Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...ne pilot. The 15-year-old submitted a photo showing how he uses math and science regularly as a volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program, an auxiliary of the U.S Air Force. We’ve since learned Alex is one of the youngest members of his local flying club to solo pilot a glider and has logge...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...y AP® Calculus students during the review. In reflecting about these activities, I feel that they could also be used as warm-ups to start the day or exit tickets. I hope you will check out the webinar Tony Record and I presented, if you want to learn more about these Mixed Six activities. In ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...ty to look at something a little more than just as right or wrong,” said Kachur. “There really is no wrong in programing; it's finding an error and fixing it. That is the lasting impact that I hope students take with them and apply to their entire life.” By this time next year, Kachur hopes the c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...etermine the number of German tanks. Students explore different sample statistics and use simulation to develop a statistic that is effective in approximating the maximum number in a population. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (pdf). You can view and download the full TI-Nsp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...eadership roles. These action items highlight how we need to lead and can elevate equity in our field. A tweet from T³IC attendee Krista Hoxie captured Rinehart’s action items in her 7 for 7 talk. The 33rd annual T³IC was an epic event with so many applicable and timely takeaways...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
...son — and this book will help. Recommended by our @TICalculators social media team, it’s designed for kids (and their parents) struggling with math anxiety and looking for a new approach to homework, studying, tests and marks. The most common problem areas in the curriculum are broken down and ex...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...water (to add some volume to the solution, as toilet bowl cleaner can be viscous). They then add the correct number of drops of 1.0 molar sodium hydroxide solution until the acid in the cleaner has been neutralized and the phenolphthalein indicator goes from colorless to faint pink. Using the rel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...you head into the new school year, with countless variables out of your control, I recommend focusing on the things you can control, like having a flexible mindset, growing and leveraging your network, and investing in yourself in order to provide students with the best education possible. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...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/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
... is one interpretation of the definite integral f(x)dx from a to b, the area of the region R, bounded above by the graph of y = f(x), below by the x-axis, and by the lines x = a and x = b. This is perhaps one of the quickest ways to visualize Riemann sums and students can look at the left hand, r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...models have made considerable advances in the sciences. Theoretical models can predict a phenomenon before it is ever observed. Examples include the existence of Neptune, anti-mater, the cosmic microwave background, and the Higgs boson, to name just a few. Some phenomena have a random component,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
...each of the key points. At the x-intercepts (zeros) of the function, the Y-values change sign. At the y-intercept, the X-value is 0. At a relative maximum, the Y-values increase then decrease; at a minimum, the opposite is true. In order to make this numerical behavior apparent, use a smaller Ta...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...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/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like an Absolute Value Graph ❤ by @TICalculators
...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/create-math-valentines
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...jected, and meaningful lesson-enriched conversations can be conducted. This may lead to student-generated data for whole class analysis and possible exit tickets for conclusion of a daily lesson. STEM in your room TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board is a new addition to my classr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...gram. Unit 3: Setting Analog Output — “Make a Mood Light.” Students will control the color output of a red-green-blue LED light by coding the mixing of the primary colors to create an output color of their choice. Unit 3: Mood lamp circuit diagram. Unit 4: Getting Analog Inpu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...ositions work. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 5. Maximizing the Area of a Garden In this classic exploration of a quadratic relationship, students explore and optimize the relationship between the a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
...ified boxplot (option 4 in the StatPlots menu) or a histogram (option 3) to assess the shape of a sample distribution for strong deviations from approximately normal. Use ZoomStat to set the window quickly . More steps are included in the video below. 6: Inferential Procedures As sure as the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/apstats
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...at on about one-third of the math portion of the SAT®, a calculator of any kind is prohibited. I think this is why they allow CAS calculators on approximately two-thirds of the test. The College Board® knows that students need to be able to do mathematics with and without a calculator if they wan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Introducing the TI-Nspire CX II
... for purchase at major retail stores in time for back to school 2019. For information on availability, visit our website: education.ti.com/TI-Nspire-CXII. TI-Nspire CX II Specifications and Features: Color, backlit display Screen size: 320 x 240 pixels (3.5" diagonal) Screen resolut...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/nspire
A Teacher’s 5 Words That Changed My Life
...se to Challenge — had a simultaneous effect. It touched my soul because we have the freedom to make choices. It sank my spirit because the challenge exists: Choose to Challenge. This International Women’s Day, Texas Instruments (TI) engineer, Tracy Hamilton, has her hand up high to show ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/intlwomensday
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...nded on the surface of Mars. Perseverance carried an arsenal of scientific instruments designed to hunt for signs of past microbial life, if it ever existed. In other words, its mission is to hunt directly for these “biosignatures.” But Perseverance carried another important cargo. Stowed away sa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
...tone. How it works: Polystyrene is made up of monomers of styrene, an organic compound (C6H5CH=CH2). When polystyrene is being produced it exists in a liquid state (like a gooey, thick liquid). As polystyrene is produced, air is injected into the mixture creating small balls that a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...hrough some tips and habits you can practice to keep your brain healthy and happy during exam week. Watch her full takeover on our Instagram Story. Anxiety Tip #1: Start a Freak-Out Journal It’s so easy to feel like there are a million reasons to feel stressed and scattered, but writing everythin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
AP® Precalculus Resources Teachers Love | Texas Instruments
...raphs. Generate a table of values for a function. Find real zeros of functions. Find points of intersection of graphs of functions. Find minima/maxima of functions. Find numerical solutions to equations in one variable. Find regressions equations to model data (linear, quadratic, cubic, qua...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/ap-precalculus-resources-teachers-will-love