Exponential Growth
The purpose of this exploration is to investigate properties of exponential functions including the relationship between the graphical and algebraic forms of the functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-growth
Graphical Analysis
Students will analyze graphs of polynomials finding intervals over which the function is increasing or decreasing and positive or negative, as well as the function’s relative minimum and maximum values and x- and y-intercepts.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphical-analysis
Simple Harmonic Motion
With an example of the motion of a child on a swing, the activity begins with the trigonometric function between time and displacement and differentiates up to acceleration.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/simple-harmonic-motion_1
Second Derivative Grapher
Visualize the relationship between the graph of a function and the graph of its second derivative.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/second-derivative-grapher
Secant/Tangent Line Connection
Students will explore a real situation by minimizing the distance between two points on a secant line; ultimately making a connection to the slope of the tangent line and the difference quotient. Students will explore this graphically, numerically, and analytically. An extension at the end allo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secanttangent-line-connection
Solids Of Revolution Between Two Curves
Students will investigate 3D visualizations of volumes created by rotating two functions about the x-or y-axis. They will understand the concept and reason for the volume formula in order to be prepared for generalizations. Students will solve the definite integral by hand using the fundamental t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solids-of-revolution-between-two-curves
Somewhere in the Middle
In this activity, students will explore the Mean Value Theorem. Students will find out when the tangent line is parallel to the secant line passing through the endpoints of an interval to help them find the values of c guaranteed to exist by the MVT. Students will also test functions where the hy...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/somewhere-in-the-middle_1
NASA - Maintaining Bone Mineral Density
In this activity students perform an appropriate test to determine the answer to the question "Is using the iRED exercise method significantly better than using the treadmill and bicycle in maintaining bone density?"https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--maintaining-bone-mineral-density
Catching the Rays
Students will fit a sinusoidal function to a set of data. The data are the number of hours of daylight starting January 1st and collected on the first and sixteenth days of the months in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/catching-the-rays
Cell Phone Range
Students will learn to identify the domain and range of various real-world step functions. They will graphically explore numerical data points and observe step functions. Open and closed points on a graph are investigated and discussed.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cell-phone-range_1
Modeling Situations Using Piecewise Functions
In this activity, the students use piecewise functions to describe and model everyday situations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-situations-using-piecewise-functions
Investigating the Sine Function
In this activity, students will use their Nspire handhelds to discover the different attributes of the graph of the sine function. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities of this very unique handheld to explore the amplitude, period, and phase shift of the sine function grap...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-the-sine-function
How to Save Functions and Take Derivatives
Saving Functions and Take Derivatives using Your Ti-Nspire CAS CXhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-to-save-functions-and-take-derivatives
Investing in Your Future - Using Spreadsheets to Make Comparisons
This activity provides students the opportunity to make financial decisions based on different investment scenarios. Students will use the spreadsheet application of the TI-Nspire calculator to compare the results of investing in a certificate of deposit or a Money Market Account. Students will p...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investing-in-your-future--using-spreadsheets-to-make-comparisons
Linear Equation Games Unit:Activity #1 Find The Rule Game
Students are to find equations of linear function from a table of values. There are two Find the Rule Game activities along with a Find the Rule Game for Point Slope.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-equation-games-unitactivity-1-find-the-rule-game
Absolute Value
This lesson involves the family of absolute value functions of the form f(x) = a |x + c| + b.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/absolute-value
400 Meter World Records
Student will find the Med/Med line equation for the world records in the men's 400 meter dash from 1912 to 2000. Students will use scatter plots to graph the list they have typed into a spreadsheet, Students will use the handheld to get answers for work that is required to solve the problem. The...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/400-meter-world-records
Graphing Quadratic Functions
Students graph quadratic functions and study how the variables in the equations compare to the coordinates of the vertices and the axes of symmetry in the graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-quadratic-functions
Folding Parabolas
In this activity, students graph a quadratic function and investigate its symmetry by choosing pairs of points with the same y-value. They then calculate the average of the x-values of these points and discover that not only do all the points have the same x-value, but the average is equal to the...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/folding-parabolas
Transformations of Logarithmic Functions
This lesson involves the family of logarithmic functions of the form f(x) = c*logb(x+a).https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations-of-logarithmic-functions
Graphing the Tangent to a Curve
Students will graph a function and the graph of the tangent line's slope as a point moves around the curve.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-the-tangent-to-a-curve
Zeros of a Cubic
This activity introduces students to a relationship between the zeros of a cubic function with 3 distinct zeros.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/zeros-of-a-cubic
Power Function Inverses
Examine the graphs of power functions with even and odd integer powers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/power-function-inverses
Polynomials: Factors, Roots and Zeroes
Investigate graphical and algebraic representations of a polynomial function and its linear factors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polynomials-factors-roots-and-zeroes
Hitting Homeruns
It is a study of the way a hit baseball moves through the air in the sense of using a quadratic function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hitting-homeruns