A Teacher’s 5 Words That Changed My Life
When I was asked to share my story for International Women’s Day, I immediately said “yes.” I didn’t know what I would share, just that I had to say “yes!” This year’s theme — Choose to Challenge — had a simultaneous effect. It touched my soul because we have the freedom to make choices. It san...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/intlwomensday
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Jessica Kohout
...cience joke each week for the students. It's become something that the students are obsessed with, to the point where if I don’t have it up, they’ll ask me about it. Usually, I post cheesy science puns that tie into what we're doing that day. For example, last week we were talking about genetics,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/teacher-of-the-month
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...ct like rotor blades rotating about a fixed axis. Using the information provided above and what they had learned from the video, the students were asked to calculate: The angular velocity ⍵ of the blades in rad/s once they reach their final rpm The average angular acceleration α of the blad...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
You only get one “first day of school” – use it wisely
....” EVERYONE can learn math! Mistakes help our brain grow. And, if you work at it, you can be successful. As the first night’s homework assignment, I ask students to journal their thoughts about math. To give them a little more structure, they select a picture from a page of pics I supply them. Th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/firstday
Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School
...Regional Instructor in 2015 and sees the technology as a great way to help students make real-life connections with science. Follow her on Twitter @MrsKohout. Make this the best school year ever with these 5 tips on surviving the first week of school. Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/first_week_tips
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
... but I credit my TI-82 graphing calculator for helping me to at least pass! I still have that same TI-82 graphing calculator (it still works) on my desk to remind me of where I’ve been and that the road hasn’t always been an easy one. After graduating high school, I attended Texas Christian Uni...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
... 12 years old, I didn’t see how the assignment was relevant. This learning activity was the opposite of fun; it wasn’t accessible, and it penalized risk-taking. I still remember how helpless I felt because I couldn’t commit that little table to memory. I didn’t do well in that class. I failed mis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...to context. Let’s get started: If the straws are connected, how many times would they wrap around the Earth at the equator? To solve this question, ask students to collaborate in groups of three or four. This can be done via phone, email or videoconference. The first thing we expect students to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
... graphing calculators to help prepare them for higher education and beyond. Math Activities for Students Who Hate Math Presented by Ellen Piekarski Have you had students think that “rise over run” was a PE exercise? Do their faces contort when you show them an equal sign between letters? ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
Standardized tests have a way of asking questions that go past number crunching, and dive into the concepts. Often, these questions reveal misconceptions that students may have or just introduce a topic that the students haven’t really had a chance to explore. The fascinating part is that usual...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
ICYMI: Top 10 Webinars of 2019
...t connect some frequently overlooked TI-84 Plus CE capabilities with students’ analytical thinking. ACT® Math Test Success, Part 1: Strategies and Skills Hosted by Pat Flynn and Jeff McCalla Explore strategies and TI graphing calculator skills that can help students prepare for the math sect...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019webinars
A case for handheld graphing calculators
...y classroom. If I could throw out every phone that a kid brought in, I would be very excited. It’s a battle.” Connected devices also raise cheating risks. The concern isn’t just students “Googling” for the correct answer, it’s also about them taking pictures of test questions or sharing answers v...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/may/why-graphing-calculators-add-up
Best of Biology
...Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software or TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Don’t have the software? Click here to get started. 1. Skills of Science: Building and Interpreting Graphs This is a great activity to help students learn about using graphs to represent the results of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...model appears to fit the data well with little variance between predicted and actual values. Next, we took the data analysis one step further. We asked the question, what defines a good mathematical model? Let’s think about the question on how long the ball would bounce. We saw that, eventuall...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Give me Five
In this activity, students will discuss and describe the center and spread of a univariate data set by way of a five number summary and visually by a box & whisker diagram. Students will then apply this knowledge to real life applications to enhance their ability to understand this math in stat...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-give-me-five
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Tim Collier
...tant for students to sit down and memorize multiplication tables. However, in my opinion, the best days are those where you can execute a rich math task that allows students to have a good time. It’s that connection between the student, the teacher and the curriculum that can be so exciting. What...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/february/teacherofthemonth
Calculus + Graphing Calculator = More Teachable Moments
...tinuity. Normally, I would have drawn the graph myself on the blackboard — a line with a prominent “hole” circled at coordinates (1,2). This time, I asked my students to graph it on their calculators. Two students in the back of the room had been leaning back in their chairs, but the new gadgets...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/september/calculascalcs
Mission Celebration: Use Math to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
...the Eagle landing module to a safe area, beyond the boulder field, with less than 30 seconds of fuel left in the tank. This was an incredible feat of skill and bravery. In a joint mission from NASA and Texas Instruments (TI), called "Mission ImaginaTIon," we’ve created a series of activities tha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/july/missioncelebration
Free Resources for AP® Calculus by @TICalculators
...tudents the depth and breadth of understanding needed for success on the exam and in further math courses. Former AP® Calculus Chief Reader Steve Kokoska and former AP® Calculus development committee member Tom Dick have partnered with Texas Instruments (TI) to make a set of resources geared to h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/january/free-resources-for-ap-calculus
Madness in March Underscores the “M” in STEM
...cussions around a quality STEM education for our kids matter? Job opportunities aside, it’s because we live in a world that doesn’t just require STEM skills, it demands them. For our students, that means STEM skills are survival skills. For our teachers, our world’s real super heroes, ongoing pro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/mathmadness
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Lisa Goddard
...ith different ways of explaining concepts. Whether it’s by using different methods, applying different algorithms, or allowing students to routinely ask their peers if they have another way of learning a concept, there are so many ways to work a problem. This diverse approach allows students to s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/march/teacherofthemonth
Vernier - Photosynthesis and Respiration
Students use the gas sensors to measure the amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide consumed or produced by a plant during respiration and photosynthesis. They also determine the rate of respiration and photosynthesis in a plant.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--photosynthesis-and-respiration
Vernier - Nitrate
Student uses the Nitrate Ion-Selective Probe to measure the Nitrate ions concentration in water samples. In another method, student converts nitrate ions to nitrite and use the Vernier Colorimeter to measure nitrite and calculate the nitrate levels.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--nitrate
Crime Scene Investigation - Stride Pattern Analysis with CBR 2
By using the Calculator-Based Ranger (CBR2™), students can plot the distance-time graph of a walking or running person. Students find correlation between the stride distance, velocity, and the height of a person, walking or running at a steady pace and compare that to the stride pattern left at t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/crime-scene-investigation--stride-pattern-analysis-with-cbr-2
Energy Skate Park - PhET (HS)
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