Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
...d in my classroom. Answer to a problem outlined by the teacher. When I asked Sarah how she arrived at the answer, she was able to accurately show me the graph she created and how she knew that the x-intercepts she found were the solutions to the equation. Joey, on the other han...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Computer Science | Cybersecurity Activities | Texas Instruments
...Cybersecurity Activity 7 (Bonus):Pick the Lock This bonus activity challenges students to put all the concepts they’ve learned together in order to successfully pick a micro:bit lock. Will your students be able to discover what’s locked away inside the old treasure chest? There'...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/computer-science/cybersecurity
Solution 12980: Inability to Access the Memory Menu on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators.
...mmed to override or alter the calculator's original OS. This type of software is developed by third parties outside of Texas Instruments and is not recommended to be installed. Therefore, Texas Instruments is unable to provide support or technical assistance for such software. There may be some...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/12980
Solution 11913: Accessing Constants on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators.
... family, TI-84 Plus family, or the TI-Nspire Handheld in TI-84 Plus Mode include built-in constants. However, the Science Tools app contains the most common constants. Once the Science Tools app has been loaded on the handheld, the constants can be accessed following the steps below: • Press [A...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/11913
Cyclic Quadrilaterals
Explore the relationship between chords of a circle and their perpendicular bisectors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cyclic-quadrilaterals
Discovering the Circumcenter and Centroid of a Triangle
The students will find the circumcenter by constructing perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle. They will also find the centroid by constructing the medians of a triangle and discover that the centroid is 2/3 of the distance from each vertex along each median.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discovering-the-circumcenter-and-centroid-of-a-triangle
Exploring the Geometric Means of a Right Triangle - When the Altitude to the Hypotenuse Is Drawn
Students will explore the concept of geometric mean and solve right triangle problems using geometric mean proportions. A TI-Nspire activity demonstrates interactively the geometric mean relationship, and an activity sheet applies the relationship to solve triangle problem. Most discussions of g...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-geometric-means-of-a-right-triangle--when-the-altitude-to-the-hypotenuse-is-drawn
Investigating the Angles of a Triangle
The following will find the sum of the interior angles of a triangle and the sum of the remote interior angles of a triangle. Students can then change the type of triangle. The student will see that the sum of the interior angles is always 180 degrees. Also, the student will see that the sum of t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-the-angles-of-a-triangle
Big Data Sets - Median income
Using the data in the TNS file on Median Income, students can explore trends of workers aged 15 and over across gender, race, occupation, and education and by state as of 2020.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-data-sets@-median-income
Modeling Herd Immunity
In this activity, students investigate the concept of herd immunity and the role vaccines/interventions can play in helping to control the spread of a communicable disease.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-herd-immunity
Cybersecurity 7- Pick the Lock
This bonus activity challenges students to put all the concepts they’ve learned together in order to successfully pick a micro:bit lock. Will your students be able to discover what’s locked away inside the old treasure chest?https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-7
Arctic Wars - Lynx vs. Snowshoe Hare
In this lesson, students will investigate a population with cycling patterns that exist between a predator and its prey.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arctic-wars--lynx-vs--snowshoe-hare
Energetic Coasters
In this lesson, students will explore the potential energy (PE) and kinetic energy (KE) of a roller coaster.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/energetic-coasters
Buying a Car Activity with the TVM Solver (Time, Value, Money)
Students learn real-world math skills and financial literacy by calculating car payments with the TVM Solver.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/buying-a-car-w-tvm-solver
Matholutions Activity
...at additional prompts will you think of? When done, consider displaying student goals around the room to give inspiration, encouragement and support accountability. The Matholutions Bulletin Board Décor is a companion piece to this activity.--> Empower students to reflect and set their ow...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/matholutions-activity
Approaching the Golden Ratio
Students will observe that the ratio of consecutive terms in all Fibonacci-like sequences approaches the Golden Ratio.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/approaching-the-golden-ratio
Mapping Success
In this activity, students will load a background image of a map and use the scale on the map to estimate distances.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mapping-success
REAL LIFE REAL WORLD Activity: Air Traffic Control
In this lesson, students will model and solve air traffic control problems with geometry software. The Cabri Jr. application will be used to construct a model of the problem situation and concepts from trigonometry and proportions are then applied to find the solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/real-life-real-world-activity-air-traffic-control
Modeling Herd Immunity
In this TI-84 activity, students investigate the concept of herd immunity and the role vaccines/interventions can play in helping to control the spread of a communicable disease.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-herd-immunity_84
Law of Large Numbers: A Weighty Decision
In this activity, students will explore the Law of Large Numbers. By examining unfair models, they will expand their understanding of probability. They predict the weighting of an unfair model by analyzing experimental data and distributions. They will also formulate and test a hypothesis on the ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/law-of-large-numbers-a-weighty-decision
Opposite Angles in a Cyclic Quadrilateral
This activity uses Cabri™ Jr. to discover that opposite angles in a cyclic quadrilateral are supplementaryhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/opposite-angles-in-a-cyclic-quadrilateral
Angles in a Polygon
Students will expore the interior and exterior angle of 3 polygons and develop the formula to calculate the sum of degrees without the measurement of the angles being taken.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-in-a-polygon
Permutations and Combinations
This is a quick Navigator lesson that I have used for a homework check at the beginning of class.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/permutations-and-combinations
Dynamic Geometry: Basic Constructions
Students use the Cabri™ Jr. application to draw triangles and construct perpendicular bisectors on the sides of a triangles. They study the properties of a triangle and understand how the measures of angles of a triangle is always 180 degrees.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dynamic-geometry-basic-constructions
The Graphing Calculator Connection: Problem Solving and Investigations
Over 30 reproducible, motivating investigations designed especially for middle school students to use with any TI Graphing Calculator model.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-graphing-calculator-connection-problem-solving-and-investigations