35 Years of T³™ Mentorship and Community | Texas Instruments
... us to push each other and to grow and develop. And, we have a common goal: the success of our students.” In 2022, Thibodeaux was one of four individuals recognized with the T³™ Leadership Award, an award recognizing the outstanding contributions of a T³™ instructor for the T³™ community. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/35-years-t3-community-teacher-leader
5 Fresh Spring Ideas for Your Classroom | Texas Instruments
... We’ve rounded up a fun collection of creative teacher resources you can use in your classroom right away. 1. Brighten up your space Welcome the changing of the seasons with a new door or bulletin board design. It’s one of the simpler ways to make your classroom stand out from the r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/fresh-spring-ideas-for-classrooms
Inverse Functions on the TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
... a function Function rule view Type the functions f(x) and c(x) into a TI-84 Plus CE for Y1 and Y2, respectively. Then, from a calculator screen, compute the outputs of Y1 and Y2 as shown for students to confirm the inverse relationship. Because f(x) are c(x) inverse functions, f(a)=b implies...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/investigating-inverse-functions-ti-84-plus-ce
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
...de. Haven’t taught Pythagorean theorem yet? Give your students the second premade file that already has scoring coded. Want to a play a round? For complete activity, check out the TI-84 Plus CE Python or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator pages. Did fractions make your top 5 list? Doe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...r unit plans where the activities and milestones are all mapped out. Many factors go into writing a successful proposal, but remembering these five common mistakes and knowing what questions to ask yourself can help make things go a bit smoother. Let’s countdown the top five mistakes. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
...that, you will sometimes stumble into/ onto something that you can use to engage your students in a more meaningful way. That is exactly how this activity was born. It began with playing with a distance sensor and seeing the distance measured. The next thought was “big deal — what is so special a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
BA II Plus™ Professional Financial Calculator | Texas Instruments
... website Punch the numbers and crunch the data. Animated tutorial movies developed by Hoonuit Professional Learning offer step-by-step instructions covering finance, real estate, accounting, marketing and statistics...https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/financial/baii-plus-professional
Beverage Tests
Students determine the pH of liquid samples. They get familiar with the pH scale, create graphs comparing pH levels, and compare data displayed as a scatter plot, a boxplot, a histogram, and a bar graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/beverage-tests
Infinite Geometric Series
Students explore infinite geometric series. They will consider the effect of the value for the common ratio and determine whether an infinite geometric series converges or diverges.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/infinite-geometric-series
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
Perspective Drawings
In this activity, students will draw figures in one- and two-point perspective, comparing and contrasting the two types of drawings. They then create an isometric drawing and compare it to the other drawings.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perspective-drawings
Applications of Critical Points
Students will examine the relationship between critical points and local extrema through real-world examples. Students will zoom in on the critical points to see if the curve becomes linear to determine if the function is differentiable at the critical point. They will then discover that the sign...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-critical-points
Extrema
Students will learn how to find and label extrema using first and second derivatives, be able to inspect a graph and determine which extrema the function has, and be able to use Trace, fMin, and fMax to verify the computed answers and find critical values for parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/extrema
Minimizing Surface Area of a Cylinder Given a Fixed Volume
Students will discover the relationship between radius and height of a cylinder so that surface area of a cylinder can be minimized while maintaining a fixed volume. This is just an introduction to a project that they will begin after this investigation. Once this is completed, they will redesig...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/minimizing-surface-area-of-a-cylinder-given-a-fixed-volume
The Pirate Problem
The classic geometry problem developed in 1947 by George Gamow comes alive with the interactive platform of TI-Nspire. Will the treasure still be found after the palm tree in the treasure map disappears? What begins with inductive reasoning ends with a formal proof. This lesson, easily adapte...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-pirate-problem
Supplements and Complements
The attached files contain a supplementary angle and complementary angle for students to explore. They are asked which point changes the measure of the angle. They can move various parts of the construction. The files are designed to be used with your current instructional materials.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/supplements-and-complements
Soda Problem: Finding the relationship between Sodium and Sugar
The students will use nutrition label data of certain sodas to create and analyze a scatterplot of the amount of sodium versus the amount of sugar in various soft drinks. They will put the data into lists, create scatterplots, discuss correlations, acquire the line of best fit, and predict other...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/soda-problem-finding-the-relationship-between-sodium-and-sugar
Investigation of Similar Rectangles
This activity shows how the ratios of perimeters and the ratios of areas of similar rectangles compare to the similarity ratios.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigation-of-similar-rectangles
Quadratic Unit Activity #8: Unit Test Part II
This part of the unit exam assesses student's ability to find the equations for quadratic graphs in vertex form.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/quadratic-unit-activity-8-unit-test-part-ii
Quadratic Unit Activity #9: Unit Test Part III
This assessment covers student's finding equations in vertex form of images.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/quadratic-unit-activity-9-unit-test-part-iii
Factoring Special Cases
Students explore geometric proofs for two factoring rules: a2 + 2ab + b2 = (a + b)2 and x2 – a2 = (x – a)(x + a). Given a set of shapes whose combined areas represent the left-hand expression, they manipulate them to create rectangles whose areas are equal to the right-hand expression.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/factoring-special-cases_1
Dice Rolling and Probability
Students will utilize the Spreadsheet and Data and Statistics applications in the TI-Nspire handheld. They will create randomly generated data and will plot it in a Dot Plot to recognize relative frequency of outcomes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dice-rolling-and-probability
One Year Makes a Difference
This lesson involves drawing informal comparative inferences about two populations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/one-year-makes-a-difference
Angles for a Solution
This lesson involves looking at several sketches of intersecting lines and determining the measures of the missing angles using the facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-for-a-solution
Helping students learn how to use built-in functions on the TI nspire
Students will follow step-by-step directions to become familiar with how to use the TI nspire's built in functions. Tutorial includes converting to decimal, approximating fractions, finding remainders, finding LCM, using factorials, creating mixed numbers, and factoring numbers to their prime fac...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/helping-students-learn-how-to-use-builtin-functions-on-the-ti-nspire