Calculator City
Students help Calculator City determine where to place the statue of Mr. Tex Instruments by finding the circumcenter and incenter of a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/calculator-city
Chords of a Circle
Explore the relationship between chords of a circle and their perpendicular bisectors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chords-of-a-circle
Balancing Point
In this activity, students will explore the median and the centroid of a triangle. Students will discover that the medians of a triangle are concurrent. The point of concurrency is the centroid. Students should discover that the center of mass and the centroid are the same for a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-point
Filling the Urn
Work with linked representations of the related rates of change of volume and height of fluid.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/filling-the-urn
Angle-Side Relationships
Investigate some necessary conditions for creating a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angleside-relationships
Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles
Explore corresponding parts of congruent triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/corresponding-parts-of-congruent-triangles
Congruent Triangles
This activity is intended to provide students with an opportunity to discover three methods of proving triangles congruent: SSS, SAS, and ASA.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/congruent-triangles_2
Circles - Angles and Arcs
In this activity, students will investigate inscribed angles, central angles and intercepted arcs relationships in circles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/circles--angles-and-arcs
Applications of Similar Figures
Students will identify corresponding parts of figures and use the definition of similar figures to solve real-world applications involving rectangles and triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-similar-figures
Angles in Polygons
In this activity, students measure interior angles in convex polygons and find the sum of the angle measures. They make and test a conjecture about the sum of the angle measures in an n-sided polygon. Finally, they measure exterior angles in convex polygons, find their sum, and write a proof for ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-in-polygons_1
Arc Length and Sectors
Investigate the mathematics of arc length and sectors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arc-length-and-sectors
Congruent or Not?
In this activity, students will investigate whether AAA, SAS, ASA, or SSA relationship guarantee that two triangles are congruent or not. This is an exploratory activity where students will need to know how to change between pages, grab and move points, and measure lengths.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/congruent-or-not_1
Are all Constructions Created Equal?
This activity is designed to give preservice teachers an introduction to the circle, compass and line tools in the Graphs & Geometry application of the TI-NSpire. The set of four investigations are designed to provide them with ideas on how to assess geometric constructions by identifying the dif...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/are-all-constructions-created-equal
Area Formula Investigations
It's easy to just plug in the numbers without thinking, right? Even better, just use the calculator to find the area for you! Well, not today! Students will construct altitude and calculate the area of 5 geometric shapes using the measurement tools.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-formula-investigations
Area Formulas
Explore the relationships among the area formulas for parallelogram and rectangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-formulas
Midpoints in the Coordinate Plane
Beginning with horizontal or vertical segments, students will show the coordinates of the endpoints and make a conjecture about the coordinates of the midpoint.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/midpoints-in-the-coordinate-plane
Alternate Interior Angles
Explore the relationships of the angles formed when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/alternate-interior-angles
Angle Relationships
In this activity, students explore the angle relationships that exist when two lines intersect. They begin by exploring vertical angles and linear pairs, and then expand their study to two lines and a transversal. They will see what relationships hold true when the two lines intersected by a tran...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angle-relationships
Angles and Similarity
Experiment with the measures of the angles of similar triangles to determine conditions necessary for two triangles to be similar.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-and-similarity
Triangle Sides & Angles
Students will explore side and angle relationships in a triangle. First, students will discover where the longest (and shortest) side is located relative to the largest (and smallest) angle. Then, students will explore the Isosceles Triangle Theorem and its converse. Finally, students will determ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-sides--angles
Scale Factor Area Perimeter
Explore the relationship of perimeter and area in similar triangles when the scale factor is changed.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/scale-factor-area-perimeter
The Geometric Mean
In this activity, students will establish that several triangles are similar and then determine that the altitude to the hypotenuse of a right triangle is the geometric mean between the segments into which it divides the hypotenuse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-geometric-mean_1
The Hinge Theorems
Students will explore the inequality relationships that arise when some of the triangle congruence conditions are in place but others are not. The SAS Inequality Theorem and the SSS Inequality Theorem are often referred to as the Hinge Theorem and its converse. These two theorems concern inequali...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-hinge-theorems_1
Pythagorean Relationships
Investigate the triangles that can be formed using one side of three squares to build the triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pythagorean-relationships
Pythagorean Triples
Explore Pythagorean triples by dragging vertices to find whole number Pythagorean triples.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pythagorean-triples