Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ions 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 see but may find their own minds racing on all the rich opportunities for sports-related ideas to engage stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...rojects I like to use, and I’m ready to share some of those ideas with you. Do I share projects that are content specific, math intensive, light on coding or coding intensive? How many lines of code are too many? Should it focus on Python to teach math, Python to enhance math or computer science ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
To STEM and Beyond!
...the future workforce. Our students are being trained and taught for jobs that haven’t even been created yet. The ever-changing technology field needs those that can problem solve, understand logic and persevere through a problem. This is what computer science and STEM offers our students. Being...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...view. Screenshot from the Building and Interpreting Graphs activity. Earth and space science topics 2. Earth’s Surface: Earth’s Lithosphere — Ring of Fire This activity takes students on a journey around the Pacific Rim and the infamous “Ring of Fire.” Students will plot loc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
Did you know Computer Science Education Week is Dec. 5–11, 2022? Looking for new Computer Science activities? Want them all nicely organized in one spot? Have you seen the new computer science resources from Texas Instruments? Now is the perfect time to check it out! As one of the contributing a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
Python is now on the TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator. As a computer science teacher myself, what does this mean for my students? What are your first thoughts? When I first heard this, I wondered, “How is this different from programming Python on other platforms? How could this benefit my...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...’s Cool!,” and the culminating project, “How to Keep a Lizard Warm.” TI has recently updated the original Path to STEM projects to now include Python! Why? Python is one of the most popular coding languages in the world today, and it is now on both the TI-84 Plus CE Python and TI-Nspire™ C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
The Number of Years
Students' will chart the various ages of the other students in their classroom then the students will multiply the ages by 2 using a lower level calculator, they will then add up the total ages using the same calculator - they can now divide the class into two groups (boys/girls) and see which gr...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-number-of-years
Who Started It All? The Spread Of Disease
Students predict the spread of disease to be exponential. They then do a hands on "sharing of bodily fluids" and see the actual data and compare these results to the projected model. You actually see the number of infected after each sharing to see the shift of the model easier. Written to be c...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/who-started-it-all--the-spread-of-disease
Manipulating Lab Data: The Diode
Introduces the Shockley diode equation, which gives the voltage-current characteristics of a diode. The equation is plotted and compared to actual diode data taken in a laboratory. The method of importing data to the TI-89 is shown, followed by instructions on how to manipulate the data to prep...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/manipulating-lab-data--the-diode
Let's Count the Ways
Students will be introduced to the different ways to calculate numbers of outcomes, including using the counting principle. They will also evaluate expressions using permutations of data without repeat elements, both manually and on the TI-34 MultiView™ calculator.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lets-count-the-ways_1
Python coding activities: Counters, Accumulators and Comparing Loop Types | Texas Instruments
Explore Do While loops in Python on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Do While loops are a form of post-test loop that always run at least one time. Python coding activities: Counters, Accumulators and Comparing Loop Types | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/computer-science-foundations/counters-accumulators-comparing-loop-types
Computer Science | Lessons Using Python | Texas Instruments
Explore free Python lessons and online activities for computer science students. Get quick and easy coding lessons that cover the basics and more. Download now. Computer Science | Lessons Using Python | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/computer-science/lessons-using-python
Collecting Data With Sensors and TI Tech | Texas Instruments
What do science students get when teachers connect Vernier Go Direct® sensors with TI’s Python-capable graphing calculators? An easy-to-use, portable and wireless data collection system that gets them more engaged in their learning! This combination of learning tools provides fantastic oppor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/match-made-in-stem
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
...need filled in from last year? How can students practice mathematical fluency in a meaningful and engaging manner? How about incorporating some Python coding in the classroom, to achieve all those goals? My students are always interested in adding some game play to the content! If you’ve neve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
Solutions To Keep Your Students Learning All Summer | TI
...d plenty of student examples in the “Get Inspired” section of the TI Codes Contest site. If you really want to motivate, offer some simple prizes for those who take on the challenge and create a video. You may also want to visit the previous blog, “How to Host Your Own TI Codes Contest,” for help...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/keep-students-learning-all-summer
Sampling
Students learn about each of the four types of random sampling methods and use the randInt command to find each kind of sample from a given population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sampling_1
Square it Up!
Students investigate the method of least squares by adding the squares to a scatter plot and moving a line to find the minimum sum. Then they compare their line to the built-in linear regression model.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/square-it-up
Candy Pieces
Students will be introduce to hypothesis testing. Students are given the number of pieces by color in a bag of candy. They are asked if they think the bag could have come from a manufacturing process designed to produce equal proportions of each color. They will then use a chi-square test for goo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/candy-pieces_1
Cancer Clusters
Students will investigate cancer incidence rates in a number of states. Hypothesis testing is introduced and used along with a two-proportion z-test to compare cancer rates. This activity helps students to determine when a difference in data is actually statistically significant. This should enco...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cancer-clusters
But What Do You Mean?
In this activity, students learn about the concept of mean or average, in addition to learning several ways to find the mean on the TI-Nspire handheld (including using a spreadsheet and the mean command). Students also use these methods to find the mean when given the frequencies of each number i...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/but-what-do-you-mean
Combinations
This activity introduces students to combinations. They derive the formula for the number of combinations of n objects taken r at a time by starting with a list of permutations and eliminating those that name the same group, just in a different order. From here they see how the number of combinat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/combinations
Plane Mirrors
In this lesson, students will investigate the relationship between an object and its image in a plane mirror. Understanding how plane mirrors work provides a useful scaffold for understanding more complex situations, such as those involving concave and convex mirrors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/plane-mirrors
Sampling
Students learn about each of the four types of random sampling methods and use the randInt command to find each kind of sample from a given population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sampling
A Move in the Right Direction
Students physically provide motion data that is collected by a CBL™ and then graph the data. They determine if they "moved in the right directions" by comparing their graph with those printed in the activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/a-move-in-the-right-direction