T³™ Workshops
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You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...gle charge, and will not break if they fall from a desk. And, we don’t make changes unless many teachers and students tell us that it would solve a problem for them. Our product development team has a list of hundreds of features that have been requested – from Wi-Fi access to mirrored slide case...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...eloper. The TI-Nspire™ CX II and TI-84 Plus CE Python platforms mirror very closely the Python API (Application Program Interface). After over 30 years of graphing calculator experience (do the mathematics), I am eagerly anticipating the next generation of handheld classroom devices, and I...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...low. Note that lcm and product represent the least common multiple and the product of the numbers listed within the brackets. For example, lcm(8, 12, 30) = 120 and product(8, 12, 30) = 2,880. Is this fraction less than, equal to, or greater than 1? Does the answer depend on which base you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Score Big on the ACT® With These Tried-and-True Tips for the Math Section
...ce and English teachers that prep students for the ACT® and SAT®. Since becoming the coordinator, our school’s average score has risen from a 28 to a 30 on the ACT®. In fact, we even had two students with perfect scores (36) last year. (Humble test-prep coordinator brag.) I say this because I hop...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-19-2021-act-tips
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
... my pleasing factor tree? That's the power of CAS! On a TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS handheld, access the Factor tool from the algebra menu and type factor(300) like in figure 4, then press enter. There's my factor tree (and it’s better organized to simplify a radical at that). Now, on the next line ty...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...t they won’t quickly look it up, and have them make predictions based upon what they see. What do they predict will be the world record in the year 2030? Use this scatterplot to prompt the following student questions: What do you notice about the men’s and women’s data? What do you th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...learning this year. We will get through this, and will be better educators for it on the other end. About the author: Joanie Funderburk has over 30 years of experience as a math educator, including nearly 20 years as a high school math teacher and ten years in math leadership and professiona...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...to engage with STEM. We’re fresh off a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center where we went to chat with astronaut Joe Acaba, who has logged a total of 306 days in space on three missions. Check it out: Meet a NASA Astronaut. Next month we’ll be visiting the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas’ brand-ne...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...at first for students finding their seats. This, however, creates opportunities to watch for leaders and helpers who assist their peers. I am always observing student behaviors and learning about my students, even before the final bell rings. Advantages It is relatively easy to swap out note ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...because it will slow you down. 2. Know the Test The Math-Calculator section of the SAT® exam is 55 minutes long and contains 38 questions. There are 30 multiple-choice questions, each with four answer choices, and 8 “grid-in” questions with no choices provided. There is also a set of reference ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...of a podcast, providing anytime, anywhere access to ideas, questions and considerations for growing as a math educator. We keep each episode to about 30-minutes long, knowing that educators’ time is precious and knowing that concise, succinct ideas are appreciated. Why is it “Room To Grow”? We c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...portion of the math section of the ACT.* The questions get more difficult as the problem number increases, so you should aim to do questions #1-20 in 30 seconds each, #20-40 in 60 seconds each, and #40- 60 in 90 seconds each, on average. You can use your TI graphing calculator to work through pr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
.... Hallway “races” are a fun way to practice iteration and selection Give students a list of 20–30 questions and answers for a test bank. For example: questions about your school, simple math problems, states and capitals … something that make...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...n extend this model to illustrate Le Chatelier’s Principle. Students establish a system in equilibrium using case #1 and then stress it by adding 20, 30 or 40 more pennies to the system. The results are beautiful. In all three cases, we reach a new equilibrium with different amounts of products c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
... 6, and 2 and 5 are factors of 10, the least common denominator can be determined by multiplying the unique factors that make up each number, 2*3*5 = 30. More examples should be explored for students to confirm the observed pattern. Now, let’s observe the power of CAS to help build on previous...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
... temper this wonderful stat with some of the challenges we still face. The same survey found that 24 percent of kids hate or dislike math and another 30 percent were indifferent to math. I don’t dwell on the negative, instead focusing on what we can do to grow math love. As a parent, longtime e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
The Long Road to My STEM Career
... we keep their interest and extend it into a career in STEM? In the same Microsoft® study, when asked to describe a typical person in a STEM career, 30% of girls said they envision a man in these roles. These girls are telling us that they don’t think they belong, and STEM isn’t for them. We ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...e values for a and b, and then insert the summation template. Using the values from the function in Figure 7, for example, we get a total time of T=3,301 ms or 3.301 sec. In other words, our model shows that it would take a finite amount of time for an infinite number of bounces. These mathemati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Question-9
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Mission Celebration: Use Math to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
... flying into a field of car-sized boulders. Armstrong calmly guided the Eagle landing module to a safe area, beyond the boulder field, with less than 30 seconds of fuel left in the tank. This was an incredible feat of skill and bravery. In a joint mission from NASA and Texas Instruments (TI), ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/july/missioncelebration
Madness in March Underscores the “M” in STEM
...ion, beginning at our 31st annual Teachers Teaching with Technology™ (T³™) International Conference in Baltimore. But the truth is that, for the past 30 years, we’ve worked with educators and professional associations to help give students a solid foundation in math and science to set them up for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/mathmadness
Tutorials
...pstart your TI technology experience with helpful tutorials and tips from companies like Hotmath and Hoonuit Professional Learning. Tutorial for TI-30XS Multiview These QuickTime tutorials for the BA II PLUS and BA II PLUS Professional calculators walk you through a variety of topi...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/tutorials
From Conception to Birth Time Line
A time line showing the stages of human gestation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/from-conception-to-birth-time-line
Genetic Probability
Use the SciTools App to simulate a Punnett square. Make predictions about genetic crosses. Learn about the following concepts; genes, alleles, dominant alleles, recessive alleles, homozygous individuals, heterozygous individuals, phenotypes, and genotypes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/genetic-probability