Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...hem complete a badge already in progress, or simply create a fun, engaging STEM event, like our STEM Squad. We will do our best to support requests large and small. For example, this April, my colleague, Beth Smith, will help Girl Scouts of West Central Florida earn their Coding Basics badge by...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
... calculator, students program their robotic vehicles to drive to different places in Math-hattan, like a football stadium, the park or an electric charging station. Talk about a crash course in programming! Most of the kids have no prior experience and leave as confident programmers. “It’s not re...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
... can’t see. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and Texas Instruments (TI) and the TI Foundation are partnering to change that. As a company comprised largely of engineers, Texas Instruments is highly invested in increasing students’ STEM competencies, especially as we look to hire within our local ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...e is essential for getting the most out of this video resource. It contains direct links to the YouTube videos for every function and transformation organized by parent function, saving you and your students time. This is very effective in planning investigations as it also includes a listing of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
It’s Computer Science Education Week, an annual event for partners and educators to come together and encourage students to try computer science. In 2015, I was introduced to coding with students when I became part of an after-school organization with a team of teachers, students and professi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
...registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. About the author: Curtis Brown currently works as the Math Segment manager at Texas Instruments. He taught mathematics and AP® Statistic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... How do you wrap back around to A? The modulus function “%” will let us wrap back around to A. We need anything larger than Z or 90 to go back to 65. Otherwise, you’ll end up with symbols such as the “]” as seen in the shell. For example, 3 past Z, should be C....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...ink about teaching and learning math, some foundational ideas should come first. I’ll echo what flight attendants remind us during the review of emergency procedures before a flight: “Secure your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” In other words, take care of yourself first. Many teacher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
... their exam. Make sure students know what day it is today and every day up to the day of the test. I have a few students that tell me that they forgot to do an assignment or attend an online class because they forgot what day it was or didn’t realize the time. Set a countdown reminder for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. About the author: Curtis Brown currently works as the Math Segment manager at Texas Instruments. He taught mathematics and AP® Statistics fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
To STEM and Beyond!
... 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 classes as a data-collection solution and interactive simulation, so I ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...culate the volume of these tiny little bundles of life. Find out why bigger is not necessarily better 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 r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ddle school through high school to STEM and basic engineering. For example, students can learn how to program an alarm that alerts an owner if they forget their pet in a hot car. Or, kids can experiment with robotics as they learn to program our calculator-controlled robotic car, Rover, to naviga...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...nts. What advice would you give to your first-year teaching self? Don't be so hard on yourself. Even if you make mistakes, which I still do, be forgiving of yourself and then be transparent with your students so that you are a role model for them. "The other thing I would say is, don’t giv...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...iagonal becomes green). The hard part is showing that you need at least 10 squares. One way to do this is by using something called a “monotonicity" argument. Note that the total perimeter of the green squares never increases, but is 40 if the entire grid is filled. Problem 3 Solution: Sadly, we ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...number the desks in the order you want them filled. There are always new students added to the roster during the week, and the numbering provides an organized way for you to designate where an unexpected student should sit. Write numbers corresponding to the desks on the back of the note cards....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...ample of student work from the restaurant problem. Justification of the restaurant question. Every group in this class presented their arguments with multiple representations and passion. Finally, we began to see our students move toward this kind of thinking. They started to arrive...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...erstanding your own finances is to do a financial asset inventory. A simple way to do this is to create a spreadsheet, or document like this one, to organize and record your financial assets. Once you know what you have, you will be better able to manage. Next, create a budget. Once again, a spr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...etween the molecules. The rate of cooling, and thus evaporation, allows students to see the data, experience the phenomenon, and use the NGSS SEP of Arguing with Evidence on which of the liquids had the strongest intermolecular force of attraction. Snapshot of the classroom usage of the T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...is post focus on the TI-84 Plus CE model, but they are applicable to the entire TI-84 graphing calculator family. Be sure your calculator is fully charged or has fresh batteries for test day. And keep in mind that the calculator is not needed for every question; it is sometimes better not to use...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
...registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. Are you interested in introducing your students to coding but are not sure how? Read about this heart-pounding STEM project that will get y...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
Python + Math = true love! This Valentine’s Day activity had a simple beginning. My good friend, Julie Riggins, and I were asked the question, “Will you do a Valentine's Day themed webinar?” Did we have a large bank of activities to draw from? Did we have a single idea? Nope. So, of course we s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
Understanding Slope Is More Than Computing It When I first started teaching, I taught algebra I to ninth-graders. My students were similar to most — highly energetic kids that, quite honestly, had more important things on their mind than mathematics. Let’s face it: their understanding of the sl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...Simulation Calculation This instructional arc is a mashup of an instructional arc I learned from Allan Rossman years ago at Serenbe down in Georgia and from playing the dice game Borel with my students. Intuition Intuition is all about giving kids a chance to stake a claim as to how...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator