Bounded Areas
In this lesson, students will compare the Riemann Sum area estimates with the exact bounded area of a curve and the x-axis.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/bounded-areas
Bounded Areas
In this TI-84 family lesson, students will compare the Riemann Sum area estimates with the exact bounded area of a curve and the x-axis.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/bounded-areas_84
Ratios of Similar Figures
Students will explore the ratio of perimeter, area, surface area, and volume of similar figures in two-dimensional figures.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-of-similar-figures
Infinite Geometric Series
Students explore infinite geometric series. They will consider the effect of the value for the common ratio and determine whether an infinite geometric series converges or diverges.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/infinite-geometric-series
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
Exponential Reflections
In this activity, you will investigate the inverse of an exponential function. You will also investigate the symmetry of the exponential function and its inverse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-reflections_1
Polar Coordinates - 84
This lesson involves a brief introduction to the polar coordinate system.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polar-coordinates_84
Convergence of Taylor Series
A Taylor Series for a function becomes the function as the number of terms increases towards infinity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/convergence-of-taylor-series
The sum of the interior angles of regular polygons
The students will construct triangles within regular-sided polygons to determine the sum of the interior angles. They will then, using statistics, create a linear regression to determine the relationship between the number of sides of a regular polygon and the sum of its interior angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-sum-of-the-interior-angles-of-regular-polygons
Putting limits on Pi
This activity has the students calculate the perimeter of inscribed and circumscribed regular polygons about a circle and then use the calculated values to determine pi.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/putting-limits-on-pi
Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
Students will use the graph of the sine function to estimate the graph of the cosine function. They will do this by inspecting the slope of a tangent to the graph of the sine function at several points and using this information to construct a scatter plot for the derivative of the sine. Students...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/derivatives-of-trigonometric-functions
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
Integration By Substitution
Students explore methods for computing integrals of functions that are not in one of the standard forms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/integration-by-substitution_1
Points of Concurrency in Triangles
In this activity, students will use their Nspire handhelds to discover the different points of concurrencies in triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities to discover the circumcenter, incenter, and centroid of triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/points-of-concurrency-in-triangles
Exploring the Equation of a Circle
Explore right triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem to develop the equation of a circle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-equation-of-a-circle
Corresponding Parts of Similar Triangles
Change the scale factor (r) between similar triangles; identify the corresponding parts and establish relationships between them.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/corresponding-parts-of-similar-triangles
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
Limits of Functions
Investigate limits of functions at a point numerically.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/limits-of-functions
Extrema
Students will learn how to find and label extrema using first and second derivatives, be able to inspect a graph and determine which extrema the function has, and be able to use Trace, fMin, and fMax to verify the computed answers and find critical values for parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/extrema
Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles
Explore corresponding parts of congruent triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/corresponding-parts-of-congruent-triangles
Arcs and Central Angles of Circles
Students discover the central angles of circles plus minor and major arcs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arcs-and-central-angles-of-circles
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
Nested Similar Triangles
Discover the conditions that make triangles similar by moving the sides opposite the common angle in nested triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nested-similar-triangles
The Mailbox
In this lesson, students will visualize that areas of irregular shapes can be found by determining the sum of smaller, more familiar shapes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-mailbox-hs
Ratios of Similar Figures
Students explore the ratio of perimeter, area, surface area, and volume of similar figures in two and three dimensional figures.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-of-similar-figures_1