Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...r students learn how to “flatten the curve” and to stay healthy. About the author: Fred Fotsch is a retired high school science teacher who now works as the STEM education manager at Texas Instruments. Everyone is scrambling to figure out how to keep the learning going. Teachers are being as...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
...using all types of technology to enhance student understanding in mathematics and has provided technology professional development at conferences, workshops and webinars since 1998. Karen blogs at karendcampe.wordpress.com. Follow her on Twitter @KarenCampe. Use multiple representations on TI...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
Creative Assessments I teach at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee. A few years ago, our excellent junior English teacher, Ms. Goodman, started having the juniors do four-minute, TED-style talks instead of taking a final exam. Our awesome chemistry teacher, Ms. Dunlap, started a C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...ppy New Year Hook up to the TI-Innovator™ Hub and challenge your students to play “Auld Lang Syne.” Take it a step further, and add a colorful fireworks display on your TI-84 Plus CE. 5) Happy Holidays Ask your students to manipulate this equation. The answer is certain to make them smile this h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
NASA Events Calendar
... recording, featuring NASA Robotics Engineer Lucien Junkin, on the NASA Johnson Space Center Facebook page. Mission to Mars This job rocks! Working in NASA’s Meteorite Lab Recorded: Friday, May 5, 2016 This event took place in NASA’s Johnson Space Center Meteorite Lab. Planetary Sci...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/nasa-event-calendar
BestofChemistry
...troducing the concepts of periodicity and the periodic table. The lesson provides some history about the development of the periodic table, how it works and the patterns it reveals. Screenshots from the Periodicity of Properties activity. 3. Atomic Structure and Periodic Table:...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...Archer is a product strategy manager at Texas Instruments in the education technology division. He is a former high school science teacher and now works in a team that develops activities and projects for students. TI has resources to help your Science Olympiad teams get started with the new Di...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...nology have opened the eyes of so many of my students to the possibility of future STEM careers. Vernier DataQuest and Vernier EasyTemp are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vernier Software & Technology. About the author: Stacy Thibodeaux is a T³™ National science instructor. She holds...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
Fall in Love with Polar Graphs: Top 4 Ways to Turn Heads with the TI-84 Plus
...e window key. Then, in θmax try inputting 5π. Then, press the zoom key. Now, you will want to either press 0 or arrow down to ZoomFIT, either way works. Desire a bigger spiral? Try changing θmax to a bigger number. 2: Embrace those Butterflies Falling in love usually comes with butterflies? S...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/polargraphlove
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
Four seconds left in the big game, and the score is 27-28 — you’re behind. A 50-yard field goal wins the game. Your task is to use a mathematical model to demonstrate kicking a field goal to win the game. Wait … are you more into the celebration and all the hoopla (I mean all those snacks and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Oklahoma Students Make Their Mark Learning to Program with Rover
...he beams on their faces were quite beautiful.” Keota junior Justin Hickman (right) inspects a TI-Innovator Rover while junior Trevor Doss (back) looks on. Hickman is one of two students primarily responsible for programming the calculator that powers Rover to draw a robot. Imagine the smiles, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/seeroverdraw
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...udents learn to code, program a robot, learn about a city, and get to practice their English — all within a single activity. The same activity works for a geography or a history class too. Student using a robot to “travel” through a habitat. (Image courtesy of David Willis, Lufkin I...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
Python Modules Have More Fun | Texas Instruments
...shared with others. When developing a Python programming project, I find it helpful to divide the project into pieces and tackle them in smaller chunks. Python is designed for this approach from the ground up. Modular programming is also useful if you or your students want to work in teams: Ass...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-modules-have-more-fun
Summer of STEM: Breaking Board Paradox
...er across the part of the stick that is still on the table. Karate chop the part of the stick that is hanging off the table, and voila! The stick breaks! But why? What you’ll need: A few paint sticks from a local hardware store. An unfolded piece of newspaper about 3’ x 3’ in area. Butc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/breakingboard
Summer of STEM: Egg in a Bottle
...ottle and quickly but gently, place the egg onto the bottle opening on one end or the other. Watch the egg get sucked into the bottle. How it works: The burning paper quickly heats the air inside the bottle, causing an expansion of air inside the bottle. That warm air pushes out thr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/egginabottle
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...om TI Which TI Calculator for the ACT® and Why? Top 10 Features of TI-84 Plus for Taking the ACT® The College Board®, AP® and SAT® are trademarks registered by the College Board. PSAT/NMSQT® is a registered trademark of the College Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. ACT ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
... new pet Started a new hobby Tried a new food Got a job Went swimming Played more video games than your parents would have liked Checked out books from the library #2: This or That (If you have between 5–10 minutes) Make a list of items that are related to one another to learn your stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Introducing the TI-Nspire CX II
... processor speed Additional technical specifications are available online at education.ti.com/TI-Nspire-CXII SAT* and AP*are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board PSAT/NMSQT* is a registered trademark of the College Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/nspire
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
...ese resources are a valuable asset as you navigate an ever-changing landscape in the math classroom. About the author: Curtis Brown currently works as the Math Segment manager at Texas Instruments. He taught mathematics and AP® Statistics for several years. Since starting at TI in 2015, he h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
... School in Northbrook, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Knapp is an advocate for using TI technology and regularly presents at conferences, workshops and webinars, demonstrating how TI technology can be effectively used by students to explore and learn mathematics. Follow Knapp on Twitter ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
A Teacher’s 5 Words That Changed My Life
... reality, engineering chose me. My choice: I was going to be a doctor, a pediatrician to be exact. I researched childhood diseases, maintained notebooks and interviewed my pediatrician. I went to the library regularly to study my chosen medical profession. Then I discovered there were procedures ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/intlwomensday
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...diately look to come up with an activity using data about the helicopter. What an opportunity for a timely review of some AP® concepts, with three weeks left until the AP® exam. Perseverance’s selfie with Ingenuity. Image courtesy of NASA. Ingenuity’s key objectives are: Prove p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
...gloves on, add the cup to the liquid while applying a little downward pressure. Notice the polystyrene is dissolving into the acetone. How it works: Polystyrene is made up of monomers of styrene, an organic compound (C6H5CH=CH2). When polystyrene is being produced it exists in a liq...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
You only get one “first day of school” – use it wisely
...ewitt, and his classmates come alongside and encourage him. They believe in him. He learns that with practice, he can do it! Of course, everything works out in the end – it’s a children’s book! The thing that I like most about this book is that Mr. Fish’s mindset towards learning changes. The sam...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/firstday
#NCTMregionals Seattle 2018 Recap
Thanks for stopping by the TI booth or joining a session at #NCTMregionals Seattle. We loved meeting all of you! You can check out some of the resources we shared, and download the materials from your favorite exhibitor workshop below. Texas Instruments Staff TI Exhibitor Workshops at #NCTMreg...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/nctm-seattle