Analysis and Approaches

TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Just Move It

In this activity for the TI-84 family, the movements of the parent functions f(x)= x² and f(x)= x³ will be explored.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Law of Sines and Cosines

Students explore the proofs of the Laws of Sine and Cosine, investigate various cases where they are utilized, and apply them to solve problems.

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Optimization

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.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Percentiles

The goal of this activity is for students to use the area to the left of a value in a normal distribution to find its percentile. The process will then be reversed to find the value for a given percentile. In doing so, students will learn how to use the Normal CDF and Inverse Normal commands on the handheld.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Points, Lines and Slopes
(Oh My!)

In this activity, students will explore the relationship between coordinates of points and locations on the coordinate plane, the relationships of lines with their equations, slopes and y-intercepts, and lastly, the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Profit Equations and Calculus

In this activity students will discuss the graphical and algebraic relationships between a function and its first and second derivatives, namely a profit function.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Properties of Logs

Students use a combination of algebra and graphing to discover the properties of logarithms.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Pearson's vs. Spearman's Correlation Coefficient

In this activity, students will discuss and discover when and how to use both the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient and the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
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Rational Functions

Students investigate the graphs of functions of the form y = 1/(x - a).
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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Relating Rates

In this activity, students are able to apply their knowledge of finding a derivative and using implicit differentiation as they are introduced to the topic of related rates.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Sampling Techniques

Students will practice selecting and discuss sampling techniques when collecting and analyzing data.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Scientific Notation

This activity gives students an opportunity to see where large and small numbers are used and how scientific notation offers a convenient method of writing such numbers.
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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Summing Up Geometric Series

In this activity, students will explore infinite geometric series and the partial sums of geometric series. The students will determine the limits of these sequences and series using tables and graphs.

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Taylor Polynomials

Students learn to define a Taylor polynomial approximation to a function f of degree n about a point x = a.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

To Infinity and Beyond

Students' develop an understanding of what it means to take a limit at infinity. They learn to estimate limits from graphs and tables of values.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Too Many Choices

Students investigate the fundamental counting principle, permutations and combinations.

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Trigonometric Patterns

Students use the unit circle to examine patterns in the six trigonometric functions.
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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Trig Ratios

Students will use the Cabri™ Jr. App to discover the relationship between the trigonometric functions of sine, cosine and tangent and the side length ratios of a right triangle.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Unit Circle

Students discover the relationship between the trigonometric functions of sine, cosine and tangent and the side length ratios of a right triangle.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Volume

In this activity, students define right and oblique three dimensional figures and calculate the volume for prisms, pyramids, cylinders, and cones.

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TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family

Which Garage Is Better?

Students are to find the solution to a system of linear equations using technology. They are presented with two problems: music sales and parking lot fees.

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TI-Nspire™ family

2D or Not 2D,
That is the Question

In this activity, students will differentiate between 2D and 3D polygons and shapes.

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3D Surface Area and Volume

In this activity, students will be finding both the Surface Area and Volume of several 3D objects.

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Amortization

In this activity, students will discuss and use multiple ways to answer financial questions involving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets.

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Analyzing Country Data

This activity involves sample listings of the ages of 200 people from each of three countries: USA, Kenya and Japan.

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Angles of Depression and Elevation

In this activity, students will discuss the graphical and algebraic relationships between Angles of Depression and Elevation.

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Application of Function Composition

This lesson explores the composition of functions, their graphs and their application to real-world situations.

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Arithmetic Sequences and Series

Use formulas to find the differences of the consecutive terms, plot a scatter plot of each sequence, and determine the shape of sequences with common differences. Then use a spreadsheet to display the first n terms and find the sum.

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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.
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Best Class

In this activity, students create and explore a box and whisker diagram and histogram for a data set. They then compare the two data displays by viewing them together and use the comparison to draw conclusions about the data.
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Binomial PDF Eye Color

This activity involves binomial trials, distributions, and probabilities. Students can create the binomial distribution following the steps in Binomial_Pdf_Eye_Color_Create-84 document.

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Binomial Expansion

In this activity, students will review their binomial expansion skills through hands on multiplication combined with the handheld to check their work.
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Biorhythms

Students use their own birthday, and the current date, to determine the equation for their physical, emotional and intellectual cycles according to the study of biorhythms.

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Bounded Areas

This lesson involves comparing the Riemann Sum area estimates with the exact bounded area of a curve and the x-axis.

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Concavity

Examine the relationship between the first and second derivative and shape of a function.

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Maximums, Minimums and Zeros

Determine when a function has a maximum or minimum based on the derivative of the function.

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Can You Find Your Bearings?

