Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...en (if it knows a given piece of information) or red (if it does not). A red square learns this information (becomes green) if at least two of its neighbors (sharing an edge) already knows it. For example, in this situation the bottom middle square becomes green: On a 10 X 10 grid, what is t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...e talk about teaching and learning math. As for me, well, I was born to be a teacher. At ten years old, I was playing school with my siblings and neighbors, taking attendance, giving spelling tests and making math worksheets in the make-shift classroom in my parents’ garage. In college, I majore...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...sues, including what to do with all of our garbage. They assist developers in thinking about the environmental impact of garbage when creating new neighborhoods or businesses. In the “Garbage Problem” activity for the TI-84 graphing calculator, students realize how much garbage we create, which c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Real Number Properties
This StudyCards™ set promotes understanding of commutative properties, associative properties and the distributive property. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 1-1.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/real-number-properties
Polynomial Addition, Subtraction
This StudyCards™ stack teaches that, when linear functions are added, the slope of the sum is equal to the sum of the slopes, likewise for y-intercepts. Includes quadratic and up polynomials. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 3.2.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polynomial-addition-subtraction
Polynomial Multiplication
This StudyCards™ set shows that the product of linear functions (polynomial) is usually quadratic. Students discover the exact product and more traditional methods for multiplying polynomials. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 3.3.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polynomial-multiplication
Scientific Operations
This StudyCards™ set is a guided discovery of the four operations with numbers in scientific notation. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 1-4.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/scientific-operations
Slope
This StudyCards™ set promotes understanding of the meaning of slope and evaluation of slope using delta y/delta x definition. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 4-1.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slope
Scientific Notation
This StudyCards™ set demonstrates need for scientific notation, using real-world examples. Includes guided activity promoting proper form. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 1-4.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/scientific-notation
Rational Addition, Subtraction
This StudyCardstrade; stack covers adding (or subtracting) numerators with simple to complex denominators. The set ends with sums or differences of rational functions with different denominators. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 7.4.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rational-addition-subtraction
Rational Expression Multiplication
This StudyCards™ set uses guided discovery concepts to develop ideas for functions operations, building from rational expression multiplication and division algorithms. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 7.3.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rational-expression-multiplication
Solve Linear Equation
This StudyCards™ set begins with "what is an equation?" and continues with solving linear equations using the graph of the related linear function(s), the trace and zeros methods. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 5-1.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solve-linear-equation
Rational Reduction
This StudyCards™ stack begins with arithmetic examples and continues through algebra. Students compare numeric representations of the problem to confirm the correct reduced form. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 7.2.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rational-reduction
Maximum, minimum, increasing, decreasing
This StudyCards™ set is a teaching activity that uses real-world contexts to assist students in understanding the concepts of maximum, minimum, increasing, and decreasing. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 2.2.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/maximum-minimum-increasing-decreasing
Definitions and Laws of Exponents
These StudyCards™ stacks cover definitions of natural number exponents, zero, and negative integer exponents, as well as the First, Second, Third Laws of Exponents. Parts 1 through 4. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 1.4, 6.2.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/definitions-and-laws-of-exponents
Factoring
A teaching activity that makes the equivalence and zeros connection between functions. Parts 1 through 3. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 3.4, 3.5.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/factoring
Behaviors-Rational Functions
This StudyCards™ set teaches and tests on the rational function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the rational function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 7.1.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/behaviorsrational-functions
Interval Notation
This StudyCards™ stack is a teaching activity on understanding interval notation. It uses functions and function behaviors as the context for needing and using interval notation. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 1.3.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interval-notation
Behaviors-Square Root Functions
This StudyCards™ stack teaches and tests on the square root function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the square root function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 2.7, 8.1.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/behaviorssquare-root-functions
Behaviors-Quadratic Functions
This StudyCards™ set teaches and tests on the quadratic function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the quadratic function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, Ch. 2.5, 9.1.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/behaviorsquadratic-functions
Behaviors-Linear Function
This StudyCards™ stack teaches and tests on the linear function. Shows connection between the function parameters and the resulting geometric behaviors of the linear function. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 2.3, 4.1.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/behaviorslinear-function
Prime Summer Reading for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...loves lists, patterns and truths, but hates the color yellow and being touched. He knows a lot of math, but little about human beings. Finding the neighbor’s dog murdered at the end of the road sets him onto a murder mystery like no other. Share your summer reads with us! We’d love ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Calculus + Graphing Calculator = More Teachable Moments
...eir chairs, but the new gadgets had at least aroused some mild curiosity. I noticed one of them suddenly sitting up straight and leaning over to a neighbor pointing to the calculator screen. I was close enough to hear what was said: “My graph has a hole in it — does yours?” The hair stood up on t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/september/calculascalcs
Solution 10410: Algorithm for the Solver Function on the TI-85 and TI-86.
...her depends on a lot of factors, but the solver prefers a sign change if it can find it. The calculator spends some time "going downhill" in the neighborhood of the even multiple root at -1, then "sees" the function begin increasing. It then checks the function values at the bounds, continuin...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/other-graphing/product-usage/10410
Solve Absolute Value Equation
This StudyCards™ set moves from explaining what an equation is, to solving an equation. The function approach is used to solve the equations. Use with Foundations for College Mathematics, ch. 5-3.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solve-absolute-value-equation