Skills of Science - Doing Unit Conversions
In this lesson, students will be introduced to doing unit conversions with TI-Nspire.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--doing-unit-conversions
Tool - Unit Conversion
In this lesson, students are introducted to the basics of how to effectively use this tool. This tool can be used alone, or you can copy/paste it into another TNS document.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tool--unit-conversion
Dash, Watch out for Rover
In this activity, challenge students to take measurements, determine patterns, make predictions using the Dash robot to complete a task.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dash-watch-out-for-rover
Match Me
Have you ever played a game that tests your memory? The Match Me game generates a list of random colors the player must match using Python and the TI-Nspire CX II.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-me_cs
Rover, Watch out for Rover
In this activity, students will explore the relationship between distance, time and speed by driving the TI-Innovator™ Rover as close as possible to Rover, the toy dog, without bumping him.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/watch-out-for-rover
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
... original work happened by thinking about different scenarios using a pencil, paper and slide rule. When handheld calculators became available, he switched over to a TI BA-35 and eventually TI-82 and TI-83 graphing calculators. TI graphing calculators allowed Harold to use the program editor to w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
... feedback can come from teachers and/or peers, it is information given to the learner about the learner’s performance relative to learning goals or outcomes that aims toward (and is capable of producing) improvement in students’ learning. Now that’s a mouthful. Right? Feedback boils down to an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
... details. Resources available to you There are many resources available as you prepare to take this year’s AP® exams. Review concepts by watching videos: College Board® has put together AP® Live Courses to review content, including exam prep for each course. Texas Instruments Education...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...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 Earth, the volume of plastic used ea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Parallel Lines and the Transversals that Cross Them!
Students will explore the relationships between angles formed by parallel lines crossed by transversals. While there are other activities that may address similar topics, the questions presented to students in this activity bring a fresh perspective to student discovery.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parallel-lines-and-the-transversals-that-cross-them
Polygons & Angles: Looking for Patterns
This activity explores the relationships of various polygons and their angles. This is a discovery lesson and leads students through data and asks them to make conjectures about the angles of a triangle, quadrilateral, and pentagon. This lesson explores interior angles, exterior angles, and as...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polygons--angles--looking-for-patterns
Can I Make a Triangle?
This TI-Nspire activity is for the Triangle Inequality Theorem. There are 3 problems that contain 3 segments each. The student tries to make triangles with these segments. They compare the lengths of the shortest to the length of the longest to see if the inequality is true or false. For the...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/can-i-make-a-triangle
Angles of a Triangle
This activity explores the various relationships of the angles of a triangle. It starts with an interior angle and its corresponding exterior angle. Then the sum of the interior angles. Finally, the relationship between one exterior angle and its remote interior angles. The students are prov...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-of-a-triangle_2
Solving Systems by Graphing
Explore moving a point to illustrate solving systems of linear equations graphically.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-by-graphing
Exploring Graphs of Inequalities
Test ordered pairs to determine if they are part of the solution set to an inequality.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-graphs-of-inequalities
"Add Them Up" for TI-Nspire
This activity (which is based on "Add Them Up" from EasyData Collection Activities) involves the use of TI-Nspire, Vernier Easy Link, and a Voltage sensor in order to have students graph a scatterplot and determine an equation of best fit based on collected data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/add-them-up-for-tinspire
Checking Equivalence
Investigate equivalent expressions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/checking-equivalence
Box Plot Comparison
In this activity, students will create dot plots and box-and-whisker plots of the temperatures of three different cities along the United States' East Coast: Caribou, Maine, Washington, DC, and Tampa, Florida. Students will make dot plots for each city and compare the representations to one ano...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/box-plot-comparison
Family of t Curves
This lesson involves investigating how a t-distribution compares to a normal distribution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/family-of-t-curves
Cardioid Patterns - Discover Using Graphs
This activity will give students an opportunity to discover a pattern in the graphs of cardioids.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cardioid-patterns--discover-using-graphs
Unit Circle template
This is a one page unit circle template that you can copy and paste into a document that you are creating. To make it fit the screen, change the document settings to "float 3," and I used degrees instead of radians for all of the angles up to 180 degrees. You will also want to view in "handheld...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/unit-circle-template
How Much Does Bubble Gum Stretch a Rubber Band?
Students will conduct an experiment where they determine how much various quantities of bubble gum affect the length of a rubber band.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-much-does-bubble-gum-stretch-a-rubber-band
Investigating the Graphs of Quadratic Equations
A graph of a quadratic equation will be shown. Also shown is the equation of the parabola in vertex form: y = a*(x - h)^(2) + v. And an ordered pair for one the points on the parabola will be shown on the screen. Use the pointer tool to double click on the equation on the graph screen. This wil...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-the-graphs-of-quadratic-equations
Given the Graph of a Parabola, State its Equation in Vertex Form
This activity is designed for students to study on their own. It is designed in a 'StudyCard' format. A graph of a parabola will be shown. The student is asked to find the equation of the parabola in vertex form: y = a*(x - h)^(2) + v. Press enter on the double up arrow in the Ans... section t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/given-the-graph-of-a-parabola-state-its-equation-in-vertex-form
Watch Your P' and Q's
Students use the Rational Zero Theorem to find all rational zeros of a polynomial.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/watch-your-p-and-qs