Birthday Problem
Investigate the probability of two people having the same birthday in a crowd of a given size.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/birthday-problem
The Park Problem
The goal of this activity is for students to see a real world application of a minimization problem. Students have to determine where to place a track inside a park to minimize the total distance of the track in Lazy Town.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-park-problem
Families of Functions
Change sliders and observe the effects on the graphs of the functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/families-of-functions
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
Solving Systems of Linear Equations from Four Perspectives
Using the on-screen directions and the more detailed directions here, students will investigate four ways to solve systems of linear equations: graphically, numerically, with a data table and by matrices. Some prior familiarity with the basic functions of the TI-nspire CAS is needed. Students sho...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-of-linear-equations-from-four-perspectives
Solving Systems of Equations Check
This is just a Nspire file that affords the teacher some flexibility in terms of approach. It consists of ten problems with simple substitution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-of-equations-check
Solving Systems Using Pictures!
This activity consists of three separate problems where students have to use systems of linear equations to find the points of intersection of various objects.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-using-pictures
End Behavior of Polynomial Functions
Students will use a slider to scroll through the graphs of power functions with a coefficient of positive and negative 1 and determine similarities and differences among the functions. Students will generalize the end-behavior properties of various power functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/end-behavior-of-polynomial-functions
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
Exploring the Cycloid Curve
The TI Nspire's animation feature is used to show how a point on a rotating circle creates the cycloid curve. Students then examine the parametric equation of the cycloid. Finally, students are tasked with going online to investigate the terms brachistochronous and tautochronous and their relat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-cycloid-curve
Complex Number Addition
This lesson involves the addition of two complex numbers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/complex-number-addition
Expanding Binomials
In this activity, students will explore the link between Pascal's Triangle and the expansion of binomials in the development of the Binomial Theorem.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/expanding-binomials_1
Equations of Parabolas
Students draw and measure lines and segments to discover properties of parabolas, specifically that the distance from any point on the parabola is equidistant to the focus and the directrix. They work with parabolas whose vertex is on the origin as well as off the origin and they also with parabo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/equations-of-parabolas
Vernier - What Causes the Seasons?
In this activity, students' will explore how the tilt of the earth's axis results in different amounts of solar radiation at different times of the year, causing seasons. They will simulate the earth's warming using a light bulb that will shine on a Temperature Probe attached to a globe, and inve...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--what-causes-the-seasons
Introduction to CAS. Adding polynomials, solving equations, factoring trinomials, expanding
This series of activities provides an introduction to some Algebra concelpts using CAS. The activities start with Algebra tiles and CAS. Patterning is modelled for the students so that they can construct the knowledge rather than be given a set of rules. The activities look at adding and subtr...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/introduction-to-cas--adding-polynomials-solving-equations-factoring-trinomials-expanding
Polar Necessities
Students will graphically and algebraically find the slope of the tangent line at a point on a polar graph. Finding the area of a region of a polar curve will be determined using the area formula.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polar-necessities
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
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
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
DNA Structure
In this lesson, students use a variety of simulations to interact with the structure of DNA in order to explore the building blocks and double helical structure of DNA.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dna-structure
Writing Chemical Formulas
In this lesson, students practice writing chemical formulas for ionic binary compounds.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/writing-chemical-formulas
Isotopes and Atomic Mass
In this lesson, students will use a simulation of a mass spectrometer. Students will use a slider to adjust the magnetic field to direct either Cl-35 or Cl-37 to the detector.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/isotopes-and-atomic-mass
How Does It Stack?
In this lesson, students will visualize the relationship between density of solutions and the relative position of an object in the solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-does-it-stack
Multiplication and Division of Rational Numbers
This lesson involves using an interactive area model to solve multiplication and division problems with positive decimals and mixed numbers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/multiplication-and-division-of-rational-numbers