Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
...w many standards need filled in from last year? How can students practice mathematical fluency in a meaningful and engaging manner? How about incorporating some Python coding in the classroom, to achieve all those goals? My students are always interested in adding some game play to the conten...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
...e When thinking about what advice she would give STEM teachers to help their students, Shahollari directly stated, “I think they need to start incorporating coding more.” She proposed that using a Python-enabled calculator is ideal, but acknowledged that budget constraints could prevent teache...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...s using it in class and for homework. No internet access, no distractions, no hassles TI graphing calculators are purposefully built to be distraction-free devices. They do not come with built-in Wi-Fi capability, Bluetooth or a camera, so parents can be assured ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
... students will be impacted over time? How often? How can I involve the community at large in my project? What matching funds or resources can I incorporate into my budget narrative? How will this project continue when the specific grant funding is gone? Mistake #4: Focusing on th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Under Pressure: The Inverse Relationship between Pressure and Volume
In this activity, students' will use a pressure sensor to investigate the relationship between pressure and volume for an enclosed air sample, and fit an inverse function model to the pressure versus volume data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/under-pressure-the-inverse-relationship-between-pressure-and-volume
The sum of the interior angles of regular polygons
The students will construct triangles within regular-sided polygons to determine the sum of the interior angles. They will then, using statistics, create a linear regression to determine the relationship between the number of sides of a regular polygon and the sum of its interior angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-sum-of-the-interior-angles-of-regular-polygons
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
Constructing Regular Polygons - Angles of Rotational Symmetry
This activity is designed to be used with the Geometry textbook "Math Connections - 2B" p. 295: #4https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/constructing-regular-polygons--angles-of-rotational-symmetry
Classifying Quadrialterals
In this activity, students will classify quadrilaterals graphed on the Cartesian coordinate plane. Students will justify their classifications with segment and angle measurements as well as slope measurements. A review of the hierarchy of quadrilaterals is at the beginning of the document.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/classifying-quadrialterals
Regular Polygons - Angle Measurements
Students will investigate the number of degrees in each polygon with three through ten sides, then develop a formula for the relationship between the number of sides and the sum of the measures of the degrees of the polygons.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/regular-polygons--angle-measurements
Geyser Water Park
This activity deals with the slope-intercept (y=mx+b) formula. It is a good introductory lesson for using the formulas. It also includes setting up a chart and the students have to enter the data into the calculator and graph the results.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/geyser-water-park
Points & Lines & Slopes (Oh My!)
In this activity, students will use coordinates to better understand that relationship, as well as the relationship between coordinates of points and their quadrant locations, slopes and y-intercepts, and parallel and perpendicular lines.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/points--lines--slopes-oh-my_ns_ib
Dinner Party
Students investigate the total cost of a private party at three restaurants and then model the cost of a party at each restaurant with the graph of a linear function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dinner-party_1
How to Find the Center of a Circle Determined by Three Non-Collinear Points
The activity demonstrates the geometric construction of the center of a circle determined by 3 non-collinear points using the TI-Nspire calculator. The activity along with the Problem 3 worksheet guides the novice user to perform the task using the TI-Nspire handheld. Several of the calculator t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-to-find-the-center-of-a-circle-determined-by-three-noncollinear-points
Inscribed Regular Polygons
Students will calculate the changing area and perimeter of inscribed polygons as the number of sides increase. The measurements will be recorded in a spreadsheet for analysis. Students will be learning to use the measurement tools and the Hide/Show function of the TI-Nspire. Students will be aske...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inscribed-regular-polygons
Interior Angles of Regular Polygons
Explore the interior angles of regular polygons by dividing the polygons into triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interior-angles-of-regular-polygons
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
Whole number: Parts of a Whole
This activity involves students in modeling practical situations using the Part-Whole-Part model provided, and identifying the type of operation required. It can be used to lead into building algebraic expressions if desired.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/whole-number-parts-of-a-whole
Confidence Levels for Proportions
This activity involves generating a confidence interval for a population proportion from a random sample of size 100 and considering how certain one can be that this interval contains the actual population proportion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/confidence-levels-for-proportions
Interpreting R -squared
This lesson involves predicting values of a particular variable.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interpreting-r-squared
Taylor Polynomials with CAS
Powerful tool for discussing graphs of Taylor polynomials.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taylor-polynomials
Taylor Polynomial Examples
Taylor polynomials associated with five common functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taylor-polynomial-examples
Polar Point Plotting
The student will be given a brief overview of the Polar Coordinate system. Students will be able to manipulate the radius of a polar point while graphing it on the plane or manipulate the angle and see the polar coordinate graphed on the plane. This activity is meant as an introduction to polar p...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polar-point-plotting
Linear Programming
This activity adds a twist to a traditional linear programming problem by using the features of the TI-Nspire handheld.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-programming
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