Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...ra, calculus or statistics. 1: German Tanks: Exploring Sampling Distributions In this activity, your students will be challenged with the same problem the WWII Allies’ generals had: How do you determine how many German tanks there are? In WWII, the statisticians working for the Allies used samp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
When attending a conference, most participants hope to leave inspired, motivated and empowered with strategies and tools to make positive impacts in their classrooms, schools and educational communities. The 2021 T³™ International Conference was appropriately themed, Encourage. Engage. Empower....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
What do Chemistry Cat, toilet bowl cleaner and contact lens cleaning solution have in common? They’re all ways to take the abstract subject of chemistry and make it come alive and make sense for high school students. Throughout my career, I have strived to make this subject applicable to the rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...never met, coming up with plans to socially distance already cramped classrooms, or risking their own health and safety to educate our children, the demands being placed on our teachers this back to school are daunting. But while it can feel overwhelming, remember that we’re all in this together ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...ible than past viruses and has spread across the globe quickly as a result. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control have recommended social distancing to “flatten the curve” — an effort to reduce the potential for transmitting the virus from one person to another and ho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators to the Computer.
...Search Do I need TI's permission to copy the ROM code from my calculator to my computer? The software contained in the TI calculator's ROM memory is protected under copyright. The provisions of the copyright act allow calculator owners to keep one copy of the ROM code in any format, but...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/data-collection-accessories/general-information/11889
Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Laboratory™ (CBL) and CBL 2™.
...nt activity and EXPLORATIONS™ Series Books available for use with the CBL can also be used with CBL 2. These programs can be stored in the archive memory of the Flash ROM of the CBL 2. This allows the programs to be transferred from the CBL 2 directly to Texas Instruments graphing calculators. ...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/data-collection-accessories/general-information/11546
Summer of STEM: Breaking Board Paradox
... setting it on the part of the stick that is still on the table. Karate chop it and notice the stick doesn’t break. When the paper is placed completely flat on top of the stick, it serves as a large surface area for the air above it to push down on the paper – and by extension, onto the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/breakingboard
Summer of STEM: Egg in a Bottle
...rough the top of the bottle and past the egg. Because the fire burns up the oxygen inside the bottle quickly, and the egg is acting to stop any incoming air by acting as a seal, the air pressure inside the bottle quickly becomes less than the air pressure outside the bottle and above the egg....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/egginabottle
A first-of-its-kind STEM strategy charts path to help educators
...borated in order to lay out a framework that can help educators across disciplines equip all students for a world that’s increasingly demanding STEM competencies. "A project of this nature has never been done before – assembling disparate yet dependent education organizations to learn from eac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/a-first-of-its-kind-stem-strategy-charts-path-to-help-educators
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
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
...rd pressure. Notice the polystyrene is dissolving into the acetone. How it works: Polystyrene is made up of monomers of styrene, an organic compound (C6H5CH=CH2). When polystyrene is being produced it exists in a liquid state (like a gooey, thick liquid). As polystyrene is prod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
...t was seeing how many answers I could get right in a row. I could have never imagined that today I would actually work as a software engineer for the company that created that very toy! Despite an early beginning using arithmetic for entertainment, I don’t remember ever thinking that “when I g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
...earning activity was the opposite of fun; it wasn’t accessible, and it penalized risk-taking. I still remember how helpless I felt because I couldn’t commit that little table to memory. I didn’t do well in that class. I failed miserably with a low F! Eventually, I recovered, and in high school I ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...ounce? To get started, you’ll need the following equipment and materials (Figure 2): TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator or a computer with TI-Nspire™ software TI-Nspire™ Lab Cradle Vernier microphone A handful of small balls (pingpong, golf, lacrosse — we’re not pick...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Vectors in Component Form
Vectors in Component Form apcalculus website Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Geometry and Trigonometry Vectors in Component Form Students will learn ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-vectors-component-form
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions apcalculus website Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Calculus Activity Overview I...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-investigating-derivatives-common-functions
Trigonometric Patterns
...ith one another what is happening at each coordinate as they move the point around the circle. *NEW/UPDATED Trig Patterns Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Numbers and Algebra .two-columns { display: grid; ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-trig-patterns
Percentiles
...stribution to find its percentile. The process will then be reversed to find the value for a given percentile. Percentiles Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Probability and Statistics .two-columns { display: ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-percentiles
Percentiles
...tile. In doing so, students will learn how to use the Normal CDF and Inverse Normal commands on the handheld. Percentiles Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Probability and Statistics .two-columns { display: ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-percentiles
Compound Interest
Compound Interest apcalculus website Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Numbers and Algebra Objectives Students will interpret the var...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-compound-interest
Trigonometric Patterns
...th one another what is happening at each coordinate as they move the point around the circle. *NEW/UPDATED Trig Patterns Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Analysis and Approaches | Numbers and Algebra .two-columns { display: grid; grid-te...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches/nspire-trig-patterns
Trigonometric Patterns
...Students use the unit circle to examine patterns in the six trigonometric functions. *NEW/UPDATED Trigonometric Patterns Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Geometry and Trigonometry .two-columns { display: gr...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-trig-patterns
Amortization
...lving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets. Amortization Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Numbers and Algebra .two-columns { display: grid; ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-amortization
Amortization
...ving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets. Amortization Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Numbers and Algebra .two-columns { display: grid; ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-amortization