3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...26 ... There’s more pi where that came from We have plenty of Pi Day activities using your TI graphing calculator. Here are two of our favorites: Comparing Pi and Roots In this middle school math activity, students explore how the Pythagorean (or, should it be “pi-thagorean”?) Theorem and the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/happypiday
Get Energized With the T3™ Professional Learning | Texas Instruments
...e sessions that I attended were engaging and thought-provoking. Even after teaching math for 32 years, I can always learn something new.” — Pamela Rawson, T³IC attendee Save the date We look forward to learning with you this summer and throughout the upcoming school year! About the au...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/professional_learning
Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...g of history, the role and the need for quick calculations and the beginnings of American exploration of space.” Based on the research and interviews from the living members of the team, “Rise of the Rocket Girls” offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science. A must-read! ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
...thing most people think about when they are young, if you start investing early the reward can and likely will be much larger. How fast a nest egg grows depends on many factors, but one major factor that can shrink growth is commissions and fees that are often paid to organizations managing your ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
Inverse Functions on the TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...d various properties of inverse functions. In addition, students greatly benefit when function-related lessons include an emphasis on the multiple views of a function. TI technology to the rescue! Let’s take a closer look at how TI technology, specifically the TI-84 Plus CE, can play an importa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/investigating-inverse-functions-ti-84-plus-ce
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...f symmetry of the face. The Rover also includes a pen holder so students can “draw” the output of their scaled geometric shape as the Rover follows their commands. “I believe the lesson allowed students to understand coding a little better, learn to problem-solve, understand a little bit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
6 Resources to Jump-Start the School Year | Texas Instruments
...hool Year — A New You(Tube) will give you a guided tour of the changes. I hope this has been a helpful overview and I encourage you to visit and browse education.ti.com to discover even more resources. From all of us at TI: Have a great year! About the author: Cara Kugler currently works as...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/tiresources
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
...s. I find myself in a bustling saloon in the Wild West sipping liquid courage, when a troublemaker writes 6/2(2+1)=1 on a bar napkin and throws it down on the table like a gauntlet. I hear myself say, “Them’s fightin’ words!” and, nerd that I am, pull my graphing calculator out of my bel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
Expressions of Love for TI-Cares™ Support | Texas Instruments
... very patient. I loved the experience and will effusively recommend Texas Instruments to everyone I know!” 🌹 “I love that this loaner program allows us to develop ways to integrate calculator usage into our classrooms!” 🌹 “I called your offices and spoke to my new best friend Joana. Y’all...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/ti-cares-customer-support-love
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...elebrate by flying a flag! Now that you know how to make some stars, let’s add some stripes! This U.S. flag is a modification of an activity that draws out the Texas flag. Using flags as an artwork template is a great opportunity to explore and experiment with your coding skills. Drawing the Tex...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...or a comprehensive look at exam resources available from Texas Instruments, visit the test preparation page on the website, including a chart that shows which TI technology is accepted on all high-stakes exams. About the author: Jessica Kohout is a National T3 Instructor and enjoys introducin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...e some other interesting Earth Day activities you can try with your students: #2. Straw Shock Your students will be shocked to discover how many straws are used each day in the U.S. Watch this on-demand webinar to explore an activity calculating the number of times straws would wrap around the E...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Fan’s Favorite Features on TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...CE is how it makes math jump to life in ways that make learning and understanding new concepts that much easier. “I love that the calculator allows students to see functions and their features from a graphical perspective.” – Amy on Facebook Transformation app A core learning topic fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/five-fan-favorite-features-ti84plus
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
...the slide whistle. Using a paper towel tube, popsicle stick, hole puncher, scissors and cardstock (or equivalent), they will create a system that allows them to freely move a disk that changes the distance the ranger senses. The change in distance will correspond to a change in frequency. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
Laws of Sines and Cosines - IB
In this activity, you will explore the proofs of the Laws, investigate various cases where they are used, and apply them to solve problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/laws-of-sines-and-cosines_84_ib
Tesselations
In this activity students will explore what causes some regular polygons to tesselate. They will explore sketches of regular polygons, measure the interior angles, and test to see whether the shapes tesselate.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tesselations
Discovering the Circumcenter and Centroid of a Triangle
The students will find the circumcenter by constructing perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle. They will also find the centroid by constructing the medians of a triangle and discover that the centroid is 2/3 of the distance from each vertex along each median.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discovering-the-circumcenter-and-centroid-of-a-triangle
Exploring the Black Box of Quadrilaterals
The exploration will begin with students dragging the quadrilateral given to them about the screen. Initially, they will be asked to simply identify the quadrilateral's type by sight. This will require simply a visual recognition of the quadrilaterals parallelogram, rectangle, square, rhombus, ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-black-box-of-quadrilaterals
Constructing a Pentagon, An Alternative Method
Use the TN-Nspire (OS 2.0) to construct a regular pentagon using lines, rays, line segments, and circles of various diameters. The characteristics of a regular pentagon are discussed and used to verify the construction meets the criteria of all sides being equal, and all angles being equal. The ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/constructing-a-pentagon-an-alternative-method
Cybersecurity 4- What's Your Password?
Building on the concepts learned in Activity 3, students will learn about obfuscating passwords through a method known as “hashing.” This security function shows students how a plaintext password can be scrambled and encrypted by a hashing function, such as SHA-256, in such a way that...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-4@-whats-your-password
Rational Quadratics Zeros
In this coding activity, students will extend the code from Integer Quadratic Zeros to create a game that allows exploration of other factored equation forms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/rational-quadratics-zeros
Ratios Within and Between Scaled Shapes
This activity allows students to reason about ratio tables, which helps their understanding of what a ratio describes in a context and what quantities in equivalent ratios have in common.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-within-and-between-scaled-shapes
Arctic Wars - Lynx vs. Snowshoe Hare
In this lesson, students will investigate a population with cycling patterns that exist between a predator and its prey.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arctic-wars--lynx-vs--snowshoe-hare
When The Wind Blows
An investigative project based learning activity incorporating math and science through the connections among Chemistry, Physics, and Trigonometry. Project leads to consideration of the feasibility of alternative energy options based on research and local data. Student activities culminate in the...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/when-the-wind-blows
Connecting Ratios and Scaling
This activity allows students to reason about ratio tables, which helps their understanding of what a ratio describes in a context and what quantities in equivalent ratios have in common.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/connecting-ratios-and-scaling