Amortization Tables
In this activity, students carry out financial computations, involving amortization. Students will prepare amortization tables indicating principal payments, interest payments, and the balance on a loan for each time interval.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/amortization-tables
Loans and Mortgages
In this activity, students perform financial computations, involving loans, their repayment and mortgages used as security for the repayment of a loan.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/loans-and-mortgages
Connecting Translations, Reflection, and Rotations
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship among the three types of rigid transformations - translations, rotations, and reflections.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/connecting-translations-reflection-and-rotations
Prodigious! Quadratics and Free Fall Motion
Uses the movie "October Sky" as an introduction to the study of free fall motion functions. Acts a summation activity to a quadratic unit in Algebra Solve quadratic equations by graphing, factoring, and the quadratic formula.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/prodigious-quadratics-and-free-fall-motion
Perfect Squares and Roots
StudyCards(tm) to practice solving square root problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perfect-squares-and-roots
Copying an Angle
Explore relationships (including congruence and similarity) among classes of two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, make and test conjectures about them, and solve problems involving them. Bullet 1 Construct an angle and find it's degree measure.Bullet 2 Use the Compass tool to replicate t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/copying-an-angle
REAL LIFE REAL WORLD Activity: Archeologist Frieze Patterns
...made, and their size, shape, function, and decoration. Friezes are often seen as ornaments in architecture. Frieze patterns can be found around the eaves of some old buildings. Translations can be used to create these patterns. In this activity, you will use Cabri Jr.™ software to create some fri...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/real-life-real-world-activity-archeologist-frieze-patterns
Reaction Time
The students will do experiments involving reaction time, and then make a histogram displaying their datahttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/reaction-time
Measuring Angles of a Triangle
In this activity, we will draw a triangle, label the vertices, measure the interior angles, find the sum of the angles and then change the angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/measuring-angles-of-a-triangle
Decimal Defender App
This App helps students practice multiplication and division with decimals in a fun environment. Students use this App to learn standard multiplication and division algorithms as well as understand topics such as scientific notation, the metric system, and more.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/decimal-defender-app
Algebraic Expressions Review
LearnCheck is used to review simplifying expressions, evaluating expressions, and translating expressions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/algebraic-expressions-review
Lets Gather Round the Circle
The students will measure the diameter and circumference of various round objects. They will discover the relationship between the circumference and diameter.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lets-gather-round-the-circle
Parabolic Applications
Students will analyze a parabola graphed from word problems. Students will use the calculator to find the roots and vertex of the graph to answer questions based on the word problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parabolic-applications
Math TODAY: Ballooning Inside the Box
Using the USATODAY® Infograph, "Ballooning Inside the Box," students will explore geometric relationships using similar triangles. Identifying triangles with two pairs of congruent angles to explore similarity properties of the triangles is an essential part of this activity.Students will learn w...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/math-today--ballooning-inside-the-box
Effective Annual Rate & Nominal Rate
In this activity, students use the effective annual rate calculation to compare the nominal rates of various financial instruments.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/effective-annual-rate--nominal-rate
Biorhythms and Sinusoidal functions
In order to see an application of sinusoidal curves that has relevance to themselves students will compute their biorhythm information, find the sinusoidal function that fits the information and graph them on the graphing calculator. They will use this information to compute future "good" and "b...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/biorhythms-and-sinusoidal-functions
Write a Program to do Piecewise Functions
A fun activity to help students learn how to graph a piecewise function and learn how to write a BASIC program. Gives a sense of Accomplishment.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/write-a-program-to-do-piecewise-functions
y=ax Activity
This activity, inspired by a similar activity in a Texas Instrument guidebook, has served to be very useful in helping students develop concepts of slope and y-intercept.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/yax-activity
Generating Recursive Sequences to Explore Exponential Patterns
Students will understand patterns, relations, and functions and use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationshipshttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/generating-recursive-sequences-to-explore-exponential-patterns
Generating Recursive Sequences to Explore Linearity
Students will understand patterns, relations, and functions. They will also use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/generating-recursive-sequences-to-explore-linearity
St. Louis Curves or Arch? You Pick!
Students explore curve fitting and translations of the parabola.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/st--louis-curves-or-arch-you-pick
Parametrics Yes! Yes! Yes!
Overview and applications using parametrics in Algebra I and II.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parametrics-yes-yes-yes
Parametric Equations
We express most graphs as a single equation which involves two variables, x and y. By using parametric mode on the calculator you may use three variables to represent a curve. The third variable is t, time. (Topics - parametric functions)https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parametric-equations
Graphs of Quadratic Functions in Vertex Form
TI Explorations books has a great activity for TI InterActive!™ in graphing parabolas in vertex form. What if you don't have TI InterActive! or a lab to take your students, but you do have a class set of TI-83 or TI-84. This activity explores the affects of a, h, and k on the function y=a(x - h)...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphs-of-quadratic-functions-in-vertex-form
Greatest Area Activity
In this activity students will explore area as it compares to length of rectangles with a fixed perimeter by creating lists of the possible dimensions and the areas of these rectangles. Students will then graph a scatterplot of the data, find the quadratic regression, and explore the table of val...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/greatest-area-activity_1