Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...find derivatives, or my algebra students to solve equations simply by pushing buttons. Thankfully over time, my vision for CAS and its utility has grown. CAS isn't only a way to find the answers. When used appropriately, it can support exploring and understanding the math behind the same answe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...g a particular concept. TI offers many lessons and activities that support students’ sense-making and ability to approach mathematics ideas in their own unique ways. Additionally, the STEM learning resources tap into student interests and flexibility in thinking and approaches. Relationships Com...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ncing the excitement and drama of it all from our couches. Educators will be among those mesmerized with the stories they see but may find their own minds racing on all the rich opportunities for sports-related ideas to engage students in the math and science classroom. Let’s take a look at f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...p students achieve in math and science. The girls in my troop really enjoy the STEM and coding activities, which got me thinking recently, “How can I combine my work experience with my passion for Girl Scouts?” This is my Girl Scout troop, Dublin Troop 408, on a zip line adventure in Col...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Best_Of_Science
...nd offers rich detail for each element. It’s a must-have for every chemistry student! Screenshots from the Tool: Periodic Table. 2. Space/Earth’s Seasons: Tilting Earth This lesson is great for showing students the effect of Earth’s tilt with respect to the different seasons. S...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/best_of_science
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...udents. If it were in my classroom, there would be a number that we would tear down each day with a Calculus meme on it. Instead, I’m using Remind to communicate with my kids. Teach the structure of the test. No matter if the test is on papers (admin 1 and 2) or online (admin 3), this year th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
To STEM and Beyond!
...e learning together. After seeing the positive impact on these students after school, I approached my principal spring of 2020 and proposed a full-blown programming/robotics course. Here’s where it gets really good: A pandemic plus a new hands-on course? Was I absolutely crazy? Figure...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... All of these lingering questions came into focus when the teachers in my school began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...th-12th grade TEACHES WHERE: Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 38 years Ellen in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I know the exact moment that I wanted to be a teacher. In high school, I was asked to teach someone how to play the violin. I remem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
... along the way. Like I said above, I could go on and on about all the resources in the computer science activities page, but I think I’ve shown enough to give you some ideas. I hope you find them as useful in your classes this year as I have. I know they have given me a resource for indi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...process you want to automate. In this post, we’re going to write a program that calculates the slope of a line between two points. STEP 3: Break it down into plain English Using pseudocode is a good way to introduce students to the logic of a program without having to know the coding language. Ps...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
BestofChemistry
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
... visualization of the data, thus the ability for the whole class to experience each group’s analysis. This has empowered more of my students to take ownership of their lab experiences and learning, as well as provide an opportunity for reflective thinking and learning in the science classroom. An...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...tudents will build, code and test a working speaker. The speaker is built with a plastic or foam cup , a magnet, iron nail, soda straw and breadboard components. TI can loan you this project to try with your students if you’d like. Contact the TI STEM Team at STEM-Team@ti.com if you’d like to bor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
...perhaps teach you a thing or two about your class. But with many schools across the country starting virtually, getting to know your students, with a computer screen between you and them, has its challenges. For starters, a virtual setup makes it harder to read students’ facial expressions, and i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...oom. In this follow-up post (part 2), I intend to present ideas for how CAS can be utilized to benefit the algebra II classroom. Finding a lowest common denominator In my algebra I post, the Factor tool was employed as an approach to motivate students to recognize patterns between the prime ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...for the first time. And, of course, any AP® Physics teacher looking to engage their students with a relevant and cool event would immediately look to come up with an activity using data about the helicopter. What an opportunity for a timely review of some AP® concepts, with three weeks left until...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Using TI-Nspire™ Technology To Creatively Solve ACT® Math Problems
... CX graphing calculator, you can graph each answer choice without solving the equations for y (this saves a ton of time). How? By using the Relations command on a graphs page. Another great method is to use the Such That command on TI-Nspire™ technology to substitute numbers into the equat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/actmathproblems
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
... and available on demand. Watch recordings on your schedule and at your own pace. After finishing a webinar, don’t forget to print a certificate of completion. This may be accepted at your school or district for continuing education credit. Introducing the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
Prime Summer Reading for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
... Johnson, Don Davies “Beyond the Bake Sale” is one of several great books for teachers to read over the summer. Studies have shown that students with parents active in their education at home receive higher grades and test scores. As an educator, if you’ve ever wondered, “Ho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Best of Biology
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Bounded Areas | TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family | Calculus
... About the Lesson This activity is done mainly by hand, but uses the TI-84 family as an aid to the problems. Downloads ZIP Bounded Areas.ZIP PDF Student Activity.PDF Teacher Notes.PDF IB Question.PDF DOC S...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-bounded-areas
Bounded Areas | TI-Nspire™ family | Calculus
...t rectangle, and trapezoidal Riemann Sums given the bounded area between, the x-axis, and the vertical lines x = 1 and x = 3. Downloads ZIP Bounded Areas.ZIP PDF Student Activity.PDF Teacher Notes.PDF IB Question.PDF DOC S...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-bounded-areas
Vectors in Component Form
... of ways that 2D vectors can be represented. One of these representations involves expressing a vector r in terms of unit vectors i and j. This is known as component form and is expressed as r = ai + bj. A tns file is provided to students for this activity to allow them to become familiar with th...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-vectors-component-form