Short Cuts
This activity is intended as a resource to help students navigate the TI-Nspire CX CAS calculator. Three pages of short cuts, tips and tricks are provided in addition to a brief series of instructions designed to show how some of these short cuts can be used. Even if you are familiar with the TI-...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/short-cuts
Properties of Solutions: Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes
In this lesson, students will use a conductivity probe to measure conductivity and determine which molecules are responsible for conductivity of solutions. Alternative procedure for the Vernier Go Direct® sensors with CXII is included in the downloads.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-solutions--electrolytes-and-nonelectrolytes
The Bandit’s Bad Hair Day
This activity introduces students to the STEM concepts behind DNA fingerprinting.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/bandits-bad-hair-day
Which Dog Is Roundest? | Texas Instruments
... to 1 or -1, which is another reason we have come to love this activity so much. Residuals should be an important part of the process, but since we didn’t run a regression we will need to use the features of the calculator to find them manually. As a reminder, a residual is defined as the actual ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/dog-day-which-dog-is-roundest
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...! --> 2: Have your pi and eat it, too! Have you heard of the Buffon’s needle problem? This problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Everybody loves Pi and coloring! These Pi themed coloring...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/happypiday
Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...ng Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In” by Ilana Seidel Horn Every teacher has faced the dreaded blank stare from students. Why didn’t your carefully planned lesson connect? When you feel, “I’ve tried everything,” author Seidel Horn is here to tell you that you are not alone. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
... annual fee to a 1% annual fee. Introducing Garry Beckham, Harold’s son-in-law Before we close out this blog post, it wouldn’t be fair for us not to mention Garry Beckham, Harold’s son-in-law. For the past 33 years, they have worked together to improve the algorithms a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
Collecting Data With Sensors and TI Tech | Texas Instruments
...I graphing calculators for fast data collection. Why collect data with TI graphing calculators in the first place? One reason is their ruggedness and lightweight portability. Science students are free to take them outside in the field without worrying about them getting damaged, and TI ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/match-made-in-stem
5 Study Tips from a Student #StudyGrammer | Texas Instruments
...e flooding in, Sophia realized more and more there were thousands of students just like her; those who had the motivation to do well in school, but didn’t always know how to make the most of their study time. So, Sophia kept at it … learning new study tips that she could pass along to fellow stud...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-study-tips-from-a-student-studygrammer
Expressions of Love for TI-Cares™ Support | Texas Instruments
Roses are red, Violets are blue, TI-Cares™ loves you We really do! At TI-Cares™ customer support, it is our pleasure and privilege to provide world-class customer support. We couldn’t love our teachers, administrators, students and parents more, and we are always flattered when they take...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/ti-cares-customer-support-love
5 Teacher Tips for Classroom Management | Texas Instruments
...a day!), or even special occasions like birthdays. For Loves to Teach Bil. M.Ed, rewards are given out for positive self-talk and random acts of kindness to show students that learning goes beyond textbooks. Of course, teachers have a lot of other fun ideas for what rewards they persona...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-teacher-tips-classroom-management
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
...military. “In the long run, he just did it for me and my brother. The primary goal was to get a good education so we can find a job.” Shahollari didn’t know any English before coming to the states, and she remembered being “just thrown in” to a regular school. The only language help she receiv...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...Monday, May 1 — Chemistry Tuesday, May 2 — Environmental Science Tuesday, May 9 — Physics C: Mechanics, Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism Wednesday, May 10 — Biology Thursday, May 11 — Physics 1 (algebra based) Friday, May 12 — Physics 2 (algebra based) Check the full AP® Exam...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...pecially true for competitive grants. The fastest way for funders to reduce the number of applications they review is to eliminate the ones that didn’t follow instructions. Obvious errors on smaller grants can include not following basic directions like what font type to use, word limits, l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Unit Circle template
This is a one page unit circle template that you can copy and paste into a document that you are creating. To make it fit the screen, change the document settings to "float 3," and I used degrees instead of radians for all of the angles up to 180 degrees. You will also want to view in "handheld...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/unit-circle-template
Linear Inequalities
Linear programming is a technique used to solve problems that are encountered in business and industry. These problems usually involve maximizing or minimizing profit or expenses. The solution will consist of graphing the region that satisfies all the inequalities. The solution will produce a fea...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-inequalities
When Is Tangent, tangent?
This activity combines the ideas of unit circle, and a line tangent to the unit circle to explain how Tangent (the trig. ratio) is related to the concept of tangent to a figure (from geometry). The intent is to briefly explore the mathematical history of the trigonometric ratio "tangent" through ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/when-is-tangent-tangent
Recombinant DNA
In this lesson, students complete the steps required to clone a single gene and express it in a model organism.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/recombinant-dna
Goodness-Of-Fit
Students test claims of whether given distributions "fit" theoretical distributions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/goodnessoffit
Operations of Signed Numbers( focus on vocabulary)
This activity will explore operations on integers with a focus on different vocabulary used to describe changes in signs and changes in operations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/operations-of-signed-numbers-focus-on-vocabulary
Testing Goodness-of-Fit and Two-Way Table Chi-Square
Students perform chi-square tests to see if data follows a hypothesized distribution. They also study the two-way table analysis.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/testing-goodnessoffit-and-twoway-table-chisquare
Chi-Squared Tests
In this activity, students will look at a problem situation that involves categorical data and will determine which is the appropriate chi-square test to use: the chi-squared goodness of fit or the chi-squared two-way test.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chisquare-distributions
The Letter Product Game
This activity will encourage students' powers of deduction through a word game. This will allow a review of factoring integers. A simple extension allows a classroom discussion that will evolve into the Zero Product Theorem, essential to the technique of solving polynomial equations by factoring.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-letter-product-game
y=ax Activity
This activity, inspired by a similar activity in a Texas Instrument guidebook, has served to be very useful in helping students develop concepts of slope and y-intercept.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/yax-activity
Who Needs Mixed Numbers?
Students divide and multiply mixed numbers and fractions in real-life examples relating to carpentry.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/who-needs-mixed-numbers