STAARS at Night Breakout for Algebra 1

Bring the escape room experience to your classroom with this STAARs at Night Breakout for Algebra 1. This game is designed as a review for the STAAR Algebra 1 EOC. Participants will use the TI-Nspire CX to play the game, but resources will be shared for adapting the game for the TI-84 Plus family of calculators.

Files for TI-Nspire Users

Files for TI-84+ Users

Coding as a Vehicle for Computational Thinking

The concepts and approaches to computational thinking will be discussed. Participants will decompose problems, create, evaluate, and debug code with examples from algebra 1 through calculus. The TI-Nspire CX II will be used for coding.

Presentation

Example Programs

Algorithm Card Sort