically. They will discover the Law of Cosines at the conclusion of the activity using TI-Nspire CAS.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/law-of-cosines
What's My Absolute Value
Students will discover what taking the absolute value of a domain will do and what taking the absolute value of a range will do.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/whats-my-absolute-value
Hitting Homeruns
It is a study of the way a hit baseball moves through the air in the sense of using a quadratic function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hitting-homeruns
Polar Point Plotting
The student will be given a brief overview of the Polar Coordinate system. Students will be able to manipulate the radius of a polar point while graphing it on the plane or manipulate the angle and see the polar coordinate graphed on the plane. This activity is meant as an introduction to polar p...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polar-point-plotting