Earth Impact!
Students analyze date provided by a simulation showing what could happen if an asteroid collides with Earth.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/earth-impact
STEM and the Ghost of Deadman's Curve
This activity provides students with an introduction to electromagnetism, including the study of wavelength and frequency.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ghosts
Body of Evidence
This fun activity challenges students to unravel the case of a missing person.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/body-of-evidence
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
... needle problem? This problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Everybody loves Pi and coloring! These Pi themed coloring pages are a great activity for when students (or you) need a mental brea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/happypiday
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
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...y 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 a triangle, they need to make the Rover turn the exterior angle. Students in Ms. Gannon’s class using Ro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
6 Resources to Jump-Start the School Year | Texas Instruments
...ing or what course they are taking. Let’s take a look at six sensational TI resources to help you jump-start the new school year. Did you know we have calculator scavenger hunts? These can be a fun, great way to get your students to explore the functionality of their calculator...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/tiresources
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
... X, followed by 6/2X, the TI-82 would first find 2X, then divide the result into 6. However, for the TI-83 (and later models), 6/2X is found by first computing 6/2 and then multiplying this by X. The expression 6/2X is evaluated differently on these two models. On the bright sid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
Expressions of Love for TI-Cares™ Support | Texas Instruments
...oan Program. These customers definitely know their way to our hearts! 🌹 “LaShun was refreshing to deal with. She was willing to step through a complicated problem over a few calls to full resolution. She was friendly, she was kind and demonstrated knowledge. She is someone that I will love...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/ti-cares-customer-support-love
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...! These activities were created by John Hanna. Hanna is a retired teacher splitting time between sailing in New Jersey and mountain biking in Florida (did he get that backwards?), still getting kicks out of working with TI to provide feedback on new products, and developing meaningful program...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
...ver, when prodding him a bit more by asking how he would solve the problem using his method if a 2 was placed in front of the first term, Joey had no idea what he would do. The “trick” he was using was only valid for solving quadratic equations with a lead coefficient of 1. He wasn’t even sure wh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
... Using real-world environmental issues is an easy way to get students engaged and thinking critically about problems that may be affecting their own communities. A task as simple as walking around a schoolyard could have students realizing their school might have an issue with trash. This can le...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Volume- IB
In this activity, students define right and oblique three dimensional figures and calculate the volume for prisms, pyramids, cylinders, and cones.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/volume_84_ib
Forensics Case 6 - Measuring Momentum: Using distance moved after impact to estimate velocity
This activity introduces the concept of momentum as it applies to vehicle collisions. Students accurately gather data of collision of a vehicle with a stationary object, and establish a relationship between the distance an object moves after a collision with a vehicle and the momentum of the vehi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-6--measuring-momentum-using-distance-moved-after-impact-to-estimate-velocity
Residuals
In this activity, students will investigate a residual plot for a set of data after selecting a regression model.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/residuals
Residuals- 84
In this activity for TI-84 series, students will investigate a residual plot for a set of data after selecting a regression model. The residual plot is used to justify the choice of a function model based on an analysis of the residuals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/residuals_84
Side Length, Perimeter, and Area of a Rectangle
Explore the effects of changing base (or height) of a rectangle on it's perimeter and area.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/side-length-perimeter-and-area-of-a-rectangle
Side-Side-Angle: The Ambiguous Case
Experiment with segment lengths and angle measures.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sidesideangle-the-ambiguous-case
Parallel Lines and the Transversals that Cross Them!
Students will explore the relationships between angles formed by parallel lines crossed by transversals. While there are other activities that may address similar topics, the questions presented to students in this activity bring a fresh perspective to student discovery.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/parallel-lines-and-the-transversals-that-cross-them
Angle-Side Relationships
Investigate some necessary conditions for creating a triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/angleside-relationships
Balancing Equations
This lesson involves understanding what it means for an equation to be balanced in the process of solving linear equations with one variable.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-equations
Interrogating Data by Random Sampling
This lesson involves using random sampling to make predictions about a population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/interrogating-data-by-random-sampling
Long Run
This lesson involves investigating simulations used to observe long-run relative frequencies.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/long-run
Linear Modeling
This lesson involves modeling relationship between variables related to the operational cost of airplanes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-modeling
Linear Equation Investigation
Students are given a real-life situation (cost of a birthday party) they must create an algebraic equation, table of values, and a scatterplot of the table that is created. They are asked to explain patterns that they observed in each type of representation and also check their accuracy when cre...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/linear-equation-investigation