mathyoga
...ernational Conference. It includes more tips on how to host your own math yoga class, or you can simply take the class. Namaste! About the author: Curtis Brown currently works as the Math Segment manager at Texas Instruments (TI). He taught mathematics and AP® Statistics for several yea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...set you saw, an encounter with nature, a spectacular meal you had or a magic show that left you speechless. Can you imagine what life would be like without having awe moments? In fact, researchers have explored the benefits of awe and have found that it is good for us! Eight reasons why awe mak...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...complaint from anyone — even my eighth graders! Students thrive when they know exactly what is expected of them. So, while some students may not need those explicit instructions, all will benefit — every time. Allowing students to know your expectations and their role in the classroom is ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...rgetic,” said senior Toree Fogle. “We can walk into class and not really want to do anything, and he will find a way to make us want to do math, even though the problems are hard.” Mr. O returning to his Perry High School classroom to learn he is the final winner of TI’s Spread the Math Love c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...hese three activities and dig deep into what’s weird and foul to engage your students in the classroom this Halloween. Boo to you! About the author: Mark Watson is the Senior Copywriter for Texas Instruments with years of experience in the areas of education technology and teacher and stud...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...ocess uses both conventional filtering techniques and UV light to produce potable water. Once again, congratulations to the winners and to all those who submitted entries to the contest. We greatly appreciate the intelligence and creativity displayed here. We hope that everyone who partici...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...IB is a registered trademark owned by the International Baccalaureate Organization. Policies subject to change. Visit www.ibo.org. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI six years ago,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...ollege 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 TI five years ago,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...Texas Baltimore, Maryland Chicago, Illinois Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbus, Ohio Nashville, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...le building the structures around one central theme (this year’s theme was “countries around the world”). "Engineers are problem-solvers, and the methods we apply are the same – whether we’re working on a technical problem or trying to build a structure of cookie boxes. And we love to compete. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... is more efficient for the students. The students who require more assistance can obtain it easily and repeatedly, if they need it. At the same time, those students who just need a quick review are not bored by watching topics they already know and understand. All students can learn at their own ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...real-life epidemiologists use to track and curb the spread of diseases through a population. Dress up your TI-84 Plus CE or the TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator Gather some orange and black filament and 3D-print a spooky spare case for your TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. Here i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...o, where he is majoring in business and biomedical engineering. Tristan took AP® Calculus with Meyer and scored a 5 on the exam. He then went on to become Meyer’s teaching assistant. Tristan said he learned about the contest from a geometry teacher at the high school, and he immediately knew he w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
... a result, make conceptual errors even with the help of a calculator for computations. I find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can use a simple four-function variety, but rarely do they have experience with ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...ementing this cycle of questioning, it is important to set some ground rules and expectations. I call my classroom a “no blurt zone.” I know allowing those few students to shout out their answers may help the flow of a lesson, but you have to be a stickler — don’t allow it! 100% engagement is imp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best_Of_Science
... the stomata of a leaf. Screenshots from Recipe for a Living World (HS). 4. Acids, Bases and Salts: Swimming With Acids and Bases Although simulations aren’t an ideal replacement for hands-on experiments, there are some concepts that can be better visualized with the help of com...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/best_of_science
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...love to hear what your favorite practices are to help make self-care a priority. Microsoft is a registered trademark of its owner. About the author: Stephanie Yi, a California native, is currently in her sixth year of teaching middle school math. This year she is teaching seventh grade mat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...I'm able to be creative. For example, I’ve been working with educators at Rice University on a project that integrates culturally relevant art into python in a Geometry class, which is such a neat way to integrate art with coding and math. What is your primary goal for your students this year? ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...the time and your team has a 50% chance of winning in overtime) Problem 6 | The Lottery There is a lottery where five balls are sequentially drawn (without replacement) from a bin of fifty balls containing five copies of the numbers 0 through 9. If you guess all five numbers correctly, your prize...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
... tried a variety of ways to put students into assigned seats the first week of school. Compared to how I assign seats after the first unit test, my methods for those first days when I don’t know students names are dramatically different. Over the past 23 years I have tried everything from the dre...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...for up, down, left and right arrows, or “click” in the center. The blue ctrl key acts together with other keys. Look around for the blue icons above those keys. You don’t need to hold the ctrl key down, just press it once, then press the other key you want to use (similar to how the 2nd key work...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ta & Statistics page to model this progression (figure 4). Ask students what they notice about the model and discuss. Fig. 3. Year saving without interest. Fig. 4. Graph saving without interest. Continue the scenario by explaining that in their class, the students le...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...eaching self? Don't try to do it all. For example, I used to stay at school until five or six o’clock working on PowerPoint presentations, because I thought that everything had to be absolutely perfect. Eventually, a woman I worked with explained to me that kids aren’t going to know the differen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...ents to visualize what is happening on the particle level during dissociation of a strong or weak acid/base. I have also added some Python coding STEM-design challenges into my chemistry classroom. We use the TI-Innovator™ Hub, which has a built-in RGB LED, to create a color displ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...st astronaut to walk on Mars. In the pursuit of this goal, Abigail has devoted herself to personal development as a pilot, scuba diver, skydiver, marathoner, student of Russian and Mandarin Chinese, science communicator and research astrobiologist. Beyond that, Abigail has leveraged her passion t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat