5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
...e Graph and Table Simultaneously Did you know that you can see your graph and the table at the same time? Press y= and type your equations. In this screenshot below we use Y1= ½X² and Y2= X+1. Press the mode key and about midway through the screen you will see a row that says FULL HORTIZONTAL ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
... experience. STEP 1: Never programmed? Have them at Hello! If you’ve never programmed with your calculators, start by displaying “HELLO WORLD” on the screen. This is a common starting point in learning any programming language. Luckily, TI offers step-by-step guidance on how to display text to th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...der of the year. The ACT continues to add seats and sites as they work with local test centers to add capacity across the nation. If you are able to score a seat, here are my favorite features on the TI-84 Plus family of graphing calculators to leverage when taking the ACT. There are 60 questio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...uations to model the relationship between stopping distance and speed for different driving conditions and compare the differences in the models to describe the effect of those conditions on stopping distance. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (pdf). You can view and download th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
When attending a conference, most participants hope to leave inspired, motivated and empowered with strategies and tools to make positive impacts in their classrooms, schools and educational communities. The 2021 T³™ International Conference was appropriately themed, Encourage. Engage. Empower....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
For teachers, the summer months can be a prime time for catching up on reading to get inspired and recharge your batteries for the upcoming school year. One of the most effective ways to keep your teaching skills sharp is the same thing we encourage our students to do over the summer: read. We p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
What do Chemistry Cat, toilet bowl cleaner and contact lens cleaning solution have in common? They’re all ways to take the abstract subject of chemistry and make it come alive and make sense for high school students. Throughout my career, I have strived to make this subject applicable to the rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Innovation in Biology
...They started brainstorming ideas individually and then shared them in groups. The students also completed concept sketches of their designs and had discussions about what would and would not work. Collaboration was crucial in this project. Each team had four members, each with a specific role: ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
...earning how the conductivity probe works would be a rich learning experience. Throughout the year, we continued using resources available such as Science Through Engineering Design and Science in Motion using the TI-Innovator™ Rover. It was very helpful to have so many resources I could use t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
Connor Johnson is the first person at Pope John Paul II High School in Lacey, Washington, to enter into precalculus as a freshman. Where does he get the confidence to pursue an advanced course at such a young age? From his mother, of course, who also happens to be his math teacher. Connor and hi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...echnology to enact the problem in multiple representations: diagrammatic, graphic, numeric, geometric and symbolic. The problem is posed on the title screen shown at the right. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
How Else Can We Show This?
...inking visible when we dig into a mathematical situation, we support students in productive struggle and deepen their understanding.* Read on for two scenarios in which my students and I pursue multiple pathways to show and make sense of the mathematics at hand. 1. Riding the Curves and Turning t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
Creative Assessments I teach at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee. A few years ago, our excellent junior English teacher, Ms. Goodman, started having the juniors do four-minute, TED-style talks instead of taking a final exam. Our awesome chemistry teacher, Ms. Dunlap, started a C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...sults are very reliable, and there are many interesting variations. Here’s what students see when the results are graphed for the experiment I just described. There are a few things that are great about this model: 1) It always gives good results; 2) The reactant and product amounts are not eq...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...e than an extra shot in your gingerbread latte to keep kids motivated this month, as enthusiasm for the holidays grows with every passing day. So go ahead and use that excitement to your advantage by incorporating some of our favorite holiday-themed activities and challenges into your December l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
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2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
...g Interested in learning more? Hear from this winning team’s sponsor as she shares her contest experience and helpful tips. Tc8BbPQm9tg --> Get winning insights from a team sponsor Questions? We’re here to help. For questions about contest rules, el...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2025-2/p0-save-the-date
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Writing Style Gulde
...he “Ask the Editor" column on the AP Stylebook website may address your question more completely than an official entry. It is also searchable for subscribers. To access the online AP Stylebook, send a request to Michelle Stevens at michelle_stevens@ti.com and/or Megan Jacob at m-jacob@ti.com. ...https://education.ti.com/en/branding/writing-style-guide
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TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...it is now on both the TI-84 Plus CE Python and TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators. It is used in both industry and academia, and Python has been described as a great programming language for beginners as well as coding pros. If instead you are using a TI-84 Plus CE or TI-Nspire™ CX graphing ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
I’m back! Are you ready to expand your skill set in Python? Remember that Python is both a procedural and an object-oriented programming language (OOP). A class is the definition (description) of an object. An object has attributes (variables) and methods (functions) that determine its propertie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
... and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 2. Trains in Motion Students may be familiar with the classic “two trains leave a station” scenario, but they may never have actually related the motion to the graph and equation that models the motion with distance as a function of time....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
Summer of STEM: Egg in a Bottle
...he opening. Put your mouth on the opening and blow hard while keeping the bottle inverted. After a quick puff, remove your mouth to allow the egg to escape … otherwise you will be eating egg.☹️ Below, see a video of this experiment and others in action: Wow your friends by using STEM instead ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/egginabottle