Up and Down: Vertical Oscillations
Students explore vertical oscillations produced by a mass attached to an elastic spring and collect data on the force of the spring as a function of time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/up-and-down-vertical-oscillations
Bending Light
In this activity, students explore the refraction of a single light ray. They begin by exploring light traveling from a less dense medium into a denser medium. They use a numerical approach to establish a relationship between the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction. Then, students expl...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/bending-light
Damped and Driven Harmonic Motion
Students explore the properties of waveforms representing damped and driven simple harmonic motion. First, they identify the functional form of the damping in a simple harmonic oscillator. Then, they discover the relationship between the driving frequency, the fundamental frequency, and the dampi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/damped-and-driven-harmonic-motion
First Law of Thermodynamics
In this activity, students explore the first law of thermodynamics and apply it to various thermodynamics processes in order to calculate heat, work, and changes in internal energy of a very simple system: an ideal gas enclosed in a container fitted with a movable piston.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/first-law-of-thermodynamics
Mendelian Genetics Assessment
This TI-Nspire™ question set (.tns) has assessment questions relating to Biology: Genetics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mendelian-genetics-assessment
NASA - Space Bugs
The goal of this laboratory is to investigate the mechanisms responsible for physiological changes of the immune system, so that appropriate countermeasures or interventions can be developed for future human space exploration missions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-bugs
Skills of Science - Creating and Analyzing Linear Graphs
In this lesson, students use TI-Nspire technology to understand the fundamentals of good graphing in the science classroom and laboratory.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--creating-and-analyzing-linear-graphs
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Students generate random polynomials and observe the distribution of the zeros on the complex plane. From the distributions students are able to draw conclusions about the zeros, and therefore roots, of a polynomial in order to gain a better visual understanding of the Fundamental Theorem of Alge...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/fundamental-theorem-of-algebra
Pendulum Swing – Part 1
Students use a motion detector (CBR) and pendulum (fishing float) to collect data for the motion of a pendulum. The quality of the data never ceases to amaze students and teachers. Students align practical knowledge, logic and familiarity with the various parameters to transform a basic trigono...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pendulum-swing--part-1
Gradient of a function
This activity introduces the notion of the gradient of a curve. Initial exploration involves a dynamic tangent where students can use prior knowledge of the gradient of a straight line to determine if the slope is negative, zero or positive. The second stage of the activity goes one step further ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gradient-of-a-function
2025 TI Codes Contest Rules
.... The Judges will select up to five teams to advance to the final round. Judges will evaluate team videos based on these criteria: (1) successful functionality of the model (35%), (2) use of TI technology (30%), (3) visual appearance of the model (10%), (4) explanation and description of the ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2025-ti-codes-contest-rules
TI-84 Series | Math Sensors | Texas Instruments
...ion sensor, students can explore how velocity and acceleration relate to position over time, transforming the study of derivatives and integrals into fun, interactive lessons. Exponential relationships: The Vernier EasyTemp® sensor lets students gather temperature data instantly. M...https://education.ti.com/en/products/data-collection/ti-84-plus-ce/math-sensors
Exponential Growth
Students will find an approximation for the value of the mathematical constant e and to apply it to exponential growth and decay problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exponential-growth
Optimization - IB
Students learn how to use the second derivative test to find maxima and minima in word problems and solve optimization in parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/optimization_ns_ib
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
... to alert people to start saving as soon as you can and avoid investing with professionals that charge high fees. Much of Harold’s original work happened by thinking about different scenarios using a pencil, paper and slide rule. When handheld calculators became available, he switched over to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
A New School Year, A New You(Tube) | Texas Instruments
...onal development videos And Shorts! Introducing Shorts! We’re adding all-new shorts to our content rotation. You can check out these fun and engaging (and short!) videos that’ll have folks learning, thinking and saying “Whoa!” about all things math, science and coding. You’ll f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/new-school-year-new-youtube
Expressions of Love for TI-Cares™ Support | Texas Instruments
...rence presentation. We would love for you to contact us! love for you to contact us — don’t leave us all alone this Valentine’s Day! --> A happy customer’s response to help she received on a call. About: For more than 30 years, TI-Cares™ customer support has provided world-c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/ti-cares-customer-support-love
Applications
Applications global websitehttps://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-82-advanced-edition-python/applications
Match the Graph-84
Students walk in front of a calculator-based ranger CBR™ 2 and try to match a distance-time graph. They examine the rate of change, and analyze and interpret the graph of a function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-the-graph
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 - Weightless Wonder
In this activity, students explore quadratic functions through the real-world example of weightless flight and the gravitational pull of the earth on objects in orbit.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--weightless-wonder
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
Forensics Case 12 - Hit and Run: Using information from an event data recorder to reconstruct an ac
Students learn how distance traveled, velocity, and acceleration are related to one another and how the appearance of an acceleration, velocity, or distance vs. time graph can be used to predict the appearance of the other graphs. They show how accident scenes can be recreated through an analysis...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-12--hit-and-run-using-information-from-an-event-data-recorder-to-reconstruct-an-ac
Exploring the Area Under a Curve
Students explore Riemann sums to find the approximate area under the graph of a parabola on the interval [0, 1].https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-area-under-a-curve
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