Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...hot summer reading! “Rise of the Rocket Girls” by Nathalia Holt Start off with a bang with this true story about the women “human computers” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1940s and ’50s. Follow the story of how this elite group of young women transformed rocket de...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
...ible about their retirement savings. Meet Harold Peters. He started investing in the late 1950s and early ’60s, but at that time there were large commissions and fees … sometimes as much as 8% per trade! So, he started to study retirement systems and over many years he recognized that fees ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
A New School Year, A New You(Tube) | Texas Instruments
...gistered by the College Board. ACT is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc. IB is a registered trademark owned by the International Baccalaureate Organization. None are affiliated with, nor endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org, www.act.org and www.ibo.org. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/new-school-year-new-youtube
3 Math Activities for Back to School | Texas Instruments
...te their knowledge of domain and range with creative visualizations. Choose from two designs, a happy clam or skittering crab, with three levels of complexity so you can pick what’s best for your class. Students can define the math to draw the complete image, find the missing pieces of math to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/three-back-to-school-math-activities
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2022 | Texas Instruments
... schedule, at your own pace, and follow along with your TI graphing calculator. After finishing a webinar, don’t forget to print the certificate of completion. This may be accepted at your school or district for professional development credit. Falling Back in Love With Your TI-84 Plus ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/2022-webinars-top-10
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
...Secondary Mathematics in the Charleston County School District. Abel is a T³™ National Instructor and remains active in state and national math organizations. Learn not only how to see beyond the correct answer to reveal students’ thinking — including any misconceptions — but also set the sta...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
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...rd® is that all AP® science exams now approve the use of most TI graphing calculators, which includes Environmental Science. Here’s a look at the upcoming schedule for science exams in 2023: Monday, May 1 — Chemistry Tuesday, May 2 — Environmental Science Tuesday, May 9 — Physics C: Mech...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
Is Your Calculator Approved for Exams? | Texas Instruments
...oll down to see details for the selected state. Alabama Math: Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program (ACAP) Are TI calculators permitted: Yes All TI scientific calculat...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/test-preparation
Amortization- IB
In this activity, students will discuss and use multiple ways to answer financial questions involving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/amortization_ns-ib
Amortization - IB
In this activity, students will discuss and use multiple ways to answer financial questions involving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/amortization_84-ib
Optimization - IB
In this activity, students will learn how to use the second derivative test to find maxima and minima in word problems and solve optimization in functions and parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/optimization_84_ib
Proving the Pythagorean Theorem - President Garfield's Proof
This is the same proof that is found on the TI-Exchange website for the 84 plus, but I modified it for the Nspire handhelds.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proving-the-pythagorean-theorem--president-garfields-proof
Points of Concurrency in Triangles
In this activity, students will use their Nspire handhelds to discover the different points of concurrencies in triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities to discover the circumcenter, incenter, and centroid of triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/points-of-concurrency-in-triangles
Properties of Isosceles Triangles
In this activity and by using the Nspire handhelds, students will discover the different properties and attributes of Isosceles Triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities of this very unique handheld to explore the different attributes of the Isosceles Triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-isosceles-triangles
Investigating the Sine Function
In this activity, students will use their Nspire handhelds to discover the different attributes of the graph of the sine function. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities of this very unique handheld to explore the amplitude, period, and phase shift of the sine function grap...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-the-sine-function
TEKS - Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills | Texas Instruments
...(2) a { color: #007c8c; } .contentblock ul.contact-etc li:nth-child(2):before { color: #007c8c; } Pareesa Schulte pschulte@ti.com | 505.803.6963 Texas ESCs 4, 10–12, 15, 18, 19 Marco Gonzalez mgonzalez1@ti.com | 956.459.3831 Texas ESC: 1–3, 5–9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 2...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/teks
The Classic Box Problem Exploration- 84
In this lesson, students take the classic optimization box problem and uses multiple mathematical representations to maximize the volume of the box.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/classic-box-exploration@-84
Using Vases to Help Understand What Graphs Mean
Students will predict what the graph will look like for different vases as they are filled with water. Then students will use the vases of different shapes and fill them with a set amount of water before each measurement. Students then measure the height of the water in the vase (their y-interc...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/using-vases-to-help-understand-what-graphs-mean
Finding the Endpoint of a Segment Given One Endpoint and the Midpoint
The purpose of the activity is for students to verify how to determine the coordinates of an endpoint of a segment, given the midpoint and other endpoint, using the dynamic capabilities of Cabri Jr.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/finding-the-endpoint-of-a-segment-given-one-endpoint-and-the-midpoint
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
Exploring The Golden Arches
Using given nutritional information of popular items from McDonald's, the students will develop and test a conjecture based on the given information. The students will analyze the two-variable data using the graphics calculator by creating a scatter plot and regression equation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-golden-arches
Number Curiosities App for the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Families
Illustrates and animates interesting facts about numbers 0 -25.Illustrates and animates interesting facts about numbers 0 -25. Students can traverse a number line with their calculator to see: Factorization An interesting geometric fact A number sentence or pattern Fun fact about the number The Number Curiosities App is available for t...https://education.ti.com/en/software/details/en/7607F8CE01B74FE4AEE60F02ECEDC90B/83numbercuriosities
Celebrate Pi Day With Unlimited Fun | Texas Instruments
... Are you a fan of the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator? If so, we have some extra insPIration just for you! Here are two of our favorites: Comparing Pi and Roots In this middle school math activity, students explore how the Pythagorean Theorem and the circumference of a circle can be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2025/celebrate-pi-day
Winning Tips for the TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
An automatic pizza slicer. A communication device for deaf pets. A free-floating robot that sterilizes the International Space Station with ultraviolet light. Whoa! These are just a few inventions designed and built by students for the TI Codes Contest. For years, students from arou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2025/ti-codes-contest-helpful-tips