In this activity, students will review how to find bearings through given descriptions and reading diagrams.
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Can You Solve a Trig Equation?

In this activity, students will practice how to solve equations involving trigonometric functions within a finite interval.

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Circles: Angles and Arcs

This lesson involves manipulating endpoints of an arc, manipulating an inscribed angle, and manipulating the vertex of an angle intercepting an arc.

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Compound Interest

Students will explore the formula for compound interest as a function of the initial deposit, interest rate, and the number of pay periods per year.

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How Dense Are We?

Review of computation: order of operations, directed numbers, scientific notation, estimation, exact and approximate answers.

Distance vs Displacement -
A Particle's Journey

In this activity, students will further discuss the graphical and algebraic relationships between derivatives, integration and particle motion while using kinematics.

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Exploring Geometric Sequences

Students graphically analyze geometric series using graphs, and consider the effect of the value for the common ratio and first term using sliders.

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Exponential Dice

This lesson involves using a simulation to generate data that can be modeled by exponential growth and decay functions.

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Families of Functions

This lesson involves changing the sliders for a, h, and k on each page and observing the effects each has on the graphs of the functions. Students will fill in the table on the student activity sheet as they investigate the effects of parameters a, h, and k on each graph. Students will use the completed table to make generalizations about the effects of a, h, and k on the graphs of any function.

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Find That Sine

In this activity, students will find the equations of Sine curves that model the given data and answer several questions about what they have found.

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Function, or Not a Function?

In this lesson, students are presented with graphs and tables and asked to determine which represent functions and which do not. A function associates exactly one output value y with each possible input value x. If more than one output value y is associated with a single input value x, that process does not describe a function.

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Give Me Five

In this activity, students will discuss and describe the center and spread of a univariate data set by way of a five number summary and visually by a box & whisker diagram. Students will then apply this knowledge to real life applications to enhance their ability to understand this math in statistical data analysis.
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Gradient of a Function

Interpret the derivative as the slope or gradient of a tangent line of the graph of y=f(x).

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Graphical Derivatives

Students will examine graphs pages containing two graphs, a function and its derivative.

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Graphing Relationships

In this activity, students explore information about a graph based on the first and second derivatives.

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Graphs of Antiderivatives

Students are provided with a series of functions consisting of polynomials, trigonometric and exponential functions, and combinations thereof.

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Inverse Functions

In this activity, students will apply inverse functions to real world situations including temperature and money conversions.

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Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions

In this activity, students will investigate the derivatives of sine, cosine, natural log and natural exponential functions by examining the symmetric difference quotient at many points.

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Is it normal?

In this activity, students will use the idea of a normal distribution to pull together multiple areas of probability and statistics.
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It’s to Be Expected

Students use a tree diagram to find theoretical probabilities and use this information in a spreadsheet to find the expected value.
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Just Move It

In this TI-Nspire™ activity, the movements of the parent functions f(x)= x² and f(x)= x³ will be explored.

SL HL

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Law of Sines and Cosines

Students explore the proofs of the Laws of Sine and Cosine, investigate various cases where they are utilized, and apply them to solve problems.

SL HL

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SD Measure of Spread

This lesson is intended as an introductory activity to the concept of standard deviation.

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Cool in the Pool

To prepare for spacewalks, astronauts train at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). NASA also uses the NBL to develop flight procedures and verify hardware compatibility, all of which are necessary to achieve mission success.

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Optimization

Students learn how to use the second derivative test to find maxima and minima in word problems and solve optimization in parametric functions.

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Pebbling the Chessboard

Students begin by exploring the Pebbling the Chessboard problem.

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Percentiles

The goal of this activity is for students to use the area to the left of a value in a normal distribution to find its percentile. The process will then be reversed to find the value for a given percentile.

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Points, Lines, and Slopes
(Oh My)

In this activity, students will use coordinates to better understand that relationship, as well as the relationship between coordinates of points and their quadrant locations, slopes and y-intercepts, and parallel and perpendicular lines.

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Dynagraphs

This lesson involves using a dynagraph to explore the relationship between the input and the output of a given function.

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Profit Equations and Calculus

In this activity students will discuss the graphical and algebraic relationships between a function and its first and second derivatives, namely a profit function.

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Proof of Identities

This lesson involves discovering, visualizing and proving trigonometric identities.

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Properties of Logs

This lesson is based on observing counter-examples to logarithmic rules and involves comparing the values of several base 2 logarithmic expressions to discover which produce the same result.

