Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
...comment struck a chord: “You don’t seem nearly as mean in person as you do online.” Snow realized that by just focusing on teaching the curriculum, without paying attention to his tone, he was not coming across in an approachable manner. Since then, he has made an effort to infuse humor into his ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
A case for handheld graphing calculators
...ess on personal devices that school districts have no way to lock down makes it far too tempting to take an online tool and turn it into a cheating method. What students need is a graphing calculator that was designed specifically for the classroom – without the distractions of Internet-enabled ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/may/why-graphing-calculators-add-up
Growing Babies
In this activity, students observe and graph data about human fetal growth rates. Students build a regression model based on the data and compare values with those of other mammals. They also compare the data to non-mammal species.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/growing-babies
August 2008 Chemistry Regents
This file contains the first 30 multiple choice questions from the August 2008 New York Physical Setting (Chemistry) Regents examination. This file is for use on TI-Nspire handhelds with or without the TI-Navigator system. The Navigator system is highly recommended as it allows for quick analys...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/august-2008-chemistry-regents
The Number of Years
Students' will chart the various ages of the other students in their classroom then the students will multiply the ages by 2 using a lower level calculator, they will then add up the total ages using the same calculator - they can now divide the class into two groups (boys/girls) and see which gr...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-number-of-years
Who Started It All? The Spread Of Disease
Students predict the spread of disease to be exponential. They then do a hands on "sharing of bodily fluids" and see the actual data and compare these results to the projected model. You actually see the number of infected after each sharing to see the shift of the model easier. Written to be c...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/who-started-it-all--the-spread-of-disease
Buy A Word
Students complete multi-step task/problem solve; use decimals, FIX key, place value keys; see that fractions/decimals represent a part of a whole in money; organize table/record; put monetary value on letters and find sum of those letters.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/buy-a-word
Manipulating Lab Data: The Diode
Introduces the Shockley diode equation, which gives the voltage-current characteristics of a diode. The equation is plotted and compared to actual diode data taken in a laboratory. The method of importing data to the TI-89 is shown, followed by instructions on how to manipulate the data to prep...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/manipulating-lab-data--the-diode
What Makes a Food Nutritious?
Students will analyze select nutritional values of specific food products and then compare those values to the recommended daily allowances published by the U.S.D.A. They will calculate percentages and fractions based upon the information they find.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-makes-a-food-nutritious
Let's Count the Ways
Students will be introduced to the different ways to calculate numbers of outcomes, including using the counting principle. They will also evaluate expressions using permutations of data without repeat elements, both manually and on the TI-34 MultiView™ calculator.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lets-count-the-ways_1
Integration By Substitution
Students explore methods for computing integrals of functions that are not in one of the standard forms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/integration-by-substitution
2023 Virtual T3IC | Education Conference | Texas Instruments
...Officer for Cosenza & Associates, LLC. With over 27 years of experience in public education, Gray has taught math, science and mathematics teaching methods. He serves on the boards of directors for several professional organizations, and he has authored multiple instructional materials for K–12 m...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/virtual-t3-international-conference-2023
Python coding activities: Counters, Accumulators and Comparing Loop Types | Texas Instruments
Explore Do While loops in Python on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Do While loops are a form of post-test loop that always run at least one time. Python coding activities: Counters, Accumulators and Comparing Loop Types | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/computer-science-foundations/counters-accumulators-comparing-loop-types
Listing
...al Process Standards with the TI-84 Plus Family Implementing TEKS Mathematical Process Standards with the TI-Nspire™ Family Authoring TI-Nspire™ Documents - Strategies for Advanced Users Exploring Middle Grades Science through Engineering Design with the TI-Innova...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/schools-and-districts/onsite-workshops/listing
Collecting Data With Sensors and TI Tech | Texas Instruments
What do science students get when teachers connect Vernier Go Direct® sensors with TI’s Python-capable graphing calculators? An easy-to-use, portable and wireless data collection system that gets them more engaged in their learning! This combination of learning tools provides fantastic oppor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/match-made-in-stem
6 Resources to Jump-Start the School Year | Texas Instruments
...n even more seamless. Be sure to check out the following sites: Math Nspired and 84 Activity Central. Looking to learn more about coding with Python or TI-Basic? Check out TI Codes and STEM Projects which have lots of great ideas to get your students to the next step in their coding learnin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/tiresources
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
...need filled in from last year? How can students practice mathematical fluency in a meaningful and engaging manner? How about incorporating some Python coding in the classroom, to achieve all those goals? My students are always interested in adding some game play to the content! If you’ve neve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
Solutions To Keep Your Students Learning All Summer | TI
...d plenty of student examples in the “Get Inspired” section of the TI Codes Contest site. If you really want to motivate, offer some simple prizes for those who take on the challenge and create a video. You may also want to visit the previous blog, “How to Host Your Own TI Codes Contest,” for help...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/keep-students-learning-all-summer
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...lity and support different types of learners. Added coding capabilities. Students can be introduced to the basics of programming, including Python and TI-Basic, for STEM and computer science learning. Simply put, the value of a TI graphing calculator is in the fact it’s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
Forensics Case 11 - Ashes to Ashes: Using evaporation rate to identify an unknown liquid
In this activity, students understand that evaporation rate is a characteristic property of a liquid. Based on this fact, they identify the solution and the likely accelerant in a case of arson. They compare the evaporation rates of the accelerants found with the suspects with those near the crim...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-11--ashes-to-ashes-using-evaporation-rate-to-identify-an-unknown-liquid
Integration By Substitution
Students explore methods for computing integrals of functions that are not in one of the standard forms.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/integration-by-substitution_1
Sampling
Students learn about each of the four types of random sampling methods and use the randInt command to find each kind of sample from a given population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sampling_1
Square it Up!
Students investigate the method of least squares by adding the squares to a scatter plot and moving a line to find the minimum sum. Then they compare their line to the built-in linear regression model.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/square-it-up
Candy Pieces
Students will be introduce to hypothesis testing. Students are given the number of pieces by color in a bag of candy. They are asked if they think the bag could have come from a manufacturing process designed to produce equal proportions of each color. They will then use a chi-square test for goo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/candy-pieces_1