Expressions of Love for TI-Cares™ Support | Texas Instruments
...ffusively recommend Texas Instruments to everyone I know!” 🌹 “I love that this loaner program allows us to develop ways to integrate calculator usage into our classrooms!” 🌹 “I called your offices and spoke to my new best friend Joana. Y’all are simply the best. I love the support of the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/ti-cares-customer-support-love
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
It’s that time again … a new calendar year, resolutions and new goals, right? What do you want to improve in your class, or do differently? How often have you lesson planned and asked yourself, “How can I provide enrichment for this student, remediation for that student and continue to grow ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
Imagine sliding into the desk of your first engineering class as a freshman in college. You look around the room and realize, that out of the 200 or so students, you are one of only 20 women in the class. Fast forward three years, and now you’re a computer engineering major working as an intern ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...ctivity Download the teacher notes for quick reference. TI-84 Plus CE Python PDF TI-Nspire™ CX II PDF Celebrate by flying a flag! Now that you know how to make some stars, let’s add some stripes! This U.S. flag is a modification of an activity that draws out the Texas fla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...u of Labor Statistics, “Employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13% from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations.” In fact, many districts are currently or planning on integrating programming courses as part of the school curriculum. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
Top Tips From a Science Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...s in 2023: Monday, May 1 — Chemistry Tuesday, May 2 — Environmental Science Tuesday, May 9 — Physics C: Mechanics, Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism Wednesday, May 10 — Biology Thursday, May 11 — Physics 1 (algebra based) Friday, May 12 — Physics 2 (algebra based) Check th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/scienceapexams
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
... following questions: What do I need for the project to be successful? Should I include others to enlarge the project’s impact yet make it more manageable because of collaborators? Are there additional tools, resources or services needed? Have I broadened the scope of my project enough that ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...ever-changing world. Building STEM skills is a way to empower students to make connections between content areas and to be creative. When students engage in engineering design activities within their content area classes, their ideas can be limitless. Using real-world environmental issues is a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Fan’s Favorite Features on TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
Math fans everywhere love the TI-84 family of graphing calculators! In fact, Texas Instruments is the number one graphing calculator recommended by math teachers. But why is that? We asked our teacher community on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to share their favorite features of the TI-84 Pl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/five-fan-favorite-features-ti84plus
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
...ine linear equations Play … create … try something different! If you do that, you will sometimes stumble into/ onto something that you can use to engage your students in a more meaningful way. That is exactly how this activity was born. It began with playing with a distance sensor and seeing the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
BA II Plus™ Professional Financial Calculator | Texas Instruments
... BA II Plus™ Professional calculator specifications Solves time-value-of-money calculations such as annuities, mortgages, leases, savings and more Generates amortization schedules Performs cash-flow analysis for up to 32 uneven cash flows with up to four-...https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/financial/baii-plus-professional
Computer Science | Cybersecurity Activities | Texas Instruments
...n version Download all cybersecurity activities Cybersecurity Activity 1:All Clear Activity 1 introduces students to “cleartext” messaging. Students will send messages between two micro:bit radios on one of 83 radio channels using plaintext characters, referred to as cleartext. T...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/computer-science/cybersecurity
Match Me!
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time graphs. They learn to change the shape of the plot by adjust...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-me
Match the Graph-84
Students walk in front of a calculator-based ranger CBR™ 2 and try to match a distance-time graph. They examine the rate of change, and analyze and interpret the graph of a function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-the-graph
Ratios of Right Triangles
In this activity, students will explore the ratios of right triangles. Students will discover that they can find the measure of the angles of a right triangle given the length of any two sides.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ratios-of-right-triangles_1
Exploring Circle Equations
Students explore the equation of a circle by connecting the coordinates of the center of the circle and the length of the radius to the corresponding parts of the equation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-circle-equations
Running Circles Around Quads
Students explore various properties of cyclic quadrilaterals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/running-circles-around-quads_1
Properties of Parallelograms - 1
Students explore the various properties of parallelograms and the necessary and sufficient conditions that guarantee that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms_1
Slippery Slope
In this activity, students will create Distance versus Time plots and calculate the slopes of the plots. They explore the mathematical concept of slopes and understand how slopes can be used to interpret how one physical quantity changes with respect to another.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slippery-slope
Beverage Tests
Students determine the pH of liquid samples. They get familiar with the pH scale, create graphs comparing pH levels, and compare data displayed as a scatter plot, a boxplot, a histogram, and a bar graph.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/beverage-tests
Under Pressure: The Inverse Relationship between Pressure and Volume
In this activity, students' will use a pressure sensor to investigate the relationship between pressure and volume for an enclosed air sample, and fit an inverse function model to the pressure versus volume data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/under-pressure-the-inverse-relationship-between-pressure-and-volume
Forensics Case 9 - Killer Cup of Coffee: Using colorimetry to determine concentration of a poison
In this activity, students will use colorimetry to determine the concentration of a colored species in a solution and use a linear relationship to model Beer's law. They use Beer's law to determine the concentration of iron(III)thiocyanate (FeSCN2+) in an unknown solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-9--killer-cup-of-coffee-using-colorimetry-to-determine-concentration-of-a-poison
Forensics Case 2 - Bouncing Back: Using ground-penetrating radar to locate buried objects
In this activity, students gather data to explore the use of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to find buried materials. They use a range finder to detect the presence of an object and to distinguish between different-shaped objects. They find the buried car and help solve a case.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-2--bouncing-back-using-groundpenetrating-radar-to-locate-buried-objects
Forensics Case 7 - Drug Tests: Identifying an unknown chemical
In this activity, students distinguish between physical and chemical properties. They also understand the differences between qualitative and quantitative observations. They use quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify an unknown powder.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-7--drug-tests-identifying-an-unknown-chemical
Vernier - How Low Can You Go?
In this activity, students will use an EasyTemp temperature probe to determine the normal melting temperature of ice. They will then study how the addition of salt to the melting ice affects its melting temperature. They will finally formulate a procedure for reaching the coldest melting temperat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--how-low-can-you-go