Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
... Our website has an easy-to-follow path that coaches the girls through each of the five badge requirements. Troop workshops. Troop leaders can borrow TI graphing calculators from TI, or have the girls bring their calculators from home, and facilitate a troop meeting to work through the requi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...y Pi Day! About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the former Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Currently she works in Corporate Communications for TI. Follow her on Twitter @ellenfishpaw. --> Celebrate pi day using these fun math activities yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...rviving the First Week Back at School.” There are many things in there that are still accurate, but I have some new suggestions in light of today’s current situation. Here are five ways to make sure that this school year is better than before! 1. Build relationships with your students Whether...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ts from middle 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,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...iate about the Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3) community is there is a wide representation of generations who find value in professional development. People are seeking out professional development not just in their twenties, but in their sixties and beyond. And I think that's amazing. We...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...ubject from chess to cryptography -- things students are naturally interested in – and force students to explore the math behind them. John, who is currently pursuing his PhD in math at MIT, created each of the questions himself and wants to see students exercise their brains as they kick-off a n...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...g are some suggestions for making seating charts work in classrooms where students change each hour. Method 1: Note cards taped on desks This is my current favorite, even though it is a little time consuming. Print out your class rosters and create blank seating charts. On that chart, number the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
... Using “the sequence,” you can create a visual of it using the sequence value to represent the length of an edge of a square. They can be creatively arranged in such a manner as to create this image. Recognize this? “Finding Fibo!” 2. What about the curve/spiral? The familiar Fibonacci s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...important step when it comes to helping a student develop their reasoning about probability and randomness. Calculations do not always need to be carried out by hand. An easy way to see that you win the car ⅔ of the time by switching doors is by a tree diagram or a chart. In this chart, we can ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...tions they may have about the field. While male and female students perform typically the same in science and mathematics 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 wor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
... the internet, there is a site called emojipedia.org — yes, an entire site dedicated to emojis. I looked to see how many preloaded emojis are on my current phone, and it said almost 4,000 emojis! Wait … what? Just think: You can use a new one every day for just under 11 years. And by the time you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...ne for what values of x and b, are those functions equivalent. They will also explore intervals where the power function has greater value than the corresponding exponential. Sound Waves and Beats (Physics): In this data collection activity, students use a Vernier microphone attached to the TI...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
... students who have simply been told that they “can’t,” students who have missed previous math classes, or students who are immigrants with language barriers, they all need to receive equal attention. Because of this, I’ve really concentrated on shifting their math mindsets. I love when I can fina...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
... a very real customer, several ways for students to craft solutions and find success, a way to extend our students’ understanding of code and sensor arrays while demonstrating the viability of the solution, and a commitment to the engineering design process. And, as an added bonus, the May flower...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...re facing. I could bring the most valuable resources to the teachers I supported, saving them from the hours I spent digging through the mediocre or irrelevant ideas, and just deliver the golden nuggets. Curtis and I hope that “Room To Grow” serves that same purpose for teachers who don’t have en...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
...ote: The Python for loop has an optional else: clause which is executed when the loop ends normally. The inner loop (for p in primelist): tests the current number i to see if it is divisible by any of the primes found so far. If so, the break is executed (the loop is terminated early) and the nex...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
... RGB LED and speaker so that you can write a program to play a song, like the Star Spangled Banner, using the speaker on the Hub, and then create a corresponding patriotic light show using the LEDs. What’s really cool about microcontrollers is that you can add input and output devices like moto...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...nalized education.” — Yong Zhao, Ph.D. “The Impact of Identity in K–8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices” by Julia Aguirre, Karen Mayfield-Ingram and Danny Martin Filled with insightful descriptions and recommendations on impactful, high-quality and equity-based t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...to Dallas where he visited with mathematicians and scientists at TI, sat in the cockpit of a flight simulator at Dallas’ Love Field and filmed his starring role in a special, aviation edition of STEM Behind Cool Careers -- STEM on the Fly. “My trip to Dallas was an amazing way to see the differen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
...below we use Y1= ½X² and Y2= X+1. Press the mode key and about midway through the screen you will see a row that says FULL HORTIZONTAL GRAPH-TABLE. Arrow over to GRAPH-TABLE and press the enter key. Now press the graph key and you will see your graph and table simultaneously. Press the 2nd key a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...ints – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few coding concepts. Expressing a problem and a solution in a way that a computer, or human, can carry it out is computational thinking. Coding on the calculator is one method to give students an opportunity to solidify their understanding of a c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...say that you encounter a problem with the matrices above. You can enter the matrices in the TI-84 Plus by pressing the 2nd key then the x⁻¹ key then arrowing over to EDIT. Once you enter the matrices, you can multiply two matrices together (shown in the screenshot below). You can find the determ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
...ill also receive a TI-84 calculator and our famously festive holiday sweater! The sweepstakes begin on Nov. 30 at 9am CT and end on Dec. 16 at 11:59pm CT. Don’t delay — enter the sweepstakes today! Holiday Social Media Contest About the author: Kareya Saleh is the Social Media Manager f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...drops of phenolphthalein indicator and 3 mL of 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 g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...f, and educating, our children. The reality is: This generation of students has already learned a lot. Maybe it wasn’t everything that was in the curriculum but certainly lessons that matter in life. So, as you head into the new school year, with countless variables out of your control, I recom...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020