Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...ing TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...ing TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... terminology for analyzing a sinusoidal function after a combination of transformations has been applied: period, phase shift, point of inflection, maximum, minimum. This is encouraged throughout the video series. Get started: Download the Quick Reference Guide In order to access all the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...t of a STEM classroom. My response is always the same: My students — our students today — are in competition for jobs in the marketplace that don’t exist yet! We are not just content deliverers. We must look to the future and plan the context of our classrooms for what will benefit our students ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...ing TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...e to the correct variable. #6 — If the user’s numbers are incorrect, display the sum and product of the user’s numbers and exit the while loop. #7 — Print the number of correct problems. Fig. 6 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...ing TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...dents will benefit if their teachers pare back the standard scope and sequence document to allow for more focused instruction around fewer topics, flexibility for students to make meaning of new content, and space for just-in-time support with prerequisite topics that may be unfinished learning f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...students collaborate about their ideas, but students who may need some help can talk to a peer to get the ideas flowing. This step also removes the anxiety of being called on in class. No matter which student you call on after this period, everyone should have something to share. Teacher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...down your sweet treats for a Pi Day of fun! --> 2: Have your pi and eat it, too! Have you heard of the Buffon’s needle problem? This problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Everybody loves Pi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...from being concerned with figuring out an answer, to thinking about different ways they can solve a problem. To me, what’s most important is being flexible in your thinking. How do you help your students learn difficult concepts? One of the best things I’ve heard is that if you're teaching so...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
... In the past, this has been the end for students, like Lillie. She and others simply had to stop learning mathematics because no graphing calculator existed that they could easily use. "This is the one tool that can do everything mathematically. Lillie now has equal access to the technology her c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...z. Two consecutive keys differ in frequency by a factor of 12√2. The note A1 is the lowest piano note with an integer frequency (55 Hz). Does there exist a piano note with integer frequency other than octave shifts of A1? Problem 5 | Football Your team is down 14 points with three minutes to go ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
... and the edges of the Touchpad for the arrows. Notice that the fraction result will be displayed in exact form if possible; to convert to the approximate decimal value, press ctrl then enter. And you can make use of the previous answer and previous entry History by up arrow to the desired expr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...2 +22X represents the height H of a ball in meters at time X seconds after it is tossed upward with an initial velocity of 22 meters per second. Approximately when does the ball hit the ground? A. after 4.0 seconds B. after 4.5 seconds C. after 5.0 seconds D. after 5.5 seconds 6. Substitute Num...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...(the mean number of wins out of 10,000 single Monty Hall simulations is 6,669.69 wins). In fact, the middle 50% of wins falls between approximately 6,640 wins and 6,700 wins. Calculation This is the last step in the instructional arc of teaching probability, and I think it...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...fish. We also thought that many ideas related to helping turtles and fish would mean combining electronics with water, which would increase the complexity of whatever we decided to build, and given the rapid prototyping nature of this contest, that might be an issue. (Brookwood BITES) Q: Wha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...es and marigolds happily growing thanks to the automatic watering system. TI also offers a range of water-related activities, of varying complexities. Check out some of these water-related activities on the Science Nspired page. Remember, World Water Day is coming, so get those lessons rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
... them select their own groups on test review day. When it is warranted, I follow up with individual students privately as well. This simple and flexible framework for class evaluations works very well for me and my students. It creates an environment that promotes individual reflection, suppor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...nts’ data points — yet another way to find pi! 2: Have your Pi and eat it, too! Have you heard of the Buffon’s needle problem? This problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks?!? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Be rational, get...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/waystocelebratepi
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...mple 2 (integration and area under a curve) The following diagram gives some of the graph g(x)=(4-2x)(3+x). The shaded region A is bounded by the x-axis, y-axis, and the graph of g. (a) Write down the integral for the area of region A. (b) Find the area of region A. The three points ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
Bring awareness to the many career options that exist in the field of engineering by challenging your students to solve the problems listed below. They will have fun, work together, and learn about different engineering fields that use science every day. 1. Environmental Engineering – The Garba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...he washers is the dependent variable and the downward force on the force sensor is the independent variable. The slope of the regression line is approximately 9.8 – which you will recognize from your physics classes as the gravitational constant, g. So all that time we spend telling students that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...nned activities that are part of our required curriculum or scope/sequence from our district. That’s where summer camps come into the picture. The flexibility of summer yields the perfect chance to continue and/or accelerate learning for our students. If you, your school or your district, are con...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps