Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...p students achieve in math and science. The girls in my troop really enjoy the STEM and coding activities, which got me thinking recently, “How can I combine my work experience with my passion for Girl Scouts?” This is my Girl Scout troop, Dublin Troop 408, on a zip line adventure in Col...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...e user know that beans were being dispensed. This automatic dispenser project was adapted from a project presented at the T³IC Instructor PD Day in 2018. Finally, one by one, students’ designs turned into working models of an automatic dispenser. During the spring semester, I plan to intr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
To STEM and Beyond!
... Figure 4: Automatic dispenser project using the built-in brightness sensor to turn on an RGB LED and turn a motor to dispense beans. Fast forward to 2021, I still have my robotics course! School is looking more normal again, and this year we are all back full time. Last year, I started ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...Fire activity. 3. Earth’s Water: Fresh Water — The Water Cycle Students will explore all components of the water cycle in this straightforward simulation. In addition, they can change global temperatures to see the effect on ocean levels. Screenshots from The Water Cycle activ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... All of these lingering questions came into focus when the teachers in my school began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...to the customer’s design constraints. This easy on-ramp freed kids to explore questions about plant physiology and consider how dry the soil should become (and how quickly that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...udent, I probably wouldn’t have looked at the objectives or standards at all. I just wanted to know how to code, how to create and explore. Fast forward a few years (wink) , and now as a teacher and a programmer, I realize that it is not just about the “how” to code and that my old outlook put...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...e logic requires an EndIf to close the logic statement. Now, your program will display undefined when the user uses two equivalent x-coordinates. Otherwise, it returns the slope between the two points. NEXT STEPS: What else do you want to program? We’ve shown you an example of how to integrate c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...nition and keeps track of the number of correct answers. If the answer is correct, play a tone and make the light on the TI-Innovator™ Hub teal. Otherwise, play a tone twice, and display a magenta light. The code might be as follows: #1. New project libraries. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
...— Session 2 Presentation Oct. 4: Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers — Session 3 Presentation Oct. 18: Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers — Session 4 Presentation Nov. 1: Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Ou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...for the first time. And, of course, any AP® Physics teacher looking to engage their students with a relevant and cool event would immediately look to come up with an activity using data about the helicopter. What an opportunity for a timely review of some AP® concepts, with three weeks left until...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Solution 30931: Computing the Doolittle LU (lower-upper) Decomposition of a Matrix on the TI-Nspire™ Family and TI-Nspire Computer Software.
...& Vector.• Press 1: Create and press 1: Matrix.• Enter 3 for the Number of rows.• Enter 3 for the Number of columns.• Press [6], [tab], [12], [tab], [18], [tab]• Press [5], [tab], [14], [tab], [31], [tab]• Press [3], [tab], [8], [tab], [18], [tab]• Press [ctrl], [sto] • Press [A], [enter]To calcu...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-nspire-family/product-usage/30931
Vernier - Which Hot Dog Cools Faster?
Different types of hot dogs will cool at different rates after they have been cooked. This activity takes the first steps in investigating this phenomenon by measuring the rate that a warmed hot dog cools. Students can compare the ingredients of various types of hot dogs (all-beef, veggie, turkey...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--which-hot-dog-cools-faster
Vernier - Graphing Your Motion with EasyData™ App and CBR 2™
Students will use a CBR 2™ motion detector to measure distance and velocity. Students prepare graphs of motion and analyze them. They compare and match graphs of distance versus time and velocity versus time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--graphing-your-motion-with-easydata-app-and-cbr-2
Skip Counting by 5
Students will compare counting sequences on their calculator with the patterns they generate on their own hundreds chart.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skip-counting-by-5
Bats Triangular
Students use manipulatives to construct a pyramid. The manipulative pyramid then becomes the basis students use to construct a pictorial representation of a pyramid. The TI-10 is used to show symbolic representation of students actions and also aids students in viewing the developing pattern.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/bats-triangular
TI Talks speaker series | Texas Instruments
...rams, and more. View on demand Register now b9QHP08D-EQ Leveraging Stimulus Funding To Move K–12 and After-School STEM Initiatives Forward June 3, 2021 Elizabeth Evans, Grants Office Senior Grants Development Consultant, reviewed the STEM-friendly stimulus funding for K–12 and a...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/partners/ti-talks
Calculated Collection | Texas Instruments
...tations Activity About the creator: Kate (@mrs_d_teaches_math) is entering her 18th year teaching in Indiana. She has taught every math course from Pre-algebra to Precalculus. She’s even taught Quantitative Reasoning at her lo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/calculated-collection
Vernier - Introduction to Data Collection with TI-Nspire
In this lesson, students will be introduced to two of the most common modes of data collection.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--introduction-to-data-collection-with-tinspire
Vernier - Using DataQuest
This appendix gives an overview of using the Vernier DataQuest™ application on a TI-Nspire handheld and software. It includes information on accessing the common tools in the DataQuest Application.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--using-dataquest
Paper Chromatography
This activity introduces the process of paper chromatography and why scientists use it in crime scene investigations. A crime has been committed. It is the students' task to perform a chromatography to identify the killer. Students will separate the pigments from artificial urine samples that w...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/paper-chromatography
Paper Chromatography in Crime Scene Investigations
This activity introduces the process of paper chromatography and why scientists use it in crime scene investigations. A crime has been committed. It is the students; task to perform a chromatography to identify the killer. Students will separate the pigments from artificial urine samples that w...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/paper-chromatography-in-crime-scene-investigations
Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...hot summer reading! “Rise of the Rocket Girls” by Nathalia Holt Start off with a bang with this true story about the women “human computers” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1940s and ’50s. Follow the story of how this elite group of young women transformed rocket de...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
Imagine sliding into the desk of your first engineering class as a freshman in college. You look around the room and realize, that out of the 200 or so students, you are one of only 20 women in the class. Fast forward three years, and now you’re a computer engineering major working as an intern ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Proving Angles Congruent
In this activity students will be introduced to proofs, including 2-column proofs, paragraph proofs and flow-proofs. They will also look at different diagrams to decide what the diagram is telling them and what they can infere. They will also look at complementary, supplementary, adjacent and v...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proving-angles-congruent_1