Punnett Square
In this activity students will explore the rules of Mendelian Genetics using a single trait, height, in pea plants. A monohybrid cross using a simple Punnett Square is performed. Students can randomize their parental generation using the reset button so they can explore all facets of dominant and...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/punnett-square
Entropy
In this activity, students will investigate entropy from the point of view of microstates, macrostates, and probability. The goal of the activity is to help students better understand the relationship between probability and entropy. Students will learn that, in the case of the second law of ther...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/entropy
T³ Instructors | Become a Teacher Leader | Texas Instruments
... The Teachers Teaching with Technology™ (T3™) professional learning organization is comprised of some of the most creative and innovative mathematics, science and STEM teachers in the world. They are successful educators who work with teachers and students from...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/t3-community/t3-instructors
Friction: Your Friend or Your Enemy?
In this lesson, students explore static and kinetic friction by dragging shoes with different types of soles across a table at a constant pace. Alternative procedure for the Vernier Go Direct® sensors with TI-Nspire CX II is included in the downloads.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/friction-your-friend-or-your-enemy
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
...ible about their retirement savings. Meet Harold Peters. He started investing in the late 1950s and early ’60s, but at that time there were large commissions and fees … sometimes as much as 8% per trade! So, he started to study retirement systems and over many years he recognized that fees ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
BA II Plus™ Professional Financial Calculator | Texas Instruments
...r | Texas Instruments global website Punch the numbers and crunch the data. Animated tutorial movies developed by Hoonuit Professional Learning offer step-by-step instructions covering finance, real estate,...https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/financial/baii-plus-professional
Match Me!
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time graphs. They learn to change the shape of the plot by adjust...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-me
Slippery Slope
In this activity, students will create Distance versus Time plots and calculate the slopes of the plots. They explore the mathematical concept of slopes and understand how slopes can be used to interpret how one physical quantity changes with respect to another.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slippery-slope
Forensics Case 8 - No Dumping: Using soil characteristics to link suspects to a crime scene
In this activity, students measure pH, conductivity, and water absorbency of different samples of soil. They use these characteristic properties to identify soil samples. They use the physical and chemical characteristics of soil samples collected from suspects to determine whether a suspect had ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-8--no-dumping-using-soil-characteristics-to-link-suspects-to-a-crime-scene
Forensics Case 12 - Hit and Run: Using information from an event data recorder to reconstruct an ac
Students learn how distance traveled, velocity, and acceleration are related to one another and how the appearance of an acceleration, velocity, or distance vs. time graph can be used to predict the appearance of the other graphs. They show how accident scenes can be recreated through an analysis...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-12--hit-and-run-using-information-from-an-event-data-recorder-to-reconstruct-an-ac
Solution 34694: Using the fnInt Function Integral Command on the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators.
... select 9:fnInt( 2) Press [0] [→] [1] [→] [alpha] [math] [x²] [→] [alpha] [math] [enter] In CLASSIC mode, follow the steps below: 1) From the main screen press [math] then [9] to select 9:fnInt( 2) Press [alpha] [math] [x2] [,] [alpha] [math] [,] [0] [,] [1] [)] [enter] Please see the TI-84 Pl...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/34694
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
The sum of the interior angles of regular polygons
The students will construct triangles within regular-sided polygons to determine the sum of the interior angles. They will then, using statistics, create a linear regression to determine the relationship between the number of sides of a regular polygon and the sum of its interior angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-sum-of-the-interior-angles-of-regular-polygons
Transformtions and Tessellations
In this activity you will construct a variety of transformations. In Problem #1 you will create a reflection of a pentagon, in Problem #2 a translation of a regular hexagon, in Problem #3 a rotation of a quadrilateral in two ways, in Problem #4 a dilation of a triangle. In each case you will ob...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformtions-and-tessellations
Putting limits on Pi
This activity has the students calculate the perimeter of inscribed and circumscribed regular polygons about a circle and then use the calculated values to determine pi.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/putting-limits-on-pi
Transformational Puppet
This activity allows students to practice their skills of reflecting on a line and translating on a vector. The instructions don't ask for creativity but students who finish early can enjoy being creative with this activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformational-puppet
Parallel Lines and the Transversals that Cross Them!
Students will explore the relationships between angles formed by parallel lines crossed by transversals. While there are other activities that may address similar topics, the questions presented to students in this activity bring a fresh perspective to student discovery.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parallel-lines-and-the-transversals-that-cross-them
Exploring Cavalieri's Principle
Students will explore Cavalieri's Principle for cross sectional area and volume.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-cavalieris-principle_1
Dilations
This activity is designed to allow students to create an interactive document that allows them to alter the specifications of a dilation and visually and numerically see its effects.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dilations
Polygons - Diagonals
Students will investigate the number of diagonals in each polygon with three through ten sides, then develop a formula for the relationship between the number of sides and the number of diagonals of the polygons. Some prior familiarity with constructing segments and basic functions of the TI-Nsp...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polygons--diagonals
Exploring the Black Box of Quadrilaterals
The exploration will begin with students dragging the quadrilateral given to them about the screen. Initially, they will be asked to simply identify the quadrilateral's type by sight. This will require simply a visual recognition of the quadrilaterals parallelogram, rectangle, square, rhombus, ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-black-box-of-quadrilaterals
Constructing a Pentagon, An Alternative Method
Use the TN-Nspire (OS 2.0) to construct a regular pentagon using lines, rays, line segments, and circles of various diameters. The characteristics of a regular pentagon are discussed and used to verify the construction meets the criteria of all sides being equal, and all angles being equal. The ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/constructing-a-pentagon-an-alternative-method
First Derivative Test
Visualize the connections between the first derivative of a function, critical points, and local extrema.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/first-derivative-test
Angle-Side Relationships
Investigate some necessary conditions for creating a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angleside-relationships
Circles - Angles and Arcs
In this activity, students will investigate inscribed angles, central angles and intercepted arcs relationships in circles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/circles--angles-and-arcs