5 Fresh Spring Ideas for Your Classroom | Texas Instruments
...eacher, a high school math teacher dedicated to all things that make learning fun and engaging. Download the free printables on TPT 2. Calculator keypress reminder posters Students forget a step on their calculator? These helpful posters have your back! This poster set covers...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/fresh-spring-ideas-for-classrooms
Inverse Functions on the TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...ons. The TI-84 Plus CE and the three views of a function Function rule view Type the functions f(x) and c(x) into a TI-84 Plus CE for Y1 and Y2, respectively. Then, from a calculator screen, compute the outputs of Y1 and Y2 as shown for students to confirm the inverse relationship. Becaus...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/investigating-inverse-functions-ti-84-plus-ce
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...vehicle. It’s fun, it’s cool, and best of all, students of all ages with no prior coding experience can get the Rover to move and follow their coding commands in just a few minutes! Let’s take a look at a few specific activities where educators are effectively using the Rover to elevate student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
A New School Year, A New You(Tube) | Texas Instruments
...former AP® Calculus Chief Reader, and Tom Dick, former Test Development committee member. The next season of Monday Night Calculus starts Sept. 18, 2023. Subscribe and sign up for notifications so you don't miss the next live stream! Catch up with past seasons on the LIVE tab on YouTube....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/new-school-year-new-youtube
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
...earned personally how true this is. I find myself in a bustling saloon in the Wild West sipping liquid courage, when a troublemaker writes 6/2(2+1)=1 on a bar napkin and throws it down on the table like a gauntlet. I hear myself say, “Them’s fightin’ words!” and, nerd that I am, pull my ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
...ssful in high school math, what would you say? Go ahead … think about it. Did numerical fluency make your list? If students don’t understand -2 + 5 is 3, how will they understand -2x + 5x = 3x? Isn’t factoring x2 - 3x - 10 easier if students know -5*2 = -10 and -5 + 2 = -3? Let me...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...n we make more or fewer points? r is the number of revolutions made to complete a star polygon. How many points on a star does the value r= int(n/2) create? What would happen if you made this value smaller? Would you get more or fewer points? Next, change and customize your star display ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
... I could clearly see the different levels of understanding in my class, and all students benefited from hearing the justifications of others. This helps others see the problem from a different perspective and opens them up to different ways to solve a problem In addition to the “Which One Does...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...tom-table-wrapper .right-block p{border-top:solid #555 2px}.custom-table-wrapper p{margin-bottom:0}.wb .wb-header a{height:auto}} As the most recommended graphing calculator brand by teachers, Texas Instruments (TI) has a long history of helping students succeed in math and science. When co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
... Using real-world environmental issues is an easy way to get students engaged and thinking critically about problems that may be affecting their own communities. A task as simple as walking around a schoolyard could have students realizing their school might have an issue with trash. This can le...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
... is where the math comes in. Let’s take a look at the details on this activity. Blog overview The activity is organized in five sections (sections 2–4 do not have to be done in that order): Activity objectives, materials and notes Coding the Ultrasonic Ranger Module (device that measures d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
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
Interesting Properties of Cubic Functions
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity encourages students to investigate numerical and graphical properties of cubic functions, and to verify the results using CAS.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interesting-properties-of-cubic-functions
TI-89 Riemann Sum Activities for Calculus
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity students use Riemann sums to estimate the distance traveled on a trip at various speeds. They utilize the concept of Riemann sums to calculate the area under a curve. Students find limits of Riemann sums, and also convert Riemann sum limits to defini...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ti89-riemann-sum-activities-for-calculus
Solution 34694: Using the fnInt Function Integral Command on the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators.
...ow: fnInt(expression, variable, lower, upper[,tolerance]), between lower and upper, with specified tolerance. Example: Find the function integral of A2, for the variable A, with 0 as the lower bound and 1 as the upper bound using the MATHPRINT mode: 1) Press [MATH] then [9] to select 9:fnInt( 2)...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/34694
Solution 12027: Detailed Information Provided When Using the Catalog Stopped After OS Update on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators.
...84 Plus family of products Knowledge Base Knowledge Base Search I used to be able to get more information on commands in the catalog, however since I upgraded operating systems I cannot. How do I change it so that I get more information? The detailed infor...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/troubleshooting-messages-unexpected-results/12027
Convergence of Taylor Series
A Taylor Series for a function becomes the function as the number of terms increases towards infinity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/convergence-of-taylor-series
The sum of the interior angles of regular polygons
The students will construct triangles within regular-sided polygons to determine the sum of the interior angles. They will then, using statistics, create a linear regression to determine the relationship between the number of sides of a regular polygon and the sum of its interior angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-sum-of-the-interior-angles-of-regular-polygons
Parallel Lines and the Transversals that Cross Them!
Students will explore the relationships between angles formed by parallel lines crossed by transversals. While there are other activities that may address similar topics, the questions presented to students in this activity bring a fresh perspective to student discovery.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parallel-lines-and-the-transversals-that-cross-them
Perspective Drawings
In this activity, students will draw figures in one- and two-point perspective, comparing and contrasting the two types of drawings. They then create an isometric drawing and compare it to the other drawings.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/perspective-drawings
Properties of Parallelograms
In this activity, students will discover the properties of a parallelogram. Students will measure various components of a parallelogram to make conjectures about its properties.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms
Angle-Side Relationships
Investigate some necessary conditions for creating a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angleside-relationships
Are all Constructions Created Equal?
This activity is designed to give preservice teachers an introduction to the circle, compass and line tools in the Graphs & Geometry application of the TI-NSpire. The set of four investigations are designed to provide them with ideas on how to assess geometric constructions by identifying the dif...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/are-all-constructions-created-equal
Minimizing Surface Area of a Cylinder Given a Fixed Volume
Students will discover the relationship between radius and height of a cylinder so that surface area of a cylinder can be minimized while maintaining a fixed volume. This is just an introduction to a project that they will begin after this investigation. Once this is completed, they will redesig...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/minimizing-surface-area-of-a-cylinder-given-a-fixed-volume
Logic
This document reviews logical reasoning with problems on compound statements, conditional statements, and algebraic proofs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/logic