Computer Science | Professional Learning | Texas Instruments
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WeTeach_CS and You Can Too! as presented by Carol Fletcher
...ing participation in computing (BPC), the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance and Accelerating Women’s Success and Mastery in CS (AWSM in CS). Her research interests include BPC and measuring large scale professional development in STEM. Fletcher is a former middle school tea...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/partners/ti-talks/carol-fletcher
TI-84 Plus CE Tutorials | Quick Videos | Texas Instruments
...graph BPfRVa-PB7Y Using real-life images as backgrounds on graphs jwXyjMIDZlA Plot graphs and set windows fHroNLez6R8 Analyzing graphs RrDm29tli7o Find points of intersections with trace and tables x6N3...https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/product-video-tutorials/ti-84plus-ce-tutorials
Calculated Collection | Texas Instruments
...ability to work independently. Google Slides™: The digital review activity checks students’ answers, provides hints if they make a mistake and allows them to try again. When they get the correct answer, they'll see cool ways to verify their solution and use TI technology to enhance their under...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/calculated-collection
Tower of Hanoi
Students explore the relationship between the number of discs and moves required to solve the classic “Tower of Hanoi” problem. The TI-Nspire file contains an interactive model produced by Andy Kemp. The interactive model allows you to change the number of disks and automaticall...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tower-of-hanoi
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
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
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
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
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
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
Simple Calculator Tips for Algebra 2 | Texas Instruments
...ess [enter] to calculate. I also love using the Y-VARS feature to calculate the average rate of change over a particular interval. It allows students to see the slope formula in action! To all you precalculus and calculus teachers, you might like this tip too. Check out the equation b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/simple-easy-calculator-tips-algebra2-concepts
Rational Quadratic Zeros
In this coding activity for the TI-84 Plus CE Python edition, 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-quadratic-zeros_84