The "Great Pyramid" - Rate of Change
Students will explore different rates of change. Using the TI-Nspire students will be expected to make predictions based upon information that a Pharaoh has given. Students will explore points in a scatter plot of time and height on the building of a pyramid in ancient times. They will calcula...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-great-pyramid--rate-of-change
Sequence Investigation
In this activity, students will use a calculator page to create an arithmetic sequence. Through this they will learn some of the vocabulary of sequences. Then students will then use slider functionality to explore the effect of each variable in the formula of the nth term of an arithmetic sequenc...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sequence-investigation_1
One Sided Limits
Students will be given piecewise functions and asked to evaluate both the left-hand limit and the right-hand limit of the function as x approaches a given number, c. Using sliders, students will estimate the value of the missing variable that makes the left-hand limit and the right-hand limit equal.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/one-sided-limits_1
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...erything when designing technology for the classroom. And there’s a lot to think through: from finding ways to conduct real-time assessment by wirelessly sending quick polls to students' handhelds, to allowing students to create dynamic presentations using graphs, geometry and data with interacti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...etric dissection, popularized by Martin Gardner. You can take the varnish off the vanish by using mathematical topics that include similar triangles, slope and trigonometry. Although the scale is exaggerated, figure 3 shows what is really happening: The diagonal of the rectangle (line segment IL)...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...llenging at first, but we were all helping each other so it was easy to go through it,” said Shad Emili Bykovsky, who’s from Cornwall, Prince Edward Island. Although Bykovsky came to the workshops with previous coding experience, she liked how she was able to take on challenges even after the ses...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
Sometime last March, our lives changed forever. Our specific start dates to the COVID-19 pandemic might be slightly different, but now, nearly eight months later, it’s clear that things will never be the same. Everyone’s lives and many people’s work have been impacted, but educators may be ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...t // Solution Set March 8: Integration by Parts Problem Set // Solution Set March 22: Slope fields and differential equations Problem Set // Solution Set April 5: Polar equations Problem Set // Solutio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
... a T³™ National Instructor and an associate professor of STEM Mathematics in the Teacher Education department at the University of Dayton. She previously taught first, fourth and fifth grades in the elementary setting and for Sinclair Community College in the Developmental Mathematics department....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...ground, is for someone else to decide. We each came up with an idea. Riggins created a wonderful activity. While using Python, students learn about slope as they work to deliver flowers from Jack’s house to Diane’s house. (Yes, “Jack & Diane” dates us a little bit, but it’s a fun song.) By the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
Understanding Slope Is More Than Computing It When I first started teaching, I taught algebra I to ninth-graders. My students were similar to most — highly energetic kids that, quite honestly, had more important things on their mind than mathematics. Let’s face it: their understanding of the sl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...pported math educators across the country since 2015 through her work at Student Achievement Partners and Illustrative Mathematics. Funderburk previously chaired NCTM’s Membership and Affiliate Relations Committee and is the immediate Past-President of the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathemat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...students to design a circuit and write code that creates an on/off switch using a banana — that’s correct, a banana (or you can use an apple if you dislike bananas). Unit 2: Banana switch circuit diagram. Unit 3: Setting Analog Output — “Make a Mood Light.” Students will control th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
...Your Questions, Our Answers — Session 7 Presentation Students and teachers can access all of the 2021–22 live sessions, as well as previously recorded sessions, on our YouTube channel here. Can’t get enough calculus? Check out our previous Monday Night Calculus series here. TI in Fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...t is about the same as Earth’s atmosphere at about 35 km altitude, which is about three times higher than commercial airliners fly. Operate autonomously. Once it has been placed on the surface by Perseverance, Ingenuity uses solar power to charge its batteries and rely on internal heaters to mai...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...’t that big of a deal after all. Anxiety Tip #2: Take a Brain Vacay Getting worked up over that question that’s driving you nuts? Take a break. Seriously. Play with your cat. Wash your hair. Bake a cake. I don’t care. Just do something other than the question that’s making you crazy. Let your bra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
Best of Biology
...shots from the Addition by Division activity. 4. Genetics: DNA/RNA/Protein Synthesis — DNA Structure, DNA Replication, Transcription and Translation This set of three individual activities break down the central dogma, that is, DNA to RNA to Protein, through the use of multiple interact...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
Most students instinctively know already that for each consecutive bounce, a ball will reach slightly less height than in the bounce before. They may have even explored the mathematical model that describes how the height decreases for a series of bounces, like the one shown in Figure 1. In p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Gas Lab
Students determine the molecular weight of a pure gas in a balloon by using gas laws and trapping the gas in a glass bottle. Students watch the instructor demonstrate the lab on day one. On day two and three they practice the lab. On day four we discuss the lab and all the calculations. On da...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gas-lab
Ohm's Law
In this activity, students will explore the relationship between current and potential difference for several resistors which obey Ohm's Law. They will experimentally measure the resistance of the resistors. Students will then examine the relationship between current and potential difference us...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ohms-law
Crime Scene Investigation - Stride Pattern Analysis with CBR 2
By using the Calculator-Based Ranger (CBR2™), students can plot the distance-time graph of a walking or running person. Students find correlation between the stride distance, velocity, and the height of a person, walking or running at a steady pace and compare that to the stride pattern left at t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/crime-scene-investigation--stride-pattern-analysis-with-cbr-2
Vernier - Friction
Students study how the nature of two materials in contact, and the smoothness of their surfaces affect the magnitude of the sliding force of friction. They use a force sensor to measure frictional force for different surfaces.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--friction
Toys on a slope
Participants analyze data from toys rolling down a slope. Velocity is determined using lists and graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/toys-on-a-slope
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
Parallel or Perpendicular-What's Your Inclination?
This activity has students discover the relationship between parallel and perpendicular lines and their slopes. After constructing these objects using CABRI Geometry II for the TI-89, slopes are measured. (Topic - parallel and perpendicular lines)https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parallel-or-perpendicularwhats-your-inclination