Vernier - Comparing Sunscreens
In this activity, students use the UVB Sensor to measure the amount of UVB light that passes through a thin film of sunscreen. They analyze the relationship between the SPF values and the intensity of UVB light transmitted by the sunscreen.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--comparing-sunscreens
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
...made a verifiably perfect bracket. Approximately 70 million people compete in basketball brackets during March Madness® every year, making them almost as popular as the basketball tournament itself. Beginning with the first round, through the championship, there are 63 games (64 teams) in ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...d her family are facing. Calderon has been in the International Baccalaureate (IB®) program since middle school and is currently dually enrolled at Palm Beach State College, where she is already working toward her associate’s degree in political science. She is applying to colleges and has dreams...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...tant 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 19, 2021, Ingenuity took to the (thin) air for the first time. And, of course, any AP® Physics teacher loo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...at we forget to take care of ourselves. What does that have to do with being good at math? We need our brains working properly to be good at math, right? And our brains live in our bodies.” Below, Vakharia talks through some tips and habits you can practice to keep your brain healthy and happy du...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
6 Resources to Jump-Start the School Year | Texas Instruments
... teachers out there, we are showing you the love too! Have you visited Science Nspired lately? We have added a new resource: Using Activities with an LMS to show you just how easy it is to incorporate TI activities into an LMS in your classroom! (YES Math Teachers, this is true for you as well! C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/tiresources
5 Study Tips from a Student #StudyGrammer | Texas Instruments
Handwritten notes neatly displayed. Carefully organized school accessories complete with color-coordinated pens and highlighters. And a desk propped right next to a window for plenty of light. All the makings of a “studygram” account created on Instagram. When Sophia from @girlmeetsdesk start...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-study-tips-from-a-student-studygrammer
The Integrated Medical Model
As NASA is designing a new spacecraft capable of taking humans into deep space, and with the future advent of commercial spaceflight, a deeper and better understanding of medical risk has become even more vital for maintaining spaceflight safety and health for humans.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-integrated-medical-model
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...out 40 other teachers from all around the U.S. It was my first exposure to a graphing calculator. We were provided several graphing calculators, but almost everyone preferred the TI-81 for the calculus topics over the two weeks. The instructors were Foley, Frank Demana, Ph.D., Bert Waits, Ph.D., ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
mathyoga
...e that idea of one person being in charge, you are all in this together. The math teachers and certified yoga instructors also suggest playing some calming music during the session to add a nice, soothing touch. To build on the social-emotional learning, you could have students write a positiv...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...Texas Instruments (TI) surprised the first winner of the contest, calculus teacher Glen Marr from Park Vista Community High School, just outside of Palm Beach, Florida. High school senior Faith Southwick, who is the first person in her school’s history to receive an appointment to the U.S. Naval ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
... powerful symbolic manipulation capabilities (figure 6). Another one of my favorite CAS algebra tools is “Solve.” The solve tool can solve almost any equation, for any variable in the equation, including a quadratic equation in general form (figure 7). Wow! While teachers migh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...t from a Chromebook™ notebook computer plus calculator mix in your classroom. Using screenshots As you create and assign activities through your LMS — such as Canvas or Google Classroom — consider the depth of exploration students can have using their own, dedicated graphing calculator. Now ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Leveling the Math Playing Field
..., at, or above grade-level based on arbitrary tests or scores, or even on their perceived ability level. These common practices make it difficult or almost impossible to shift into a higher track. This bias eliminates some students’ opportunities to even access grade-level math, much less higher-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
TICodesContestTips
... Students can code in TI-Basic using any TI graphing calculator. Students with a TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator can code in Python, a language almost every developer needs to learn. Step 2 Step two is to provide students with a project-building opportunity. We recommend filling out ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodescontesttips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... high-level view of the important mathematics for their grade or course. In the best of scenarios, these scope and sequence documents can feel overwhelming, and they are sometimes accompanied by the expectation that teachers cover a specific topic on a specific day. In this unprecedented year, st...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...ring her day job, she programs in C++ and prototypes R&D tools for automated systems. For the rest of her waking hours, she plays with electronics, films it, and publishes the videos along with her computer science tutorials on her YouTube channel: Estefannie Explains it All. Do you have a quest...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...udents learn. When Pennell is not teaching, he enjoys spending time with his wife and son. He has been married to Janet for 30 years, and his son is almost 12. Valentine’s Day is a time of love, and who doesn’t love math and Python? Have your students use Python to shoot cupid’s arrow through...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
World-Emoji-Day
...site called emojipedia.org — yes, an entire site dedicated to emojis. I looked to see how many preloaded emojis are on my current phone, and it said almost 4,000 emojis! Wait … what? Just think: You can use a new one every day for just under 11 years. And by the time you finish using all 4,000, w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...we are a married couple who recently celebrated their 25th anniversary and have been leading Teachers Teaching with Technology™ (T³™) Workshops for almost 20 years. This summer (like many other summers), we organized and led a two-day face-to-face (yay!) T³™ Summer Workshop “Leveraging the TI-84...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
...ingful programming content for mathematics and science ... and still having fun with all the graphing calculators and the accompanying toys. It’s almost time for winter break. How about some falling snow, karaoke and Python lists to help get you in that winter mood? “Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...new in the world of IB® mathematics! In addition to discussing the many changes to the IB® math curriculum, we have shared with the participants thoughts on the first round of exams in May 2021, including how to write the Mathematics Exploration IA, and the tips and tricks students can use with t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...king at the objectives and standards. I find it extremely helpful that they are already on the student documents. End-of-course projects We are almost halfway through the school year, and I can’t really imagine the end of the course yet. I’m still getting to know my students. However, it wil...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...up to NASA’s snuff, so expect what scientists and engineers call “noise” in the data you collect. It’s OK. In our tests, the washers we used exerted almost the same amount of force as the noise level on the force sensor. The noise will be accounted when you run the regression. That noise will sho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...ex traveled to Dallas where he visited with mathematicians and scientists at TI, sat in the cockpit of a flight simulator at Dallas’ Love Field and filmed his starring role in a special, aviation edition of STEM Behind Cool Careers -- STEM on the Fly. “My trip to Dallas was an amazing way to see ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly