Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...include a video consultation with a team of TI experts who answer questions and provide valuable feedback to the teams about their design. Students become immersed in a complete product design experience — an incredibly valuable experience from a real-world perspective. The engineering ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...er or later, but now you can make it easy to keep your students learning key math concepts while you’re away. Bookmark this webpage for when the time comes, and take advantage of these video resources to help make things easier on you and your sub. About the author: Mark Watson is the Sen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...to the customer’s design constraints. This easy on-ramp freed kids to explore questions about plant physiology and consider how dry the soil should become (and how quickly that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
... of the configuration where students wrote code on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator was that they didn’t need to switch applications on their computers between listening to the instruction and writing their programs. They also did not need to install any applications on their home PCs. An...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...w can I (or my students) make my own? Well, these examples are meant to inspire and motivate you and your students to get creative with those little computers. These two projects involving balloons and buttons have a lot of common features: Both use a graphical display Both utilize...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...e than usual. I didn’t even know that was possible! Meet Alex Livingston, a sophomore at Tech Valley High School in Albany, New York and an aspiring commercial airline pilot. The 15-year-old submitted a photo showing how he uses math and science regularly as a volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
In this post, we will go through a few introductory steps to help you get started writing simple TI-Basic programs on your TI-Nspire CX handheld. We will use a familiar mathematical procedure – computing the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few cod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...amily of graphing calculators to leverage when taking the ACT. There are 60 questions on the math section of the ACT and you only have 60 minutes to complete them. The TI-84 Plus graphing calculator is allowed during the entire portion of the math section of the ACT.* The questions get more diff...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
Python is now on the TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator. As a computer science teacher myself, what does this mean for my students? What are your first thoughts? When I first heard this, I wondered, “How is this different from programming Python on other platforms? How could this benefit my...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...elebrate meeting key milestones, incorporate lessons learned and, most importantly, be willing to turn the wheel as you steer your way toward a successful school year. Connect with Colleagues Social distancing can create feelings of loneliness and isolation, but there’s a large and friendly com...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
... In this example, we reach equilibrium one round earlier than in the last case and find that there are different amounts of reactants and products compared to the first case. Here’s where it gets really good. We calculate the ratio of products to reactants in each round for each simulation, an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...vides hints and references to useful resources such as TI’s Path to STEM Projects to learn the engineering and coding skills they’ll need to be successful in the construction of the sensor. If students are still stuck, they’ll have access to the TI STEM Team at STEM-Team@ti.com for help in the us...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators to the Computer.
Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators to the Computer. Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators to the Computer. global Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/data-collection-accessories/general-information/11889
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
Four seconds left in the big game, and the score is 27-28 — you’re behind. A 50-yard field goal wins the game. Your task is to use a mathematical model to demonstrate kicking a field goal to win the game. Wait … are you more into the celebration and all the hoopla (I mean all those snacks and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Oklahoma Students Make Their Mark Learning to Program with Rover
...uniors lead Keota third graders through the program that uses Rover to draw a robot. Much to the excitement of teachers and students, The Oklahoma Welcome, a local newspaper, wrote a news story the event, giving the students some well-deserved recognition: Keota students get hands-on with new TI-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/seeroverdraw
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...tudents will build, code and test a working speaker. The speaker is built with a plastic or foam cup , a magnet, iron nail, soda straw and breadboard components. TI can loan you this project to try with your students if you’d like. Contact the TI STEM Team at STEM-Team@ti.com if you’d like to bor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
...and get_mouse() functions as seen in the right image. If the key pressed is the “center” key (that’s the center of the touchpad or a mouse-click on a computer), then x, y = get_mouse() is used to get the current mouse position on the screen (in default coordinates regardless of any window settin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
...perhaps teach you a thing or two about your class. But with many schools across the country starting virtually, getting to know your students, with a computer screen between you and them, has its challenges. For starters, a virtual setup makes it harder to read students’ facial expressions, and i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
Calculus connoisseurs Tom Dick and Steve Kokoska are ready to call the Monday night action! For the 2021–22 school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has once again teamed up with former AP® Calculus Chief Reader Steve Kokoska and former Test Development committee member Tom Dick to provide l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus
AP® Precalculus Resources Teachers Love | Texas Instruments
...chool. Expand opportunities for students to earn college credits. Prepare a pathway for more students into STEM fields. During my training to become an AP® Precalculus consultant, many of the topics stood out as excellent preparation for both math and science courses in higher education. Di...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/ap-precalculus-resources-teachers-will-love
Using TI-Nspire™ Technology To Creatively Solve ACT® Math Problems
... CX graphing calculator, you can graph each answer choice without solving the equations for y (this saves a ton of time). How? By using the Relations command on a graphs page. Another great method is to use the Such That command on TI-Nspire™ technology to substitute numbers into the equat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/actmathproblems
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...t reply, “Oh, you don’t need to know that.” If the students fail to ask the necessary questions, should we supply that information anyway? We don’t recommend that. Eventually students will ask for the necessary information. We want this to be as close to a real-world application problem as possib...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
... and available on demand. Watch recordings on your schedule and at your own pace. After finishing a webinar, don’t forget to print a certificate of completion. This may be accepted at your school or district for continuing education credit. Introducing the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
5 Springtime Math Resources for Teachers | Texas Instruments
... Try this: Print and laminate your decor items and save them for later in a binder or folder for easy set up all year long. What new combinations of math fun will you create? 2. Bring math to life with piecewise worksheets What’s bet...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/fresh-spring-ideas
STEM Projects: Exploring the Heartbeat | Texas Instruments
...d write a simple program to control the model. The activities available from TI STEM resources offer students different challenges that help them become more and more familiar with programming. The easy-to-use, menu-based system built into TI graphing calculators helps guide them through and se...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/heartbeat-of-stem