6 Tips for Navigating the First Week | Texas Instruments
... make the expectations clear to the students. For example, I would not allow students to have their cell phones out in my classroom. In fact, a Rutgers University–New Brunswick study published by “Educational Psychology” connects in-class cellphone use with lower test scores. Students are fre...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/6-great-tips-first-week-of-school
Calculated Collection | Texas Instruments
...calculus Teaching about compound interest is so useful... It applies to bank accounts, credit card annual percentage rates (APR), car payments, mortgage payments and more. This activity addresses how to calculate payments for purchasing a car and gives students practice using the TVM Solver...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/calculated-collection
Two Hot, Two Cold
In this activity, students collect both Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature data for several water samples of varying temperatures. They use the data to find a conversion equation that will calculate the Fahrenheit temperature for any given Celsius temperature.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/two-hot-two-cold
2023 Virtual T3IC | Education Conference | Texas Instruments
...rporating lessons designed to increase students’ knowledge of personal finance. Using the Finance App, students can analyze data related to loans, mortgages, investments and credit card options, calculate an amortization schedule to display and graph outstanding loan balances, and explore other i...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/virtual-t3-international-conference-2023
Inverse of Two Temps
Students find a conversion equation that will calculate the corresponding Celsius temperature for any given Fahrenheit temperature. Students learn to graph scatter plots, analyze and graph linear equations, compute and model slope, derive and apply a conversion equation, and analyze inverse relat...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inverse-of-two-temps
Do You Have a Temperature? - TI-83
In this activity, students represent and analyze climate data. They use linear regressions to understand the relationship between temperatures measured in the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales and examine conversion factors.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/do-you-have-a-temperature--ti83
How Hot Is It?
Students who are familiar with the two most common standards of measuring temperature learn how to reliably convert from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit. Students also see how order of operations is crucial in an equation, through discussion and data entry on the calculator.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-hot-is-it
TI-30X IIB / TI-30X IIS Guide for Teachers
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TI-34 MultiView™ Guide for Teachers
6696 /scientific/34mvtg.dcr EN TI-34 MultiView™ Guide for Teachers TI-34 MultiView™ Guide for Teachers 34mvtg 34mvtg websitehttps://education.ti.com/en/guidebook/details/en/F96B6159C1B44CA29477AC820A8DB6AB/34mvtg
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
... at different paces. You may need to provide additional support to students who fall behind or additional challenges to those who complete their work ahead of others. Think about ways to make the project more challenging by changing the parameters or by asking for refinement of the design. One ch...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...ts relevant to kids. With 10 stops to date, in cities from the east coast to the west coast, the STEM Squad has been showing students from elementary school through high school how to get started with coding and inspire innovation. The STEM Squad from Texas Instruments is bringing fun, inter...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...nts rose to the challenge with very little coding experience, as well as my limited knowledge, and we learned together. Their successful smiles and “yahoos” when they determined their errors, solved their problems and designed their own projects were contagious. As a result, I wrote several grant...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
.... Presenter, Corey Boby, engaging with participants during the workshop. Thanks to support from Texas Instruments and the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts Director Corey Alderdice, 27 teachers from Arkansas and Louisiana spent two days digging into the AC...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...etention of historically underrepresented K–12 youth in STEM fields. Established as a joint venture in 1993 between NASA Glenn Research Center and Cuyahoga Community College, the project grew from a single mobile AEL to a national organization, now called NASA MUREP MAA, and continues to improve ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...e with my students while still moving the entire class forward. With Computer Science Education Week just around the corner, the timing is right! Go ahead, explore the TI resources at your own pace. Note: Special thanks to the following educators who helped make this site happen: Sarah Baugu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...y what she is doing,” said Kachur. “Her first exposure to coding was on the TI-Nspire and she's really getting it. It’s just great to watch.” Junior Jahnai Harley said, “I joined the Coding Club because I wanted to learn more about computer science and thought it'd be cool to learn things before ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...re the NCTM Mathematics Teaching Practices. It’s a win-win! A great activity to get started with data collection is Skills of Science: Celsius to Fahrenheit activity. Students use a Vernier EasyTemp® USB temperature sensor and a TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator to collect temperature data,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
...les, student activity pages, pre-assignment documents, and teacher notes and solutions to get started on the activity. All can be downloaded here. Go ahead, and get your students in the game! (You can also watch the on-demand webinar where we introduced this activity.) “Ice Cream, Cool Science”...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Oklahoma Students Make Their Mark Learning to Program with Rover
John Honeycutt, the only science teacher at Keota High School in rural Oklahoma started the semester determined to develop his students’ leadership skills. He assigned the junior class a special project where they would work in pairs on a “proof of concept” that they would later demonstrate to t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/seeroverdraw
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...ive and engaging: 1. Bring math and science concepts to life. Robots are very helpful in teaching ideas in geometry and introductory algebra. The aha! moment when a student realizes why their robot is not driving a triangle even though they specified a turn of 60 degrees is priceless! This is...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
You only get one “first day of school” – use it wisely
...ing I wanted to do on the first day was to put my students to sleep! But, with a little help from our school’s awesome librarian, I discovered a Deborah Diesen book, “The Pout – Pout Fish Goes to School.” She helped me check out the eBook so that I could project it on my classroom screen and rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/firstday
Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School
...s. New research connects in-class cellphone and laptop use with lower test scores: Cellphone Distraction in the Classroom Can Lead to Lower Grades, Rutgers Study Finds. They can get their cell phones out, and check their Instagram feed, after the bell rings. My advice, practice these routines ear...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/first_week_tips
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...tough, but I think it uncovers a misunderstanding that many students have when working with trig ratios. Here it is: When students learn SohCahToa they are told that the “o” stands for opposite side, “a” for the adjacent side, and “h” for the hypotenuse. So, when students see cos(D) = 5...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
5 Springtime Math Resources for Teachers | Texas Instruments
...s Calculator reminder posters Teacher resources 1. It’s a good day to decorate with math We just want to give a “sprout out” to @misscraftymathteacher and her fabulous collections of math board decor freebies! Check out some of Kathleen’s free downloads on her TPT store. You ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/fresh-spring-ideas
Madness in March Underscores the “M” in STEM
...d ways to make math and science relatable and inspiring to students. Without this, we will remain in a STEM crisis. Congratulating Connie Schrock, outgoing president of NCSM, on her bold leadership in math education during the NCSM conference that focused on making waves of positive change for s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/mathmadness