About Building Concepts
About Building Concepts website About Building Concepts Building Concepts in mathematics is a different way of thinking about teaching and learning critical middle grades math ideas. hsSA4JFeqyQ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/about
TI-Nspire™ CX Technology by Texas Instruments
...for themselves. Make connections that promote conceptual understanding TI-Nspire™ CX technology supports wireless connectivity that, when combined with the objective and subjective questions in each Building Concepts activity, provides teachers with insights into student thinking, ena...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/ti-nspire-cx-technology
Exploring Mathematics with the Cabri™ Jr. Application
... Magic Nines 3. Repeating Elevens 4. Remember Me? 5. Keeping up with Trash 6. Light Years Away 7. Eating Out 8. Power Patterns 9. Power Company 10. Roots 11. Exponent Game 12. Going out of Business 13. Circle Around 14. Stuff It! --> Exploring Mathematics with the Cabri™ Jr. Appli...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/exploration-series/capri-jr-exploring
30 34 investigation
... Magic Nines 3. Repeating Elevens 4. Remember Me? 5. Keeping up with Trash 6. Light Years Away 7. Eating Out 8. Power Patterns 9. Power Company 10. Roots 11. Exponent Game 12. Going out of Business 13. Circle Around 14. Stuff It! Investigating Mathematics with Calculators in the Mid...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/exploration-series/30-34-investigation
Getting started on TI technology | Texas Instruments
... to frequently asked questions and more. TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator and TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software TI-Innovator™ Hub TI-Innovator™ Rover Choose your TI technology to get started: Need more ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/getting-started-on-ti-technology
Getting started on TI technology | TI-84 Plus CE Python
... calculator. Learn even more about useful apps, programming with TI-Basic and Python, or refer to the reference guide for questions about cataloging, commands and functions, error messages and more. Get more help with TI guidebooks Need more assistance? Contact TI-Cares™ customer...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/getting-started-on-ti-technology/ti-84-plus-ce-python
Grant Writing Resources
...rategies for writing successful government and foundation grants and includes project management and internet use. Purchase at http://www.corwinpress.com/book.aspx?pid=5263 The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing 4th ed. Geever, Jane C. United States of America, 2004 Provides informati...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/links-to-other-grant-writing-resources
GEAR UP Grant Partnerships
...nts successfully works with current and potential GEAR UP grant recipients across the country to provide the foundation for GEAR UP success through a combination of math, science and STEM technology, professional development and resources. Contact us for assistance for assistance as you plan and ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/funding_gearup
Probability Diagrams and Tables
...same time. 408114 Probability Diagrams and Tables Planning and Resources Objectives Students distinguish between an experiment in which the outcomes are equally likely and one in which the outcomes are not equally likely. They organize a list of all possible outcomes and find the probabili...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-diagrams-and-tables
Probability and Simulation
... not obvious. 406774 Probability and Simulation Planning and Resources Objectives Students choose an appropriate model to simulate a chance outcome. They recognize the difference between the underlying structures of chance events that have a specified number of repetitions versus chance ev...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-and-simulation
Outliers
...lyze data sets. 409872 Outliers Planning and Resources Objectives Students learn to identify outliers in a set of data through both visual and computational approaches. They can describe the impact of outliers on measures of center and spread. Vocabulary outlier upper quartile lower quarti...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/outliers
Introduction to Histograms
... Histograms are particularly useful for very large data sets where a dot plot would be difficult to manage. What are the students doing? Students compare different bin widths for the same data and explore the effect of adding data points to a histogram. What is the teacher doing? Help student...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-histograms
Intro to Data
Intro to Data website The lesson helps students develop a sense of the distribution of data, the number of times each possible outcome occurs. 397179 Intro to Data Planning and Resources...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-data
Median and Interquartile Range
...tudents should understand that summary measures of data identify certain key features of the distribution of the data, but do not necessarily give a complete picture of the distribution. They can identify the median as a measure of center and interquartile range (IQR) as measure of spread relat...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/median-and-interquartile-range
Law of Large Numbers
Law of Large Numbers website In this lesson, students investigate how the relative frequency of an outcome approaches the actual probability of that outcome, as the number of repetitions ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/law-of-large-numbers
Scatter Plots
...red observations. What to look for Students can highlight the locations of subgroups of the population within the scatter plot to understand how they compare with regard to one or both of the variables in a scatter plot. Sample Assessment A scatter plot of paired measurement variables can often b...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/scatter-plots
Two Way Tables and Categorical Data
... stacked bar graphs can reveal potential associations among categorical variables. What to look for Relative frequency is particularly important when comparing groups of different sample size. Sample Assessment The table below describes risk factors for obesity associated with age. a) What do th...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/two-way-tables
Expressions & Equations
Expressions & Equations website This lesson allows students to investigate exponents and learn how to use exponents as a compact way to write expressions involving whole number multipli...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions
What is a Variable?
...es Students should understand that a variable can take on any one of a range of values. They recognize an algebraic expression as one involving some combination of variables, numbers and mathematical operations. Vocabulary expression variable constant In this lesson students evaluat...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/what-is-a-variable
Adding Ratios
...ge that ratios represent the relationship between two (or more) related quantities; and that, since the values in a ratio are quantities, they can be combined to form a new ratio. 393710 Adding Ratios Planning and Resources Objectives Students should recognize that adding equivalent ratios r...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/adding-ratios
Equations of the Form ax+by = c
... identify unique solutions to a linear equation of the form \(ax+by = c\) Vocabulary linear equation variables constraint solution intercepts linear combinations In this lesson students investigate linear equations of the form \(ax+by = c\). Students use coordinate grids to explor...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/equations-of-the-form-ax-plus-by-equals-c
Creating Equivalent Fractions - Texas Instruments
... In this lesson, students explore how to create equivalent fractions by multiplying the numerator and denominator of a fraction by a common factor. 393716 Creating Equivalent Fractions Planning and Resources Objectives Students express that a fraction (a/b) is equivalent to ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/fractions/sequence-1/creating-equivalent-fractions
Fractions and Unit Squares - Texas Instruments
... adjusted slightly depending on the background of the students. The language of tiling is one possible instance—a region is tiled by a shape if it is completely covered by the shape with no gaps or overlaps. Sample Assessment Identify three fractions equivalent to (4/12). Answer: (1/3), (2/6),...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/fractions/sequence-1/fractions-and-unit-squares
What is an Exponent?
What is an Exponent? website This lesson allows students to investigate exponents and learn how to use exponents as a compact way to write expressions involving whole number multiplicatio...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/what-is-an-exponent
Fraction Multiplication
... creates a product less than the number; multiplying any number by a fraction greater than one produces a product greater than the number. Vocabulary commutative property of multiplication reciprocal This lesson uses interactive unit squares to explore the concept of fraction multipl...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/fractions/sequence-1/fraction-multiplication