Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...ams and show connections. Also, take any opportunity to explain this information to anyone who will listen. Create a video, teach a family member, or just talk to yourself in a mirror. By verbalizing the information, you can reinforce what you know and realize what material you need to review mor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...lassroom set of graphing calculators. That’s the teacher’s need. The proposal should instead address student learning needs where calculators form just one portion of the solution. Classroom calculators should not be the end goal, but one of many tools and resources to increase student achieve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...terials that we provided to workshop participants so they could take home and use the project with their students. Or, for a quick preview, check out just the student activity sheet. Here are some other interesting Earth Day activities you can try with your students: #2. Straw Shock Your stude...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Fan’s Favorite Features on TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...g new! 1. Graphing connections Our teacher community agrees, one of the greatest aspects of the TI-84 Plus 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 fu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/five-fan-favorite-features-ti84plus
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
... navigate to 8 TI Hub > 3 Add Input Device. Then select 2 Ranger. This will import the code for variables that can be adjusted. Once students finish modifying their program, they’ll try it out with the TI-Innovator™ Hub and the ranger (distance sensor)....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
Residuals- 84
In this activity for TI-84 series, students will investigate a residual plot for a set of data after selecting a regression model. The residual plot is used to justify the choice of a function model based on an analysis of the residuals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/residuals_84
The Sprinkler and the Lawn
Students will apply the concepts of angle bisector, incenter of a triangle, and percentages to solve a real-world problem involving a circular sprinkler and a triangular-shaped lawn.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-sprinkler-and-the-lawn
"Picking" Your Way Through Area Problems
Students will discover Pick's Theorem by finding the relationship between area and the number of boundary points and interior points of a lattice polygon.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/picking-your-way-through-area-problems
Cyclic Quadrilaterals
Students will explore cyclic quadrilaterals and their properties.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cyclic-quadrilaterals_2
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
Medians in a Triangle
Students will study medians and some of their properties. A median of a triangle connects a vertex of the triangle with the midpoint of the opposite side.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/medians-in-a-triangle
Square Root Spiral and Function Graphs
In this activity, students will investigate the spiral formed by square roots of consecutive numbers, numerical approximations for square roots, the plot of the square root spiral arm lengths, and the graph of the square root function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/square-root-spiral-and-function-graphs
Pledge Plans: An Exploration of Linearity
A brief overlook of slope linearity and how it is applied to graphs and real life situations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pledge-plans-an-exploration-of-linearity
Pledge Plans: An Exploration of Linearity
A brief overlook of slope and how it is applied to real-life situations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pledge-plans-an-exploration-of-linearity_1
Any 2 Points Make A Line
Students will use the TI-nspire to plot 2 points then draw the line through them. Students will find coordinates, calculate slope for diagonal , vertical and horizontal lines, then verify results using menu choices on their handheld. This activity has a student worksheet that questions students a...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/any-2-points-make-a-line
Chirp, Jump, Scatter
In this activity, students will find a best fit line for data graphed as scatter plots. Applications of linear relationships provide motivation for students and improve their skills and understanding of finding the equation of a line from two known points. Movable lines make this activity approac...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chirp-jump-scatter_1
Polythagoras
This activity explores (a) relationships among non-square regular polygons constructed on the sides of a right triangle and (b) visual and numerical proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem using rotations and non-square polygons.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polythagoras
Complex Roots: A Graphical Solution
In this activity, you will explore the relationship between the complex roots of a quadratic equation and the related parabola's graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/complex-roots-a-graphical-solution
Investing in Your Future - Using Spreadsheets to Make Comparisons
This activity provides students the opportunity to make financial decisions based on different investment scenarios. Students will use the spreadsheet application of the TI-Nspire calculator to compare the results of investing in a certificate of deposit or a Money Market Account. Students will p...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investing-in-your-future--using-spreadsheets-to-make-comparisons
Elliptic Variations
This lesson involves exploring the curves that result from varying the defining conditions of an ellipse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/elliptic-variations
Modeling Judging a Poster Contest
In this TI-Nspire family activity, students use the ratings made by five judges in a poster competition with the goal of deciding the top three posters based on the ratings made by the judges.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-judging-a-poster-contest
Big Data Sets- Well Being OECD
Students can explore the data in this activity from the OECD well-being survey updated July 2022.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-data@-well-being
Modeling Mantid Striking Distance
In this TI-Nspire activity, students investigate the relationship between how hungry a praying mantis (also called a “mantid”) is and the distance at which the praying mantis will strike (jump) at prey.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-mantid-striking-distance_nspire
Too Hot? Too Cold? Just Right!
In this lesson, students will simulate the effect of environmental temperature on the metabolisms of both endothermic and ectothermic animals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/too-hot--too-cold-just-right
Simple Calculator Tips for Algebra 2 | Texas Instruments
...ills for this new course. Even with 12 years of teaching experience, I’m still learning new ways to use my TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator — not just for calculations but also as a teaching tool. Recently, I discovered the transformation app, which was an absolute game-changer in my classroo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/simple-easy-calculator-tips-algebra2-concepts