DIY TI Codes Contest
... years and has worked in education her whole career. A proud graduate of The University of Texas and lifetime Longhorn fan, Alison enjoys college football, a good beach and spending time with her family. Want to help your students prepare for this year’s TI Codes Contest? Or just looking for s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...o help fulfill Marr’s math wish. There will be four additional wish winners through September. Help spread the love of math by recognizing and giving back to the person who helped you build a relationship with numbers. Honor them by sharing your math story for a chance to help them win a math wis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...ressions (figure 1), it can also be used to determine the prime factors of a number (figure 2). When I realized this, I was taken back to my middle grade math class where I remember drawing “factor trees” (figure 3). Being the enthused math student, I'm sure I took great delig...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...epth of exploration students can have using their own, dedicated graphing calculator. Now students can easily share the work on their device directly back with you. For example, on a Google Slides™ web-based presentation program slide containing a task, some instruction or questions, students can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...truly successful with it. What I’ve found is that, more often than not, schools track students into courses that are below, at, or above grade-level based on arbitrary tests or scores, or even on their perceived ability level. These common practices make it difficult or almost impossible to shif...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
It’s that time again! Every four years there is a worldwide international athletic competition that features the very best athletes in the world. On July 23, these athletes began to assemble in Japan in a much-anticipated competition since it was delayed by one year due to a global pandemic. Not...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...added some coding and programming into the classroom too? I started with TI’s 10 Minutes of Code, Units 1–5. These units teach students how to use TI-Basic as the language, and the entire process is all menu driven on the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator. I started with Unit 1 during the Hour of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...e throughout the year? Try one or try all five! The abridged versions of the featured activities are as follows: Rolling Along (theoretical probability) — Students create “unfair” dice using a list, weighting the dice in their favor to win the game. Puzzling Number Sense (al...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
...ations. Screenshots from the Physics: Energy Skate Park activity. 5. Rotational Equilibrium and Simple Machines: Simple Machines — Balancing Act (HS) Adapted from the popular Phet simulations, Balancing Act is broken into two parts: Lab and Game. In the Lab section, students e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
To STEM and Beyond!
...rstand logic and persevere through a problem. This is what computer science and STEM offers our students. Being a chemistry teacher, my programming background knowledge and skills were limited to a Fortran programming class way back in my undergraduate program. I was first introduced to TI tech...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...Water — The Water Cycle Students will explore all components of the water cycle in this straightforward simulation. In addition, they can change global temperatures to see the effect on ocean levels. Screenshots from The Water Cycle activity. 4. Space: Lunar Phases — It’s Jus...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... All of these lingering questions came into focus when the teachers in my school began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...arning My classes this year started with the topic Introduction to Computer Science (with TI‑Innovator™ Hub). I wanted to start the year off with a bang, or should I say lights and SOUND! It was a huge success. The activities in this topic were built so my students could work through them with ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
In this post, we will go through a few introductory steps to help you get started writing simple TI-Basic programs on your TI-Nspire CX handheld. We will use a familiar mathematical procedure – computing the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few cod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
... What about the big idea data? Students could write questions and answers for problems such as “What is the binary equivalent to the base ten number 147?” Again, students could swap (link) with a partner for more practice. Or better yet, write a project. They could code a project...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
Get ready for the 2025 TI Codes Contest. Assemble your own team to design, code and build innovative solutions — compete for the grand prize! Get details. 2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2025/p0-save-the-date
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
...son is suitable for middle grades math through algebra II, and encourages students to model, explore and explain the mathematics behind kicking a football through the uprights. In this activity, students will build reasoning skills by visualizing the flight of a field goal, observing rela...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...tudents will build, code and test a working speaker. The speaker is built with a plastic or foam cup , a magnet, iron nail, soda straw and breadboard components. TI can loan you this project to try with your students if you’d like. Contact the TI STEM Team at STEM-Team@ti.com if you’d like to bor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
...perhaps teach you a thing or two about your class. But with many schools across the country starting virtually, getting to know your students, with a computer screen between you and them, has its challenges. For starters, a virtual setup makes it harder to read students’ facial expressions, and i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...oom. In this follow-up post (part 2), I intend to present ideas for how CAS can be utilized to benefit the algebra II classroom. Finding a lowest common denominator In my algebra I post, the Factor tool was employed as an approach to motivate students to recognize patterns between the prime ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Best of Biology
...les that are used to create DNA. Next, they’ll explore “DNA Replication” to see the process of how DNA can make copies of itself and how that relates back to mitosis. And finally, students will dig into how DNA leads to the creation of vital proteins through the processes of “Transcription and Tr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Education Technology Communication Management
Education Technology Communication Management global website Education Technology Communication Management The links below are for updating your profile information and subscribing or unsubscribing from...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/communication-management
Solution 24631: The Computer Algebra System (CAS) and Texas Instruments Graphing Calculators.
Solution 24631: The Computer Algebra System (CAS) and Texas Instruments Graphing Calculators. 24631 The Computer Algebra System CAS and Texas Instruments Graphing Calculators Solution 24631: The Computer Algebra System (CAS) and Texas Instruments Graphing Calculators. global Solution 24631...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/general-information/24631
Solution 20169: TI-Nspire™ Computer Link Software and USB Hub Compatibility
Solution 20169: TI-Nspire™ Computer Link Software and USB Hub Compatibility Solution 20169: TI-Nspire™ Computer Link Software and USB Hub Compatibility global Solution 20169: TI-Nspire™ Computer Link Software and USB Hub Compatibility website ...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-nspire-family/general-information/20169
Solution 34856: Computing Future Value on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators.
Solution 34856: Computing Future Value on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators. Solution 34856: Computing Future Value on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators. global Solution 34856: Computing Future Value on the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus ...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/34856