Distance vs Displacement - A Particle's Journey - IB
In this activity, students will further discuss the graphical and algebraic relationships between derivatives, integration and particle motion while using kinematics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/distance-vs-displacement_84-ib
Optimization - IB
In this activity, students will learn how to use the second derivative test to find maxima and minima in word problems and solve optimization in functions and parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/optimization_84_ib
Properties of Parallelograms
Students will manipulate parallelograms to discover the relationships between the sides, angles, and diagonals of parallelograms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms_7
Dilations
This activity is designed to allow students to create an interactive document that allows them to alter the specifications of a dilation and visually and numerically see its effects.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dilations
Discovering the Circumcenter and Centroid of a Triangle
The students will find the circumcenter by constructing perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle. They will also find the centroid by constructing the medians of a triangle and discover that the centroid is 2/3 of the distance from each vertex along each median.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discovering-the-circumcenter-and-centroid-of-a-triangle
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
Constructing a Pentagon, An Alternative Method
Use the TN-Nspire (OS 2.0) to construct a regular pentagon using lines, rays, line segments, and circles of various diameters. The characteristics of a regular pentagon are discussed and used to verify the construction meets the criteria of all sides being equal, and all angles being equal. The ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/constructing-a-pentagon-an-alternative-method
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
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
Geometry: Exploring Quadrilaterals
Drag the verices of a quadrilateral and build the different types; focus on the properties of these different figures, and finally put it all together to identify different quadrilaterals from their properties.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/geometry-exploring-quadrilaterals
Getting to Know Your TI-Nspire - A Scavenger Hunt for Students
This activity is a scavenger hunt on the TI-Nspire CX/CX II. It serves as a way for students to explore some of the features of the TI-Nspire CX/CX II handheld.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/getting-to-know-your-nspire--a-scavenger-hunt
Equivalent or Not Equivalent?
Introduce the idea of equivalent expressions in the context of three critical operations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/equivalent-or-not-equivalent
Investigating the Sum of Polygon Angle Measures
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship between the number of sides of a polygon and the sum of the measures of the angles of the polygon.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-the-sum-of-polygon-angle-measures
Walk the Line
In this activity, students will be introduced to the CBR 2 motion sensor and the Vernier DataQuest™ app. They will collect and analyze both linear and non-linear data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/walk-the-line
Whole number: Parts of a Whole
This activity involves students in modeling practical situations using the Part-Whole-Part model provided, and identifying the type of operation required. It can be used to lead into building algebraic expressions if desired.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/whole-number-parts-of-a-whole
Polar Necessities
Students graphically and algebraically find the slope of the tangent line at a point on a polar graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polar-necessities
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
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
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
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
Hose Problem
Investigating the behaviour of water jets from a hose. Suitable for Year 10 extension or Year 11 students. Graphing parabolas, features of quadratic functions, regression lines. Using TI-Nspire.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hose-problem
Function or Not a Function
Examine some input-output relations to determine if a relation is a function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/function-or-not-a-function
Cybersecurity 4- What's Your Password?
Building on the concepts learned in Activity 3, students will learn about obfuscating passwords through a method known as “hashing.” This security function shows students how a plaintext password can be scrambled and encrypted by a hashing function, such as SHA-256, in such a way that...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-4@-whats-your-password
Cybersecurity 5 - Turn the (Rainbow) Tables
Building on the concepts learned in Activity 4, it’s up to the student hacker to turn the tables by working out the method for hacking SHA-256 password encryption.The student hacker must search a rainbow table, which is comprised of precomputed hashes from known and frequently used password...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-5
Video Tutorials for the TI-Nspire CX Family graphing calculators
Web-based video tutorials answer common questions students and teachers may have when learning how to use the TI-Nspire™ CX family graphing calculators and software.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tutorials_nspire-cx