35 Years of T³™ Mentorship and Community | Texas Instruments
...r a wife or father.” Micro:bits and Rovers are popular additions to Thibodeaux’s robotics classroom. Students create mazes for each other to navigate. Color blocks signal directions to the Rover. Being a T³™ instructor has also empowered Thibodeaux to gro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/35-years-t3-community-teacher-leader
5 Fresh Spring Ideas for Your Classroom | Texas Instruments
... We’ve rounded up a fun collection of creative teacher resources you can use in your classroom right away. 1. Brighten up your space Welcome the changing of the seasons with a new door or bulletin board design. It’s one of the simpler ways to make your classroom stand out from the r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/fresh-spring-ideas-for-classrooms
Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...hot summer reading! “Rise of the Rocket Girls” by Nathalia Holt Start off with a bang with this true story about the women “human computers” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1940s and ’50s. Follow the story of how this elite group of young women transformed rocket de...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
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
Fall-Tastic Ideas for Your Classroom | Texas Instruments
... a varying level of difficulty. You can challenge your students to: Determine the functions that form the full image. Practice transformations to complete the partial image. Develop unique designs with their own math. Piece the activities together to finish the image. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/falltastic-ideas-enhance-classroom
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...vehicle. It’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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
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
3 Math Activities for Back to School | Texas Instruments
...te their knowledge of domain and range with creative visualizations. Choose from two designs, a happy clam or skittering crab, with three levels of complexity so you can pick what’s best for your class. Students can define the math to draw the complete image, find the missing pieces of math to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/three-back-to-school-math-activities
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
...ith everything going toward technology … high schools are not really supporting that. Even with my internship, I’ve seen that you need coding. It’s crazy to think that I only got exposure to it three years ago.” She mentioned that even if a degree sounds terrifying — whether it be electrical, com...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
...edback, we must first set the stage in our classrooms. We must provide a risk-free environment where students feel safe in sharing their thinking — a space that embraces failing forward and is free from ridicule when making mistakes. It takes intentionality and time to create this type of respons...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...tom-table-wrapper .right-block p{border-top:solid #555 2px}.custom-table-wrapper p{margin-bottom:0}.wb .wb-header a{height:auto}} As the most recommended graphing calculator brand by teachers, Texas Instruments (TI) has a long history of helping students succeed in math and science. When co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...rd® is that all AP® science exams now approve the use of most TI graphing calculators, which includes Environmental Science. Here’s a look at the upcoming schedule for science exams in 2023: Monday, May 1 — Chemistry Tuesday, May 2 — Environmental Science Tuesday, May 9 — Physics C: Mech...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
Fan’s Favorite Features on TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...gression (especially compared to the one my state uses for state testing). – Ms. Ragghianti on Twitter Let’s look at the data of height and arm spans put into two separate tables and then apply a linear regression. For linear regressions press the “stat” key. Toggle to “CALC”, th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/five-fan-favorite-features-ti84plus
The Tale of Two Tangents
This activity allows students to investigate the relationship between the angle formed by two tangents to a circle and the arcs they intercept.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-tale-of-two-tangents
Animating Graphs Part 2
Demonstrating how to animate 2d graphs using TI Nspire CAS Calculator.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/animating-graphs-part-2
Addition and Subtraction of Rational Numbers: Part 2
This lesson involves representing addition and subtraction of signed mixed numbers on a number line for a randomly generated target sum or difference.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/addition-and-subtraction-of-rational-numbers-part-2
NASA:Taking a Walk in the Neuroscience Laboratories
Within the Neuroscience Laboratories, many different functions are tested. For example, researchers in the Motion Laboratory focus on the post-flight disturbances in balance and gait control—areas with which many astronauts struggle. This laboratory develops training programs that will faci...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--taking-a-walk
NASA - Robonaut 2: First Humanoid Robot in Space
NASA uses robots in many ways to help with space exploration. When it’s possible for robots to perform tasks, rather than people, there are some obvious advantages. Robots do not have to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep. They can perform tasks over and over in exactly the same way without gett...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--robonaut-2-first-humanoid-robot-in-space
Tootsie Pops & Hand Span
Students will collect data, find the linear regression model of the data, and address aspects of the data that affect regression.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tootsie-pops--hand-span
NASA - Spacewalk Training
In this activity, students will plot data, looks at patterns, and draw conclusions given a real-world context of astronauts training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston, TX.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--spacewalk-training
It's All About Food Activity
This is a follow up activity to You Are What You Eat where students are comparing estimated calories versus actual calories and making conjectures based on their scatterplot graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/its-all-about-food-activity
How to Animate Graphs Part 1
Animating graphs, adding styles and coloring a graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-to-animate-graphs-part-1
Solution 34493: Maximum Number of Characters on One Line When Using the Input or Disp Programming Commands on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators.
...hing calculator? The screen of the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition graphing calculator can display a total of 16 characters on one line, including blank spaces, when displaying text with the Input or Disp commands. To display text on more than one line, use the Disp command repeatedly with each disp...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/34493
Lights on the International Space Station
In this lesson, students will discover how various factors affect lighting by using different types of flashlights and battery strenghts.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/lights-on-the-international-space-station
Simple Calculator Tips for Algebra 2 | Texas Instruments
...f2). Select option 5: logBASE(. This gives you the option for logarithm with any base, but take a look at those other functions because they may come in handy one day! 3. Using Y-VARS to Evaluate a Function One of my favorite “hacks” I use in my Algebra 2 class...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/simple-easy-calculator-tips-algebra2-concepts