Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
Teachers are always keeping an eye out for stimulating activities that can get students more involved in their lessons. With Halloween just around the corner, these crowd-pleasing activities offer great opportunities to turn class time into good, ghoulish fun — while still delivering instruction...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
Texas Instruments (TI) teamed up with NASA earlier this year to host the TI Codes Contest, where students could compete in teams to put their programming, problem-solving and creativity into practice in a space-themed challenge. We asked students to think of ways to improve a process or product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
... Florida who continues to excel despite her entire household coming down with COVID-19 over the summer and losing her father to the virus just four days after Father’s Day. “It was then that I felt like my world was falling apart. And in a way, it did,” said Calderon. Calderon’s father, David ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
... drive a robot alongside Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas CEO, Jennifer Bartkowski. Troops interested in expanding their STEM programming in new ways will be assigned an Educational Technology Consultant that can brainstorm with them on ways to achieve a badge, help them complete a badge alrea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...s were already using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator in our science classrooms for calculations, graphing, data collection and mathematical analysis of that data. What if I added some coding and programming into the classroom too? I started with TI’s 10 Minutes of Code, Units 1–5. These uni...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
... identity and beliefs as learners. Prioritize the most important mathematics. Getting through all the math content of a grade or course has always been a challenge, but with the pandemic, the pressure to teach everything is through the roof. Instead of worrying about everything, commit to t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
The start of a new school year has always been my favorite time of year. The freshness, anticipation and possibilities energize and excite me as I reconnect with colleagues and build relationships with new students and families. This year, though, educators are also facing the impact of a global ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...xpect from your students from beginning to end. No more raising hands — randomize how you call on students There are so many ways to diversify how you call on your kids: popsicle sticks, randomization apps or simply following a pattern (I go down the row of students). This ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...ol that many already use in their math and science classes. This gives anyone, especially girls, a friendly introduction to coding. There are three ways that Girl Scouts can earn the badge using the resources we have created: Self-paced. They can grab their TI calculator and start following ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...nd L’Hospital’s Rule Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. 26: Implicit Differentiation Problem Set // Solution Set Nov. 9: Function Analysis With Graphical Stems Problem Set // Solution Set Nov. 30: FTC (Fundamental Theorem of Calculus) Problem Set // Solution Set --> ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
... heart. It will definitely remind you why you work tirelessly day-in-and-day-out to get your students excited about math. Here are our top 5 takeaways: #1 – Math teachers change students’ perceptions of math! You might hear your students say, “I hate math.” But, they really do love when they u...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
To STEM and Beyond!
...hrough a problem. This is what computer science and STEM offers our students. Being a chemistry teacher, my programming background knowledge and skills were limited to a Fortran programming class way back in my undergraduate program. I was first introduced to TI technology for my chemistry clas...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...r when it comes to your cells. And, don't forget to check out the new “P³ — Puppies, Probability and Pi” "World of Pi" webinar for additional ways TI technology can be used to explore pi in relatable way for students! Another few helpful resource to check out for activity ideas is the "Math...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
... teachers will spend as much as three weeks on review, because of summer learning loss. The good news – your friends at TI have come up with five ways to help keep students’ STEM skills sharp this summer, and we’re sharing them with you: #1. Meet the “STEM Squad” Starting now through September...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...r is given a digit, that is its digit throughout the equation (if you set O to be 3 in YOU, it is also 3 in LOVE). Problem 4 | Music There are 88 keys on a piano, with the lowest note being A0, with a frequency of 27.5 Hertz. Two consecutive keys differ in frequency by a factor of 12√2. The no...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...om routines. In my world, the first day of class is only 25 minutes―not much time to take roll and get to know students. I have tried a variety of ways to put students into assigned seats the first week of school. Compared to how I assign seats after the first unit test, my methods for those fir...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...rtment began to think seriously about these questions. Our work began to revolve around a quote shared with us by Doug Roberts, our T³™ in-classroom systemic coach. He said: “My definition of a good teacher has since changed from ‘one who explains things so well that students understand’ to ‘one ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
As a chemistry teacher, I have grown to love the inclusion of real-world data collection and analysis in my classroom instruction. Chemistry is a difficult subject for most students to grasp because of the invisible nature of atoms and molecules. Having students collect data on the chemical phen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
The Heartbeat of STEM
... of blood through the heart. And just in time for Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month! As an Advanced Placement biology teacher, I don’t always have the time to do as much STEM integration as I like. However, when the AP® exams are over, I utilize as many of the STEM projects as possible...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...r is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door which has a goat. He then says to you, “Do you want to switch your pick to the unopened door?” Is it to your advantage to switch your choice? ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...ect was based off of a motive that we had to increase the amount of time sleeping. (NaviGator) We bounced ideas off of each other for a few days until we eventually decided between two. We did a poll with the whole school which ended with our final idea as the result. (Stiles Middle Schoo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...at 40% of the Earth’s population faces extreme water scarcity. Population growth and climatic shifts are placing additional pressure on agricultural systems, pressure that is tapping a rapidly dwindling groundwater supply. With this in mind, and eager to learn more about the operation of our scho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
The summer of 2020 was filled with uncertainty. Schools had just wrapped up a year disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and summer programming was not a high priority for most school districts. Crystal R. Bishop, a STEM education coordinator at West Virginia State University, wanted to make sur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...nce working together at TI. Although we don’t consider ourselves to be experts in teaching math, Curtis and I have learned a lot from our classroom days, our time supporting educators across the country with professional learning, and the work we do with educators who use or want to use TI techno...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...this is what I want to do, this is it. I am just as excited to teach 38 years later. What advice would you give to your first-year teaching self? Always be over-prepared and find out what your students need as you go along. Develop a means to figure out where they are, so you can alter your lesso...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth