Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
How do you make a foam polystyrene cup disappear? Put it in an organic solvent such as acetone! Important note: Doing the project in a well ventilated space and using gloves are smart ways to avoid unnecessary exposure to acetone. Only use enough acetone to cause the cup to dissolve. Follow your...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
Three Pawsitively Fun TI-Nspire Math Activities
...ing Concepts series, students revisit the dogs from the Introduction to rates lesson, but now with a focus on the mean. Students will discover and exercise the concept as mean as a fair share value. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Ns...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/dog_blog
Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School
...ng, you need to make the expectations clear to the students. In my classroom, I don’t allow students to have their cell phones out in class. New research connects in-class cellphone and laptop use with lower test scores: Cellphone Distraction in the Classroom Can Lead to Lower Grades, Rutgers Stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/first_week_tips
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...how math shapes their world, and they crave math knowledge they can relate to. A new TI Education Technology survey of 1,000 students found that 46 percent of kids say they love or really like math, nearly twice as many than those that said they don’t like it. Think about that for a moment. Nea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
#NCTMregionals Seattle 2018 Recap
Thanks for stopping by the TI booth or joining a session at #NCTMregionals Seattle. We loved meeting all of you! You can check out some of the resources we shared, and download the materials from your favorite exhibitor workshop below. Texas Instruments Staff TI Exhibitor Workshops at #NCTMreg...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/nctm-seattle
Professional basketball star donates TI calculators to his former high school
...pson, said the donation couldn’t have come at a better time. “This allows us to provide calculators to students who may not have the opportunity to purchase one for testing and participating in class, and they can now be at an advantage,” said Simpson. “Next week we are testing over 400 students ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/february/tj-warren-donates
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
...eady to admit defeat and switch majors when my professors, Craig Morgenstern and Bonnie Melhart, offered me a chance to work on an undergraduate research project. This project led to multiple grants and was the focus of my senior honors thesis. Even more importantly, working with these professor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
...t step is to introduce girls and young women to positive role models in these fields. It’s not news that women are underrepresented in the STEM workforce. Collectively, we can change this narrative. We can tell girls, “Yes, STEM is for you, and you belong here.” I’m asking not only women in STEM ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
... have already begun to solve the problem. Students should ask these questions: What straw length should be used? What is the radius, diameter or circumference of the Earth? If students ask questions that are not necessary to ask as part of the solution, we suggest you provide answers where p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
... online. Acknowledge them when they log in, greet them, and try and make a joke. The reception for learning is much greater,” he explains. “But not sarcasm,” he clarified. “If you are teaching teenagers, their brains are still developing, and while they may laugh, they don’t understand or appreci...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
... beyond. Math Activities for Students Who Hate Math Presented by Ellen Piekarski Have you had students think that “rise over run” was a PE exercise? Do their faces contort when you show them an equal sign between letters? Our presenter shares lessons developed to help students use technol...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...2+bx+c. High school students have observed the effect of a (vertical stretch/shrink and reflection over the x-axis) as well as the effect of c (y-intercept). But, the effect that b has on the graph of a quadratic? Not so much. Using the recently improved Transformation app on the TI-84 Plus CE...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
A case for handheld graphing calculators
...physics and chemistry. Students also use our calculators to learn the basics of coding, a skill most experts agree is essential for tomorrow’s workforce. As the education landscape changes, we are evolving with new products, lessons and training to support teachers. That is precisely why, amid a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/may/why-graphing-calculators-add-up
Best of Biology
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...crophone that has a frequency response covering essentially the range of the human ear to record the signal and then amplifies it through an op-amp circuit. For the data analysis, we zoomed in on two or three bounces at a time for more detail. In Figure 5, the dotted line and the small circle sh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Which Garage Is Better?
...near equations using technology. They are presented with two problems: music sales and parking lot fees. Which Garage Is Better? Planning and Resources Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Functions Which Garage Is Better? Studen...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-which-garage
Vectors in Component Form
... Students will learn how to express a vector in component form using the unit vectors i and j. Vectors in Component Form Planning and Resources Objectives Students will learn how to express a vector in component form using the unit vectors i and j. Vocabulary Vector ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-vectors-component-form
Trig Ratios
...ship between the trigonometric functions of sine, cosine and tangent and the side length ratios of a right triangle. Trig Ratios Planning and Resources Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Geometry and Trigonometry Trig Ratios St...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-trig-ratios
Tower of Hanoi
...the formula and graph a Geometric Sequence Use accurate mathematical notation. Vocabulary Geometric Recursion Term Planning and Resources Legend has it that the world will end when the puzzle is complete. Well, the original puzzle consisted of 64 disks, and the mo...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-tower-hanoi
Distance vs Displacement - A Particle's Journey
...ships between derivatives, integration and particle motion while using kinematics. Distance vs Displacement -A Particle's Journey Planning and Resources Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Calculus .two-colu...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-distance-v-displacement
Too Many Choices
.... Step 3 Students investigate the fundamental counting principle, permutations and combinations. Too Many Choices Planning and Resources Downloads ZIP TooManyChoices.ZIP PDF TooManyChoices_Student.PDF TooManyChoices_Teacher.PDF ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-too-many-choices
Jack Kilby Day
...y In 1958, technology as we knew it changed forever. On Sept. 12, 1958, Jack Kilby, a TI engineer and innovator, invented the integrated circuit. This “building block” of modern electronics transformed the face of technology, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives. While we can’t k...https://education.ti.com/en/success-story/jack-kilby-day
Sum of Infinite Geometric Series
...er if and only if |r| < 1. Vocabulary geometric series infinite series ratio of a geometric series sigma notation Planning and Resources This lesson involves clicking on a slider to see that the area of a square that has been systematically divided into an infini...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-sum-infinite-geometric
Proof of Identities
...dentities Identity Negative Angle Identities Pythagorean Identities Reciprocal Identities Trigonometric Identities Planning and Resources This lesson involves discovering, visualizing and proving trigonometric identities. Proof of Identities Planning and Resour...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-proof-of-identities
Rational Functions
...s you to dynamically examine the rational functions generated by quotients of linear functions. *NEW/UPDATED Rational Functions Planning and Resources Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Functions .two-columns {...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-rational-functions