T³ Instructors | Become a Teacher Leader | Texas Instruments
...y™ (T3™) professional learning organization is comprised of some of the most creative and innovative mathematics, science and STEM teachers in the world. They are successful educators who work with teachers and students from elementary grades through the university level. As advocates for enhanci...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/t3-community/t3-instructors
World Population - 84
In this TI-84 activity, students use their graphing calculator to explore world population data from the years 1950-2023. They will develop various equations to model the data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/world-population
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
...ible about their retirement savings. Meet Harold Peters. He started investing in the late 1950s and early ’60s, but at that time there were large commissions and fees … sometimes as much as 8% per trade! So, he started to study retirement systems and over many years he recognized that fees ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...vehicle. It’s fun, it’s cool, and best of all, students of all ages with no prior coding experience can get the Rover to move and follow their coding commands in just a few minutes! Let’s take a look at a few specific activities where educators are effectively using the Rover to elevate student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
... X, followed by 6/2X, the TI-82 would first find 2X, then divide the result into 6. However, for the TI-83 (and later models), 6/2X is found by first computing 6/2 and then multiplying this by X. The expression 6/2X is evaluated differently on these two models. On the bright sid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
... Using real-world environmental issues is an easy way to get students engaged and thinking critically about problems that may be affecting their own communities. A task as simple as walking around a schoolyard could have students realizing their school might have an issue with trash. This can le...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
... Jefferson Station, New York. He loves to create and do hands-on projects with his students. Learn through playing — build a slide whistle to examine linear equations Play … create … try something different! If you do that, you will sometimes stumble into/ onto some...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
BA II Plus™ Professional Financial Calculator | Texas Instruments
... Modified Duration Payback and Discounted Payback Choose from two day-count methods (actual/actual or 30/360) to calculate bond price or yield to maturity or to call Six methods for calculating depreciation, book value, and remaining depreciable amount: SL, SYD, DB, DB with SL cross...https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/financial/baii-plus-professional
Computer Science | Cybersecurity Activities | Texas Instruments
... physical computing. These free cybersecurity activities are ordered in a series of learning sequences, so students can gradually build on their understanding concept by concept. Download all the activities: TI-Nspire™ CX II version TI-84 Plus CE Python version Download all cyb...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/computer-science/cybersecurity
Vernier - How Low Can You Go?
In this activity, students will use an EasyTemp temperature probe to determine the normal melting temperature of ice. They will then study how the addition of salt to the melting ice affects its melting temperature. They will finally formulate a procedure for reaching the coldest melting temperat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--how-low-can-you-go
NASA - Weightless Wonder
In this activity, students explore quadratic functions through the real-world example of weightless flight and the gravitational pull of the earth on objects in orbit.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--weightless-wonder
World Population
Students use their handhelds to explore world population data from the years 1950-2006. They will develop various equations to model the data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/world-population_1
3D Parametric
In this activity, students will review the concepts of parametric and polar equations. By using the 3D graphing capabilities of the TI-Nspire handheld, students will be able to extend these ideas to the area of solids of revolution, arc length and kinematics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/3d-parametric
Points of Concurrency in Triangles
In this activity, students will use their Nspire handhelds to discover the different points of concurrencies in triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities to discover the circumcenter, incenter, and centroid of triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/points-of-concurrency-in-triangles
Polygons - Diagonals
Students will investigate the number of diagonals in each polygon with three through ten sides, then develop a formula for the relationship between the number of sides and the number of diagonals of the polygons. Some prior familiarity with constructing segments and basic functions of the TI-Nsp...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/polygons--diagonals
Properties of Isosceles Triangles
In this activity and by using the Nspire handhelds, students will discover the different properties and attributes of Isosceles Triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities of this very unique handheld to explore the different attributes of the Isosceles Triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-isosceles-triangles
Balancing Point
In this activity, students will explore the median and the centroid of a triangle. Students will discover that the medians of a triangle are concurrent. The point of concurrency is the centroid. Students should discover that the center of mass and the centroid are the same for a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-point
Applications of Similar Figures
Students will identify corresponding parts of figures and use the definition of similar figures to solve real-world applications involving rectangles and triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-similar-figures
Angle Relationships
In this activity, students explore the angle relationships that exist when two lines intersect. They begin by exploring vertical angles and linear pairs, and then expand their study to two lines and a transversal. They will see what relationships hold true when the two lines intersected by a tran...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angle-relationships
Pythagorean Relationships
Investigate the triangles that can be formed using one side of three squares to build the triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pythagorean-relationships
Remote Interior Angles
Students use the handheld activity and questions to explore remote interior angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/remote-interior-angles
Supertall Skyscrapers
In this activity, students use their handhelds to measure scale drawings of famous “supertall” skyscrapers. They first check that the Sears Tower is drawn to scale and then use their measurements to calculate that scale. Next, they write and solve proportions to find the heights of other skyscrap...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/supertall-skyscrapers
Geometry: Exploring Quadrilaterals
Drag the verices of a quadrilateral and build the different types; focus on the properties of these different figures, and finally put it all together to identify different quadrilaterals from their properties.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/geometry-exploring-quadrilaterals
Hanging with the Incenter
In this activity, students will explore the angle bisector of the angles of a triangle. Students will discover that the angle bisectors are concurrent. The point of concurrency is the incenter. Students should discover the relationship between the type of triangle and the location of the point of...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hanging-with-the-incenter
Dog Days or Dog Years?
Students use ordered pairs, table of values, and a scatter plot to determine a function that represents real world data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dog-days-or-dog-years