Over the last few years, there have been a number of significant updates to the TI-84 Plus family of graphing calculators. In this session, we will highlight and explore enhancements that are useful for new and experienced users. Learn from successful classroom teachers to discover how to:

• Help students learn and explore middle grades and high school math concepts
• Leverage your classroom set of TI-84 Plus graphing calculators to enhance classroom discussions
• Explore TI-SmartView™ CE Emulator Software for TI-84 Plus graphing family and TI Connect™ CE software

As the school year begins, polish your TI technology skills to help your students develop a strong foundation of AP® Calculus concepts. In this session, AP® Calculus experts will focus on:

• An introduction to the graphing app
• Storing intersection value
• Defining functions
• Limit work with graphs

Presenters will demonstrate these topics using both TI-84 Plus and TI-Nspire™ technology.

Whether you are new to TI-Nspire™ technology or an experienced user, this session will help you begin the school year with exciting ideas to engage students and enhance your teaching. The webinar will focus on:

• Investigating graphing - functions, sequences and more
• Using multiple representations to differentiate learning
• Facilitating effective formative assessment

Financial literacy is an important life skill that can be addressed in any math class. The TI-84 Plus and TI-Nspire™ technology have built in finance tools that can be used to help students better understand real-world financial implications. Presenters will demonstrate:

• Time Value of Money (TVM solver) using both TI-84 Plus CE and TI-Nspire™ technology
• Dynamic capabilities of TI-Nspire™ technology to explore different situations when variables change
• Amortization tables using TI-84 Plus and TI-Nspire™ technology

By the end of the webinar, you will be familiar with these finance tools using TI technology so that you can incorporate them into your lesson plans.

Explore how the strategic use of TI technology contributes to student learning and demonstration of knowledge on the ACT® Exam. Join this webinar to:

• Get tips for integrating TI-84 Plus or TI-Nspire™ technology throughout your lessons to help your students understand the math concepts assessed on the ACT® Exam
• Learn about the key areas of focus on the revised ACT® Exam
• Discover strategies and activities to help make your students successful, both on the ACT® Exam and in your math classroom

The TI-84 Plus family of graphing calculators has many powerful features. Whether you are a new or experienced user of the technology, this deep dive will introduce you to advanced capabilities of TI-84 Plus technology and how it can be used as a tool for inquiry.

This webinar will highlight:

• Analyzing and interpreting graphs
• Linking multiple representations using tables
• Using graph styles to explore function families and piecewise functions

The needs statement in any grant is crucial to framing the entire grant proposal. This webinar, the second in a series of sessions exploring effective practices for writing grant proposals, will focus on steps to writing a compelling needs statement.

• Beginning the process of identifying problems or issues affecting student performance and describe why this is occurring
• Presenting data that supports the existence of the problem
• Proposing ways you feel a solution to this problem is important for your students’ needs and how this can be of interest to the funding source

The study of average rates of change and slopes of lines begins early in a student’s math trajectory. Calculus begins the study of instantaneous rates of change, and zooming in on the graph of a differentiable function is an intuitive way to get at the corresponding idea of local slopes. The idea that a differentiable function behaves locally like a linear function is profound and important.

In this webinar, the leaders will:

• Highlight the importance of differentiability as local linearity and zooming as a means of exploring the derivative at a point
• Tie the application of local linearity to L’Hopital’s Rule (new addition to the AB calculus course description)
• Connect the local linearity idea to linear approximations, to slope fields and to Euler’s method

Inquiry implies posing interesting questions and/or problem scenarios for student investigation. Presenters will share two examples during this webinar:

• To treasure hunt or not to treasure hunt, that is the question!
• What results when a cube is sectioned? A rectangular prism?

This webinar is applicable for middle grades and high school math teachers as they facilitate inquiry in the classroom.

Once the goals and objectives have been developed for a grant proposal, it is time to make projections about the future of the grant and the short-and-long-term outcomes that are expected -- and what this might cost.

This webinar, the third in a series of sessions exploring effective practices for writing grant proposals, will focus on preparing a budget. Presenters will:

• Describe typical budget development ideas
• Highlight different types of financial documents often required for grant proposals
• Show an example of a typical budget and reasons behind including expenditures in key areas

In this continuation of the deep dive into the TI-84 Plus series, presenters will focus on using TI-84 Plus technology as a tool for inquiry while highlighting the following capabilities:

• Using tables as dynamic tool to examine growth
• Exploring patterns and trigonometry
• Using the Cabri™ Jr. geometry app to explore invariants

Simulation is perhaps the most effective pedagogical tool available for teaching probability, and using technology is at the heart of this kind of simulation. In this webinar, presenters will explore many examples of using simulation to teach different probability topics with TI technology.

Presenters will:

• Explore theoretical vs. experimental probability
• Demonstrate examples of simulations of probabilities that are difficult to compute directly
• Share activities that will engage students in creating simulations for these difficult-to-compute probabilities

Effective teaching of mathematics facilitates discourse among learners to build shared understanding of mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing approaches and arguments. In this webinar, presenters will discuss how one might implement and facilitate tasks that promote productive discussions to strengthen the teaching and learning of mathematics. They will explore types of tasks that encourage mathematical flexibility to show what students know in more than one way.