Biographies | STEM Exchange | It Takes a Village: State, Regional and Community Support for STEM Learning | November
...STEM Exchange, educators and other STEM stakeholders can learn from the success of these types of broader initiatives in creating a more robust and multi-faceted approach to STEM learning for all students. The session panelists have practical ideas for partnering with community and business organ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/ti-stem-exchange/november2021-event/panel-biographies
Guidebooks: TI Scientific Calculators | Texas Instruments
Find the guide you need for your current TI scientific calculator, including the TI-30XS and TI-34 MultiView™ calculators and more. Check them out! Guidebooks: TI Scientific Calculators | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/guidebooks/scientific-calculators
Nuclear Binding Energy
Students explore the energy that results from the strong force in nuclei. The activity begins with the unexpected result that the mass of a nucleus is less than the sum of the masses of the protons and neutrons in the nucleus. In Part 2 of the activity, students analyze a graph to determine the r...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nuclear-binding-energy
Vernier - Capacitors
In this lesson, students will use the voltage probe to measure the discharge of a capacitor.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--capacitors
Capacitors
Students explore the characteristics of capacitors. The activity begins with a look at the movement of charge in a parallel-plate capacitor and the effect of voltage on charge. Following the definition of capacitance, students explore how plate area, plate separation, and dielectrics affect capac...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/capacitors
Acids, Bases, Salts and pH Assessment
This TI-Nspire™ question set (.tns) has assessment questions relating to Chemistry: Acids, Bases, Salts and pH.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/acids-bases-salts-and-ph-assessment
Freezing Point
The students will determine the freezing and melting point of water.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/freezing-point
AC Circuits
Students explore a model of alternating electric current. They observe the effects of varying voltage, angular velocity, frequency, and phase shift on the shape of the waveform. They also calculate the relative phase shift between two waveforms. Finally, they create a model of a three-phase alter...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ac-circuits
Air Resistance
Students collect data on the rate at which coffee filters fall.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/air-resistance
Paper Chromatography in Crime Scene Investigations
This activity introduces the process of paper chromatography and why scientists use it in crime scene investigations. A crime has been committed. It is the students; task to perform a chromatography to identify the killer. Students will separate the pigments from artificial urine samples that w...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/paper-chromatography-in-crime-scene-investigations
Skills of Science - Celsius to Fahrenheit
In this lesson, students gathering temperature data simultaneously with two probes -- one measuring Fahrenheit and the other Celsius.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--celsius-to-fahrenheit
Vernier - How Low Can You Go?
In this activity, students will use an EasyTemp temperature probe to determine the normal melting temperature of ice. They will then study how the addition of salt to the melting ice affects its melting temperature. They will finally formulate a procedure for reaching the coldest melting temperat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--how-low-can-you-go
NASA - Space Shuttle Ascent: Mass vs. Time
In this activity, students explore the ascent phase which begins at liftoff and ends when the space shuttle reaches Earth's orbit. The space shuttle must accelerate from zero to approximately 7,850 meters per second (which is approximately 17,500 miles per hour) in eight and a half minutes to re...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-shuttle-ascent-mass-vs--time
Interesting Properties of Cubic Functions
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity encourages students to investigate numerical and graphical properties of cubic functions, and to verify the results using CAS.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interesting-properties-of-cubic-functions
Solution 21690: Multiplying a Matrix Row by a Value on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators.
Solution 21690: Multiplying a Matrix Row by a Value on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators. Solution 21690: Multiplying a Matrix Row by a Value on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators. global Solution 21690: Multiplying a Matrix Row by...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/21690
Solution 11793: Unable to Graph Multiple Functions on the TI-83 Plus Family and TI-84 Plus Family Graphing Calculators.
Solution 11793: Unable to Graph Multiple Functions on the TI-83 Plus Family and TI-84 Plus Family Graphing Calculators. Solution 11793: Unable to Graph Multiple Functions on the TI-83 Plus Family and TI-84 Plus Family Graphing Calculators. global Solution 11793: Unable to Graph Multiple F...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/11793
The Classic Box Problem - Exploration
This lesson takes a classic optimization problem and uses the dynamic linking capabilities to visualize the problem in multiple representations: diagramatic, geometric, graphic, numeric.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-classic-box-problem--exploration
Secrets in the Triangle
Students will use the geometry screens of the TI-Nspire™ to find points of concurrency by constructing the altitudes, perpendicular bisectors, and medians in triangles. The Euler Line will be found and extensions given.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/secrets-in-the-triangle
Transformtions and Tessellations
...ular hexagon, in Problem #3 a rotation of a quadrilateral in two ways, in Problem #4 a dilation of a triangle. In each case you will observe the results of these transformations and summarize them in writing. In Problems #5 and #6 you will create tessellations using the transformation technique...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformtions-and-tessellations
Triangle Midsegment Exploration
The activity has the students investigate the relationship of the midsegment to the third side of the triangle. In addition the students investigate the area of the smaller triangles compared to the larger one and uses the results to solve the "campground" problem. There is a set of follow-up q...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-midsegment-exploration
Paths of Rectangles
This exploration for preservice teachers, looks at how the lengths of the sides of rectangles with equal areas are related. The rectangles are constructed so that one vertex is at the origin. The path of the opposite vertex is an example of indirect variation and demonstrates a connection between...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/paths-of-rectangles
Transformations With Lists
Students use list operations to perform reflections, rotations, translations and dilations on a figure, and graph the resulting image using a scatter plot.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/transformations-with-lists_1
Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
Students will use the graph of the sine function to estimate the graph of the cosine function. They will do this by inspecting the slope of a tangent to the graph of the sine function at several points and using this information to construct a scatter plot for the derivative of the sine. Students...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/derivatives-of-trigonometric-functions
Parallel Lines and Angles
Students will use TI-Nspire technology to investigate the relationships between two corresponding angles and between two alternate interior angles. At the end of this activity, students should be able to discover that if two parallel lines are cut by a transversal the pairs of corresponding angle...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parallel-lines-and-angles
Properties of Quadrilaterals
The students will investigate the properties of a parallelogram, rhombus, rectangle, square, kite, trapezoid, and isosceles trapezoid by using the measurement tools of the TI-Npsire. The students will record their results on the chart. The time for the activity will vary based on the ability of...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-quadrilaterals