Friction: Your Friend or Your Enemy?
In this lesson, students explore static and kinetic friction by dragging shoes with different types of soles across a table at a constant pace. Alternative procedure for the Vernier Go Direct® sensors with TI-Nspire CX II is included in the downloads.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/friction-your-friend-or-your-enemy
Friction and Inclined Planes
Students explore the relationship between mass, coefficient of friction, and motion down an inclined plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/friction-and-inclined-planes
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
Solution 25790: Calculating Net Future Value (NFV) Using the BA II PLUS ™ Calculator.
... Home | Financial Calculators Knowledge Base Knowledge Base Search Is it possible to compute Net Future Value on the BAII PLUSs? How can I compute the Net Future Value on the BA II Plus? There is no built in function to directly ca...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/financial-calculators/product-usage/25790
Which Dog Is Roundest? | Texas Instruments
...s in our house, Holly and Blue are the two dogs that best qualify for the descriptor “round.” Holly is a 7-year-old Chihuahua with a short temper who comes in at a staggering 17 lbs. Blue is a 5-year-old corgi with a friendly personality and a loud bark, who is beginning to develop the dreaded “b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/dog-day-which-dog-is-roundest
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
Collecting Data With Sensors and TI Tech | Texas Instruments
... 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 family of graphing calculators and the Vernier DataQuest® App for TI-Nspire™ technology. Now, TI graphing calculators have the capability...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/match-made-in-stem
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...vehicle. It’s fun, it’s cool, and best of all, students of all ages with no prior coding experience can get the Rover to move and follow their coding commands in just a few minutes! Let’s take a look at a few specific activities where educators are effectively using the Rover to elevate student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
...de. Haven’t taught Pythagorean theorem yet? Give your students the second premade file that already has scoring coded. Want to a play a round? For complete activity, check out the TI-84 Plus CE Python or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator pages. Did fractions make your top 5 list? Doe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
5 Teacher Tips for Classroom Management | Texas Instruments
...ey’ve learned. Whatever duties are assigned, it’s a neat idea that helps empower students and motivates them to interact and be more engaged. 4. Reward and incentivize Teachers agree that some type of reward system goes a long way for classroom management, too. Things like baked treats,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-teacher-tips-classroom-management
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
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...r unit plans where the activities 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. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
...s where the math comes in. Let’s take a look at the details on this activity. Blog overview The activity is organized in five sections (sections 2–4 do not have to be done in that order): Activity objectives, materials and notes Coding the Ultrasonic Ranger Module (device that measures dis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
Match Me!
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time graphs. They learn to change the shape of the plot by adjust...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-me
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
Ratios of Right Triangles
In this activity, students will explore the ratios of right triangles. Students will discover that they can find the measure of the angles of a right triangle given the length of any two sides.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-of-right-triangles_1
Exploring Circle Equations
Students explore the equation of a circle by connecting the coordinates of the center of the circle and the length of the radius to the corresponding parts of the equation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-circle-equations
Running Circles Around Quads
Students explore various properties of cyclic quadrilaterals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/running-circles-around-quads_1
Properties of Parallelograms - 1
Students explore the various properties of parallelograms and the necessary and sufficient conditions that guarantee that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms_1
Slippery Slope
In this activity, students will create Distance versus Time plots and calculate the slopes of the plots. They explore the mathematical concept of slopes and understand how slopes can be used to interpret how one physical quantity changes with respect to another.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slippery-slope
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
Forensics Case 2 - Bouncing Back: Using ground-penetrating radar to locate buried objects
In this activity, students gather data to explore the use of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to find buried materials. They use a range finder to detect the presence of an object and to distinguish between different-shaped objects. They find the buried car and help solve a case.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-2--bouncing-back-using-groundpenetrating-radar-to-locate-buried-objects
Vernier - How Low Can You Go?
In this activity, students will use an EasyTemp temperature probe to determine the normal melting temperature of ice. They will then study how the addition of salt to the melting ice affects its melting temperature. They will finally formulate a procedure for reaching the coldest melting temperat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--how-low-can-you-go
Forensics Case 8 - No Dumping: Using soil characteristics to link suspects to a crime scene
In this activity, students measure pH, conductivity, and water absorbency of different samples of soil. They use these characteristic properties to identify soil samples. They use the physical and chemical characteristics of soil samples collected from suspects to determine whether a suspect had ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-8--no-dumping-using-soil-characteristics-to-link-suspects-to-a-crime-scene