Two more Booklets are available in this series: TI-Nspire CAS Probability & TI-Nspire CAS Geometry For these and other activities please go to: http://education.ti.com/asiapacific/activities The New Australian & New Zealand Activities Exchange http://education.ti.com/asiapacific Page 1 of 73 © 2008 Texas Instruments Author Peter Fox http://education.ti.com/asiapacific Page 2 of 73 © 2008 Texas Instruments Author Peter Fox Introduction to TI-Nspire............................................................................................................... 6 Navigation................................................................................................................................. 6 Applications .............................................................................................................................. 7 Documents................................................................................................................................ 7 Document Navigation & Page Layout....................................................................................... 8 Common Operational Procedures ............................................................................................ 8 Start a new document and create a calculator page............................................................. 8 Catalogue & Help...................................................................................................................... 9 Mathematical - CSI..................................................................................................................... 11 The Crime Scene.................................................................................................................... 11 Collecting new data: ............................................................................................................... 11 Measurements:....................................................................................................................... 13 Setting up the calculator ......................................................................................................... 15 Femur ..................................................................................................................................... 16 Humerus ................................................................................................................................. 19 Radius..................................................................................................................................... 20 Tibia........................................................................................................................................ 21 New Evidence......................................................................................................................... 22 Teacher Notes – Mathematical CSI: .......................................................................................... 23 Exchange Rates......................................................................................................................... 24 Activity: ................................................................................................................................... 24 Developing a rule.................................................................................................................... 26 Teacher Notes – Exchange Rates ............................................................................................. 30 Time Zones ................................................................................................................................ 31 Activity: ................................................................................................................................... 31 Time Zones: ........................................................................................................................ 32 Wellington GMT + 12 .......................................................................................................... 32 Beijing GMT + 8 .................................................................................................................. 32 New York GMT - 5 .............................................................................................................. 33 Extension Questions: .......................................................................................................... 33 Teacher Notes – Time Zones..................................................................................................... 34 Time Zone History............................................................................................................... 34 Decathlon ................................................................................................................................... 35 Activity: ................................................................................................................................... 35 2004 Olympic Games.......................................................................................................... 37 Investigating the 100m Event ................................................................................................. 39 A Balanced Score................................................................................................................... 40 Investigation: Approximating Individual Event Scores ............................................................ 42 http://education.ti.com/asiapacific Page 3 of 73 © 2008 Texas Instruments Author Peter Fox Teacher Notes – Decathlon.....................................................................................................43 Extension: Functions ...........................................................................................................43 The Cube Factor .........................................................................................................................44 An easier Problem:..................................................................................................................44 Problem to Solve .....................................................................................................................44 Teacher Notes – The Cube Factor .............................................................................................45 What’s the difference? ................................................................................................................46 Linking algebra and Geometry: ...............................................................................................46 Instructions ..........................................................................................................................46 General Problem .....................................................................................................................47 Teacher Notes – What’s the difference?.....................................................................................48 Vedic Mathematics......................................................................................................................49 Introduction to Vedic Mathematics ..........................................................................................49 Teacher Notes – Vedic Mathematics ..........................................................................................52 Indices.........................................................................................................................................53 Activity .....................................................................................................................................53 Introductory Problems:.........................................................................................................53 Index Rule – One ....................................................................................................................53 Index Rule - Two .....................................................................................................................54 Index Rule - Three...................................................................................................................54 Teacher Notes – Indices .............................................................................................................55 Paper Folding..............................................................................................................................57 Constructing a Locus – Stage 1 ..............................................................................................57 Step 1 ..................................................................................................................................57 Step 2 ..................................................................................................................................57 Step 3 ..................................................................................................................................57 Step 4 ..................................................................................................................................57 Constructing a Locus – Stage 2 ..............................................................................................58 Constructing a Locus – Stage 3 ..............................................................................................60 Teacher Notes – Paper Folding ..................................................................................................62