Nothing Says “I Love You” Like an Absolute Value Graph ❤ by @TICalculators
...alentine. Download a PDF of a blank valentine and one that’s ready to be shared. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/create-math-valentines
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...Add a new dimension to a class. An ELL teacher in Lufkin ISD uses a robot to have her students create a city tour. She uses a large map on the floor, instructs her students to create an itinerary for the robot to visit the notable places in the city, and the students have to narrate the tour. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
Python Modules Have More Fun | Texas Instruments
...ber of the team a clearly defined task, have each develop a module, and then merge the modules into a single project. The rest of this document explains the process of creating and using modules on the TI-84 Plus CE Python edition. Download the TI-Nspire™ CX II version for the same information s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-modules-have-more-fun
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
...r functions as well. self is a required first argument in all class methods, including __init__(). self is used to refer to each specific object (instance) of the class. I can have many balloons (or instances of a balloon), each with its own color, size and position, and self is used to refer...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes
Insider Tips for Winning the TI Codes Contest
... TI Codes Contest! Good Luck and Happy Coding! You’ve made it through the first round of the TI Codes Contest. Congratulations! Now the real fun begins as you sketch out a solid plan in hopes of advancing to the next round. Insider Tips for Winning the TI Codes Contest Kim Gonzales, @kimsgonza...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/ticodescontest
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...alled “The seven minutes of terror,” the Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars. Perseverance carried an arsenal of scientific instruments designed to hunt for signs of past microbial life, if it ever existed. In other words, its mission is to hunt directly for these “biosi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
...tain some sort of “treasure” (think a small trinket) that you can take and replace with your own for the next person to find. For more details on the ins and outs of geocaching, check out this blog, or read more on the Geocaching website. This month, Texas Instruments (TI) and Geocaching launch...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School
...he correct pronunciation is an easy way to show that you care about them. Play the name game by having each student pick a positive adjective that begins with the same sound as the first letter of their first name. It is a great way to help you and their classmates to remember names and pronuncia...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/first_week_tips
Going Back to School With Stations
... write down things that I like (volume level, proximity when working together, eye contact, etc.). At the end of the class period, I have students brainstorm the question: “What does station work in math class look like and sound like?” We think about and discuss what we like to see or hear in st...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
Professional basketball star donates TI calculators to his former high school
...ready. “Riverside has always meant a lot to me. I started off my high school career here and it feels good to give back to the school and to this community that meant so much to me – I am happy to do it,” said Warren, who was joined by his parents and former basketball coach.” Warren, who ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/february/tj-warren-donates
Customize your TI calculator with a 3-D printed case
...o create custom slide covers for TI’s newest graphing calculator, the TI-84 Plus CE. “These designs aren’t meant to replace the protective cover that comes with your TI calculator,” says Galu, “but it does give you some options if you lose your case or simply want to be the envy of everyone’s eye...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/3d-slide-case
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...ounce? To get started, you’ll need the following equipment and materials (Figure 2): TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator or a computer with TI-Nspire™ software TI-Nspire™ Lab Cradle Vernier microphone A handful of small balls (pingpong, golf, lacrosse — we’re not pick...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Molar Gas Lab
Students use stoichiometry to determine the mass of oxygen gas in a bottle. They may also check their answer against the amount of potassium chloride produced during the reaction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/molar-gas-lab
Half-Life Lab
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students will use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life. Using a radiation monitor linked to a CBL2, students run...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/halflife-lab
Like Moths Around a Flame
In this activity, students will examine the historical natural selection model of peppered moths. Students will use the calculator to enhance their understanding of the model by analyzing patterns in long-term data of light colored and dark colored moth populations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/like-moths-around-a-flame
Projectile Motion Simulation
Students can investigate the effects of changing various initial quantities on the motion of a projectile. The simulation allows for firing a projectile over or up onto a cliff or over level ground. The results are displayed both graphically and mathematically.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/projectile-motion-simulation
Curve Ball
In this activity, students' will create a Height-Time plot for a bouncing ball and use a quadratic equation to describe the ball's motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/curve-ball
"Power"ful Patterns
Students investigate the relationship between multiplication with repeated factors and the use of exponents. Students will connect "powers of ten" to place value positions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/powerful-patterns
Picturing Probabilities of Number Cube Sums
Students use ideas of ratio and proportion to investigate various ways to make a circle graph. Students create graphs to display the probabilities of the different sums that can be generated with two number cubes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/picturing-probabilities-of-number-cube-sums
Putting Things in Place
Students investigate the value of the digits in $8,205.50 and determine the number of thousands, hundreds, tens, ones and even the number of dimes and pennies. The concept is then extended to additional situations. They learn where to place a decimal when writing amounts of money and to perform a...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/putting-things-in-place
What's the Plan?
Students investigate area with nonstandard and standard units of measure. They work to plan a unique vegetable garden and calculate the costs of plants for the garden.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/whats-the-plan
Random Remainders
Students explore the use of a calculator to investigate the relationship between divisors and remainders in whole-number division.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/random-remainders
Perimeter Patterns
Students investigate patterns in ordered pairs generated by constructing a sequence of similar shapes. They then use the patterns and the calculator to predict the perimeter of a specific shape in the sequence.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perimeter-patterns
Forensics Case 4 - Flipping Coins: Density as a characteristic property
In this activity, students identify counterfeit coins based on the characteristic property of density. They model data using a linear equation, interpret the slope and intercept values from a linear model, and identify a characteristic property of a substance.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-4brflipping-coins-density-as-a-characteristic-property
Steppin' Out
Students will use the Data/Graphs Wizard tool to graph data and determine a line that best fits your data and use the Data/Graphs Wizard tool to identify the relationship between stride length and height.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/steppin-out