Piecewise Linear Integral
Use graphical interpretations of the meanings of definite integrals and definite integral functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/piecewise-linear-integral
Award Winning Data
Arguably the most famous awards in the world, but are the Academy Awards® ageist and sexist? The mean age of female winners is 36 compared with males at 44, but Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy) won an award at age 81, the oldest award recipient. Katherine Hepburn won an award at age 74. Wha...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/academy-awards
Fill the Vase
Students interpret graphs of empirical data with respect to rate of change of the height of water in vases of different shapes that are being filled at a constant rate. Students are provided with a range of graphs and vases. For each graph they must reshape the vase in order to match the volume –...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/fill-the-vase
Can You Take The Pressure?
Students will use the Vernier EasyLink© and the Gas Pressure Sensor to determine the volume of a gas in a container under different pressures. They will also graph the pressure/volume data and interpret their graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/can-you-take-the-pressure
Inverse Functions on the TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...owever, when teaching inverse functions, I prefer to start the lesson by introducing an application of inverse functions as a means of teaching the purpose and skill of finding inverse functions. This exercise establishes both the meaning of inverse functions and how to construct an inverse funct...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/investigating-inverse-functions-ti-84-plus-ce
Match the Graph-84
Students walk in front of a calculator-based ranger CBR™ 2 and try to match a distance-time graph. They examine the rate of change, and analyze and interpret the graph of a function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-the-graph
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
Secrets in the Triangle
Students will use the geometry screens of the TI-Nspire™ to find points of concurrency by constructing the altitudes, perpendicular bisectors, and medians in triangles. The Euler Line will be found and extensions given.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secrets-in-the-triangle
Segment Addition Postulate
The purpose of this handout is to provide students an opportunity to learn the keystrokes involved using the TI-Nspire and to verify the Segment Addition Postulate.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/segment-addition-postulate
Shortest Distance
Students will discover, through exploration, that the shortest distance from a point on a line to the origin is a measure of a perpendicular line segment. You will investigate this minimization problem and support the analytical explanations with interactive explorations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/shortest-distance
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
Creating Perpendicular Bisectors
Construct the perpendicular bisector of a line segment in several different ways and consider the role of circles in the construction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/creating-perpendicular-bisectors
Cyclic Quadrilaterals
Explore the relationship between chords of a circle and their perpendicular bisectors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cyclic-quadrilaterals
Proportional Segments
The purpose of this activity is to investigate the relationship between segments formed by drawing a line parallel to one side of a triangle or by drwing and angle bisector of one the angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proportional-segments
Discovering the Circumcenter and Centroid of a Triangle
The students will find the circumcenter by constructing perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle. They will also find the centroid by constructing the medians of a triangle and discover that the centroid is 2/3 of the distance from each vertex along each median.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discovering-the-circumcenter-and-centroid-of-a-triangle
Properties of Parallel Lines
This activity is designed to incorporate the TI-Nspire Navigator system to provide a paperless activity. Students will investigate the relationships formed when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. They will make observations from angle measurements. This is a great activity for beginn...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallel-lines
Chords of a Circle
Explore the relationship between chords of a circle and their perpendicular bisectors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chords-of-a-circle
Exponential Functions and the Natural Logarithm
Discover a surprising property involving the relative growth rate of an exponential function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-functions-and-the-natural-logarithm
Angles in Polygons
This is a self-contained activity that is designed to incorporate the TI-Nspire Navigator system which provides for a paperless activity that can be easily managed during and after the class period. Students will investigate the relationships of the interior and exterior angles in a polygon. T...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-in-polygons
Angle and Perpendicular Bisectors in a Triangle
The students will examine where the perpendicular bisectors and angle bisectors of a triangle intersect. The students will circumscribe a circle around the triangle and will inscribe a circle within the triangle. There is a page at the end of each activity with the circle constructed if the s...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angle-and-perpendicular-bisectors-in-a-triangle
Triangle: Side Lengths and Angle Measures
The main purpose of this activity is to allow students to use TI-Nspire or TI-Nspire CAS to explore and decide which sides and angles of a triangle are the smallest and which are the largest.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-side-lengths-and-angle-measures
The Ladder Problem Revisited
...iangle is equal to half the length of the hypotenuse. Students then prove this property. The problem: A ladder leans upright against a wall that is perpendicular to the floor. A painter is standing at the midpoint of the ladder. If the bottom of the ladder begins to slide away from the wall, wh...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-ladder-problem-revisited
Taxicab Geometry
In this activity, students begin a study of taxicab geometry by discovering the taxicab distance formula. They then use the definition of radius to draw a taxicab circle and make comparisons between a circle in Euclidean geometry and a circle in taxicab geometry. Lastly, they construct taxicab pe...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taxicab-geometry
Special Segments in Triangles
In this activity, students construct medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors of triangles. They then drag the vertices to see where the intersections of the segments lie in relation to the triangle, and they measure distances to identify relationships. They see that the i...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/special-segments-in-triangles_1
Linear Modeling
This lesson involves modeling relationship between variables related to the operational cost of airplanes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-modeling