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
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
Given the Graph of a Parabola, State its Equation in Vertex Form
This activity is designed for students to study on their own. It is designed in a 'StudyCard' format. A graph of a parabola will be shown. The student is asked to find the equation of the parabola in vertex form: y = a*(x - h)^(2) + v. Press enter on the double up arrow in the Ans... section t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/given-the-graph-of-a-parabola-state-its-equation-in-vertex-form
The Painted Cube
This lesson involves having the students hypothesize about the different relationships that exist between the size of the cube and the number of cubes that have paint on one, two, three, and zero faces. In order to help students visualize the problem, interlocking cubes could be made available.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-painted-cube
The Factor Connection
In this activity, students will explore the connection between linear factors and quadratic functions. Transformations of quadratic functions will be used to develop and enhance the connection between factors, zeros, and graphs. It will make full use of the dynamic ability to manipulate graphs...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-factor-connection
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
Radio Station KTNS
This lesson involves determining the distance one can hear a radio station as a function of the range of the station.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/radio-station-ktns
Elliptic Variations
This lesson involves exploring the curves that result from varying the defining conditions of an ellipse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/elliptic-variations
Complex Number Addition
This lesson involves the addition of two complex numbers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/complex-number-addition
Day at the Beach
In this lesson, students will explore temperature differences in two sets of sand, one dry and one wet.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/day-at-the-beach
Vernier - Freezing and Melting of Water
In this lesson, students will collect and analyze data of freezing and melting water.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--freezing-and-melting-of-water
What does "i" do?
The purpose of our lesson is to allow students to foster an understanding of what happens geometrically when a number is multiplied by i. This shall be achieved by working through the lesson using an investigative approach.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-does-i-do
Martinsville Chase
In this activity, students will analyze attaching a wing to a Sprint Cup car.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/martinsville-chase
Lights on the International Space Station
In this lesson, students will discover how various factors affect lighting by using different types of flashlights and battery strenghts.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lights-on-the-international-space-station
Watch the Birdie Breathe
In this lesson, students will analyze a graph of data representing the relationship between the environmental temperature and the resulting metabolism of an endothermic animal.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/watch-the-birdie-breathe
What Makes an Animal?
In this lesson, students learn about basic animal biology and identification of different animal species.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-makes-an-animal
When Water "Leaves"
In this lesson, students will explore the effects of various environmental conditions on the rate of transpiration from the leaves of a plant.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/when-water-leaves
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
Too Hot? Too Cold? Just Right!
In this lesson, students will simulate the effect of environmental temperature on the metabolisms of both endothermic and ectothermic animals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/too-hot--too-cold-just-right
Cellular Respiration
In this lesson, students will use different simulations to explore three pathways involved in cellular respiration.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cellular-respiration_1
Diffusion Data Collection Lab
In this lesson, students will use varying molarities of a salt solution to observe diffusion through a membrane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/diffusion-data-collection-lab
Contingency Tables and Chi-Square
This lesson involves deriving and interpreting the chi-square as an indication of whether two variables in a population are independent or associated.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/contingency-tables-and-chisquare
DNA Replication
In this lesson, students will use simulations to interact with DNA replication in order to explore semi-conservative replication and identify specific enzymes and their roles in replication.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dna-replication
Arctic Wars - Lynx vs. Snowshoe Hare
In this lesson, students will investigate a population with cycling patterns that exist between a predator and its prey.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arctic-wars--lynx-vs--snowshoe-hare
Which Fish?
In this lesson, students learn about basic fish biology and will identify a variety of fish species.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/which-fish