Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...ing. Note: The code shown is written for the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. However, all of the projects can also be completed using the TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator. The projects involving the TI-Innovator™ Hub include code adjustments (see inline comments or the files prov...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...eir own. Below are the dates and administrations for the AP Calculus and AP Statistics exams. AP Calculus AB and BC Admin1: Tuesday May 4, 8AM local time (Paper, in-person only) Admin2: Monday May 24, 8 AM local time (Paper, in-person only) Admin3: Wednesday June 9, 11 AM local time ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...ry week in advance of the next session. Sept. 14: Limits at Infinity and Infinite Limits Problem Set // Solution Set Sept. 28: Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. 12: Local Linearity and L’Hospital’s Rule Problem Set // Soluti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
To STEM and Beyond!
...r own; some have zero coding experience. All in all, they are doing a great job. With the additional capabilities of Python being available on the TI-84 Plus CE Python and the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators, we are able to use Python programming instead. I have chosen to change to Python i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...spond. They may be surprised by what they find. Screenshots from the Photosynthesis in Plants activity. Physical science topics 8. Forces and Motion: Kinetic and Potential — Energy Skate Park (MG) Students will experiment with kinetic and potential energy of a virtual skate...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...ath to Student Justification.” *Steven C. Reinhart, “Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say,” Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Vol. 5, Issue 8 (2000): 478–481. About the author: After spending 34 years as a secondary math teacher in Oklahoma, Tim Collier now serves as the secondary...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...ts to share to get you started! Here is my first Mixed Six. Example: Mixed Six activity I gave it to my students a few weeks later to complete, and they immediately started making suggestions of other topics. I was a little overwhelmed at first. I sent out an email to several othe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
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Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
Four seconds left in the big game, and the score is 27-28 — you’re behind. A 50-yard field goal wins the game. Your task is to use a mathematical model to demonstrate kicking a field goal to win the game. Wait … are you more into the celebration and all the hoopla (I mean all those snacks and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...th to STEM projects to now include Python! Why? Python is one of the most popular coding languages in the world today, and it is now on both the TI-84 Plus CE Python and TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators. It is used in both industry and academia, and Python has been described as a great pro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...expression. On a Calculator page, access the Factor tool from the algebra menu, and calculate factor(x2 – 9). On the next line, calculate factor(x2 + 8x + 15). CAS quickly displays the factors for each expression. On the next line, go to the algebra menu, select Fraction tools, and ac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Trigonometric Patterns
In this activity, students will use the unit circle to examine patterns in the six trigonometric functions. Students will compare angles created with the x-axis in all four quadrants and discuss with one another what is happening at each coordinate as they move the point around the circle. Tri...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-trig-patterns
Trig Patterns
In this activity, students will use the unit circle to examine patterns in the six trigonometric functions. Students will compare angles created with the x-axis in all four quadrants and discuss with one another what is happening at each coordinate as they move the point around the circle. Tri...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches/84-trig-patterns
Outbreak!
In this activity, students simulate the spread of a virus. They produce a graph representing the spread and analyze the rates of change over time. Students compare how viral and bacterial infections spread in a population.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/outbreak
Reaction Rates
Student will see how the decomposition of nitrogen dioxide creates nitric oxide and oxygen. Students and/or teacher will use this to demonstrate how you would find the reaction rates using the numbers that are given in the problem, and then maybe using numbers that they obtain on their own with ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/reaction-rates
Simple Ionic Compounds
In this lesson students will review and test their understanding of simple ionic compounds.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/simple-ionic-compounds
Percentage Composition of Methane
Participants analyze the atomic percentage composition of methane using the calculator, lists and graphs. The spatial orientation of the carbon and hydrogen atoms in the methane molecule is also analyzed.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/percentage-composition-of-methane
Vernier - Photosynthesis
Students will use a Colorimeter to compare the rates of photosynthesis for plants in different light conditions. They investigate the role of chloroplasts and light on photosynthesis.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--photosynthesis
The River of Life
In this activity, students compare human body mass with blood volume. They graph the data and build a regression model. They estimate their own blood volume and also predict volumes of blood for other animals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-river-of-life_1
Vernier - Mix it Up: Combining Liquids of Different Temps
Students use the EasyTemp Probe to measure the temperature of hot and cold water before and after mixing. Students compare the mixing temperatures to a linear prediction. EasyData™ is needed for this activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--mix-it-up-combining-liquids-of-different-temps
Something's Fishy
In this activity, students examine the size, mass, and growth rates for three species of fish. They interpolate and extrapolate from best-fit models. Students compare the growth rates of endothermic and exothermic animals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/somethings-fishy
Call it ...Dominant or Recessive
In this activity, students simulate a Punnett square of a cross between two heterozygous individuals and produce a histogram. They compare actual and expected results of genetic crosses.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/call-it----dominant-or-recessive
Chemical Elements Test
Students use StudyCards(tm) to practice naming elements.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chemical-elements-test
Growing Babies
In this activity, students observe and graph data about human fetal growth rates. Students build a regression model based on the data and compare values with those of other mammals. They also compare the data to non-mammal species.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/growing-babies
Graphing Nature
Students compare blade size of leaves from one species and between closely related species. Evolution through natural selection accounts for the diversity of species developed through gradual processes over many generations. Biological adaptations include changes in structures, behaviors or phys...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-nature