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
Fall-Tastic Ideas for Your Classroom | Texas Instruments
...domains and functions in a fun way. These piecewise activities are perfect for the festive season, helping make math classes more entertaining and engaging. Draw a wise owl, a turkey in the straw, fluttering bats or spooky cats! Every activity features a total of three worksheets, each with a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/falltastic-ideas-enhance-classroom
NASA - Space Shuttle Ascent
Student examine the ascent stage of a NASA space shuttle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-shuttle-ascent
Solution 14060: Troubleshooting the "Unknown Device" and "TUSB3410 Boot Device" Error Message when Using TI Connect™ Software for Windows®.
Solution 14060: Troubleshooting the "Unknown Device" and "TUSB3410 Boot Device" Error Message when Using TI Connect™ Software for Windows®. Solution 14060: Troubleshooting the "Unknown Device" and "TUSB3410 Boot Device" Error Message when Using TI Connect™ Software for Windows®. global So...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/troubleshooting-messages-unexpected-results/14060
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
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
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
Proving Angles Congruent
In this activity students will be introduced to proofs, including 2-column proofs, paragraph proofs and flow-proofs. They will also look at different diagrams to decide what the diagram is telling them and what they can infere. They will also look at complementary, supplementary, adjacent and v...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proving-angles-congruent_1
Transformations With Lists
Students use list operations to perform reflections, rotations, translations and dilations on a figure, and graph the resulting image using a scatter plot.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations-with-lists_1
Perpendicular Bisector
In this activity, students will explore the perpendicular bisector theorem and discover that if a point is on the perpendicular bisector of a segment, then the point is equidistant from the endpoints. This is an introductory activity, where students will need to know how to change between pages, ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perpendicular-bisector_1
Transformations: Rotations
Explore clockwise and counterclockwise rotations to discover the properties of the pre-image and image of a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations-rotations
Transformations: Rotations
Explore clockwise and counterclockwise rotations to discover the properties of the pre-image and image of a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations-rotations_1
Properties of Parallelograms
Students will manipulate parallelograms to discover the relationships between the sides, angles, and diagonals of parallelograms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms_7
Properties of Trapezoids and Kites
Students investigate the properties of trapezoids, isosceles trapezoids, and kites by measuring sides and angles in the figures and by constructing and measuring the diagonals of the figures. By dragging vertices of each figure, they can make and test conjectures by seeing which properties hold t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-trapezoids-and-kites
Properties of Triangles
In this activity, students explore different types of triangles and find the interior and exterior angle sum to form a paragraph proof.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-triangles
Points of Concurrency in Triangles
In this activity, students will use their Nspire handhelds to discover the different points of concurrencies in triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities to discover the circumcenter, incenter, and centroid of triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/points-of-concurrency-in-triangles
Polygons & Angles: Looking for Patterns
This activity explores the relationships of various polygons and their angles. This is a discovery lesson and leads students through data and asks them to make conjectures about the angles of a triangle, quadrilateral, and pentagon. This lesson explores interior angles, exterior angles, and as...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polygons--angles--looking-for-patterns
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
Exploring the Equation of a Circle
Explore right triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem to develop the equation of a circle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-equation-of-a-circle
Properties of Isosceles Triangles
In this activity and by using the Nspire handhelds, students will discover the different properties and attributes of Isosceles Triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities of this very unique handheld to explore the different attributes of the Isosceles Triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-isosceles-triangles
Exploring Special Right Triangles
In this acvtivity, a 30-60-90 degree triangle is constructed for the student to explore. The student is asked to construct a 60 degree angle to give them an understanding of the construction. They will drag the vertex of the triangle and collect sample data. After they collect the data it is us...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-special-right-triangles
Exploring Transformations
Investigate translating and reflecting shapes in the coordinate plane and observe how the new image is related to the original shape.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-transformations
Exterior & Remote Interior Angles
Students investigate an exterior angle and its two remote interior angles using a Graphs & Geometry page.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exterior--remote-interior-angles
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