Pebbling the Chessboard
It’s amazing how often sequences and series pop up in problem solving. In this deceptively challenging problem three discs are placed on a chessboard in a bounded region. The task is to move the pieces out of this region with the only complication being that pieces double when moved. After you’ve...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pebbling-the-chessboard
Phoenix Chase
In this activity, students will design their own track and investigate the expected speeds and g-forces for the design.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/phoenix-chase
Eating and Exercise (MG)
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to observe and manipulate the factors that affect weight over time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/eating-and-exercise-mg
Newton's Second Law
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to explore the acceleration of a frictionless cart being pulled by a steady force.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/newtons-second-law
Eating and Exercise (HS)
In this lesson, students will simulate, observe, and manipulate the factors that affect weight over time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/eating-and-exercise-hs
Energy of a Roller Coaster
In this lesson, students begin with an exploration of the relationships between work, potential energy, and kinetic energy using. The simulation uses a block that is either lifted and dropped or is pulled up an incline and allowed to slide back down. These concepts are then applied to a simulatio...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/energy-of-a-roller-coaster
Common Molecules
Students use StudyCards(tm) to practice matching compounds with their chemical formulas.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/common-molecules
Talladega Chase
In this activity, students will investigate the two car tandem at Talladega.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/talladega-chase
Accelerated Student Learning Program | Texas Instruments
...hematics teachers learn instructional strategies to create and implement long-term planning for teaching big ideas. They get the support to enhance their efficacy to address unfinished learning appropriately through the use of proven teaching strategies, TI technology and an extensive collection ...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/accelerated-student-learning
TI-89 Lesson – Module 16.2: Visual Area Functions | TI
Students can develop area functions using a visual approach by exploring the values of the areas under a curve, using their graphing TI-89 Titanium calculator. Fundamental,Theorem, Calculus TI-89 Lesson – Module 16.2: Visual Area Functions | TI global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/t3-free-courses/calculus89-online/mod16/mod16-lesson2
TI-89 Lesson – Module 16.1: Symbolic Area Functions | TI
Have students find functions that represent area under a curve using a symbolic approach using their TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator. Fundamental,Theorem, Calculus TI-89 Lesson – Module 16.1: Symbolic Area Functions | TI global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/t3-free-courses/calculus89-online/mod16/mod16-lesson1
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...focus of instruction itself. Many schools had classroom sets of calculators but no computer labs for teaching programming, so the calculator became their platform for teaching and learning programming. My relationship with the TI Education Technology development teams (even as far back as 1991, b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...ing in person, remotely or in a blended environment. All of our videos are posted on our TI Education YouTube channel, so be sure and subscribe to receive a notification when we post new lessons and tutorials. Our videos have been carefully crafted to help you understand current trends, follow...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...ts who lack computers and internet connectivity and are now falling even further behind. In this era of accountability, long-standing inequities are being exposed, and they demand our attention — now. Arbitrary circumstances into which kids are born — such as their race, ethnicity, ZIP code and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ime for the athletes but also for fans of the sports they represent. Many of us will be glued to our televisions watching the “best of the best” do their thing and experiencing the excitement and drama of it all from our couches. Educators will be among those mesmerized with the stories they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
... and beyond a readiness deficit by gender, as evidenced in ACT’s 2017 STEM report, there is also a confidence gap for girls that starts early on in their educational journeys. Simply put, girls can’t be what they can’t see. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and Texas Instruments (TI) and the TI Fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... video resource that contains over 250 short colorful animated videos with over 460 examples that illustrate and explain these essential graphs and their transformations. This easy-to-use resource can be utilized in several ways: As a teaching and learning tool inside and outside the classr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Best_Of_Science
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either for in-person or virtual instruction. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring important science concepts to life for students by enabling them to test...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/best_of_science
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...oding Basics badge. Graphing calculators not only offer a simplified interface and approach to coding, but they are a tool that many already use in their math and science classes. This gives anyone, especially girls, a friendly introduction to coding. There are three ways that Girl Scouts can ear...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...atewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning and justification skills? In the fall of 2019, the teachers in my department began to think seriously about these qu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...where to invest your money. U.S. News provides some tips on how to find a financial advisor, and some financial institutions also offer support for their customers. You won’t know until you ask. 2. Get to know the financial literacy standards There is a set of unified “National Standards for Pe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
... Technology. Visualization and collection of real-world data is a great way to keep students involved in classroom instruction as well as foster their growth as scientific investigators. How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students Stacy Thibodeaux @stacythib Visualization and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
World-Emoji-Day
...love today. But, I do remember emails that sent images in the signature, some basic, some complex and some from people who had way too much time on their hands using ASCII art. As an early user of the TI-80 … something (TI-81, TI-83 and TI-84 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...s using TI technology. Each year students are presented with a different themed challenge. They use coding and TI technology to build prototypes of their solutions and then pitch their idea to the world in a final video. Over the years, students have built designs for space, the environment an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda