7 Calculator Functions Your Students Need | Texas Instruments
About the author: For 12 years, James Allen has taught at Huntley High School in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. He has taught Algebra 1 through honors Precalculus, and a unique co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/ti-84-algebra-1-seven-calc-functions
Discrimination of Parabolas
Students manipulate progressively more flexible parabolas whilst a ‘special number’ is displayed on the screen. The problem for students to solve is ‘what is so special about this number’. Students continually review their conjectures as the parabola becomes more and more flexible.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discrimination-of-parabolas
World Population - 84
In this TI-84 activity, students use their graphing calculator to explore world population data from the years 1950-2023. They will develop various equations to model the data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/world-population
35 Years of T³™ Mentorship and Community | Texas Instruments
...recognized with the T³™ Leadership Award, an award recognizing the outstanding contributions of a T³™ instructor for the T³™ community. 35 years of teachers teaching teachers This year is the 35th anniversary of the T³™ professional development organization, founded by two professor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/35-years-t3-community-teacher-leader
Get Energized With the T3™ Professional Learning | Texas Instruments
...™ professional learning organization. You’ll learn hands-on with TI technology and get new resources and lessons to engage students in the new school year. Let’s take a dive into what’s on the horizon. T³™ Summer Workshops You can choose from in-person and virtual workshops covering eve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/professional_learning
6 Resources to Jump-Start the School Year | Texas Instruments
Are you new to teaching with TI technology? Or looking for new ways to engage your students with the technology they already have? Or maybe just finding yourself a little rusty after summer break? Have no fear, TI is here! Another school year has begun and the slow summer mornings with no alar...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/tiresources
A New School Year, A New You(Tube) | Texas Instruments
Just in time for the new school year, the TI YouTube channel is taking on a new look with great new content for teachers and students. It’s the perfect place for all types of math fans looking to expand their brainpower and dive into learning. Welcome to the new @TICalculators You...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/new-school-year-new-youtube
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
Preparing students for AP® science exams is a year-long process, but as we get closer to May, students will benefit from resources to help them review and refresh. One important update from the College Board® is that all AP® science exams now approve the use of most TI graphing calculators, whi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
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
World Population
Students use their handhelds to explore world population data from the years 1950-2006. They will develop various equations to model the data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/world-population_1
The Pentagon Problem
This activity provides a simple, virtual "geoboard" that allows students to manipulate the polygon displayed on a unit grid. The grid squares provide a visual means of finding area.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-pentagon-problem
Comparing Prices
Students will compare average U.S. gasoline prices per gallon for two years. Then they will use the mean and standard deviation (SD) and the median and interquartile range (IQR) to measure the center and spread of price data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/comparing-prices
Binomial Pdf- Eye Color
This lesson involves binomial trials, distributions, and probabilities. Students can create the tns file following the steps in Binomial_Pdf_Create_Eye_Color, or they can use the premade file Binomial_Pdf_Eye_Color.tnshttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/binomial-pdf-eye-color
Is it Rare?
Students use the Poisson distribution to determine the probabilities for various numbers of hurricanes hitting the United States in a given year. Students will also explore the graph of the Poisson distribution and how it behaves.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/is-it-rare_1
Inverse Trig Functions
This activity works backwards by giving students the inverse functions and having them discover how they relate to the original functions. By tracing along the inverse function, data is collected and then plotted on a statplot. The variables are then switched on the statplot. The new plot and ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inverse-trig-functions
Kansas Chase Activity
In this activity, students will make predictions about how to win a Sprint Cup Championship.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/kansas-chase-activity
Remember When
In this activity, students will model the relationship between the year and average income, average price of a house, and average price of a car using exponential functions. Then students will answer questions related to the models to gain a deeper understanding of exponential functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/remember-when
Compound Interest
This lesson involves exploring the formula for compound interest as a function of the initial deposit, interest rate, and the number of pay periods per year.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/compound-interest
Hose Problem
Investigating the behaviour of water jets from a hose. Suitable for Year 10 extension or Year 11 students. Graphing parabolas, features of quadratic functions, regression lines. Using TI-Nspire.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hose-problem
Vernier - What Causes the Seasons?
In this activity, students' will explore how the tilt of the earth's axis results in different amounts of solar radiation at different times of the year, causing seasons. They will simulate the earth's warming using a light bulb that will shine on a Temperature Probe attached to a globe, and inve...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--what-causes-the-seasons
Trigonometric Transformations
Students will use a slider to animate the graphing of a function of time that models the height of a capsule on the London Eye observation wheel as the wheel turns. Students will discover the concepts of amplitude, frequency, period, and midline. Students will create an appropriate equation to mo...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/trigonometric-transformations
Properties of Reflections
I use this activity in the beginning of the school year when introducing terminology such as angles, lines, segments, measures, perpendicular etc. The original material is from the SIMMS Integrated Mathematics Using Technology, I have adapted the activities to fit my objectives. Students have be...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-reflections
NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Longshot" - Not So Great Expectations
In "Longshot," Charlie explains that the racetrack uses a pari-mutual betting system - the odds of winning vary with the amount bet on each horse. This system not only calculates proportional payoffs for the bettors, but also guarantees a profit for the racetrack owners by removing a percentage o...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/numb3rs--season-3--longshot--not-so-great-expectations
NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Hardball" - Less it More
In "Hardball", an amateur mathematician named Oswald Kettner creates a mathematical process that uses baseball statistics to identify players who are abusing steroids. The FBI, with Charlie's assistance, is called in to protect Oswald from being a murder target for his findings. In this activity,...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/numb3rs--season-3--hardball--less-it-more
Nevada's Population
Students examine patterns and use these patterns to try to predict different aspects of an event. They study the statistical patterns for the population of the state of Nevada over a period of hundred years, and predict the population in the year 2010. Students learn to graph scatter plots, graph...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nevadas-population