SSS Triangle Congruence
Students will: 1. Construct a triangle and measure its sides and angles. 2. Construct a second triangle with corresponding sides equal in length. 3. Try to alter the properties of their construction by moving the vertices.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sss-triangle-congruence
Tiles in a Bag
How many tiles would you have to pick to be confident that your estimated probability truly represents the situation? In this activity, you will draw a tile from a bag, record its color and put it back in the bag. The bag contains 24 tiles some blue and some green. A green tile is considered a s...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tiles-in-a-bag
Stretching Slinkies
This lesson provides students with the opportunity to explore the TI-84 graphing calculator in conjunction with Microsoft Excel®. Students will use the "Stretching Slinkies" worksheet to record and enter data. They will either: enter data into Microsoft Excel to synch with the TI-84, OR, enter da...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/stretching-slinkies
SAS Triangle Congruence
Students will: 1.Construct a triangle and measure one pair of sides and the contained angle 2.Construct a second triangle with corresponding sides equal in length and congruent corresponding angles 3.Try to alter the properties of their construction by moving the verticeshttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sas-triangle-congruence
Relationship between central angle and inscribed angle measure
Students investigate the relationship between measure of central and inscribed angles in a circle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/relationship-between-central-angle-and-inscribed-angle-measure
Zooooooom!
This activity uses times collected for a radio control car traveling certain distances to create a regression line to analyze and discuss as a class. If the car(s) cannot be obtained, you can use students to run the distances.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/zooooooom
Building a Garden Fence
In this activity, students will use basic concepts of perimeter and area to investigate a classic problem situation requiring maximization. They must decide how to build a garden fence to enclose the largest possible area.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/building-a-garden-fence
Compound Interest: Show Me the Money
This is an activity at the conclusion of the exponential relationship unit where students have experience with equations in the form y=a*b^x. Students use the random integer function on the TI-83 Plus to generate a rate of return for the investment profile they choose.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/compound-interest-show-me-the-money
Going Into Business
Students will work through a scenario of a business venture involving washing dogs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/going-into-business
REAL LIFE REAL WORLD Activity: Air Traffic Control
In this lesson, students will model and solve air traffic control problems with geometry software. The Cabri Jr. application will be used to construct a model of the problem situation and concepts from trigonometry and proportions are then applied to find the solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/real-life-real-world-activity-air-traffic-control
Graphing Systems at the Races
This activity involves solving a system of equations created from a problem I wrote about a greyhound racing to catch a toy rabbit on a mechanical arm. The ending activity involves solving a similar system, only involving another problem I wrote based on the end of a NASCAR race.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-systems-at-the-races
Ain't No River Wide Enough
Students simulate the process a surveyor would use to measure the width of a river by measuring length on one side of the river and angles formed by various reference points.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/aint-no-river-wide-enough
Dilations with Matrices
Students use matrices to perform dilations centered at the origin of triangles. Students will explore the effect of the scale factor on the size relationship between the preimage and image of a polygon.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dilations-with-matrices
End Behavior of Polynomial Functions - 84
This lesson involves determining the similarities and differences among functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/end-behavior-of-polynomial-functions_1
Arc length and Area of Sectors
This is an introduction to finding the arc length and area of sectors of circles. Students should have the formulas for Circumference and Area of circles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arc-length-and-area-of-sectors
Circles - Angles and Arcs
In this TI-84 family activity, students explore angles constructed in a circle and how their measures are related to the measures of the intercepted arcs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-and-arcs
ASA Triangle Congruence
1.Construct an triangle and select two angles and the contained side to copy to a second triangle. 2.Measure sides and angles to visualize congruence properties 3.Try to alter the properties of their construction by moving the vertices of the original trianglehttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/asa-triangle-congruence
The Amazing Race: Algebra Edition
This is a full lesson, and the guided practice section utilizes the Navigator system. The independent practice is the game The Amazing Race (explained in the PDF).https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-amazing-race--algebra-edition
Exploing relatioship between radius, area, and circumference of a circle
Visually explore relationships in area and circumferencehttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploing-relatioship-between-radius-area-and-circumference-of-a-circle
Is an equilateral triangle a special case of isosceles?
The definition of isosceles triangle can determine whether an equilateral triangle is a special case of an isosceles triangle. Using the Cabri Jr. application, students can get a feel for which definition makes the most sense. Along the way, they get experience with a perpendicular bisector, me...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/is-an-equilateral-triangle-a-special-case-of-isosceles
Is a square a special case of rectangle?
The definition of square can determine whether it is a special case of a rectangle. Using the Cabri Jr. application, students can get a feel for why its definition makes sense. Along the way, they get experience with perpendiculars, parallels, measuring lengths, and an informal look at the inte...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/is-a-square-a-special-case-of-rectangle
Inference for Correlation and Regression
In this activity, students test if a significant relationship exists between a bivariate data set, and then calculate the confidence and predictive intervals. They also improve the interval-prediction capabilities by automating the process.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inference-for-correlation-and-regression
Law of Large Numbers: Adding It Up
In this activity, students examine the relationship between relative frequency and theoretical probability to understand the Law of Large Numbers. They will explore the concept of independent events. They will also discern the difference between relative and cumulative frequencies.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/law-of-large-numbers-adding-it-up
Percentiles - IB
The goal of this activity is for students to use the area to the left of a value in a normal distribution to find its percentile. The process will then be reversed to find the value for a given percentile. In doing so, students will learn how to use the Normal CDF and Inverse Normal commands on t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/percentiles
Perimeters, Areas, and Slopes - Oh, My!
Students create geometric figures, and use analytic and coordinate geometry to investigate their attributes. They go through the process of proving that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perimeters-areas-and-slopes--oh-my