Flatland: The TI-Book
One of the best geometry books of all time is Flatland. Written over a century ago, there is no copyright for this book and you can find it available free as a podcast or a text file. However, nothing beats a TI-book with nicely produced diagrams.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/flatland-the-tibook
Printing Your Own Books - is it more cost effective?
In this activity, students will create functions based on real-life scenarios, fill out a table of values, and critically analyze characteristics of graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/printing-books
Investigating Properties of Quadrilaterals Using the TI-Nspire Navigator
Why spend time listing properties/theorems on the board when your students can be actively engaged in the discovery of such properties. This activity will make use of the TI-Nspire and the TI-Nspire Navigator to exchange files with the students handhelds. The Class Analysis feature of the TI-Ns...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-properties-of-quadrilaterals-using-the-tinspire-navigator
Investigating Triangles and Congruence
The main purpose for this activity is to explore triangles with pairs of corresponding congruent sides and a congruent nonincluded angle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-triangles-and-congruence
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
Inscribed and Central Angles in a Circle
This activity explores the relationship between inscribed angles subtended by the same minor arc. The second problem explores the relationship between inscribed angles and central angles subtended by the same minor arc.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inscribed-and-central-angles-in-a-circle
Inscribed Regular Polygons
Students will calculate the changing area and perimeter of inscribed polygons as the number of sides increase. The measurements will be recorded in a spreadsheet for analysis. Students will be learning to use the measurement tools and the Hide/Show function of the TI-Nspire. Students will be aske...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inscribed-regular-polygons
"Add Them Up" for TI-Nspire
This activity (which is based on "Add Them Up" from EasyData Collection Activities) involves the use of TI-Nspire, Vernier Easy Link, and a Voltage sensor in order to have students graph a scatterplot and determine an equation of best fit based on collected data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/add-them-up-for-tinspire
Rates of Change and Slope
This lesson was designed for the Grade 10 Applied curriculum in Ontario. In that course, students are expected to connect the rate of change of a linear relationship to the slope of a line.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rates-of-change-and-slope
Measuring Segments and Angles
Students will explore the Angle Addition Postulate and the Segment Addition Postulate.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/measuring-segments-and-angles
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
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
The German Tank Problem
Students will develop an understanding of sampling distributions by exploring the methods used to estimate the number of German tanks in existence during WWIIhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-german-tank-problem
Solve Me - One and Two-Step Inequalities
Students will use the TI-Nspire CAS to check their steps used to solve one and two-step inequalities. They will also use the solve feature to verify that they have the correct solution at the end of each problem. While solving inequalities, many students make careless mistakes with simplifying...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solve-me--one-and-twostep-inequalities
Solve Me - Multi-Step Equations
Students will use the TI-Nspire CAS to check the steps they used to solve multi-step equations and equations with variables on both sides. They will also use the solve feature to verify that they have the correct solution at the end of each problem. While solving equations, many students make ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solve-me--multistep-equations
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
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
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
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
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
Can You Make My Graph?
Students are to find the equations of graphs of trigonometric functions (using sine and cosine) and will also identify values for the amplitude, period, phase shift, and vertical shift. This activity is a modified version of the activity "What's the Equation?" originally made by Lauren Jensen.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/can-you-make-my-graph
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
Area of a Triangle
The student will use three methods for finding the area of a triangle. They will find the area using the determinant of a matrix, two sides and the included angle (trig) and Heron's formula (three sides).https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-of-a-triangle
Modeling Daylight Hours
Students are provided with data on the daylight hours for two Canadian cities measured three times per month in 2007. The student's task is to create graphical and algebraic models of the data and to interpret the meaning of each of the parameters in the algebraic models. The student will also ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-daylight-hours