Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...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 always keeps the energy up in the classroom, so you’re never bored, even when you are doing complex math problems,” said Perry High School senior Olivia Lane. “I like that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
... and – are all red. Strings are encapsulated in “quotes” and appear in green. Comments following the # are a light gray. The color coding helps break up the code, find typos and draws attention to the different types of syntax. The tab indentions for ifs and loops stand out using the diamond symb...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...e the first to admit that I wasn't sure I was a “CAS fan” when first introduced to it. I didn't necessarily want my AP® Calculus students to find derivatives, or my algebra students to solve equations simply by pushing buttons. Thankfully over time, my vision for CAS and its utility has grown. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Leveling the Math Playing Field
... are born — such as their race, ethnicity, ZIP code and socioeconomic status — should not be predictors of academic success. The fact that certain groups of students consistently underperform is an indication that our system is broken. Opportunities Don’t Add Up As dialogue around the “achieveme...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...s-aligned content that’s relevant to your lesson plans. Get the top three classroom activities to get your students invested in learning (and amped up for Halloween). 1. The dead are walking and the infection is spreading Teachers and students can agree science and math are a lot more engagi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...ision 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 @ellenfishpaw. This Valentine’s Day, we are celebrating straight-A senior Jasmine Ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...is event. Using a TI-Nspire™ CX, TI-Nspire™ CX II or TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator, students can easily plot the data and make predictions based upon the data. Chart info courtesy of World Athletics. Here is the data plotted on a TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. You could...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band room to retrieve something he pretended to forget. Putterman and the “TI Prize Patrol” arranged for balloons spelling M-A-T-H and the marching band to shout “sur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...sion 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, the STEM Squad has be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...ool organization with a team of teachers, students and professional mentors. Along with Nanoracks and Valley Christian Schools, we sent an experiment up to the International Space Station. We learned how to use a microprocessor to run our experiment — I was intrigued. How could I utilize the skil...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... bogged down by number sense. So, how do you increase fluency while teaching your content? Here’s a game that, once coded, can be played during warm-ups or any downtime during transitions. Version one: Create a game that generates two numbers. Display the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
... this year, instead of using a graphing calculator, Shads were equipped with a perpetual license of the TI-Nspire™ CX Student Software, which will be updated with Python this fall. TI also mailed out their TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board, which allowed Shads to code lights in different...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...his job and who genuinely cares about their students more than Mr. Meyer. He sacrifices sleep, comfort and many of the pleasures of life in order to supply his students with a better education,” Tristan wrote in his contest submission. Math teacher Walter Meyer is one of five winners in the nat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...ument to allow for more focused instruction around fewer topics, flexibility for students to make meaning of new content, and space for just-in-time support with prerequisite topics that may be unfinished learning for students. Rushing through content for the sake of coverage is tempting, but any...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...l. Tips for teachers: Make sure students know when they are taking 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 wh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...nd head into this project to make it happen. It is such a joyful event when different aspects of my life somewhat magically mix together. My eyes lit up when Michelle Grooms, one of our TI Educational Technology Consultants (and also a fellow Girl Scout leader), shared her experience that she had...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...sing ti_draw module in Python from 10 Minutes of Code, Unit 5, Skill Builder 2. 3. STEM-ulating simulations Being prepared is one of a teacher’s superpowers. If we have to go back virtual or hybrid, or if a student needs to be out for an extended period of time, I have added simulations to my...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...eenshots from The Water Cycle activity. 4. Space: Lunar Phases — It’s Just a Lunar Phase It’s hard to study the phases of the moon in a couple of class sessions when it takes about a month for the moon to cycle. A great alternative is to use a simulation. It’s Just a Lunar Phase will ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
"This calculator changed my life.”Lillie Pennington, Junior, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE CHALLENGE Lillie Pennington, 17, can keep up with any high school student when it comes to academics. The Turpin High School junior took Advanced Placement history as a sophomore and scored a fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...decisions on where to invest your money. U.S. News provides some tips on how to find a financial advisor, and some financial institutions also offer support for their customers. You won’t know until you ask. 2. Get to know the financial literacy standards There is a set of unified “National Sta...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
... Engineering design project that used the TI Innovator™ Hub, TI-SensorLink Adapter and a servo motor. Based on pH values, the motor turned the cup to dump pH lowering material. This activity was a modification from the TI STEM Project “Some Like It Tepid.” If any of this interests y...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...hat for another blog post. Because I am a math guy, and with all of this “looking,” I thought that perhaps we should do a little “Finding Fibo!” Yup, Fibonacci — that Fibo is quite sneaky! Technically, he is pretty easy to find. He is buried in Pisa, Italy, with a statue of him marking his...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...accomplish this? By following the instructional arc of Intuition Confidence 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....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...ematics classes, females are underrepresented in computer science and engineering classes. As these students continue into the workforce, women make up 47 percent of the total workforce, but only 24 percent of STEM jobs are represented by women. So, why such a difference? Why are women not choo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...ears, students have built designs for space, the environment and, most recently, for pets and animals. The results have been astounding! We caught up with the students and teachers of the five finalist groups from the 2022 TI Codes Contest to get their feedback and insights into their experien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda