5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...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 understandi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
...nstagram and Threads. Every Western movie has a customary saloon scene where a bar fight breaks out, typically over something inconsequential. But just imagine if someone had 6/2(2+1)=1 written on a bar napkin. Now as they say in the movies, “them’s fightin’ words!” Calculators, Chaos and the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
3 Math Activities for Back to School | Texas Instruments
...outs and teacher notes. Google Forms for sharing through Google Classroom. Check out this activity series >> Every now and then students just need a little spark to get them reenergized after the summer break. Make sure to bookmark these back-to-school math activities for when the ti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/three-back-to-school-math-activities
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
...ry. The TI-84 Plus CE Python and TI-Nspire™ CX II activities come with templates that have large sections of the project pre-coded. Students will add just twelve lines of code. Only want to generate addition and subtraction problems? The teacher notes tell you how to make this restrictio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
5 Teacher Tips for Classroom Management | Texas Instruments
Every teacher knows that having a classroom management plan is essential to running an effective and efficient classroom. There are just so many different strategies teachers can do — where do you start? That’s why we asked our teacher community to share their tips for managing a classroom. H...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-teacher-tips-classroom-management
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
...o move. Shahollari said it was a “a big sacrifice” for her father, especially due to his high standing in the Albanian military. “In the long run, he just did it for me and my brother. The primary goal was to get a good education so we can find a job.” Shahollari didn’t know any English before...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2022 | Texas Instruments
... be accepted at your school or district for professional development credit. Falling Back in Love With Your TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator Just in Time for Back to School Presented by Corey Boby and Tracy Watson Find ideas for activities you can use with students to get them to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/2022-webinars-top-10
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...inal effect is an explosion of stars on the screen with lots of opportunity to customize your final display along the way. Let’s take a peek at the math in the code to make a single star polygon. What do you notice? n is an odd number between 5 and 11. This will be the number of ver...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...feeds. No Wi-Fi means there’s never a need for an internet connection for the calculator to work. It’s also a valuable benefit not just for the parents of easily distracted students, but also the millions of children who do not have access to reliable internet at home. Accordin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...ams and show connections. Also, take any opportunity to explain this information to anyone who will listen. Create a video, teach a family member, or just talk to yourself in a mirror. By verbalizing the information, you can reinforce what you know and realize what material you need to review mor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...lassroom set of graphing calculators. That’s the teacher’s need. The proposal should instead address student learning needs where calculators form just one portion of the solution. Classroom calculators should not be the end goal, but one of many tools and resources to increase student achieve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
... navigate to 8 TI Hub > 3 Add Input Device. Then select 2 Ranger. This will import the code for variables that can be adjusted. Once students finish modifying their program, they’ll try it out with the TI-Innovator™ Hub and the ranger (distance sensor)....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
A Tale of Two Lines
Demonstrate a visual justification for l'Hôpital's Rule.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/a-tale-of-two-lines
Classifying Quadrialterals
In this activity, students will classify quadrilaterals graphed on the Cartesian coordinate plane. Students will justify their classifications with segment and angle measurements as well as slope measurements. A review of the hierarchy of quadrilaterals is at the beginning of the document.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/classifying-quadrialterals
Area Formula Investigations
It's easy to just plug in the numbers without thinking, right? Even better, just use the calculator to find the area for you! Well, not today! Students will construct altitude and calculate the area of 5 geometric shapes using the measurement tools.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-formula-investigations
Square Root Spiral and Function Graphs
In this activity, students will investigate the spiral formed by square roots of consecutive numbers, numerical approximations for square roots, the plot of the square root spiral arm lengths, and the graph of the square root function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/square-root-spiral-and-function-graphs
Understanding Slope
Make connections between the sign of the ratio of the vertical and horizontal change as they relate to the sign of the slope.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/understanding-slope
Charlotte Chase Activity
In this activity, students will create and analyze graphs and investigate how temperature and pressure are related.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/charlotte-chase-activity
Chirp, Jump, Scatter
In this activity, students will find a best fit line for data graphed as scatter plots. Applications of linear relationships provide motivation for students and improve their skills and understanding of finding the equation of a line from two known points. Movable lines make this activity approac...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chirp-jump-scatter_1
Properties of Logarithms
Logarithms are just another way of writing exponents. Just like exponents, logarithms have properties that allow you to simplify expressions and solve equations. In this activity, students Will discover some of these properties by graphing and confirm them with algebra.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-logarithms
Multiplicity of Zeros of Functions
Students will utilize graphs and equations of five polynomial functions to determine the zeros of the functions and whether the functions cross the x-axis at these zeros or just touch the x-axis at the zeros. Then students will determine the degree of the polynomial functions and the effect the d...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/multiplicity-of-zeros-of-functions
Modeling Daylight Hours
Students are provided with data on the daylight hours for two Canadian cities measured three times per month in 2007. The student's task is to create graphical and algebraic models of the data and to interpret the meaning of each of the parameters in the algebraic models. The student will also ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-daylight-hours
Investing in Your Future - Using Spreadsheets to Make Comparisons
This activity provides students the opportunity to make financial decisions based on different investment scenarios. Students will use the spreadsheet application of the TI-Nspire calculator to compare the results of investing in a certificate of deposit or a Money Market Account. Students will p...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investing-in-your-future--using-spreadsheets-to-make-comparisons
Combinations
This activity introduces students to combinations. They derive the formula for the number of combinations of n objects taken r at a time by starting with a list of permutations and eliminating those that name the same group, just in a different order. From here they see how the number of combinat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/combinations
Solving Systems of Equations Check
This is just a Nspire file that affords the teacher some flexibility in terms of approach. It consists of ten problems with simple substitution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/solving-systems-of-equations-check