Ti Nspire

I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t found a chance to comment on Texas Instruments’ very interesting announcement last month that they are release a robotic vehicle, the TI-Innovator Rover. The TI-Innovator Rover is designed to work with either with any TI-Nspire CX model or the TI-84 Plus CE. Check out the video below for a high level demonstration of the Rover in action. In addition to your graphing calculator, you’ll also need a TI-Innovator Hub.

Texas Instruments Announces TI-Innovator

By Tech Powered Dad in TI-84

September 13, 2016

UPDATE: I have posted a hands on TI-Innovator review. Continuing to build their brand as a way to teach and learn STEM skills in the classroom, Texas Instruments has announced exciting new hardware, the TI-Innovator Hub. The TI-Innovator was created using the TI LaunchPad™ Board technology and is designed as a classroom tool that introduces students to coding and engineering design. “The TI-Innovator allows students to get hands-on with technology and not even realize they are learning important STEM principles, like coding, that they need to be successful in the classroom today, in college tomorrow and in their careers in the future,” said Peter Balyta, Ph.

New TI-Nspire/TI-84 Tutorial Editions

By Tech Powered Dad in ebooks

August 5, 2016

With the start of the 2016-17 school year already upon us in some parts of the United States, I’ve just released new editions of my Kindle tutorial books about the TI-Nspire and TI-84 Plus. Since the TI-Nspire has seen a couple of updates to its operating system over the last couple of years and the TI-84 Plus CE has been released, I’ve wanted to do this for a while, but have struggled to find the time.

TI-Nspire Graphing Art Mickey Mouse

By Tech Powered Dad in fun stuff

July 6, 2016

Back when I was a Pre-Calculus teacher, one of the projects I used to assign during our conic sections unit was creating an art project out of equations, using circles, ellipses, lines, etc, and restricting their domains. It’s a fun way to reinforce how the various parameters for these equations influence the shape of their respective graphs. We did this on graphing paper, and told the students they could check a few things with their calculators if they wanted, but in recent years, the TI-Nspire CX (review) operating system has come a long way.

TI-Nspire NASA Activity Fuel for the Fire Launches Tomorrow

By Tech Powered Dad in news

February 18, 2016

Tomorrow, Texas Instruments will add to mISSion imaginaTIon, their partnership with NASA, when they launch a new activity called “Fuel for the Fire.” TI was nice enough to give me an early preview of the Fuel for the Fire, including student and teacher handouts and the .tns file for the Nspire that makes up the bulk of the activity. This is a really rich activity that will force students to think, and offers some interesting simulations.

TI-Nspire CX OS 4.2 Released

By Tech Powered Dad in news

February 17, 2016

TI-Nspire CX OS 4.2 has been released on the Texas Instruments website. You can find the release notes on the TI website. There are a few cool new features in this release, including the ability to automatically generate sliders for certain parameters in graphs and notes, manage the settings of connected handhelds through TI-Navigator (this will be very useful for teachers that work with inexperienced Nspire students), and a few other selected upgrades.

NASA and Texas Instruments Team Up for STEM Education

By Tech Powered Dad in featured

January 15, 2016

Today, Texas Instruments announced a new partnership with NASA for STEM education that they are calling mISSion imaginaTIon. The new initiative launched with an online quiz about manned space missions, and there will soon be TI-Nspire activities with mISSion imaginaTIon. A year long STEM design challenge encourages students to work on four space-related challenges, and the winner will receive a video chat with a NASA expert and a TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator.

Texas Instruments Launches STEM Behind Health

By Tech Powered Dad in TI-nspire

March 31, 2015

It recently came to my attention that Texas Instruments launched a new initiative called STEM Behind Health. STEM Behind Health is designed to get students excited about health related careers. Activities from the initiative include a TI-Nspire document file as well as student worksheets and teacher notes. They were developed in conjunction with health care professionals and follow real patients and their health conditions. The first released activity is “Chelcie’s Story.

Encountering a TI-Nspire Prototype 'In the Wild'

By Tech Powered Dad in fun stuff

December 8, 2014

I need to preface this story by saying that this is something that happened over 6 months ago. I took the pictures at the time but started my online data science studies shortly thereafter and just never got around to writing the story, but it was such an unusual thing that probably once a month I’ve continued to think about writing it up. During my years of teaching at my school, I’ve been the guy who troubleshoots all of the graphing calculator problems for teachers and students alike.

Responding to Good for TI…Bad for Kids and Stat

By Tech Powered Dad in data

September 17, 2014

Over at R-Bloggers a few days ago day, I came across a post from Norm Matloff, professor of computer science at UC-Davis. The post, Good for TI, Good for Schools, Bad for Kids, Bad for Stat, had been reposted from his blog, the Mad (Data) Scientist. Throughout this post and the one that preceded it, Statistics: Losing Ground to CS, Image Among Students, Matloff made the case for R in the AP Statistics classroom.

Texas Instruments Releasing New Robotic Rover

Texas Instruments Announces TI-Innovator

New TI-Nspire/TI-84 Tutorial Editions

TI-Nspire Graphing Art Mickey Mouse

TI-Nspire NASA Activity Fuel for the Fire Launches Tomorrow

TI-Nspire CX OS 4.2 Released

NASA and Texas Instruments Team Up for STEM Education

Texas Instruments Launches STEM Behind Health

Encountering a TI-Nspire Prototype 'In the Wild'

Responding to Good for TI…Bad for Kids and Stat

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