Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
... as to how he solved the equation to find the right answer. However, when prodding him a bit more by asking how he would solve the problem using his method if a 2 was placed in front of the first term, Joey had no idea what he would do. The “trick” he was using was only valid for solving quadrati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...u There are many resources available as you prepare to take this year’s AP® exams. Review concepts by watching videos: College Board® has put together AP® Live Courses to review content, including exam prep for each course. Texas Instruments Education has videos posted on math and science co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...begged me to shorten their review for their final exam in favor of finishing their trash wheel. Now, when upper-level ninth grade students ask you something like this, you know they are engaged in their learning! Are you interested in trying out a similar project with your students? In 2022, I...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
... 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 students in a more meaningful way....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
Beverage Tests
Students determine the pH of liquid samples. They get familiar with the pH scale, create graphs comparing pH levels, and compare data displayed as a scatter plot, a boxplot, a histogram, and a bar graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/beverage-tests
Under Pressure: The Inverse Relationship between Pressure and Volume
In this activity, students' will use a pressure sensor to investigate the relationship between pressure and volume for an enclosed air sample, and fit an inverse function model to the pressure versus volume data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/under-pressure-the-inverse-relationship-between-pressure-and-volume
NASA - Space Shuttle Ascent: Mass vs. Time
In this activity, students explore the ascent phase which begins at liftoff and ends when the space shuttle reaches Earth's orbit. The space shuttle must accelerate from zero to approximately 7,850 meters per second (which is approximately 17,500 miles per hour) in eight and a half minutes to re...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-shuttle-ascent-mass-vs--time
Scientific Notation
This activity gives students an opportunity to see where large and small numbers are used and how scientific notation offers a convenient method of writing such numbers. This will be done both with and without technology.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/scientific-notation-@-ns
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
Matrices Using CAS
This Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity encourages students to perform basic arithmetic operations on matrices, and solving a set of equations using CAS.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/matrices-using-cas
Triangulation Problem
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use 'landscape' paper and fold the top left corner of the page so that it just touches the bottom of the page. They calculate the area of the triangle formed by the bottom left corner and find the distance that forms a triangle with maximum...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangulation-problem
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
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
Proving Angles Congruent
In this activity students will be introduced to proofs, including 2-column proofs, paragraph proofs and flow-proofs. They will also look at different diagrams to decide what the diagram is telling them and what they can infere. They will also look at complementary, supplementary, adjacent and v...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proving-angles-congruent_1
Triangle Midsegment Exploration
The activity has the students investigate the relationship of the midsegment to the third side of the triangle. In addition the students investigate the area of the smaller triangles compared to the larger one and uses the results to solve the "campground" problem. There is a set of follow-up q...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-midsegment-exploration
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
Applications of Critical Points
Students will examine the relationship between critical points and local extrema through real-world examples. Students will zoom in on the critical points to see if the curve becomes linear to determine if the function is differentiable at the critical point. They will then discover that the sign...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-critical-points
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
Can I Make a Triangle?
This TI-Nspire activity is for the Triangle Inequality Theorem. There are 3 problems that contain 3 segments each. The student tries to make triangles with these segments. They compare the lengths of the shortest to the length of the longest to see if the inequality is true or false. For the...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/can-i-make-a-triangle
Angles of a Triangle
This activity explores the various relationships of the angles of a triangle. It starts with an interior angle and its corresponding exterior angle. Then the sum of the interior angles. Finally, the relationship between one exterior angle and its remote interior angles. The students are prov...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angles-of-a-triangle_2
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
Extrema
Students will learn how to find and label extrema using first and second derivatives, be able to inspect a graph and determine which extrema the function has, and be able to use Trace, fMin, and fMax to verify the computed answers and find critical values for parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/extrema
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