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Pearson's vs. Sprearman's Correlation Coefficient

In this activity, students will discuss and discover when and how to use both the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient and the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
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Rational Functions

In this activity, students will use a TI-Nspire™ file that allows you to dynamically examine the rational functions generated by quotients of linear functions.
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Relating Rates

Students are given a situation of water draining out of a cylindrical tank in order to explain the process of solving related rates questions.

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Sampling Techniques

Students will practice selecting and discuss sampling techniques when collecting and analyzing data.

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Scientific Notation

This activity gives students an opportunity to see where large and small numbers are used and how scientific notation offers a convenient method of writing such numbers. This will be done both with and without technology.
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Does a Correlation Exist?

In this activity, students will determine, by examining a graph, if a data set has a positive or negative correlation coefficient.

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Sum of Infinite Geometric Series

This lesson involves clicking on a slider to see that the area of a square that has been systematically divided into an infinite number of pieces approaches 1.

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Taylor Polynomials

Taylor polynomial approximations are introduced as generalizations of tangent line approximations. In this activity, students will examine another kind of polynomial approximation that is a generalization of the tangent line approximation. These polynomials are called Taylor polynomials.

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To Infinity and Beyond

In this TI-Nspire activity, students will explore the limit of a function and how the behavior of the output value approaches , as the input value approaches a particular value.

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Too Many Choices

Students investigate the fundamental counting principle, permutations and combinations.

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Tossing Dice

This lesson involves simulating tossing two fair dice, recording the sum of the faces, and creating a dotplot of the sums.

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Tower of Hanoi

Legend has it that the world will end when the puzzle is complete. Well, the original puzzle consisted of 64 disks, and the monks in the legendary civilization only moved one disk per day. With this in mind, according to the legend, when will the world end? Solve the puzzle, determine the rule for the Geometric recursion relationship, and calculate the number of days required to complete the 64-disk problem.

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Triangle Trigonometry and Circles

This lesson involves the ratios of side lengths of triangles with invariant angle measures and the relationships to trigonometric functions of an angle.

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Trig Ratios

Students will use the graphing calculator to discover the relationship between the trigonometric functions of sine, cosine and tangent and the side length ratios of a right triangle.

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Vectors in Component Form

Students will learn how to express a vector in component form using the unit vectors i and j.

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Volume

Students define right and oblique three-dimensional figures and calculate the volume for prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones.

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Which Garage Is Better?

Students are to find the solution to a system of linear equations using technology. They are presented with two problems: music sales and parking lot fees.

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Lessons for Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches

Download ready-to-use activities that align with IB® curricula and provide excellent resources to teach new concepts and prepare for end-of-course exams

Geometry and Trigonometry

2D or Not 2D, That is the Question

Geometry and Trigonometry

3D Surface Area and Volume

Numbers and Algebra

Amortization

Geometry and Trigonometry

Angles of Depression and Elevation

Numbers and Algebra

Arithmetic Sequences and Series

Functions

Back in Time

Statistics and Probability

Best Class

Statistics and Probability

Binomial PDF Eye Color

Numbers and Algebra

Binomial Expansion

Calculus

Bounded Areas

Geometry and Trigonometry

Can You Find Your Bearings?

Geometry and Trigonometry

Can You Solve a Trig Equation?

Geometry and Trigonometry

Circles: Angles and Arcs

Numbers and Algebra

Compound Interest

Functions

NASA- Newton's Cool in the Pool

Statistics and Probability

Does a Correlation Exist?

Calculus

Distance vs Displacement -A Particle's Journey

Numbers and Algebra

Exploring Geometric Sequences

Functions

Exponential Dice

Functions

Exponential Reflections

Geometry and Trigonometry

Find That Sine

Statistics and Probability

Give me Five

Calculus

Graphing Relationships

Functions

Inverse Functions

Calculus

Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions

Statistics and Probability

Is it normal?

Statistics and Probability

It’s to Be Expected

Functions

Just Move It

Geometry and Trigonometry

Law of Sines and Cosines

Calculus

Optimization

Statistics and Probability

Percentiles

Functions

Points, Lines and Slopes(Oh My!)

Calculus

Profit Equations and Calculus

Numbers and Algebra

Properties of Logs

Statistics and Probability

Pearson's vs. Spearman's Correlation Coefficient

Functions

Rational Functions

Calculus

Relating Rates

Statistics and Probability

Sampling Techniques

Numbers and Algebra

Scientific Notation

Download ready-to-use activities that align with IB^® curricula and provide excellent resources to teach new concepts and prepare for end-of-course exams

2D or Not 2D,
That is the Question

Distance vs Displacement -
A Particle's Journey

Points, Lines and Slopes
(Oh My!)

2D or Not 2D,
That is the Question

Distance vs Displacement -
A Particle's Journey