NASA - A Breath of Fresh Air
In this activity, students will investigate how the ISS (International Space Station) goes about producing enough oxygen to maintain 6 crew members.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--a-breath-of-fresh-air
Punnett Square
In this activity students will explore the rules of Mendelian Genetics using a single trait, height, in pea plants. A monohybrid cross using a simple Punnett Square is performed. Students can randomize their parental generation using the reset button so they can explore all facets of dominant and...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/punnett-square
Tower of Hanoi
Students explore the relationship between the number of discs and moves required to solve the classic “Tower of Hanoi” problem. The TI-Nspire file contains an interactive model produced by Andy Kemp. The interactive model allows you to change the number of disks and automaticall...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tower-of-hanoi
Vernier - Reflection and Absorption of Light
In this lesson, students will use a Light Meter and a Temperature Probe to measure reflected light and energy absorbed by light.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--reflection-and-absorption-of-light
Vectors Introduction
An introduction to vectors visually, conceptually and numerically. Students manipulate vectors to show addition (head to tail) and the parallelogram rule. Students use a column matrix to represent a vector and explore scalar multiples and the magnitude of a vector.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vectors-introduction
Vernier - Boyle's law
The primary objective of this experiment is to determine the relationship between the pressure and volume of a confined gas. The gas we use will be air, and it will be confined in a syringe connected to a Pressure Sensor (see Figure 1). When the volume of the syringe is changed by moving the pist...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--boyles-law
TI Holiday Cheer Contest | Texas Instruments
...gy division (“TI” or “Sponsor”), with a place of business at 13532 N. Central Expressway, Dallas, TX 75243, and with a website at http://education.ti.com. The Administrator of the Contest is TI (“Administrator,” and together with Sponsor, the “Contest Entities”). CONTEST PERIOD: The Contest will...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/holidaycheercontest/rules
NASA - Weightless Wonder
In this activity, students explore quadratic functions through the real-world example of weightless flight and the gravitational pull of the earth on objects in orbit.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--weightless-wonder
Laws of Sines and Cosines - IB
In this activity, you will explore the proofs of the Laws, investigate various cases where they are used, and apply them to solve problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/laws-of-sines-and-cosines_84_ib
Exponential Reflections - 84
In this activity for the TI-84 family, students will investigate the inverse of an exponential function by observing a scatterplot. Students will determine that the inverse of an exponential function is a logarithmic function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-reflections_84
The Tale of Two Tangents
This activity allows students to investigate the relationship between the angle formed by two tangents to a circle and the arcs they intercept.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-tale-of-two-tangents
Transformational Puppet
This activity allows students to practice their skills of reflecting on a line and translating on a vector. The instructions don't ask for creativity but students who finish early can enjoy being creative with this activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformational-puppet
Transformations: Reflections and Rotations
This activity is designed to be used in a middle-school or high-school geometry classroom. An understanding of labeling points in the coordinate plane is necessary. This is an exploration using reflections to move a polygon about the coordinate plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations--reflections-and-rotations
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
Limits
Students will investigate finding the value of limits using graphical and numerical methods. Students will also learn that a limit can exist at points where there is a hole or removable discontinuity. The concept of left and right-sided limits will also be explored as well as some situations in w...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/limits
Polygons - Diagonals
Students will investigate the number of diagonals in each polygon with three through ten sides, then develop a formula for the relationship between the number of sides and the number of diagonals of the polygons. Some prior familiarity with constructing segments and basic functions of the TI-Nsp...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polygons--diagonals
Exploring the Formula for Area of a Triangle: How was it Derived?
This activity is designed to be paperless. The entire lesson is written to be placed in the Nspire. Students will explore how the formula for area of a triangle works and why it works, they will also explore altitudes and medians of triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-formula-for-area-of-a-triangle-how-was-it-derived
Exploring the Geometric Means of a Right Triangle - When the Altitude to the Hypotenuse Is Drawn
Students will explore the concept of geometric mean and solve right triangle problems using geometric mean proportions. A TI-Nspire activity demonstrates interactively the geometric mean relationship, and an activity sheet applies the relationship to solve triangle problem. Most discussions of g...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-geometric-means-of-a-right-triangle--when-the-altitude-to-the-hypotenuse-is-drawn
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
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
The Ladder Problem Revisited
In this activity students explore the locus of mid-point of the hypotenuse of a fixed length geometrically and algebraically and discover that the median a right triangle is equal to half the length of the hypotenuse. Students then prove this property. The problem: A ladder leans upright against ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-ladder-problem-revisited
The Magic of Central Angles
This activity allows students to investigate the relationship between central angles and the arcs they intercept.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-magic-of-central-angles
Special Segments in Triangles
In this activity, students construct medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors of triangles. They then drag the vertices to see where the intersections of the segments lie in relation to the triangle, and they measure distances to identify relationships. They see that the i...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/special-segments-in-triangles_1
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
Quadratic Unit Activity #5: Scavenger Hunt #1
Students are to use whatever technology they have to take pictures or find images that are quadratic. The images are then put in a .tns file for them to find the equations. You may use my file by deleting the images and inserting your own. If you do not have the capability to do that, I have prov...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/quadratic-unit-activity-5-scavenger-hunt-1