How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...y that a computer, or human, can carry it out is computational thinking. Coding on the calculator is one method to give students an opportunity to solidify their understanding of a concept and explore computational thinking. It has a similar effect of asking a student to explain something to one ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...21 T³™ International Conference was appropriately themed, Encourage. Engage. Empower. From the opening keynote with Dan Finkel, Ph.D., to the 7 for7 “Ideas that Inspire,” and everything in between, #T3IC2021 did not disappoint! Finkel opened the conference by encouraging educators to create a c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...introducing and reinforcing new topics. Students don’t have to remember the exact syntax; they only need to recognize which one to select. It also avoids keyword typos. Notice, the templates below have the keywords in black and use blue placeholders to indicate where parameters belong. Pyt...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...ible than past viruses and has spread across the globe quickly as a result. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control have recommended social distancing to “flatten the curve” — an effort to reduce the potential for transmitting the virus from one person to another and ho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...s Play Dreidel Have some fun with Hanukkah by asking your students to write code on their TI graphing calculators that will spin the dreidel. See who comes out the winner. 4) Happy New Year Hook up to the TI-Innovator™ Hub and challenge your students to play “Auld Lang Syne.” Take it a step furt...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
BestofChemistry
...online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their own ideas. Take a look at some of the best chemistry activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI-Nspi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
... A real fan favorite: “Field Goal for the Win” Can’t get much more relevant than this. This TI-84 Plus graphing calculator lesson is suitable for middle grades math through algebra II, and encourages students to model, explore and explain the mathematics behind kicking a football through the u...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Insider Tips for Winning the TI Codes Contest
...or create a fun adventure game. You can start programming your current graphing calculator now without any special equipment by visiting education.ti.com/ticodes . TI provides free lessons that go over programming on the calculator. With TI-Basic, you’ll be able to program your calculator to com...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/ticodescontest
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...y to find the answers, CAS can be leveraged to explore and teach concepts in the math classroom. 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 to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...r words, its mission is to hunt directly for these “biosignatures.” But Perseverance carried another important cargo. Stowed away safely on the underside of the rover was a small helicopter named Ingenuity, initially designed as a proof-of-concept for flight on another planet. On Monday, April ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
...’s essentially the world’s largest, constantly running treasure hunt. To play, you simply use GPS, and navigate to specific locations with “cleverly hidden containers” called geocaches. There are millions — yes, millions — of geocaches all around the world, and likely one within walking distance ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...d heavily on memorization to learn facts and procedures. Fortunately, that’s no longer true. Teaching techniques have evolved, and more and more kids today are learning something much more valuable and useful: algebraic thinking, number sense, and how to use multiple representations and reaso...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
Going Back to School With Stations
At the middle school and secondary levels, the first day of school typically consists of teachers introducing themselves, going over the syllabus and students completing get-to-know-you activities or ice breakers. I’ll admit, I have also used a similar format until I realized that this doesn’t sh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
The Long Road to My STEM Career
...earning activity was the opposite of fun; it wasn’t accessible, and it penalized risk-taking. I still remember how helpless I felt because I couldn’t commit that little table to memory. I didn’t do well in that class. I failed miserably with a low F! Eventually, I recovered, and in high school I ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...ept). But, the effect that b has on the graph of a quadratic? Not so much. Using the recently improved Transformation app on the TI-84 Plus CE provides an illustration of the movement that changing the value of b has on the graph. Here are the steps to graph the function using the Transformati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
Best of Biology
...online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their own ideas. Take a look at some of the best biology activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI-Nspire...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Solution 12272: Computing One-Variable Statistics Using the TI-34.
Solution 12272: Computing One-Variable Statistics Using the TI-34. Solution 12272: Computing One-Variable Statistics Using the TI-34. global Solution 12272: Computing One-Variable Statistics Using the TI-34. website ...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/scientific-elem-calculators/product-usage/12272
Please Re-Leaf Me
In this activity, students examine data of carbon dioxide output in a forest. They graph the data and understand seasonal flucuations of carbon dioxide output. They make predictions about carbon dioxide output in other biomes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/please-releaf-me
Genetic Probability
Use the SciTools App to simulate a Punnett square. Make predictions about genetic crosses. Learn about the following concepts; genes, alleles, dominant alleles, recessive alleles, homozygous individuals, heterozygous individuals, phenotypes, and genotypes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/genetic-probability
Molar Gas Lab
Students use stoichiometry to determine the mass of oxygen gas in a bottle. They may also check their answer against the amount of potassium chloride produced during the reaction.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/molar-gas-lab
Vernier - Photosynthesis and Respiration
Students use the gas sensors to measure the amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide consumed or produced by a plant during respiration and photosynthesis. They also determine the rate of respiration and photosynthesis in a plant.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--photosynthesis-and-respiration
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
Science TODAY™ - The USA's Expanding Weight Problem
This activity reveals the incidence of obesity in the United States. Students will analyze "The USA's expanding weight problem" and other data to construct a graph, analyze the trends in the data, and make predictions about the future.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/science-today--the-usas-expanding-weight-problem
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
Gas Lab
...lab on day one. On day two and three they practice the lab. On day four we discuss the lab and all the calculations. On day 5 students team up and complete a lab quiz. Their instructor fills their balloon with an unknown pure gas from a storage tank. Students are awarded points based on how c...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gas-lab