What is a Ratio?
...s a ratio and when are two ratios equivalent? What are the students doing? Students discuss the similarities and differences between the groups of shapes that illustrate equivalent ratios. What is the teacher doing? Reinforce the definition of equivalence by associating the patterns generated wit...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/what-is-a-ratio
What is Probability
...e that the probability of an outcome can be estimated from the long-run relative frequencies. What to look for Students should notice that the more repetitions of an experiment leads to an relative frequency that is closer to the theoretical probability. Sample Assessment Identify each as true or...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/what-is-probability
Why Random Samples
...cted by the teacher based on student grades Answer: C Understanding Random sampling is a better method of collecting data than using an “expert” opinion. What are the students doing? Students discuss three estimation methods—educated guess, judgment sample, or random sample—and whether...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/why-random-samples
Workshops by Texas Instruments
...T³™ Workshops explore methods for integrating Building Concepts in Mathematics content, instructional practices and TI-Nspire™ technology into the scope and sequence of middle grades curriculum. In this video, math teachers Michelle Rinehart, Katie England and Dan Ilaria explore the unique qual...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/workshops
Pub Connect HMH
...rs - and the educators who need to reach them. From contemporary content to digital and interactive products, they offer a number of solutions that speak to today's student. Click on the tabs below for additional information regarding HMH offerings that integrate TI Technology. Houghton Miff...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/hmh
American Mathematical Society
...ians, Jacques Hadamard. It is being published for the first time in English in 2008 by the American Mathematical Society. The book is intended to appeal to teachers of Geometry, as well as to gifted high school students and college students and to mathematics majors interested in geometry from ...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/american-mathematical-society
USA TODAY Education
...re designed to help teachers engage students with timely, relevant, real-world information, while integrating TI graphing technology: Written by experienced math and science educators Based on USA TODAY's articles, snapshots and infographs Designed to enhance middle school or high school...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/usa_today_educate
Pub Connect BFW
...re three distinct publishing houses, each with a proud tradition of publishing the best books and media. Together, we share a conviction that what happens in the classroom matters, and that a good class, a good teacher, and good content have the power to change the world—one student, one idea at ...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/bfw
Ten80
...energy from AA betteries translates into real work? The Science of Racing: Hitting The Mark; Collect your own data to model instaneous and avg speed. The Science of Racing: On Balance; Investigate forces that act on both planets and turning cars. The Science of Racing: Newton Knew...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/ten80
NCSM
...cs books provide tasks with unique concepts for promoting problem solving with each activity aligned to the Common Core content standards, including specific attention to the standards for mathematical practice. Each activity includes teacher notes and student explorations. These books were pu...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/ncsm
CORD Communications
...nications is affiliated with CORD, the leading educational change agency, and accomplishes it's purpose by marketing and disseminating programs developed by CORD and others. Click on the links below for additional information regarding CORD offerings that support TI-Nspire™ technology in the clas...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/cord_communications
Tech Powered Math
Tech Powered Math global website The goal of Tech Powered Math is to help students, parents, and teachers make informed decisions about math technologies, and hopefully learn something interesti...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/tech_powered_math
Cabri™ Jr.: Interactive Geometry Activities and Investigations
...ugene Olmstead Table of Contents 1. Betweenness and the Sum of Parts 2. Angles Formed by Two Intersecting Lines 3. Angles and Transversals 4. Perpendicular Bisector Theorem 5. Shortest Distance Between Points and Lines 6. Translations in the Plane 7. Reflections in the Plane 8. Ro...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/exploration-series/capri-jr-interactive
30xiis activities
...ow Computing by Degrees! From a Distance...You Can See It! What Goes Around Comes Around – But Can You Measure It? Making Sense of Shapes and Sizes How Close is Close? Let Us Count the Ways! Looking at Statistics Through Circles Math Investigations with the TI-30X I...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/exploration-series/30xiis-activities
30 34 investigation
...ther disciplines. Author(s) - George W. Bright and Susan E. Williams Tables of Contents 1. The First Twelve days of School 2. Magic Nines 3. Repeating Elevens 4. Remember Me? 5. Keeping up with Trash 6. Light Years Away 7. Eating Out 8. Power Patterns 9. Power Company 10. Roots...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/exploration-series/30-34-investigation
Visualizing Equations Using Mobiles
Visualizing Equations Using Mobiles website In this lesson students explore interactive mobiles for modeling one or more equations. Students are given specific constraints and use solutio...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/visualizing-equations-using-mobiles
Probability Diagrams and Tables
Probability Diagrams and Tables website In this lesson, students develop a process for determining the probability of two independent events occurring at the same time. 408114 Probabilit...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-diagrams-and-tables
Probability and Simulation
...oose an appropriate model to simulate a chance outcome. They recognize the difference between the underlying structures of chance events that have a specified number of repetitions versus chance events in which the number of repetitions varies depending on the criteria for success. Vocabulary out...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-and-simulation
Outliers
...ata through both visual and computational approaches. They can describe the impact of outliers on measures of center and spread. Vocabulary outlier upper quartile lower quartile interquartile range In this lesson, students develop a working definition of outliers and use it to analyz...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/outliers
Introduction to Histograms
...erstand how to approximate and interpret summary measures for data represented in a histogram. Vocabulary histogram dot plot uniform bimodal mound-shaped symmetric skewed In this lesson, students are introduced to how histograms are used to represent and analyze data. 409871 Introdu...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-histograms
Intro to Data
...to Data Planning and Resources Objectives Students should understand the idea of a distribution of a set of data. They can identify clusters, peaks, and gaps, and recognize common shapes in graphical representations of data (skewed, symmetric, uniform, mound shaped). Vocabulary distributi...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-data
Choosing Random Samples
...fference between a population (the large set of interest) and a sample (a subset of that population). Sample Assessment A survey given to some of the people at the mall on Friday night indicated that shopping hours at the mall should be extended. What is the population for this sample? Answer: Pe...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/choosing-random-samples
Median and Interquartile Range
...n. They can identify the median as a measure of center and interquartile range (IQR) as measure of spread related to the median. Vocabulary median upper quartile lower quartile interquartile range (IQR) This lesson introduces students to the median, quartiles, and interquartile ran...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/median-and-interquartile-range
Mean as Fair Share
... mean of the numbers: 4, 8, 3, 2, 5, 8, 12? a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7 e. 8 Answer: c) 6 Understanding The concept of “fair share” can be developed in two different ways: 1) those with the most give something to those with the least until everyone has the same amount or 2) total all the con...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/mean-as-fair-share
Mean as Balance Point
...e deviations for values above the mean. What to look for Have the students think about the number of steps that the teams in last place are from 6. Depending on your focus, you can introduce the concept of absolute value or you can just refer to distance as always being positive. Sample Assessmen...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/mean-as-balance-point