5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
Calling all math teachers out there! April 8–16, 2023, is National Robotics Week (RoboWeek). Are you ready to join in on the fun and inspire your students? The mission of National Robotics Week is simple: to inspire students in robotics and STEM-related fields and to share the excitement ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
...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 belt loop, shouting, “Draw!” I realize my misfire and quickly correct myself, shouting, “Calculate!” Too late. The troublemaker has al...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
3 Math Activities for Back to School | Texas Instruments
There’re always plenty of planning to do for back to school, but organizing math activities for the new school year doesn’t have to be a huge chore. Try out any of these fun and engaging activities to get the young minds in your class moving and ready to learn again after the long summe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/three-back-to-school-math-activities
5 Study Tips from a Student #StudyGrammer | Texas Instruments
... pressures of being a freshman in high school, including her drive to get good grades. It first started with dashes of glamour and artistic visuals. But when she started adding relatable, research-backed study tips to help improve her own study habits, she found she wasn’t alone. Thousands of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-study-tips-from-a-student-studygrammer
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2022 | Texas Instruments
... If you enjoyed these on-demand webinars, we hope you will join our live webinars on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. Central time throughout the school year. Come ask questions and share ideas with presenters and other participants. Find our schedule of upcoming T³™ Webinars. Abo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/2022-webinars-top-10
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
July 4 is upon us. To the rest of the world, it’s just another day. But, in the U.S., it’s Independence Day, when the nation recognizes the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Americans celebrate the day with family, friends, barbeques and parades, and end it with a bang...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
Welcome to a classroom located in Anywhere, U.S.A. Teacher: “What’s the answer to #5?” Student A: “12!” Teacher: “Correct! How about the answer to #6?” Student B: “3!” Teacher: “Nice! #7?” Student C: “-4” Teacher: “Not quite. Anyone else?” Student A: “4” Teacher: “Excellent! #8?” This cont...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
Preparing students for AP® science exams is a year-long process, but as we get closer to May, students will benefit from resources to help them review and refresh. One important update from the College Board® is that all AP® science exams now approve the use of most TI graphing calculators, whi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
Grant writing can be a daunting task to undertake, especially for the uninitiated and even more so for educators whose plates are already full. But think of grant proposals as really nothing more than fancier lesson plans or unit plans where the activities and milestones are all mapped out. Ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...s. Our students will be the next generation of problem-solvers. We need to instill the knowledge and the skills to adapt to change and find the solutions in an ever-changing world. Building STEM skills is a way to empower students to make connections between content areas and to be creative. W...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Forensics Case 6 - Measuring Momentum: Using distance moved after impact to estimate velocity
This activity introduces the concept of momentum as it applies to vehicle collisions. Students accurately gather data of collision of a vehicle with a stationary object, and establish a relationship between the distance an object moves after a collision with a vehicle and the momentum of the vehi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-6--measuring-momentum-using-distance-moved-after-impact-to-estimate-velocity
Chemistry Made Easy - Trial Edition
In Chemistry Made Easy - Trial Edition, students will use TI-Nspire™ technology to explore common chemistry problems utilizing step-by-step processes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chemistry-made-easy-@-trial-edition
Physics Made Easy - Trial Edition
In Physics Made Easy - Trial Edition, students will use TI-Nspire™ technology to explore common physics problems utilizing step-by-step processes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/physics-made-easy-@-trial-edition
Scientific Notation
This activity gives students an opportunity to see where large and small numbers are used and how scientific notation offers a convenient method of writing such numbers. This will be done both with and without technology.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/scientific-notation-@-ns
Matholutions Bulletin Board Décor
Celebrate New Year’s with this Matholutions Bulletin Board Décor display. Celebrate New Year’s with this Matholutions Bulletin Board Décor display. This download includes multiple calculator models in party hats, borders with encouraging sayings, numbered pennants for many years of ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/matholutions-bulletin-board-decor
Algebra Skills Review: 3-in-1 Activity
This versatile activity set includes a printable scavenger hunt, a Google Slides review, and practice sheets.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/algebra-skills
Shortest Distance
Students will discover, through exploration, that the shortest distance from a point on a line to the origin is a measure of a perpendicular line segment. You will investigate this minimization problem and support the analytical explanations with interactive explorations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/shortest-distance
Dog Run
This activity allows students to investigate the maximum area of a rectangle with a fixed perimeter.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dog-run
Properties of Special Quadrilaterals Exploration
Students are given a TI-Nspire file with special quadrilaterals so that they can use the dynamic measurement capabilities of the TI-Nspire to explore which properties always hold true for each quadrilateral.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-special-quadrilaterals-exploration
Proportional Segments
The purpose of this activity is to investigate the relationship between segments formed by drawing a line parallel to one side of a triangle or by drwing and angle bisector of one the angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proportional-segments
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 Formula for Area of a Triangle: How was it Derived?
This activity is designed to be paperless. The entire lesson is written to be placed in the Nspire. Students will explore how the formula for area of a triangle works and why it works, they will also explore altitudes and medians of triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-formula-for-area-of-a-triangle-how-was-it-derived
Exploring Midsegments of a Triangle
Students will discover the relationships between a midsegment of a triangle and its third side.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-midsegments-of-a-triangle
Angle-Side-Side Exploration
Does knowing two sides and a non-included angle of a triangle guarantee it is a unique triangle? This activity will allow students to discover the answer by moving a point on a triangle to determine if another triangle given the same sides and non-included angle is possible.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/anglesideside-exploration