Browse Activities | TI-84 Plus Family - High School
Perms and Combs?
Students will use built-in commands to evaluate factorials, combinations, and permutations.
Spreading Doom
Students explore a geometric sequence that models the spread of a computer virus.
Binomial Probabilities
Students will simulate rolling a die and keeping track of the numbers of successes and failures.
Modeling Data
Students will graph data modeling exponential and logarithmic growth and find equations representing the data.
Quadratric Regression with Transformation Graphing
Students will compare the data plots and different regression models for a set of data. Students will also learn to draw conclusions using the quadratic model.
Constructing with Similar Triangles
Students will investigate three different methods of constructing similar triangles.
Transformational Puppet
Students will construct a puppet using line segments and circles and transformations and then manipulate their puppet to see the effect of changes.
Circle Product Theorems
Students will use dynamic models to find patterns. These patterns are the Chord-Chord, Secant-Secant, and Secant-Tangent Theorems.
Running Circles Around Quads
Students will explore various properties of cyclic quadrilaterals.
Angles & Arcs
Student will explore angles constructed in a circle and how their measures are related to the measures of the intercepted arcs.
Exploring Cavalieri's Principle
Students will explore Cavalieri's Principle for cross sectional area and volume.
Distances in the Coordinate Plane
Students will explore distances in the coordinate plane. After finding the coordinates of a segment’s endpoints, students will substitute these values into the distance formula and compare the results to the measured length of the segment.
The Geometric Mean
Students will discover that triangles are similar and then determine the altitude of the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
Properties of Parallelograms
Students explore the various properties of parallelograms and the necessary and sufficient conditions that guarantee that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
Special Segments in Triangles
Students will construct and explore medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors of triangles.
Interior & Exterior Angles of a Triangle
Students measure interior and exterior angles of a triangle and make conjectures about their relationships.
Triangle Sides & Angles
Students will explore side and angle relationships in a triangle and determine the number of acute, right, or obtuse angles that can exist in any one triangle.
Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
Students use measurement tools to develop and strengthen their knowledge about the angles formed when parallel lines are cut by a transversal.
Vertical and Adjacent Angles
Students make conjectures about relationships of angle pairs by exploring vertical and adjacent angles in a model.
Conditional Statements
Students explore slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines and use evidence to justify or counterexamples to disprove logical statements.
Diameter and Circumference of a Circle
In this activity, students explore the relationship between a circle's circumference and its diameter. This will lead students to their own discovery of a value for pi.
Inverse Variation
Students explore the inverse variation function with a geometric representation (a rectangle with fixed area), a table of values, an algebraic expression, and a graph.c
Stop!
Students will use an interactive page to calculate the speed of the car, given a stopping distance, and then approximate stopping distance, given the rate of the car.
Graphing Quadratic Functions
Students will explore the inverse variation function with a geometric representation (a rectangle with fixed area), a table of values, an algebraic expression, and a graph.
Introducing the Parabola
Students will plot the points from the table and examine the graph and its properties.
Quadratic Formula
Students will make connections between the visual ways to find zeros of a parabola and algebraic ways with an emphasis on the quadratic formula.
Exponent Rules
Students will discover rules for working with exponents, such as the Power of a Power rule and investigate the value of a power whose exponent is zero or negative.
Going Into Business
Students will translate fixed and variable costs of a cost function and make a decision about how much to charge to wash per dog.
Chirp, Jump, Scatter
Students will find a best fit line for data graphed as scatter plots.
Trains in Motion
Students will make observations about the motion of two objects. They will compare and contrast this motion and consider how it corresponds to a graph representing distance as a function of time.
Back In Time?
Students will explore the definition of a function through use of a graph, a set of ordered pairs, and an input-output diagram.
Supertall Skyscrapers
Students use scaled measurements and proportions to find the heights of skyscrapers.
Linear Inequalities
Students investigate single-variable inequalities on a number line and as a table of values.
One Step at a Time
Students use repeated results from calculations to formulate and test a hypothesis about solving one-step equations.
Raise Your Cup
Students will explore writing and graphing inequalities. Students will solve inequalities to determine the height for a cup that needs to hold at least 12 ounces. They will use a trial and error method, entering values into the table to compute their range of answers.
Areas in Intervals
Students will estimate and find a given area under a normal curve.
Vertical and Phase shifts
Students will explore vertical and phase shifts of sine and cosine functions.
Exponential Reflections
Students will determine that the inverse of the exponential function is the natural log function by plotting the inverse of exponential solution points.
Exponential Growth
Students will find an approximation for the value of the mathematical constant e and to apply it to exponential growth and decay problems.
Geometric Sequences & Series
Students will find common ratios of geometric sequences on a spreadsheet and create scatter plots of the sequences to see how each curve is related to the value of the common ratio.
Stacking Bricks
Students will use a polynomial function to model a real world problem.
Border Patrol
Students will graph a system of linear inequalities to determine if a points lies in the solution.
Roots of Radical Equations
Students will solve square root and cube root equations graphically.
Watch Your P's and Q's
Students will then use the Rational Zero Theorem to find all the potential rational zeros of the function.
Just Move it
Students explore transformations of parent functions by comparing changes in the equations to their graphs.
Airport Impact Study
Students develop a model to analyze and explain data collected in an airport noise impact study.
Area of the Missing Square
Students will use an area model to represent and explore patterns in the structure of the quadratic equation.
Operating on Matrices
Students will perform operations on matrices. Using teacher discussion questions, students can determine the row and column properties of matrices to conclude when the operations can be performed.