Balancing Act (HS)
In this lesson, students will simulate, observe and manipulate the variables of lever and fulcrum as well as force vectors and torque.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-act-hs
Calculus Made Easy for TI-89 Titanium
Solve differential equations, find derivatives, graph slope fields and check for concavity....Calculus Made Easy provides step-by-step solutions to integration and differentiation problems: U-Substitution Integration by Parts Partial Fractions Power Rule Expand/Rewrite Arctan(x) Arcsin(x) Integrals Chain, Power, Product and Quotient Rule Coursework Coverage ...https://education.ti.com/en/software/details/en/E6C60D1FBC6D44B3868B474771592CBD/89calculusmadeeasy
SMILE Mathematics App for the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Families
The NEW SMILE App contains five games that reinforce skills from the number & operations, geometry, and measurement standards....ar Box - Place random numbers as they appear into one of nine ordered boxes Matching Fractions - Search through four sets of fractions to find equivalent fractions Angle - Learn the size of various angles to help you play the estimation and challenge games Rhino -Input coordinates to ...https://education.ti.com/en/software/details/en/F07C3ACB433F4110957AAD800DF9DA5E/83smilemathematics
ACMMG271 Ball Sports
In this activity students collect data for a range of ball sizes and masses. The data is then analysed and an appropriate line of best fit is applied. Students then consider balls that don't quite fit the plot, including an AFL football. In considering an AFL football students use alternative mea...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/acmmg271-ball-sports
Calculus Made Easy for TI-92 and Voyage™ 200
Solve differential equations, find derivatives, graph slope fields and check for concavity....lculus Made Easy provides step-by-step solutions to integration and differentiation problems: U-Substitution Integration by Parts Partial Fractions Power Rule Expand/Rewrite Arctan(x) Arcsin(x) Integrals Chain, Power, Product and Quotient Rule Coursework Coverage ...https://education.ti.com/en/software/details/en/8C9CCA5495BC469D8445C67EA5FE51F1/calculusmadeeasy
Customized Virtual Learning | Texas Instruments
...erience both flexible and cost-effective. To help get you started, here are examples of recommended topics you can choose based on our most popular requests. Get personalized learning that’s affordable and tailored to fit your content needs Technology skills Introduce...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/custom-virtual-learning
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...I was playing something, I was happy. Throughout high school, athletics was far and away my No. 1 purpose in life. On the other end of the spectrum – quite possibly the farthest thing away from my interests – was mathematics. The mere thought of math made me anxious. What was the point of memoriz...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Find the Frequen-Z!
...eer options. But how is a teacher supposed to engage students in coding and STEM, while still getting through all of the academic standards they’re required to help students meet? There is no simple answer to this question; however, Texas Instruments (TI) has free resources that can help. The art...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
...gram and Snapchat now! In this new summer series, we post a short Snapchat video each Tuesday across all channels that highlights quick tips and fun activities using TI technology. Because July 4th happens to fall on a Tuesday this year, we decided to feature some patriotic programs for a specia...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...the responsibility of running our school’s educational computer system, an HP2000 minicomputer with 32 CRT terminals in the early 1980s. The district quickly jumped on the personal computer bandwagon with Radio Shack TRS-80s and then IBM PC Juniors. I bought my own computer in 1984 — an Atari 800...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...rogram has helpful documents and quick videos to help you learn the skills you’ll need to be competitive in the Detector Building event. All of these activities are written in TI-Basic code, but if you are more comfortable using Python, you can use a TI-Nspire™ CX II or TI-84 Plus CE Python graph...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
roboticsweek2021
...ness, learning about mergers in the industry through their parts research. The teams discovered that over the years there were numerous mergers and acquisitions. Among the 26 manufacturers, only six U.S. companies have not been acquired by other or foreign companies and, fun fact, finding their d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
... (awe-less?) experience for these students. I vividly remember a high school teacher who told us that the area of the region shown in figure 1 was equal to the natural logarithm of 2. We had not yet studied how to calculate the area between two curves, and I was blown away by this result. I cou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...nce to help them win a math wish at https://education.ti.com/mathlove. Watch local news coverage of the surprise: WPBF-TV: Student's contest entry equals big win for Palm Beach County math teacher WPTV-TV: Park Vista High School math teacher honored About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Medi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...me mathematical friends forever. Ms. Meinke teaches AP Calculus AB, and Mr. O teaches AP Calculus BC. They have the chance to collaborate often, practice vertical alignment and disagree on notation. “We need more educators like him — people willing to fight for change, love math with all the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...assroom. In the past, colleagues would ask me, “What is CAS?” and my short answer went something like, “It can calculate algebraic expressions in exact form … like √12=2√3.” Thankfully, upon further investigation of the CAS “toolbox” on the TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator, I discovered...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...the high school I attended in Sugarland, Texas. I was instantly captivated by the LED backlit screen and graphing capabilities. To simply type in an equation and have the visual in seconds, it made pre-calculus and calculus so much easier to understand. From conics to quadratics, the options were...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...eived dozens of entries, ranging from ways to make the ISS cleaner and safer for the astronauts, to making processes more efficient, to improving the quality of life aboard the station. The innovation and ingenuity the teams demonstrated was outstanding. Our judges had the difficult task of picki...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
... mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been touring the country sharing activities that help make STEM concepts relevant to kids. With 10 stops to date, in cities from the east coast to the west coast, the STEM Squad ha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...s Instruments engineer Education is critical to our future, our industry, and to the communities where we operate around the globe. Today’s world requires STEM aptitude, and like ACT and Girl Scouts, we’re hard at work to ensure all students are prepared. Barring cookies, nothing could be sweet...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...ips, here is a screenshot from the video “How to Graph y = mx +b” that has students discover the relationship between the slope, y-intercept and the equation of a line and how to graph the line. Students should recognize that the y-intercept is always the constant being added (or subtrac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...e and high school physics, the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve engages students in explorations of electromagnetism, the relationship of wavelength, and frequency and practical applications of electromagnetic principles with the TI‑Nspire™ CX or TI‑Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Unrav...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...t, expressing empathy and connecting on a human level is more important than ever for educators and the students and families they work with — a prerequisite for any semblance of learning in this unusual time. Don’t be afraid to take the time for relationships, even if you feel that you might be ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator, along with a trip to Boston to visit MIT. “It’s all been kind of a blur. One minute I was making copies for a quiz and the next I’m going to Boston on a trip to MIT. So that’s a huge surprise and really great,” said Meyer. He has been teaching mathematics a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...mpact of a global pandemic on students’ mathematical understandings, opportunities to learn and social-emotional well-being. The situation creates unique challenges as we begin the 2021–22 school year, but by shifting our perspectives, we can view each of these challenges as an opportunity for po...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning