Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Daniel Wilkie
... 11th-12th grade TEACHES WHERE: Woodmont High School in Greenville, South Carolina TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 23 years Daniel in his own words: Why did you become a teacher? I had a couple of good role models when I was going through high school math classes, especially when I was a sophomor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/teacherofthemonth
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...tion translates “up” k units and if y = f(x + k), a function translates “left” k units. However, many students leave the investigation puzzled as to why in one instance “+ k” results in a positive movement, up, and in the other instance, “+ k” results in a negative movement, left. CAS to the resc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Jessica Kohout
...CHES WHAT: Biology, AP and regular TEACHES WHERE: Reservoir High School, Fulton, Maryland TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 14 years Jessica in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I didn't realize that I wanted to be a teacher until my senior year of college, when I got an internship in the Nation...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/teacher-of-the-month
You only get one “first day of school” – use it wisely
... their thoughts about math. To give them a little more structure, they select a picture from a page of pics I supply them. Their assignment: explain why they chose a particular picture and how it represents their feelings about mathematics. Some of the pictures show struggle, others show triumph ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/firstday
The Long Road to My STEM Career
...erably with a low F! Eventually, I recovered, and in high school I applied to join an exchange program to the U.S. I landed in Alabama. Culturally, physically, psychologically, I could not have been further from home. But I stayed in Alabama to get my undergrad and graduate degrees in psychology...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...ce. The first thing we expect students to do is to decide what information they need to know and ask in order to answer this question (and others). Why do it this way? By asking for the necessary information, students have already begun to solve the problem. Students should ask these questions: ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...s. 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) = 5/8, they immediately think that the adjacent side is 5, and the hypotenuse is length 8. This is a supe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
ICYMI: Top 10 Webinars of 2019
...he grade levels to prep for AP® Calculus. Something Old, Something New With the TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator Hosted by Johnny Ashurst and Kathy Hale In this webinar, the presenters promote strategies that connect some frequently overlooked TI-84 Plus CE capabilities with students’ analy...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019webinars
A case for handheld graphing calculators
...2 are not one-to-one, meaning the majority of students don’t have a device to use an online graphing calculator in class.* There are several reasons why. When you add up the costs of hardware, IT infrastructure, bandwidth and device management, the overhead for implementing this type of solution ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/may/why-graphing-calculators-add-up
Engineers who code
...eded for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers. Get to know a few TI engineers who learned to code on their calculator and why they would encourage today’s students to learn how to code. Pedro Contreras Jr. Evan Shultz Kimberly Gonzales Mike Prigden ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/april/engineers-who-code
Emily's conference experience
Emily Calandrelli explains why she loves the T³™ International Conference. Emily Calandrelli explains why she loves the T³™ International Conference. Emily's conference experience Texas Instruments Emily's conference experience website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/april/emily-callindrelli
STEM Projects: Exploring the Heartbeat | Texas Instruments
...ting the code, and setting up the heart to show both the flow of blood (LEDs) and calculating the heart rate, I wanted them to do some research on arrhythmias or when the heart does not beat as expected. The students researched the different types and causes of arrhythmia, put together a presenta...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/heartbeat-of-stem
Prime Summer Reading for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
... advice on how to modify the 14 practices from the first book for 12 different settings. The settings include: Synchronous/asynchronous virtual and hybrid settings Fixed seating Small groups Tutoring Independent learning Homeschooling And more “Routines for Reasoning: Fostering...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...gh School, Crystal Lake, Illinois Objective: Students were given a drawing of half of an animal face (example: elephant and wolf), and they had to physically measure the lengths and interior angles of that half-drawn face. They then had to code that to scale on the Rover to recreate the drawing...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/using-robotics-to-teach-math
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
Most students instinctively know already that for each consecutive bounce, a ball will reach slightly less height than in the bounce before. They may have even explored the mathematical model that describes how the height decreases for a series of bounces, like the one shown in Figure 1. In p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Top 6 calculator functions to know for AP® Statistics | TI
...g what type procedure: When you see the terms “provide evidence” or “significant,” these are indications that you are being asked to test a pair of hypotheses. If the question says “estimate” or “confidence,” this gives an indication that an interval is appropriate to answer the question. Be ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/top-6-calculator-functions-ap-statistics
AP® Calculus Resources
... *NEW/UPDATED Binomial Expansion Students use their own birthday, and the current date, to determine the equation for their physical, emotional and intellectual cycles according to the study of biorhythms. Biorhythms This lesson involves comparing th...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities
Applications and Interpretation
... *NEW/UPDATED Binomial Expansion Students use their own birthday, and the current date, to determine the equation for their physical, emotional and intellectual cycles according to the study of biorhythms. Biorhythms This lesson involves comparing th...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Tim Collier
...calculus and algebra III TEACHES WHERE: McAlester High School in McAlester, Oklahoma TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 31 years Tim in his own words: Why did you become a teacher? The short answer is that teachers are the people in my life who have made the biggest impact on me. They’re the ones w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/february/teacherofthemonth
Graphing Calculators Are Now Approved for the AP® Biology Exam, but What Else Can I Do With Them?
...here, they can generate reports using screen captures of the data analysis they performed. TI graphing calculators are permitted on all of the AP® Physics exams, AP® Chemistry exam, and now the AP® Biology exam. Take full advantage of these tools in the classroom, lab and field to help students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/april/graphingcalculatorsapproved
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Stacy Thibodeaux
...S WHAT: Chemistry TEACHES WHERE: Southside High School in Youngsville, Louisiana TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 18 years Stacy in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? In college, I was a pre-med major who wanted to be a doctor. My anatomy and physiology teacher suggested that I help t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/april/teacherofthemonth
Building a Band With Famous Mathematicians
...rd said. Euclid lays down the band’s beat because his algorithm for distributing a certain number of objects over a certain number of spaces creates rhythmic patterns, as found in Elvis Presley’s American rockabilly standard, “Hound Dog.” And the Fibonacci sequence shows up in the keys of a piano...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/june/music-in-math
Analysis and Approaches
... *NEW/UPDATED Binomial Expansion Students use their own birthday, and the current date, to determine the equation for their physical, emotional and intellectual cycles according to the study of biorhythms. Biorhythms This lesson involves comparing th...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches
Calculus + Graphing Calculator = More Teachable Moments
...ion was not on a blackboard graph that the teacher had drawn, but on a graph that they had produced, exhibiting a feature that was surprising and worthy of explanation. Was this a machine bug or was there a mathematical explanation that would make sense of this unexpected phenomenon? I realized t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/september/calculascalcs
Madness in March Underscores the “M” in STEM
...cil of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference, teachers taught teachers through concrete examples of how they’re getting students hooked on STEM. Why do all these discussions around a quality STEM education for our kids matter? Job opportunities aside, it’s because we live in a world that does...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/mathmadness