Printing Your Own Books - is it more cost effective?
In this activity, students will create functions based on real-life scenarios, fill out a table of values, and critically analyze characteristics of graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/printing-books
Investigating Parallelograms
The purpose of this activity is to use TI-Nspire to explore the properties of parallelograms. A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-parallelograms
Investigating Triangles and Congruence
The main purpose for this activity is to explore triangles with pairs of corresponding congruent sides and a congruent nonincluded angle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-triangles-and-congruence
Factoring Special Cases
Students explore geometric proofs for two factoring rules: a2 + 2ab + b2 = (a + b)2 and x2 – a2 = (x – a)(x + a). Given a set of shapes whose combined areas represent the left-hand expression, they manipulate them to create rectangles whose areas are equal to the right-hand expression.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/factoring-special-cases_1
Inscribed Regular Polygons
Students will calculate the changing area and perimeter of inscribed polygons as the number of sides increase. The measurements will be recorded in a spreadsheet for analysis. Students will be learning to use the measurement tools and the Hide/Show function of the TI-Nspire. Students will be aske...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inscribed-regular-polygons
Understanding Slope
Make connections between the sign of the ratio of the vertical and horizontal change as they relate to the sign of the slope.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/understanding-slope
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
Polythagoras
This activity explores (a) relationships among non-square regular polygons constructed on the sides of a right triangle and (b) visual and numerical proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem using rotations and non-square polygons.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polythagoras
Helping students learn how to use built-in functions on the TI nspire
Students will follow step-by-step directions to become familiar with how to use the TI nspire's built in functions. Tutorial includes converting to decimal, approximating fractions, finding remainders, finding LCM, using factorials, creating mixed numbers, and factoring numbers to their prime fac...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/helping-students-learn-how-to-use-builtin-functions-on-the-ti-nspire
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
Solve Me - Multi-Step Equations
Students will use the TI-Nspire CAS to check the steps they used to solve multi-step equations and equations with variables on both sides. They will also use the solve feature to verify that they have the correct solution at the end of each problem. While solving equations, many students make ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solve-me--multistep-equations
Sampling
Students learn about each of the four types of random sampling methods and use the randInt command to find each kind of sample from a given population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sampling_1
Testing Claims About Proportions
Students find z-scores and critical values to test claims about proportions. To verify the results, they find P-values by either finding the area under the curve with the Integral tool, or by using the 1-Prop z Test command.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/testing-claims-about-proportions_1
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
Square it Up!
Students investigate the method of least squares by adding the squares to a scatter plot and moving a line to find the minimum sum. Then they compare their line to the built-in linear regression model.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/square-it-up
Linear Inequalities
Students first look at tables of values to see that inequalities are true for some values of the variable and not for others. They then graph simple inequalities, comparing the handheld output with graphs they create on paper. The last two problems have students solve one-step linear inequalities...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-inequalities
Center and Spread
Students will recognize that the mean and standard deviation (SD) and the median and interquartile range (IQR) are two ways to measure center and spread.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/center-and-spread
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
Chi-Square Distributions
Students compare the Chi-Square distribution to the standard normal distribution and determine how the Chi-Square distribution changes as they increase the degrees of freedom.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chisquare-distributions_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
Move Those Chains
In this activity, students will explore the Chain Rule. Students are asked to make a conjecture of the derivative of f(x) = (2x + 1)2 based on the Power Rule. They are then asked to graph their derivative function and compare it to the graph of f´(x). They will then examine "true" statements abou...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/move-those-chains
Are You Confident?
A brief review of the normal distribution in Problem 1 followed by a visual development of confidence intervals in Problem 2 using simulated data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/are-you-confident
Complex Roots: A Graphical Solution
In this activity, you will explore the relationship between the complex roots of a quadratic equation and the related parabola's graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/complex-roots-a-graphical-solution
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
The Derivatives of Logs
Students will use the Chain Rule to find the derivative of more complex exponential and logarithmic functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-derivatives-of-logs