Remember When
In this activity, students will model the relationship between the year and average income, average price of a house, and average price of a car using exponential functions. Then students will answer questions related to the models to gain a deeper understanding of exponential functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/remember-when
Compound Interest
This lesson involves exploring the formula for compound interest as a function of the initial deposit, interest rate, and the number of pay periods per year.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/compound-interest
Modeling with a Quadratic Function
In this lesson, students use a quadratic function to model the flight path of a basketball. Students will interpret the parameters of the quadratic model to answer questions related to the path of the basketball.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-with-a-quadratic-function
Composition of Functions
Students will determine the resulting functions produced from the composition of two functions. They will explore the graphical representation of the resulting function and support the algebraic solution by determining if the graphs coincide. Additionally, students will evaluate two points using ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/composition-of-functions
Modeling Engine Power
In this activity, students use the TI-Nspire handheld to determine if a linear model or a quadratic model best fits a set of given data involving engine power. Students look at the pattern of data points and the sum of squares of the deviations to determine which model fits the data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-engine-power
Matrix Inverses
Modify a 2 X 2 matrix being multiplied by another 2 X 2 matrix until their product is the identity matrix.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/matrix-inverses
Complex Numbers: Plotting and Polar Form
This activity is designed for students who have had prior experience with complex numbers. They first refresh their memories of basic operations with complex numbers. Students then learn to plot complex numbers. Students learn the basics of writing complex numbers in their polar forms and compari...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/complex-numbers-plotting-and-polar-form
Combinations
This activity introduces students to combinations. They derive the formula for the number of combinations of n objects taken r at a time by starting with a list of permutations and eliminating those that name the same group, just in a different order. From here they see how the number of combinat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/combinations
Coded Messages
Determine the product of two matrices and calculate the inverse of the 2 X 2 matrix.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/coded-messages
Linear Inequalities
Linear programming is a technique used to solve problems that are encountered in business and industry. These problems usually involve maximizing or minimizing profit or expenses. The solution will consist of graphing the region that satisfies all the inequalities. The solution will produce a fea...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-inequalities
Calculations at the Crazy Cookie Company
Performing matrix multiplication for the first time, students are prompted to use reasoning skills to determine if matrix products are possible for given pairs of matrices. The tutorial leads them through matrix product operations to find rules for matrix multiplication and predicting dimensions ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/calculations-at-the-crazy-cookie-company
Exploring Power Functions 1
Examine the graphs of power functions with even and odd positive integer exponents.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-power-functions-1
Constructing an Ellipse
Students will explore two different methods for constructing an ellipse. Students discover that the sum of the distances from a point on an ellipse to its foci is always constant. This fact is then used as the basis for an algebraic derivation of the general equation for an ellipse centered at th...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/constructing-an-ellipse_1
Duckweed: Exponential Growth
Students will count the fronds of duckweed for nine days to observe the growth phase. Students will need one class period to start the experiment and one day for the final work and 15 minutes per day between start and finish.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/duckweed--exponential-growth
Analyzing an Electricity Bill
This investigation guides the students through using a piecewise function to model an electric bill.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/analyzing-an-electricity-bill
Solving Systems using Elimination
Solve systems of three equations using the elimination method.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-using-elimination
Complex Number Multiplication
This lesson involves the product of complex numbers, powers of i and complex conjugates.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/complex-number-multiplication
Inverse of Two Temps
Students find a conversion equation that will calculate the corresponding Celsius temperature for any given Fahrenheit temperature. Students learn to graph scatter plots, analyze and graph linear equations, compute and model slope, derive and apply a conversion equation, and analyze inverse relat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inverse-of-two-temps
Introduction to CAS. Adding polynomials, solving equations, factoring trinomials, expanding
This series of activities provides an introduction to some Algebra concelpts using CAS. The activities start with Algebra tiles and CAS. Patterning is modelled for the students so that they can construct the knowledge rather than be given a set of rules. The activities look at adding and subtr...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/introduction-to-cas--adding-polynomials-solving-equations-factoring-trinomials-expanding
Transcription and Translation
In this lesson, students will use simulations and models to interact with both the transcription and translation machinery.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transcription-and-translation
Biodiversity and the Environment
In this activity, students will observe model environments, adjust abiotic variables in those environments, observe the results of those adjustments, and then draw conclusions about the effects of the abiotic world on the biotic world.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/biodiversity-and-the-environment
Light Me Up!
In this lesson, students will explore from a macroscopic level what actually occurs on the microscopic level when electrodes and a source of DC electricity are placed in a solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/light-me-up
Balancing Chemical Equations
In this lesson, students will use the simulation to generate chemical equations and to balance these equations by observing how products are formed from reactants.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-chemical-equations
Multiplication and Division of Rational Numbers
This lesson involves using an interactive area model to solve multiplication and division problems with positive decimals and mixed numbers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/multiplication-and-division-of-rational-numbers
The Water Cycle
In this lesson, students will use an interactive model of the hydrologic cycle to observe which states of water exist in each phase.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-water-cycle