Inverse Functions on the TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...r expert talk through important math topics and how to enrich those topics with TI technology. A particular topic that really struck me is “inverse functions.” Why? Students often struggle with making connections between the definition of and various properties of inverse functions. In addition...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/investigating-inverse-functions-ti-84-plus-ce
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
... press the 2nd key followed by the right or left arrow to take the cursor to the end or the beginning of the expression, respectively. For additional fun tips, see the Webinar “How-To” With Your TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator, Part 1 and the subsequent webinars in this series. Happily,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
5 Teacher Tips for Classroom Management | Texas Instruments
...Relationship building and engagement Hands down, the most popular approach our teacher community shared was relationship building. As a fun way of building relationships with students, LeAnn Neel Romine suggested having them pick a word that matches the first letter of their name. T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-teacher-tips-classroom-management
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
Under Pressure: The Inverse Relationship between Pressure and Volume
In this activity, students' will use a pressure sensor to investigate the relationship between pressure and volume for an enclosed air sample, and fit an inverse function model to the pressure versus volume data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/under-pressure-the-inverse-relationship-between-pressure-and-volume
NASA - Weightless Wonder
In this activity, students explore quadratic functions through the real-world example of weightless flight and the gravitational pull of the earth on objects in orbit.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--weightless-wonder
Interesting Properties of Cubic Functions
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity encourages students to investigate numerical and graphical properties of cubic functions, and to verify the results using CAS.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interesting-properties-of-cubic-functions
Exponential Reflections
In this activity, you will investigate the inverse of an exponential function. You will also investigate the symmetry of the exponential function and its inverse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-reflections_1
Change Of Base
Discover the change of base rule for logarithms by examining the ratio of two logarithmic functions with different bases.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/change-of-base
Change Of Base
In this activity, students discover the change of base rule for logarithms by examining the ratio of two logarithmic functions with different bases.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/change-of-base
Convergence of Taylor Series
A Taylor Series for a function becomes the function as the number of terms increases towards infinity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/convergence-of-taylor-series
Continuity and Differentiability of Functions
Students will manipulate piecewise functions to make them continuous. Once students create a continuous function, they will calculate derivatives to determine if the function is also differentiable.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/continuity-and-differentiability-of-functions
Concavity
Examine the relationship between the first and second derivative and shape of a function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/concavity
Derivative Grapher
Visualize the relationship between the graph of a function and the graph of its derivative function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/derivative-grapher
Derivative Function
Transition from thinking of the derivative at a point to thinking of the derivative as a function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/derivative-function
Definite Integral
Make visual connections between the definite integral of a function and the signed area between the function and the x-axis.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/definite-integral
Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
Students will use the graph of the sine function to estimate the graph of the cosine function. They will do this by inspecting the slope of a tangent to the graph of the sine function at several points and using this information to construct a scatter plot for the derivative of the sine. Students...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/derivatives-of-trigonometric-functions
Average Value
Examine areas as integrals and as rectangles for given functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/average-value
Area Function Problems
Understand the relationship between the area under a derivative curve and the antiderivative function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-function-problems
Applications of Critical Points
Students will examine the relationship between critical points and local extrema through real-world examples. Students will zoom in on the critical points to see if the curve becomes linear to determine if the function is differentiable at the critical point. They will then discover that the sign...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-critical-points
Integration By Substitution
Students explore methods for computing integrals of functions that are not in one of the standard forms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/integration-by-substitution_1
Inflection Points
Students investigate points of inflection on a function and its first and second derivatives, and discover how they relate to each other.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inflection-points
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
Proof by Counterexample of the SSA and AAA Cases
Students will use the geometry functions of the Nspire to create triangles with SSA and AAA details. Then these counterexamples are used to disprove possible SSA and AAA conjectures.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proof-by-counterexample-of-the-ssa-and-aaa-cases
Inverse Derivative
Visualize the reciprocal relationship between the derivative of a function and the derivative of its inverse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inverse-derivative