Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
... With this data, students could plot and investigate many different ideas such as: Plot time versus distance Calculate velocity Calculate acceleration Plot distance versus velocity Calculate how fast they are running in miles per hour In the screenshots above, the distance ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
.... It’s really easy to control and navigate,” said Baltimore seventh-grader Khudaijah Amin. After a bit of trial and error, just about everyone has success, but more importantly, they have fun. “It’s especially cool because we live in a world where there’s a lot of opportunities for this and it’s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
Many people know about Girl Scouts, especially when cookie season comes around and boxes of Thin Mints® and Samoas® line the break rooms of offices and accrue in the pantries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...f inflection, maximum, minimum. This is encouraged throughout the video series. Get started: Download the Quick Reference Guide In order to access all the content, visit the Families of Functions modular course website, download the Quick Reference Guide and share it with your students. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...novator™ Hub. My students rose to the challenge with very little coding experience, as well as my limited knowledge, and we learned together. Their successful smiles and “yahoos” when they determined their errors, solved their problems and designed their own projects were contagious. As a result,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
...en student and teacher content knowledge. Starnes, a former reader for the exam, will offer tried-and-true strategies to help you and your students succeed. The YouTube Live “AP® Statistics Office Hours With Daren Starnes” begin Monday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. Central time). You w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...r than Z or 90 to go back to 65. Otherwise, you’ll end up with symbols such as the “]” as seen in the shell. For example, 3 past Z, should be C. To accomplish this, use %ord(‘Z’) to determine how far past 90 the letter was shifted. Add this amount to one less than the value of A. If we move 7 pa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...perwork, or angry parents or lunch duty, it’s to help kids realize that the highest levels of math aren’t out of reach; it is something they can be successful at,” Meyer said. He concluded: “I joke with my students that you can’t win championships in practice, but you can’t win championships with...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... without the pandemic. Shifting our perspective to focus on the positive experiences students had, though, allows us to understand that learning did occur. It may not have looked the same as in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-disci...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...? 100% engagement is possible! I started implementing questioning strategies my very first year of teaching, and I believe it is the key to student success, classroom management, and of course, engagement. Before you even start implementing this cycle of questioning, it is important to set some g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
... nice job in helping students see and understand Newton’s second law through the use of a simple simulation meant to collect data on mass, force and acceleration. Screenshots from the Newton’s Second Law activity. 3. Forces and Motion: Free Body Diagrams This activity has sev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
... dinner. However, it’s important to remember that self-care isn’t always about treating yourself in the moment, but setting your future self up for success. That may include taking the stairs instead of the elevator, eating healthy instead of snacking, drinking water instead of soda, and sleeping...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...m Set // Solution Set April 26: Reviewing for the AP exam Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live sessions on our YouTube channel here. Can’t get enough of calculus? Check out our resources reviewing previous free-response...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...ement and support. #5 – Math Teachers go above and beyond their normal duties. Math teachers go that extra mile to make sure their students are successful. Feeling inspired to thank your teacher? Download this free printable card and #ThankATeacher. Learn some of the ways the math teach...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...rning opportunities. A few of years ago, I wrote “Tips for Surviving 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 t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
... conversion rate is under 50%, otherwise why are we having this conversation?) and then have a 50% chance of winning in overtime. Suppose your team succeeds in a two point conversion 100 X p% of the time. If they succeed, then on the next touchdown, they can simply kick the extra point and win. B...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...s what was needed. Along with the other teachers in Oklahoma Excel, we began to test and perfect Puzzle Problems. These are short, five to 15 minute accessible problems that allow students to practice justifying their answers first collaboratively, then individually with problem stems like “Which...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...y important enter key. Notice that trigonometry functions are all found in one key, trig. The bottom section of the keypad has alphabetical keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and ?!. Use the Scratchpad The Scratchpad is where you can perform calculations and create graphs quickly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
In order to raise public awareness about the importance of financial education in the U.S., April is designated Financial Literacy Month. Research shows that individuals who have a deeper understanding about personal finances are better prepared for financial management and long-term economic su...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...viduality to the table. What is your primary goal for the students you are teaching? I want them to leave school with skills that will help them be successful in life – whether in the workforce or just real life. Knowing how to persevere and be confident in overcoming challenges is important, esp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
On the SAT® exam, calculators are allowed on one of the two math sections. Read on for tips to leverage your TI-84 Plus CE for success on test day! The example questions explained below are like questions you might see on the SAT® exam. 1. Know Your Tools Bring a calculator that you are famil...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
... students to build electrical circuits and write a simple program to control the model. Students become familiar with coding by using the easily accessible menu-based system within TI calculators. These activities are available using multiple platforms and languages: TI-Basic (TI-Nspire™ CX, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
... commands to let us set up and draw our graph. Add the PlotLib module: menu > TI PlotLib > import ti_plotlib as plt Now that we have access to the commands we need, have the students set their window, add the grid, add the axes and pick a color. Once the students have added ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...rthermore, it’s that randomness that catches the interest of the students and gives them an opportunity to be invested in the outcome. How can we accomplish this? By following the instructional arc of Intuition Confidence Simulation Calculation This instructional arc is a ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator