NASA - Space Shuttle Ascent: Mass vs. Time
In this activity, students explore the ascent phase which begins at liftoff and ends when the space shuttle reaches Earth's orbit. The space shuttle must accelerate from zero to approximately 7,850 meters per second (which is approximately 17,500 miles per hour) in eight and a half minutes to re...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-shuttle-ascent-mass-vs--time
Matrices Using CAS
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity encourages students to perform basic arithmetic operations on matrices, and solving a set of equations using CAS.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/matrices-using-cas
Triangulation Problem
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use 'landscape' paper and fold the top left corner of the page so that it just touches the bottom of the page. They calculate the area of the triangle formed by the bottom left corner and find the distance that forms a triangle with maximum...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangulation-problem
TI-89 Riemann Sum Activities for Calculus
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity students use Riemann sums to estimate the distance traveled on a trip at various speeds. They utilize the concept of Riemann sums to calculate the area under a curve. Students find limits of Riemann sums, and also convert Riemann sum limits to defini...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ti89-riemann-sum-activities-for-calculus
Proving Angles Congruent
In this activity students will be introduced to proofs, including 2-column proofs, paragraph proofs and flow-proofs. They will also look at different diagrams to decide what the diagram is telling them and what they can infere. They will also look at complementary, supplementary, adjacent and v...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proving-angles-congruent_1
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
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
Minimizing Surface Area of a Cylinder Given a Fixed Volume
Students will discover the relationship between radius and height of a cylinder so that surface area of a cylinder can be minimized while maintaining a fixed volume. This is just an introduction to a project that they will begin after this investigation. Once this is completed, they will redesig...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/minimizing-surface-area-of-a-cylinder-given-a-fixed-volume
Taxicab Geometry
In this activity, students begin a study of taxicab geometry by discovering the taxicab distance formula. They then use the definition of radius to draw a taxicab circle and make comparisons between a circle in Euclidean geometry and a circle in taxicab geometry. Lastly, they construct taxicab pe...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taxicab-geometry
Soda Problem: Finding the relationship between Sodium and Sugar
The students will use nutrition label data of certain sodas to create and analyze a scatterplot of the amount of sodium versus the amount of sugar in various soft drinks. They will put the data into lists, create scatterplots, discuss correlations, acquire the line of best fit, and predict other...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/soda-problem-finding-the-relationship-between-sodium-and-sugar
Finding Pi
Students discover that pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter using manipulatives and the Nspire's data capture feature. This activity can be accomplished individually or in groups of 2 or 3.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/finding-pi
How to Find the Center of a Circle Determined by Three Non-Collinear Points
...roblem 3 worksheet guides the novice user to perform the task using the TI-Nspire handheld. Several of the calculator tools and utilities are used in completing the activity to find the center and measure the radius of the circle. Problem 4 includes instruction for writing the equation of the cir...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-to-find-the-center-of-a-circle-determined-by-three-noncollinear-points
Trains in Motion
Compare and contrast the motion of two objects and how it corresponds to distance as a function of time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/trains-in-motion_1
Rational Numbers: Number Line
Drag a point along the number line and compare the mixed numeral, improper fraction, decimal and percentage forms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rational-numbers-number-line
One Year Makes a Difference
This lesson involves drawing informal comparative inferences about two populations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/one-year-makes-a-difference
Angles for a Solution
This lesson involves looking at several sketches of intersecting lines and determining the measures of the missing angles using the facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-for-a-solution
F Distribution
Students study the characteristics of the F distribution and discuss why the distribution is not symmetric (skewed right) and only has positive values. Students then use the Fcdf command to find probabilities and to confirm percentiles. They move on to find critical values and then compute a conf...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/f-distribution_1
The Integrated Medical Model
As NASA is designing a new spacecraft capable of taking humans into deep space, and with the future advent of commercial spaceflight, a deeper and better understanding of medical risk has become even more vital for maintaining spaceflight safety and health for humans.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-integrated-medical-model
Z-Scores
This lesson involves finding the area under the standard normal curve with mean 0 and standard deviation 1 for a given distance from the mean and compare this to the area under the curve for another member of the family of normal curves.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/zscores
Candy Pieces
Students will be introduce to hypothesis testing. Students are given the number of pieces by color in a bag of candy. They are asked if they think the bag could have come from a manufacturing process designed to produce equal proportions of each color. They will then use a chi-square test for goo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/candy-pieces_1
Comparing Prices
Students will compare average U.S. gasoline prices per gallon for two years. Then they will use the mean and standard deviation (SD) and the median and interquartile range (IQR) to measure the center and spread of price data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/comparing-prices
Cancer Clusters
Students will investigate cancer incidence rates in a number of states. Hypothesis testing is introduced and used along with a two-proportion z-test to compare cancer rates. This activity helps students to determine when a difference in data is actually statistically significant. This should enco...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cancer-clusters
But What Do You Mean?
In this activity, students learn about the concept of mean or average, in addition to learning several ways to find the mean on the TI-Nspire handheld (including using a spreadsheet and the mean command). Students also use these methods to find the mean when given the frequencies of each number i...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/but-what-do-you-mean
Exploring Complex Roots
In this activity, you will explore the relationship between the complex roots of a quadratic equation and the related parabola's graph. Open the file CollegeAlg_ComplexRoots.tns on your TI-Nspire handheld device to work through the activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-complex-roots
Difference Between Two Proportions
Students use confidence intervals to estimate the difference of two population proportions. First they find the intervals by calculating the critical value and the margin of error. Then, they use the 2-propZInterval command. Students find confidence intervals for differences in proportions in rea...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/difference-between-two-proportions_1