STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
If you are a teacher like me, you probably always have lots of ideas. I certainly do! Thank goodness I also have a circle of friends that share my passion and help me bring those ideas full circle. Many of my ideas seem to have a common theme: Provide fun, learning, engaging, real-world experien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...ou can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 3: Exploring Domain and Range In this activity, your students will develop the fundamental relationship between a function and its domain and range. This activity is an opportunity to focus on functions and establishing the co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
... they are incorrect, students have a physical/visual model illustrating their error. 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Math (X)pression Quiz | Functional Fun
...oncept in the real world, suddenly everything becomes clear. Even better if you can touch it, move it, build it — then blow it up. Your high energy puts the fun into functions! What you’ll love: The durability of your TI graphing calcula...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/math-xpression-quiz/functional-fun
BestofChemistry
...rons, protons and electrons, all while discovering the patterns of atomic number, atomic mass and properties of different atoms. Students then play a fun game to test their knowledge. This is based on the popular Phet simulations. Screenshots from the Build an Atom activity. 4. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
This is the breadboard. It functions as an output platform for students to read collected data with red, blue and green LEDs. Science Olympiad, a national science/STEM competition organization, just added a new high school event called Detector Building. In the 35-year history of Science Oly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
...rtbeat of STEM. She highlights “The Plumber: Modeling the Four-Chambered Heart” where students complete three different challenges to demonstrate the function of a heart using TI-Nspire™ CX technology and the TI-Innovator™ Hub. Give one of these exciting activities a try and make your teachin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...This lesson is designed to help students think of slope as a rate of change. As a result, students will be prepared to move to applications of linear functions where the change in one quantity is proportional to the change in another quantity. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
... can access a Google Doc™ here with some ideas to get started. Simply make a copy of the document and customize it based on things you think would be fun for your class. To play, simply call out something on your list, such as an item in their home that is in the shape of a pyramid. Then, send ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...typically choose a case where one denominator has a “repeated factor” and/or a denominator containing a factor of “x.”) Transformations of functions In part 1 of this post, which highlights usage of CAS in algebra I, I used the Solve tool to encourage students to consider the number o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
...n technology. We develop special software that simulates human actions on TI calculators and software. It enables our team to write tests that verify functionality, such as: “Does the calculator return 4 for 2+2?” These tests are important because they can be rerun every time the code changes wit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
...s was to memorize a three-by-three grid of the relationships among the three sides of a right triangle and the value of each sine, cosine and tangent function. At 12 years old, I didn’t see how the assignment was relevant. This learning activity was the opposite of fun; it wasn’t accessible, and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
...a better part of the school year. And, don’t just talk at the kids. Create a conversation like you’re used to doing in class. Keep it interactive and fun. 3. Structure creates connection In an online environment, students are learning in isolation, yet they have a need and desire for social inte...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
...ed by Deb Nutt and Marian Prince Find some real-world activities to engage your students. Use algebra to catch a ball rolling off a ramp, and bring functions to life with the prospect of buying used cars. Geometry Grab Bag Presented by Karen Campe Have you only dipped your toe into the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...tion app on the TI-84 Plus CE provides an illustration of the movement that changing the value of b has on the graph. Here are the steps to graph the function using the Transformation app: Press Œ} and choose the Transfrm to start the app running. Press o and enter the function in the problem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
Best of Biology
...little review. Screenshot from the Building and Interpreting Graphs activity. 2. Cells: Cell Size and Transport — Cell Structure and Function This lesson is great for introducing the concepts of animal and plant cells, as well as organelles. The colorful animations and interacti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...d enter those in column C. Those time intervals in column C can then be plotted on a Data & Statistics page (Figure 7). Using the regression analysis function of the graphing calculator or the computer software, we can analyze our data and determine how well the mathematical model fits the experi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Function, or Not a Function?
...s and Interpretation | Functions Activity Overview In this lesson, students are presented with graphs and tables and asked to determine which represent functions and which do not. A function associates exactly one output value y with each possible input value x. If more than one ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-function-or-not
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions
...gramme Applications and Interpretation | Calculus Activity Overview In this activity, students will investigate the derivatives of sine, cosine, natural log and natural exponential functions by examining the symmetric difference quotient at many points. They develop the idea of t...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-investigating-derivatives-common-functions
Inverse Functions
Inverse Functions apcalculus website In this activity, students will apply inverse functions to real world situations including temperature and money conversions. Inverse Functions ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-inverse-functions
Optimization
...lve optimization in functions and further explore, as time and teacher permit, using parametric functions as well. Students will try to make a connection with how to understand these topics in IB Mathematics courses and on their final assessments. Vocabulary Maximize ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-optimization
Inverse Functions
Inverse Functions apcalculus website In this activity, students will apply inverse functions to real world situations including temperature and money conversions. Inverse Functions ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-inverse-functions
Families of Functions
...on the student activity sheet as they investigate the effects of parameters a, h and k on each graph. Students will use the completed table to make generalizations about the effects of a, h and k on the graphs of any function. As a result, students will: Describe the transformations to a par...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-families-of-functions
Application of Function Composition
... Interpret relationships between domain and range of two functions that produce a composite function. Analyze the data from a table that is generated from a model of a real-life situation that represents a composite function. Summarize the relationship between functions and their comp...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-application-function-composition
Back in Time
...be asked to create their own functions given input/output values and discuss how they discovered these functions. Students will try to make a connection with how to understand these topics in IB Mathematics courses and on their final assessments. Vocabulary Ordered Pairs Verti...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-back-in-time