Building Concepts Fraction Practice | Texas Instruments
... This lesson helps students understand and visualize a fraction as a number that can be represented as a point on a number line. 393713 What is a Fraction? Planning and Resources Objectives Students should underst...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/fractions
Learning Gains from Teaching with Graphing Calculators
...Conclusion:Use of graphing calculators in grades 6-8 to teach Algebra and for testing is proven effective. Use of graphing calculators for teaching Number and Operations is a promising practice for grades 3-5, and an emerging practice for grades 9-12. Use of graphing calculators is a promising pr...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/research/research_highqualityteaching
Teaching and Learning with Graphing Calculators
...uded: Graphing calculator environments tend to promote assimilation between a function and its graphical representations to a greater degree than symbolic calculator environments. Reference: (Sabra 2008) Effective teaching with graphing calculators is shown to help students develop a better...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/research/research_teachingandlearning
Ratios & Proportions
... students explore unit rates, remind them that to find equivalent ratios, they must multiply or divide both terms of the ratio by the same positive number. Sample Assessment It took 7 hours to mow 4 lawns, each with about the same area. a. What is the rate at which lawns were being mowed? Answer...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios
Research on Professional Development by Texas Instruments - US and Canada
...dentified these nine attributes of effective professional development: Address student learning needs Incorporate hands-on technology use Be job-embedded Have application to specific curricula Address knowledge, skills and beliefs Occur over time Occur with colleagues Provide technical a...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/research/research_pd
Research on the
...und that: Teachers in the project developed an effective model for pedagogical resource in the TI-Nspire environment, including a .TNS file in combination with a unit-based pupil worksheet, a teacher sheet and a scenario for use, explaining the possible use of ICT. The document structure s...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/research/research_nspire
Canada Resources | Texas Instruments
...w article Computer Algebra Systems and the Ontario Curriculum OAME Gazette article by Fred Ferneyhough, Kevin Spry and Tom Steinke (December 2004). View Article You Can Do Hands-on Learning Shad Article describing the TI-Shad STEM workshops (November 2020...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/canada
Français Canadien Ressources | Texas Instruments
...rticle Shad décrivant les ateliers TI-Shad de juillet 2019 sur les STEM (juillet 2019). Voir l'article en français Logiciel de calcul symbolique (CAS) et programme d'études de l'Ontario Article OAME Gazette de Fred Ferneyhough, Kevin Spry et Tom Steinke (décembre 2004). Voir l'artic...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/french-canadian
TI-84 Plus CE Tutorials | Quick Videos | Texas Instruments
... Probability Calculations Using the Probability Simulation App px7j2wE_LGA Permutations, combinations and binomial distributions 0XovKxN0BHo Normal distribution curve Ho4h1YRjgj8 ...https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/product-video-tutorials/ti-84plus-ce-tutorials
Calculated Collection | Texas Instruments
...d to share a collection of new, engaging and varied activities from 7 educators currently teaching in today’s classroom environments. Each activity combines their years of experience and practice into easy-to-follow, low-prep activities that will save you time and that students will enjoy. The...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/calculated-collection
Give Me Five
In this activity, students will discuss and describe the center and spread of a univariate data set by way of a five number summary and visually by a box & whisker diagram. Students will then apply this knowledge to real life applications to enhance their ability to understand this math in st...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/give-me-five@ns
7 Calculator Functions Your Students Need | Texas Instruments
...dy shortcuts. Let’s try one out! How to get to the (f2) soft keys: [alpha] [window] (f2) Option 6: x√ is any root It’s the same number of keystrokes as using the math menu, but as you can see, there are some useful functions built into this shortcut that will come in handy in ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/ti-84-algebra-1-seven-calc-functions
Hot Air, Cold Body: Using Newton's law of cooling to determine time of death
Use Newton's law of cooling to narrow down the number of suspects by determining when the victim was killed.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hot-air--cold-body
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
Smart Water with TI-Innovator™
In this TI-Innovator™STEM project, students are given the challenge to design a smart irrigation system that could be used to monitor and meter water from a rain collection cistern to irrigate a small family garden in Zimbabwe. This project is compatible with the TI-Nspire CX or TI-84 Plus...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/smart-water-irrigation-with-ti@innovator
The Fibonacci Sequence
One of the simplest and beautiful mathematical sequences. The simplicity: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ... is such that each term is the sum of the previous two terms. Examples of the sequence can be found in nature, architecture and number theory. In this investigation, students explore some of the patterns...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-fibonacci-sequence
Geometric Sequences and Series
...quo;s next, when he visits the refrigerator he too breaks off half the remaining block. How long will the block last you wonder? This introduction combined with a dynamic representation and accurate mathematical notation is used for the basis of introducing and exploring Geometric sequences and ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/geometric-sequences-and-series
Tower of Hanoi
Students explore the relationship between the number of discs and moves required to solve the classic “Tower of Hanoi” problem. The TI-Nspire file contains an interactive model produced by Andy Kemp. The interactive model allows you to change the number of disks and automaticall...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tower-of-hanoi
Vernier - Vapor Pressure of Liquids
Students investigate the relationship between the vapor pressure of liquid and its temperature. They use a Pressure Sensor and a Temperature Probe to collect pressure and temperature data. Students compare the vapor pressure of two liquids.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--vapor-pressure-of-liquids
Counting cells and crunching numbers
Students test each of two hypothetical drugs using different wavelengths to fluorescently label beta cells then count the ones that are replicating.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/diabetes-research
On-demand Webinars
...84 Plus CE and TI-Nspire™ graphing calculators during the webinar. Gail Burrill, Pam Harris Implementing “Principles to Actions” “Number and Algebra” is Topic 1 in both of the new IB® math courses, “Applications and Interpretation” and “Analysis and Approaches.” This webinar foc...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/webinars-and-tutorials/on-demand-webinars
Zombie Apocalypse 2: The Humans Strike Back
This activity provides students with a continued inside look at the math and science real-life epidemiologists use to track and curb the spread of diseases through a population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/stem-behind-hollywood-@-zombie-apocalypse-2
Zombie Apocalypse I: STEM of the Living Dead
This engaging activity provides students with an inside look at the math and science real-life epidemiologists use to track and curb the spread of diseases through a population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/stem-behind-hollywood-@-zombie-apocalypse-1
Which Dog Is Roundest? | Texas Instruments
...s. This will result in all positive values. Then the squared values are added, then divided by the degrees of freedom. The degree of freedom is the number of values in a data set minus the number of parameters in the model. For Holly’s data, the degree of freedom will be 8 - 1 = 7. Finally, the s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/dog-day-which-dog-is-roundest