5 Teacher Tips for Classroom Management | Texas Instruments
... great ideas. The rewards can be given out for countless different things. For example, a student actively raising their hand or participating in discussions, supporting their partners during group work, volunteering for classroom duties (like being the calculator coach for a day!), or even spe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-teacher-tips-classroom-management
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
...tion 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 received was through an ESL tutor for one hour a week. One of the first phrases Shahollari learned in school, sh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Solutions To Keep Your Students Learning All Summer | TI
...nts may even be able to lead some simple activities at a local library — a great opportunity to learn through teaching others and to give back to the community through potential volunteer work. Try the following activities: “Egg in a Bottle” “Breaking Board Paradox” “Disappearing Cups” “...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/keep-students-learning-all-summer
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
Computer Science | Cybersecurity Activities | Texas Instruments
Download interactive cybersecurity activities for students to do in groups. Get free activities made for middle school and high school CS classes. Explore more. Computer Science | Cybersecurity Activities | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/computer-science/cybersecurity
Beverage Tests
Students determine the pH of liquid samples. They get familiar with the pH scale, create graphs comparing pH levels, and compare data displayed as a scatter plot, a boxplot, a histogram, and a bar graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/beverage-tests
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
Triangulation Problem
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use 'landscape' paper and fold the top left corner of the page so that it just touches the bottom of the page. They calculate the area of the triangle formed by the bottom left corner and find the distance that forms a triangle with maximum...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangulation-problem
Applications of Critical Points
Students will examine the relationship between critical points and local extrema through real-world examples. Students will zoom in on the critical points to see if the curve becomes linear to determine if the function is differentiable at the critical point. They will then discover that the sign...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/applications-of-critical-points
Properties of Parallelograms
In this activity, students will discover the properties of a parallelogram. Students will measure various components of a parallelogram to make conjectures about its properties.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms
Minimizing Surface Area of a Cylinder Given a Fixed Volume
Students will discover the relationship between radius and height of a cylinder so that surface area of a cylinder can be minimized while maintaining a fixed volume. This is just an introduction to a project that they will begin after this investigation. Once this is completed, they will redesig...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/minimizing-surface-area-of-a-cylinder-given-a-fixed-volume
Nested Similar Triangles
Discover the conditions that make triangles similar by moving the sides opposite the common angle in nested triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nested-similar-triangles
The Pirate Problem
...the palm tree in the treasure map disappears? What begins with inductive reasoning ends with a formal proof. This lesson, easily adapted to middle school, utilizes knowledge of quadrilaterals, congruent triangles, reflection, and symmetry. This high school version requires a healthy dose of a...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-pirate-problem
Taxicab Geometry
In this activity, students begin a study of taxicab geometry by discovering the taxicab distance formula. They then use the definition of radius to draw a taxicab circle and make comparisons between a circle in Euclidean geometry and a circle in taxicab geometry. Lastly, they construct taxicab pe...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/taxicab-geometry
Soda Problem: Finding the relationship between Sodium and Sugar
The students will use nutrition label data of certain sodas to create and analyze a scatterplot of the amount of sodium versus the amount of sugar in various soft drinks. They will put the data into lists, create scatterplots, discuss correlations, acquire the line of best fit, and predict other...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/soda-problem-finding-the-relationship-between-sodium-and-sugar
Finding Pi
Students discover that pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter using manipulatives and the Nspire's data capture feature. This activity can be accomplished individually or in groups of 2 or 3.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/finding-pi
Representing the Solution Process by Graphing
... Students will rationalize the characteristics of graphing equations. At the Pre-Algebra level, this activity can be used to compare equations and describe characteristics of the graphs. At the Algebra 1 level, this activity can be used to visually compare and contrast both sides of an equation...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/representing-the-solution-process-by-graphing
F Distribution
Students study the characteristics of the F distribution and discuss why the distribution is not symmetric (skewed right) and only has positive values. Students then use the Fcdf command to find probabilities and to confirm percentiles. They move on to find critical values and then compute a conf...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/f-distribution_1
Testing Claims About Proportions
Students find z-scores and critical values to test claims about proportions. To verify the results, they find P-values by either finding the area under the curve with the Integral tool, or by using the 1-Prop z Test command.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/testing-claims-about-proportions_1
Square it Up!
Students investigate the method of least squares by adding the squares to a scatter plot and moving a line to find the minimum sum. Then they compare their line to the built-in linear regression model.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/square-it-up
Cancer Clusters
Students will investigate cancer incidence rates in a number of states. Hypothesis testing is introduced and used along with a two-proportion z-test to compare cancer rates. This activity helps students to determine when a difference in data is actually statistically significant. This should enco...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cancer-clusters
But What Do You Mean?
...readsheet and the mean command). Students also use these methods to find the mean when given the frequencies of each number in a list. Lastly, they discover that the same method can be used to find the weighted mean of a set of numbers. An optional extension has students explore how to calculate ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/but-what-do-you-mean
Graphs of Polynomial Functions
The activity begins by having students compare functions to introduce the concept of end behavior. Then they graph cubics and quartics, noting the respective end behaviors for positive and negative leading coefficients. Finally, they compare quadratics to quartics and cubics to quintics to discov...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphs-of-polynomial-functions
Probability Distributions
Students will describe how the distribution of a random sample of outcomes provides information about the actual distribution of outcomes in a discrete sample space.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/probability-distributions_1
Comparing Linear and Exponential Functions
Compare data from two different scenarios -- linear and exponential growth.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/comparing-linear-and-exponential-functions_1