Learning to Code with the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators

This workshop is designed for educators interested in introducing coding to their students using the TI-84 Plus family of graphing calculators. Building upon the lessons from TI’s 10 Minutes of Code, the workshop introduces the basics of coding principles including logic, selection statements and loops.

A focus will be on coding topics which will reinforce student understanding of math and science curriculum concepts. Participants will be comfortable with using TI-Basic and transferrable skills to move to the next stage in coding.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be comfortable with:

• Starting a new program, writing a program to display text and running the program
• Using variables to hold values and store results in those variables
• Showing the results of stored computations
• Writing statements using IF and conditions
• Using compound conditions with the relational and the logical operators
• Determining errors in a program

Overview

This is a one-day workshop. This workshop can be combined with the “Learning to Code With TI-Innovator™ Hub” workshop for a two-day program.

During this workshop, participants will learn to:

Use the TI-Basic Program Editor to create and run programs Use simple editing features to insert and delete entries or lines of code Evaluate expressions and store them as variables Recognize programing features including conditions, relational operators, logical operators, and simple and compound conditions Perform the basic steps for debugging a simple program