Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Picking the perfect bracket! Each year, millions of people across the world gather to watch an incredible display of basketball skill and passion. During this annual tradition, many will attempt to predict the outcome of each game in the tournamen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
Get Ready for a Math-Packed School Year
You could win this Math Love pack by entering our back-to-school contest. As the new school year quickly approaches, we want to make sure you love the supplies packed in your bag. On Instagram, you may have seen a picture-perfect pack of Math Love gear that we are giving away for this back-to-sc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschoolcontest
Find the Frequen-Z!
Practical Ways for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse to Come Teachers are continuously told how important STEM and coding will be for their students’ future career options. But how is a teacher supposed to engage students in coding and STEM, while still getting through all of the academic standard...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
The Education Technology industry has changed over the years. Despite the changes, TI calculators have become standard tools for teaching math and science – and with good reason. This also didn’t happen overnight. For the past 30 years, we have worked with teachers to ensure that every product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
We all want students to dive into real projects that tie together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in ways that inspire them to innovate, create and problem-solve. Yet, the need to cover the required curriculum, and limits on time, resources and training, complicate the task of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
...ere to download a TI-84 Plus CE program for the TI-Innovator Hub that plays the Star Spangled Banner. You can find more information about learning to code with TI technology on our TI Codes website. Be sure to share your calculator fun by tagging @TICalculators in posts online! New social media ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
...r the classroom, the TI-Innovator™ Rover. Engineers at TI designed the robotic car, best known as Rover, to help middle and high school students make connections across math, science and engineering and to show them that learning to program can be fun. “I’m not really the most tech-savvy person ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
... Sept. 12, 2016, in envisioning what’s next through four hands-on STEM activities that can be easily integrated into your grade 6-10 science and math courses: S in STEM: The science of zombies T in STEM: The invention of the integrated circuit technology E in STEM: Learning to code l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
John Urschel - From the Gridiron to the Classroom
NFL offensive lineman and published mathematician, John Urschel, took his love of mathematics to a Baltimore County high school to show students how he uses math on and off the field. NFL offensive lineman and published mathematician, John Urschel, took his love of mathematics to a Baltimore...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/august/john-urschel-love-of-math
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
Detector Building has changed! The 2021–22 Science Olympiad Division C once again will include the Detector Building competition which challenges students to build, code and test a working sensor. Last year’s competition required students to build a working thermometer, but this year’s competiti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
How to Start the Year on a Math High
As we settle into the new school year, we find ourselves in the perfect position to set the tone in our math classes. We’ve all experienced students who are hesitant learners — they come in with the mindset that they hate math or aren’t good enough to make it through the school year. If this att...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
David Olszewski, better known as Mr. O on the grounds of Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, has been teaching math for the past five years. Ask any of his students, or fellow teachers, and it’s clear he has quickly become a campus favorite. “Mr. O is a really fun teacher to have because he alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...r my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. From 2+2=4, graphing y=mx+b and solving complex integrals/derivatives, my TI graphing calculator and I have been through a lot together. (I even posed with it in my graduation photos!) Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...yees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been touring the country sharing activities that help make STEM concepts relevant to kids. With 10 stops to date, in cities from the east coast to the west coast, t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
Are your students struggling with graphing the parent functions or how to graph transformations of them? Texas Instruments is here to help teachers — and students — with a video resource that contains over 250 short colorful animated videos with over 460 examples that illustrate and explain these...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
This school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up with author and master teacher, Daren Starnes, to provide live AP® Statistics sessions via YouTube geared toward teachers and students alike. These sessions will contain content, data and questions that are directly related to the Big Id...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
Halloween is the first big holiday of the school year, and teachers would be ghoulish not to take advantage of students’ excitement and the Halloween spirit. Here are five of our favorite ways to tap into the Halloween spirits with Texas Instruments. No tricks, only treats! Write creepy code...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...w as well as I do, while the kids may think they now have all the answers at their fingertips, that’s a myth. Students often use their calculators incorrectly and usually have no idea why their answer is wrong. Inevitably, they end up raising their hands during tests with profound questions. The...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
How many times have you heard an administrator, professional development presenter or master teacher say, “100% engagement”? I have lost count. Would you believe me if I said there really is a way to engage all of your students, even the most distracted, most reluctant learner? 100% engagement i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
As a child, every new year my dad would ask my sisters and me to write down our New Year’s resolutions. On top of my list was always, “get straight A’s and exercise every day.” To this day, that has never happened. Ever. In 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequentl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...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. Math teachers relate to their student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
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
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
While school may be winding down, it’s not a time for students to stop learning, especially when it comes to STEM subjects. Turns out, the summer learning loss, often referred to as the summer brain drain, is a real thing. The National Summer Learning Association reports that students lose an eq...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...h Data How do you know you can trust the data you see in a news article? Is “statistically significant” practically relevant? In this session we will collected and analyzed data to explore the concept of meaningful results. TI-Nspire™ CX technology Link to presentation>> Making Math Relevant T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018