You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...dards. Each new product or feature requires extensive research and feedback from teachers. We have to be certain that we think of everything when designing technology for the classroom. And there’s a lot to think through: from finding ways to conduct real-time assessment by wirelessly sending qui...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
... in solving a real-world STEM problem. We launched an after-school club in which students could get hands-on experience in coding and engineering design using the new TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board. Working with faculty and students from the University of Texas at Dallas, we developed...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
Middle school gifted and talented students at Travis Vanguard Academy in Dallas were among the first in the world to get their hands on Texas instruments’ first robot for the classroom, the TI-Innovator™ Rover. Engineers at TI designed the robotic car, best known as Rover, to help middle and hig...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
... Hollywood science activity, students will investigate chemistry and life sciences principles, observe processes such as titration, and engage in designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing their hypotheses. Grab your TI-Nspire™ CX handheld and download the files for your students. Wan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
NASA and TI are excited to announce the design challenge winning team. A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students fro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...ater is a good way to baseline your conductivity sensor since distilled water should be nearly free of electrolytes. From there you can test your design with known concentrations of salt solutions to see how accurate your sensor is. Designing a conductivity sensor When designing your sensor,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
roboticsweek2021
...r the years there were numerous mergers and acquisitions. Among the 26 manufacturers, only six U.S. companies have not been acquired by other or foreign companies and, fun fact, finding their data sheets was easier. There were also some fascinating nuggets of information about these students t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
While the school year may be coming to an end, our new contest aimed at spreading the love of math is just getting started. Through September, we’re asking people across the country to recognize the parents, teachers and mentors who inspired their passion for numbers for a chance to grant them a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...: Emily Kraus has taught math in grades three through eight in Austin, Texas. She is the creator of Kraus Math®, which provides teachers with TEKS-aligned and STAAR® test-prep resources. Check out her website at www.krausmath.com, or follow her on Instagram @krausmath. It is crucial to establish...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...ends forever. Ms. Meinke teaches AP Calculus AB, and Mr. O teaches AP Calculus BC. They have the chance to collaborate often, practice vertical alignment and disagree on notation. “We need more educators like him — people willing to fight for change, love math with all their heart, and stand...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...oded, students can play their games as warmups, while waiting for others to complete a quiz, as part of class competitions, or even as a homework assignment. I’ve had students who won’t do an ounce of homework walk into class the next day, all of sudden excited and motivated to show me their high...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...ics. One concept my students struggle with in algebra I and II is the number of solutions to a quadratic equation in the form x2=a. My students recognize that to solve for x they need to take the square root of each side, but they struggle to realize there will be two solutions, and the radical...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...ideas on how to get the most from a Chromebook™ notebook computer plus calculator mix in your classroom. Using screenshots As you create and assign activities through your LMS — such as Canvas or Google Classroom — consider the depth of exploration students can have using their own, dedicate...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...ystem Engineer at Texas Instruments and a graduate of Texas A&M University. She joined TI in 2018 and is currently responsible for the electrical design, electrical maintenance, project management, capacity/demand and power distribution for the DFAB/South Building at TI headquarters. Help get i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...Codes Contest. Never before have we had a group of students, who have never met in person, collaborate in different states to brainstorm an idea, design and build their prototype, and create a video explanation. They plan to donate their TI prizes to continue STEM learning in their respective hig...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...s, and it is a great lesson for students to learn about the order in which commands (and thus colors) are executed in order to obtain their final design. The symmetry of the three diamonds in the flag create an opportunity to apply a transformation to the middle diamond in order to place the othe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...em get excited about learning programming and math during the T³™ International Conference. “This doesn’t happen to me a lot, so it is nice to be recognized for this,” said Nate. AP® is a trademark registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...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 already in progress,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...Squad has put together a selection of fun and simple activities that introduce students of all ages to STEM, coding and the basics of engineering design. For example, in some cities, students have programmed their TI-Innovator™ Rovers to do choreographed dances. We’ve seen students program their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...st Texas Cookie Box Creations contest. The Cookie Box Creations contest teams up middle and high school girls with architects and engineers, in a design contest to transform Girl Scout cookie boxes into free-standing structures. Using STEM elements, this annual activity challenges girls to devel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... students discover the relationship between the slope, y-intercept and the equation of a line and how to graph the line. Students should recognize that the y-intercept is always the constant being added (or subtracted) to the term that contains x when solved for y. Also, notice how color...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
... my limited knowledge, and we learned together. Their successful smiles and “yahoos” when they determined their errors, solved their problems and designed their own projects were contagious. As a result, I wrote several grants to purchase TI-Innovator™ Hubs, I/O and breadboard kits, as well as a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...host of Dead Man’s Curve. Ask students to analyze the science to decide if there’s even a ghost of a chance that a ghost is haunting the highway. Designed to complement middle school physical science and high school physics, the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve engages students in explorations of electr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...e. This game will generate sequences of light colors using the colors magenta, teal and yellow. Each color will have an assigned frequency. This may be what the code ultimately looks like (figure 18). #1 — Import new ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
... This allows us to work on my next recommendation: Build the relationships you have with your students and their families. As educators, we all recognize that relationships are the most important aspect of our work. The global pandemic has heightened the importance of relationships, as our stud...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips