Summer of STEM: Loop to Loop Cups
...rks: The cups are wound by the rubber band which has a lot of potential energy. As the rubber band/cups are released, the rubber band moves quickly back to its unstretched form and transfers energy into the cups. The cups spin rapidly backward but are also propelled forward simulta...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/cups
eGuides: US and Canada
eGuides: US and Canada global website End-User License Agreements TI-84 Plus CE online calculator TI-SmartView™ CE Emulator Software TI-84 Plus CE App for Chrome ...https://education.ti.com/en/select-country/eula/product-select
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...udents think of slope as a rate of change. As a result, students will be prepared to move to applications of linear functions where the change in one quantity is proportional to the change in another quantity. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
Insider Tips for Winning the TI Codes Contest
...hat help find the slope of a line or create a fun adventure game. You can start programming your current graphing calculator now without any special equipment by visiting education.ti.com/ticodes . TI provides free lessons that go over programming on the calculator. With TI-Basic, you’ll be able...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/ticodescontest
Art in Chemistry
...table and quite insane, but (almost) always ends up in a unique, smaller version of their artwork. (Heat guns and polystyrene sheets can be purchased online by the teacher.) Patience and skill must be practiced and cultivated by the students. Here are a few of my favorite designs. Hopeful...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/art-in-chemistry
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
... Acetone Gloves and goggles What to do: Pour the acetone into the container to about ½” depth. With gloves on, add the cup to the liquid while applying a little downward pressure. Notice the polystyrene is dissolving into the acetone. How it works: Polystyrene is made ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...ught, and b) that some of the things on your list aren’t that big of a deal after all. Anxiety Tip #2: Take a Brain Vacay Getting worked up over that question that’s driving you nuts? Take a break. Seriously. Play with your cat. Wash your hair. Bake a cake. I don’t care. Just do something other t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
Professional basketball star donates TI calculators to his former high school
...ke a lot of calculators." Warren, who says his TI calculator helped him get through his math classes, will be making a stop next week at a school in Greensboro, North Carolina, to donate additional TI calculators. Juniors at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, will have new Texas I...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/february/tj-warren-donates
Voronoi Diagrams | TI-Nspire™ family | Geometry and Trigonometry
... Students will draw triangles and find their circumcenters using perpendicular bisectors. Connect the use of Voronoi Diagrams with finding the Equations of lines in the form ax + by + c = 0 form, Where a, b, and c are all integers. Voronoi Diagrams Vocabulary ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-voronoi-diagrams
Voronoi Diagrams | TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family | Geometry and Trigonometry
... Students will draw triangles and find their circumcenters using perpendicular bisectors. Connect the use of Voronoi Diagrams with finding the Equations of lines in the form ax + by + c = 0 form, Where a, b, and c are all integers. Voronoi Diagrams Vocabulary ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-voronoi-diagrams
Vectors in Component Form
...the unit vectors i and j. Vocabulary Vector Components Magnitude Direction Angle Planning and Resources Vectors are used to represent quantities that have both magnitude and direction. There are a number of ways that 2D vectors can be represented. One of these representations invo...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-vectors-component-form
Triangle Trigonometry and Circles
...a triangle with fixed angles and observe the resulting ratios of side lengths. Make and test predictions about the impact of side lengths and the quadrant in which the reference triangle is located on the trigonometric functions of an angle. About the Lesson Downloads ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-triangle-trig
Fear of math
...I was playing something, I was happy. Throughout high school, athletics was far and away my No. 1 purpose in life. On the other end of the spectrum – quite possibly the farthest thing away from my interests – was mathematics. The mere thought of math made me anxious. What was the point of memoriz...https://education.ti.com/en/success-story/fear-of-math
3d slide case
... it does give you some options if you lose your case or simply want to be the envy of everyone’s eye in algebra class.” Galu, who works as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for Texas Instruments, created the prototypes in his free time and is sharing them on Thingiverse, a thriving design com...https://education.ti.com/en/success-story/3d-slide-case
TJ Warren Donates TI Calculators
...n his face knowing Riverside students will be able to use these graphing calculators for many years to come. Warren was the 14th overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft and is currently the starting forward for the Phoenix Suns. “I think it says a lot about T.J. and how much he enjoyed his time here, ...https://education.ti.com/en/success-story/tj-warren-donates
Orion
...jeopardized her chance to use her gift for mathematics, especially in classes like AP Statistics, where graphs and other visual representations are required. In the past, this has been the end for students, like Lillie. She and others simply had to stop learning mathematics because no graphing ca...https://education.ti.com/en/success-story/orion
Circles: Angles and Arcs
...measure, and that the inscribed angle has half the measure of the central angle that intercepts the same arc. Deduce that the opposite angles of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are supplementary. Downloads ZIP Circles, Angles and Arcs.ZIP ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-circles-angles-arcs
Circles: Angles and Arcs
...s and Arcs Downloads ZIP Circles, Angles and Arcs.ZIP PDF Student Activity.PDF Teacher Notes.PDF IB Question.PDF DOC Student Activity.DOC Teacher Notes.DOC IB Question.DOC 8XV ANGARC1.8XV ANGARC2.8XV ANGARC3...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-circles-angles-arcs
Short Cuts
...ions use two symbols to describe this new kind of number: the fraction (a/b) on a number line is a lengths of (1/b), where b indicates the number of equal partitions between 0 and 1. What to look for Students will learn that the denominator indicates the number of equal parts in each whole unit a...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities2/short-cuts
Exponential Reflections
...se of the function y = 10x. Step 2 Downloads ZIP 12276.ZIP PDF Student Activity.PDF Teacher Notes.PDF IB Question.PDF DOC Student Activity.DOC IB Question.DOC Students determine that the inverse of the exponential fu...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-exponential-reflections
Properties of Logs
... connection with how to understand these topics in IB Mathematics courses and on their final assessments. Vocabulary logarithmic expressions equivalent expressions exponential properties About the Lesson This activity is done with the use of the TI-84 family as an aid to the problems,...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-properties-of-logs
Give me Five
...ve produced by hand. Students will interpret their data analysis using the visual of a Box and Whisker diagram. Vocabulary Outlier Quartile Inter-Quartile Range Five Number Summary Box and Whisker Diagram About the lesson A univariate set of data is a li...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-give-me-five
Analyzing Country Data
...y of the country based on the sample. Analyzing Country Data Objectives Students will be able to summarize data from a two-way frequency table. Students will be able to interpret conditional probabilities from a two-way table. Students will be able to interpret expecte...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-analyzing-country-data
To Infinity and Beyond
...wnloads ZIP To Infinity and Beyond.ZIP PDF To_Infinity_and_Beyond_Student.PDF To_Infinity_and_Beyond_Teacher.PDF IB Question.PDF DOC Student Activity.DOC Teacher Notes.DOC IB Question.DOC IB is a registered trademark owned by...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-to-infinity-beyond
Triangle Trigonometry and Circles
...a triangle with fixed angles and observe the resulting ratios of side lengths. Make and test predictions about the impact of side lengths and the quadrant in which the reference triangle is located on the trigonometric functions of an angle. About the Lesson Downloads ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches/nspire-triangle-trig