The Mysterious Constant
Students investigate a pattern using the constant function on the calculator, record the ordered pairs in a table, describe the pattern, and predict what will come next.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-mysterious-constant
Slow Down - Speed Up
In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to observe the effect of speeding up, slowing down, and moving at a constant rate on a Distance versus Time plot.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slow-down--speed-up
Bones Bones Them There Bones
Student use the theory behind carbon dating to determine the age of bones discovered in a garden. The beta decay of C-14 to nitrogen is the basis for this exploration.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/bones-bones-them-there-bones
Studying Wave Phenomena with "WaveSim"
This is a program allowing teacher/student to interactively and graphically investigate a variety of wave concepts commonly studied in physics: traveling waves, standing waves, beats, Doppler effect, two-point source interference, Fourier wave forms, reflection and refraction, amplitude modulatio...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/studying-wave-phenomena-with-wavesim
Swing Thing
In this activity, students will construct a pendulum and create a motion plot for a swinging pendulum. They will also identify characteristics that affect a pendulum's motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/swing-thing
Who Started it All?
Students look at the spread of disease and predict the model for that spread. Data is taken at the end of each "sharing" and the exponential model predicted is found to be faulty. The logistic model is then explore. Since we have the list of contacts and the data per contact we can trace it ba...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/who-started-it-all
The Ball and All of Its Energy
Students will collect data using a CBR-2 and a ball. The will create an Nspire document to analyze the energy of that toss. Students learn how to collect data, create documents and graphs to analyze data and understand the ideas of conservation of energy.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-ball-and-all-of-its-energy
Forensics Case 13 - Life in the Fast Lane: Using skid marks to determine vehicle speed
Students determine the coefficient of friction between a vehicle and a road surface. They use the length of the skidding distance to determine the speed of a vehicle before its brakes were applied. Students convert between SI units and Imperial units and rearrange equations to solve for different...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-13brlife-in-the-fast-lane-using-skid-marks-to-determine-vehicle-speed
Toys on a slope
Participants analyze data from toys rolling down a slope. Velocity is determined using lists and graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/toys-on-a-slope
Forensics Case 4 - Flipping Coins: Density as a characteristic property
In this activity, students identify counterfeit coins based on the characteristic property of density. They model data using a linear equation, interpret the slope and intercept values from a linear model, and identify a characteristic property of a substance.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-4brflipping-coins-density-as-a-characteristic-property
Graphing Motion: Instantaneous and Average Speed (Follow up activity: Scalar and Vector Quantities)
Students are introduced to the calculator as a graphing tool and distinguish between average speed and instantaneous speed.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-motion-instantaneous-and-average-speed-follow-up-activity-scalar-and-vector-quantities
Who Started It All? The Spread Of Disease
Students predict the spread of disease to be exponential. They then do a hands on "sharing of bodily fluids" and see the actual data and compare these results to the projected model. You actually see the number of infected after each sharing to see the shift of the model easier. Written to be c...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/who-started-it-all--the-spread-of-disease
Fastest Animals Number Line
A number line showing the land speed of various animals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/fastest-animals-number-line
Boyle's Law
An inexpensive and effective setup for Boyle's law. The students experiment and perform data analysis to "discover" Boyle's Law.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/boyles-law
Vernier - Heart Rate and Body Position
In this activity, students will use a Heart Rate Monitor to measure their heart rate while sitting, lying down, and standing. They will analyze the data collected to determine the effect of body position on heart rate.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--heart-rate-and-body-position
Centripetal Acceleration
To observe the centripetal acceleration of an object in uniform circular motion. Relate the changes in velocity and radius to the centripetal acceleration.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/centripetal-acceleration
Taxonomy
This StudyCards(tm) stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying taxonomy.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taxonomy
No More Peas, Please!
Students explore the use of nonstandard units of volume and calculators to estimate the number of peas it would take to fill a classroom.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/no-more-peas-please
Transient Circuit Analysis: Symbolic
Describes how to use the differential equation solver, deSolve(), to solve first- and second-order circuits containing resistors, capacitors, inductors, DC sources, and exponential sources. It also shows how to graph the solutions and find the zero crossing and peak values.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transient-circuit-analysis--symbolic
Transmission Lines
Describes how to calculate the characteristic impedance and phase velocity on transmission lines. Steady state transmission line behavior and simple matching concepts are included also. The functions reflcoef(), lineleng(), zin(), yin() and vswr() are created.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transmission-lines
An Average Lunch?
Students explore the meaning of the average (mean) value for a set of data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/an-average-lunch
Under Pressure
Students will conduct an experiment to determine the pressure applied to various objects.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/under-pressure
Vector Calculus
Describes how to use the TI-89 for differential and integral calculus. The differential operations illustrated include gradient, divergence, curl, and Laplacian. Line and surface integrals also are included. The functions cordchk(), grad(), div(), curl() and lap() are created in this chapter, ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vector-calculus
NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Take Out" - Restaurant Ranking
In "Take Out", a series of restaurant invasions turn deadly. The FBI asks Charlie to help, so he develops a predictive model to try to identify the next restaurant that will be targeted. He says that 'it's a way of investigating a group of things -- in this case, restaurants -- and identifying th...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/numb3rs--season-3--take-out--restaurant-ranking
Convolution
Shows the convolution of two functions. To simplify the details, the functions are finite, piecewise, and continous.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/convolution