{"id":242,"date":"2016-10-10T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T01:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2016-10-10T20:19:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T01:19:31","slug":"physics-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/physics-pd\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics PD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years ago, my district purchased TI-Nspire CX calculators for all 8th grade and algebra 1 teachers. \u00a0The following year, they were able to purchase TI-Nspire CX calculators for all geometry teachers. \u00a0My campus began purchasing the TI-Nspire calculators a few years before the mass district purchase, but we began with precalculus teachers and worked our way down. \u00a0This is the first year that all of the\u00a0math teachers on my campus have a class set of TI-Nspire CX calculators. \u00a0As a result of our transition away from the TI-84+ in the math class, students are coming to science classes with TI-Nspires. \u00a0Unfortunately, the science teachers have class sets of TI-83+ or TI-84+ calculators.<\/p>\n

I had talked with the math C&I specialist about trying to get the science teachers on board with using the TI-Nspire. \u00a0She talked with the science C&I specialist, and we decided to start by providing an overview to the physics teachers. \u00a0So this morning I provided the physics teachers in my district with an overview of the TI-Nspire CX. \u00a0We only had three hours, so we just scratched the surface with things they can do with the TI-Nspire CX.<\/p>\n

I began with a broad overview of the layout of the handheld. \u00a0Then I showed them an action-consequence document that I had downloaded from Science Nspired<\/a>. \u00a0Next, we used the CBR2 to practice matching some graphs using the built in DataQuest app. \u00a0I purposely planned this activity knowing that the physics teachers have motion detectors and have their students do the graph match activity\u00a0using the Vernier LabQuest. \u00a0Finally, we explored the Science Nspired website.<\/p>\n

The biggest concern they had was preventing cheating on test. \u00a0I showed them how to put the handheld\u00a0into Press to Test mode. \u00a0Since they do not have class sets of TI-Nspires we decided that it would be best to have students take their calculators to their math teachers in order to get the handheld out of Press to Test mode.<\/p>\n

The feedback from the physics teachers was positive. \u00a0Although they do not have constant access to TI-Nspires in their classrooms, they walked away feeling more comfortable with helping their students that do have them and allowing those students to use them on tests.<\/p>\n

I also learned something from the physics teachers. \u00a0In physics, the scales on the axes are often different. \u00a0They told me that students are trying to find slope of a line by counting grid lines\u00a0between points, not recognizing that the horizontal and vertical units of the grid lines\u00a0are not the same. \u00a0I am going to suggest to the math\u00a0teachers that we begin giving students linear graphs where the axes do not have the same scale and ask the students to find the slope of the\u00a0line. \u00a0Our students will benefit from some graphical literacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three years ago, my district purchased TI-Nspire CX calculators for all 8th grade and algebra 1 teachers. \u00a0The following year, they were able to purchase TI-Nspire CX calculators for all geometry teachers. \u00a0My campus began purchasing the TI-Nspire calculators a few years before the mass district purchase, but we began with precalculus teachers and worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}