5 Fresh Spring Ideas for Your Classroom | Texas Instruments
...reminder posters Students forget a step on their calculator? These helpful posters have your back! This poster set covers 10 common functions with quick keypress reminders. You can pin these posters all around your classroom in three different colors to match your new spring theme — all free...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/fresh-spring-ideas-for-classrooms
Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...ow this elite group of young women transformed rocket design, shaped lunar missions, and ushered in a new era of space with their pencils, papers and quick-thinking mathematical minds. “If you liked ‘Hidden Figures,’ then you need to read this! You will gain a better understanding of history,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Fall-Tastic Ideas for Your Classroom | Texas Instruments
...challenge your students to: Determine the functions that form the full image. Practice transformations to complete the partial image. Develop unique designs with their own math. Piece the activities together to finish the image. Download free activities with three lev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/falltastic-ideas-enhance-classroom
Collecting Data With Sensors and TI Tech | Texas Instruments
...scovery. Working in collaboration with Vernier Science Education™ for decades, TI graphing calculators have long supported the use of Vernier LabQuest® sensors and the Vernier EasyTemp® sensor. This combination is made possible with the help of the Vernier EasyData® App for the TI-84 Plus fa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/match-made-in-stem
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
... School, Greenville, New York Objective: The Rover can be used to introduce interior and exterior angles by having the students make Rover draw a square and then a triangle. The students pick up very quickly that the 90 degrees for a square is the same inside and outside. However, for drawing ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
A New School Year, A New You(Tube) | Texas Instruments
...ce things are looking a little different on our channel … and for the better! It’s all been reorganized to make finding the videos you’re looking for quicker and easier. Here’s a taste of what you’ll find: How-to videos for the TI-84 Plus and TI-Nspire™ families of graphing calculators Resour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/new-school-year-new-youtube
3 Math Activities for Back to School | Texas Instruments
... for your class. Students can define the math to draw the complete image, find the missing pieces of math to finish the partial image, or create a unique design using their own math skills. --> Piece these activities together to draw the image. Give students a fun way t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/three-back-to-school-math-activities
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
... looked at operations with integers and fractions. What are some other key middle school concepts? Integers Fractions ? ? How about solving equations? Students develop skills through middle and high school to solve single-variable equations. How do students progress through various l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2022 | Texas Instruments
... can use with students to get them to love mathematics as much as we all do. You’ll explore: Graphing functions and the relationships between the equation, table and graph. Expressions using the home screen and tables. Inequality graphing and applications. Geometric transformations. “Awe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/2022-webinars-top-10
Solutions To Keep Your Students Learning All Summer | TI
... Host Your Own TI Codes Contest,” for helpful resources including a customizable template to help interested students get started with a plan. Not quite convinced that this is an awesome idea? We interviewed teachers and students to get their thoughts on participating in a coding contest — "Th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/keep-students-learning-all-summer
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...es, and end it with a bang of fireworks! We thought we’d join in on the fun with some patriotic-themed programming. Here are three patriotic-themed activities you can try using Python programing on the TI‑Nspire™ CX II and the TI‑84 Plus CE Python graphing calculators. Create star...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
... and milestones are all mapped out. Many factors go into writing a successful proposal, but remembering these five common mistakes and knowing what questions to ask yourself can help make things go a bit smoother. Let’s countdown the top five mistakes. Mistake #5: Ignoring the impo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...oups and were actively engaged during the entire four days of building, designing and refining their projects. On the last day, a few groups were not quite ready to showcase their project. They had a little more tinkering to do and begged me to shorten their review for their final exam in favor o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Computer Science | Cybersecurity Activities | Texas Instruments
...udents that promote teamwork and critical thinking skills. All the cybersecurity activities are designed for students to do in groups and require BBC micro:bits and your TI-84 Plus CE Python or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators. Get your classroom ready for cybersecurity act...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/computer-science/cybersecurity
Forensics Case 9 - Killer Cup of Coffee: Using colorimetry to determine concentration of a poison
In this activity, students will use colorimetry to determine the concentration of a colored species in a solution and use a linear relationship to model Beer's law. They use Beer's law to determine the concentration of iron(III)thiocyanate (FeSCN2+) in an unknown solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-9--killer-cup-of-coffee-using-colorimetry-to-determine-concentration-of-a-poison
Forensics Case 5 - The Ink Is Still Wet: Using colorimetry to identify an unknown ink
In this activity, students identify the ink of a ransom note to match suspects. They identify an unknown ink by its light absorbance characteristics. The experiment set up used is to measure a solutions absorbance of different colors (wavelengths) of light.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-5--the-ink-is-still-wet-using-colorimetry-to-identify-an-unknown-ink
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
Proportional Segments
The purpose of this activity is to investigate the relationship between segments formed by drawing a line parallel to one side of a triangle or by drwing and angle bisector of one the angles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/proportional-segments
Exploring the Formula for Area of a Triangle: How was it Derived?
This activity is designed to be paperless. The entire lesson is written to be placed in the Nspire. Students will explore how the formula for area of a triangle works and why it works, they will also explore altitudes and medians of triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-the-formula-for-area-of-a-triangle-how-was-it-derived
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
Triangle: Side Lengths and Angle Measures
The main purpose of this activity is to allow students to use TI-Nspire or TI-Nspire CAS to explore and decide which sides and angles of a triangle are the smallest and which are the largest.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-side-lengths-and-angle-measures
Linear Equations, How Can I Tell?
This is a lesson to be used when introducing linear equations. The class is to determine parallel slopes, slope of the line, and slope- intercept form while investigating the graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-equations-how-can-i-tell
Investigating Properties of Quadrilaterals Using the TI-Nspire Navigator
Why spend time listing properties/theorems on the board when your students can be actively engaged in the discovery of such properties. This activity will make use of the TI-Nspire and the TI-Nspire Navigator to exchange files with the students handhelds. The Class Analysis feature of the TI-Ns...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-properties-of-quadrilaterals-using-the-tinspire-navigator
Investigating Triangles and Congruence
The main purpose for this activity is to explore triangles with pairs of corresponding congruent sides and a congruent nonincluded angle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-triangles-and-congruence
Area "FOILed" Again!
Students practice finding rectangular areas with algebraic expressions for the lengths of the sides.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-foiled-again_1