Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...ut how I want to start the school year keeping in mind student motivation in the mathematics classroom.” “Motivated” is a guidebook for teachers unsatisfied with questions met by silence. Explore these motivational math features in-depth, find ways to identify impediments to each factor, and h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
A New School Year, A New You(Tube) | Texas Instruments
... Test prep resources Test readiness is always important for student success. Whether it’s state or final exams, or the really big AP®, IB®, ACT® or SAT® exams, this is the go-to YouTube channel for prime content to help students prepare, including testing and calculator tips you’ll be glad to k...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/new-school-year-new-youtube
5 Study Tips from a Student #StudyGrammer | Texas Instruments
...fferences between exams is the first place to start, like your typical classroom test versus an AP® exam or other high-stakes tests like the ACT® and SAT® exams. It helps students understand how to prepare for upcoming exams and what to focus on when studying. So, what is the difference betwe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-study-tips-from-a-student-studygrammer
5 Teacher Tips for Classroom Management | Texas Instruments
...start? That’s why we asked our teacher community to share their tips for managing a classroom. Here are the top five approaches, featuring a few unique styles and techniques, they shared for managing a math classroom. 1. Relationship building and engagement Hands down, the most popular...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-teacher-tips-classroom-management
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
... at the same time, she said, “I loved the challenges. They were so rewarding. In that class, I realized that no other major will give me this type of satisfaction.” “The hardest part of coding is training your mind to think like a computer.” When it was time to declare a major, Shaholla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
...to create and do hands-on projects with his students. Learn through playing — build a slide whistle to examine linear equations Play … create … try something different! If you do that, you will sometimes stumble into/ onto something that you can use to engage your ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
Is Your Calculator Approved for Exams? | Texas Instruments
...m Learn what calculators are allowed on the ACT® and how to prepare them for exam day. View the approved calculators for the SAT® exam and make sure yours is ready to go. Get a list of all the TI graphing calculators that are approved for AP® exams. ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/test-preparation
Slippery Slope
In this activity, students will create Distance versus Time plots and calculate the slopes of the plots. They explore the mathematical concept of slopes and understand how slopes can be used to interpret how one physical quantity changes with respect to another.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slippery-slope
Forensics Case 7 - Drug Tests: Identifying an unknown chemical
In this activity, students distinguish between physical and chemical properties. They also understand the differences between qualitative and quantitative observations. They use quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify an unknown powder.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-7--drug-tests-identifying-an-unknown-chemical
Constructing a Pentagon, An Alternative Method
Use the TN-Nspire (OS 2.0) to construct a regular pentagon using lines, rays, line segments, and circles of various diameters. The characteristics of a regular pentagon are discussed and used to verify the construction meets the criteria of all sides being equal, and all angles being equal. The ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/constructing-a-pentagon-an-alternative-method
Soda Problem: Finding the relationship between Sodium and Sugar
The students will use nutrition label data of certain sodas to create and analyze a scatterplot of the amount of sodium versus the amount of sugar in various soft drinks. They will put the data into lists, create scatterplots, discuss correlations, acquire the line of best fit, and predict other...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/soda-problem-finding-the-relationship-between-sodium-and-sugar
Quadratic Unit Activity #1: Graphing a Parabola
This is the first activity in a series on vertex form of a quadratic for algebra I. This introduces the 'squaring' function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/quadratic-unit-activity-1-graphing-a-parabola
Exploring Graphs of Inequalities
Test ordered pairs to determine if they are part of the solution set to an inequality.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-graphs-of-inequalities
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
Pi and Precision
Students will collect the measurements of circumference and diameter for four objects in their group. (Cup, Can, Mint Candy, and a Coin) They will then investigate the accuracy of their data colletion using a numerical table and a scatter plot. Students must observe how closely their measurements...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pi-and-precision
Charlotte Chase Activity
In this activity, students will create and analyze graphs and investigate how temperature and pressure are related.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/charlotte-chase-activity
Chi-Square Tests
In this activity, students will look at a problem situation that involves categorical data and will determine which is the appropriate chi-square test to use.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chisquare-tests
How Much Does Bubble Gum Stretch a Rubber Band?
Students will conduct an experiment where they determine how much various quantities of bubble gum affect the length of a rubber band.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-much-does-bubble-gum-stretch-a-rubber-band
Graphs of Linear Functions
Students investigate the connections between the points on a line and the equation of the line written in slope-intercept form.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphs-of-linear-functions
Application of Linear Systems
Students will solve a real-world problem about parking cars and buses using a system of linear inequalities.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/application-of-linear-systems
Pyramid Height Exploration
This activity center is used to illustrate the difference between the slant height and the actual perpendicular height (of the given square pyramid) by the use of the distance formula.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pyramid-height-exploration
Building a Garden Fence
In this activity, students will use basic concepts of perimeter and area to investigate a classic problem situation requiring maximization. They must decide how to build a garden fence to enclose the largest possible area.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/building-a-garden-fence
Linear Equations Jeopardy
This activity is designed as a review of linear equations. Students will review slope, functions, writing equations in slope-intercept form, and point-slope form.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-equations-jeopardy
Law of Large Numbers: Adding It Up
In this activity, students examine the relationship between relative frequency and theoretical probability to understand the Law of Large Numbers. They will explore the concept of independent events. They will also discern the difference between relative and cumulative frequencies.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/law-of-large-numbers-adding-it-up
Perimeters, Areas, and Slopes - Oh, My!
Students create geometric figures, and use analytic and coordinate geometry to investigate their attributes. They go through the process of proving that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perimeters-areas-and-slopes--oh-my