Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...xas Instruments is highly invested in increasing students’ STEM competencies, especially as we look to hire within our local talent pool. We provided funding to Girl Scouts to get more girls actively engaged in STEM, and they created the STEM Center of Excellence in Dallas to provide girls with a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...-solving, troubleshooting and teamwork. Coding and programming in a STEM classroom covers all of the skills students need to learn, and they can have fun doing it. Using TI’s 10 Minutes of Code is a time-saving, tried-and-true way to start this process in your classroom. Happy Computer Science W...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...principles for math learning this year. We will get through this, and will be better educators for it on the other end. About the author: Joanie Funderburk has over 30 years of experience as a math educator, including nearly 20 years as a high school math teacher and ten years in math leader...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...ion are available as a part of this BulleTIn Board post. I am also watching the YouTube lessons supported by College Board®. Also, still find fun things to do with students that you would normally do in the classroom that build relationships and unity. It can be as simple as playing a vid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
... say, “I hate math.” But, they really do love when they understand – and that you make the effort to help them get it! #2– Math teachers make math fun! Math teachers know how to ÷ and conquer their math class to make it the life of the party! #3 – Math Teachers get to know their students. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
To STEM and Beyond!
... again, and this year we are all back full time. Last year, I started this little adventure with only one section of 23 students. Word got out on the fun we were having, and this year I have two sections with a total of 53 students! Some students have coding experiences from middle school or on t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
Any day is a better day with a little π (pi). Let’s celebrate Pi Day with some fun, meaningful activities that show students how the mathematical constant shows up in real life. 1: Happy Pi Day Activity Worksheets Choose from two quick-start activities; Ready-made Pi or Homemade Pi. In thes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...her. I want to foster collaboration, creativity and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects into the content is very easy and fun for students. Editable student and teacher documents are provided, and some even have videos to help teachers starting out. Student testi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...ano notes with integer frequency must be an A note in some octave. Problem 5 Solution: This is a famous example of decision making in football (and a fun application of the quadratic formula). The key is that because there is so little time left, if the opponent scores, the game is over. If you d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...ics, geometry, etc. The center of the keypad has numerical keys and operation keys, as well as the very important enter key. Notice that trigonometry functions are all found in one key, trig. The bottom section of the keypad has alphabetical keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ternet, going to more conferences and looking at what others are doing in the classroom. I try to soak in every idea that comes my way! What are some fun or unique ways you help your students learn? I've always loved using technology in the classroom, because teaching is so much more than lectur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...women to pursue careers in engineering. Recently, Marie was a panelist at an International Women’s Day event and “Girls and Code, Montreal Movement”. Fun fact: English is not her first language, it’s French! Estefannie of @estefanniegg Estefannie is an embedded apps software engineering lead (ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...e represented the mathematician formerly known as Fibonacci! “Finding Fibo!” 3. Now, the art! This spiral is wonderful, and it becomes more fun when you unleash students’ creative artistic abilities. Two images that I found were the Fibonacci elephant and the Fibonacci parrot. Makes you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
..., you’re not working on hardware that will make it onto the final robot, but it’s still useful. (Brookwood BITES) Do it with friends and have fun with the building and coding. (NaviGator) PARTICIPATE. (NaviGator) I would say that it’s best to understand that the project do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...s to be put aside when the focus is teaching students about test-prep strategies. To level the playing field for all students, we can teach them some approaches to get problems correct that they might not otherwise be able to solve using traditional methods. Beth, one of the participants, pick...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...students and your sub. Check out these three featured video resources for your substitute teacher to use when you’re away 1. Families of Functions If your students are learning how to graph parent functions, TI’s Families of Functions is the go-to video resource for your s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...n an ongoing learning experience, and one I’d like to share more about with you! As podcast fans ourselves, we thought it would be interesting and fun to put our discussions out into the world in the form of a podcast, providing anytime, anywhere access to ideas, questions and considerations f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...what would it take to make the U.S. flag? (Warning: You might need some patience to go with your patriotism!) Tip: You can use both ti_draw functions (to make the red, white and blue rectangles) and Turtle functions (to make the stars) in the same program. Here’s some Turtle code that m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...hange my lesson plan and bring in new materials and activities to help explain the same concept in a different way until they understand it. What are fun or unique ways you teach your students? By nature I’m a designer, I love designing lesson plans or things. I love anything that has open-ended ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...students’ 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/waystocelebratepi
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...taking an IB® exam, we also need to review the calculator polices. Each calculator is only allowed to do so much for a student, therefore some of the functions on the handhelds are restricted and must be turned off. TI calculators can be put in Press-to-Test mode that will do this without much ef...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...ally get a “yes” from their intended target. Puppies, doughnuts, balloons, sky writing, and more … but yes, even calculators are being used to make a fun — and unique — promposal to get a “yes”, and maybe even a giggle too. I mean, who can say no to a pretty little calculator screen? Let’s take...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...ger in my classroom this year. There are eight main topics. The topics are in no particular order. Meaning, you could teach Loops before Lists and Functions after Loops. You choose the order that makes sense to you. Python lessons by topic on TI’s computer science resources website. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...ional statements ( If/Then), Loops (For, While), you know, the fun stuff! This really is my favorite part about programming -- the same logic usually applies across all languages. The syntax is the only thing that changes from one programming language to another, so, once you’ve mastered TI-Basic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
... on what actually matters in helping all students learn mathematics. “This is definitely one of my favorite math ed publications ever.” — Joanie Funderburk “One on One 101: The Art of Inspired & Effective Individualized Instruction” by Robert Ahdoot Communicating effectivel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list