Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
... day. It’s not for paperwork, 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 w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
.... Students are more likely to feel safe and comfortable knowing that their teacher does not believe that they are starting the school year lacking something, and this safety and comfort is crucial. After all, relationships are the cornerstone of a learning classroom. Shifting our scope and sequ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...students lack the mathematical understanding needed to solve problems and, as a result, make conceptual errors even with the help of a calculator for computations. I find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...t the kids who don’t come up with anything or don’t want to share? This is where “turn-and-talk” comes into play. Students work together on an assignment with their calculators. Turn-and-talk Just as straightforward as it sounds, turn-and-talk happens immediat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
... After a long day, I never want to work out, let alone spend an extra hour to get my annual medical checkup. I frequently think of self-care as something that feels good, like watching Netflix in bed or having dessert after dinner. However, it’s important to remember that self-care isn’t alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
... I threw my heart and head into this project to make it happen. It is such a joyful event when different aspects of my life somewhat magically mix together. My eyes lit up when Michelle Grooms, one of our TI Educational Technology Consultants (and also a fellow Girl Scout leader), shared her expe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
Calculus connoisseurs Tom Dick and Steve Kokoska are ready to call the Monday night action! This school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up with former AP® Calculus Chief Reader Steve Kokoska and former Test Development committee member Tom Dick to provide live, content sess...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...26 ... There’s more pi where that came from We have plenty of Pi Day activities using your TI graphing calculator. Here are two of our favorites: Comparing Pi and Roots In this middle school math activity, students explore how the Pythagorean (or, should it be “pi-thagorean”?) Theorem and the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
... friends at TI have come up with five ways to help keep students’ STEM skills sharp this summer, and we’re sharing them with you: #1. Meet the “STEM Squad” Starting now through September, TI’s STEM Squad will visit kids across the country sharing some of our favorite project-based learning activ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...lexible in your thinking. How do you help your students learn difficult concepts? One of the best things I’ve heard is that if you're teaching something hard that you let it go a little bit, but then you come back to it. From there, you start adding that concept back into your lesson plans. N...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...e tried a variety of ways to put students into assigned seats the first week of school. Compared to how I assign seats after the first unit test, my methods for those first days when I don’t know students names are dramatically different. Over the past 23 years I have tried everything from the dr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
... or laptop. You can swipe in any direction, press the edges for up, down, left and right arrows, or “click” in the center. The blue ctrl key acts together with other keys. Look around for the blue icons above those keys. You don’t need to hold the ctrl key down, just press it once, then press th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ve most about teaching? I love the connections that I get to make with students. There’s nothing like witnessing students light up when they learn something new that they enjoy. Math can be a really hard subject to get kids excited about, since it can be difficult to understand. So it’s an amazin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...r can be used for an introduction to data collection and how to use the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Vernier and Texas Instruments worked together to create an application on the TI-Nspire™ CX II handheld that will collect and analyze data. One of my favorite activities is where students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...ple 3: (grid-in) Solve for x 5. Use a Graph You probably know from your school math class that there is more than one way to solve equations: two methods are to use algebraic operations or to examine a graph. In example 4, you can find how many seconds it takes for a ball to hit the ground by...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
...ome research on arrhythmias or when the heart does not beat as expected. The students researched the different types and causes of arrhythmia, put together a presentation, and modified their code to model how the heartbeat would change. It was a great way to end the year. Texas Instruments’ STE...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...change in y” per “change in x” instead of the traditional . Since students’ understanding of slope has come from experiencing two values changing together, the connection with the actual computation will be much stronger. I truly believe that students who address the slope between two points ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...of “Let’s Make a Deal” involves selected members of the studio audience making deals with the host. The audience member would typically be offered something of value and given a choice of whether to keep it or exchange it for a different item that may or may not be of greater value. The Monty...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
...le who had way too much time on their hands using ASCII art. As an early user of the TI-80 … something (TI-81, TI-83 and TI-84 graphing calculators), I can remember classmates and — once I started teaching — students using the draw command on ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
... length are one octave higher than the original (the shorter the string, the higher the pitch). That’s why a guitar players hands get really close together when the pitch is really high. Pythagoras also discovered that notes of certain frequencies sound better in combination with frequencies that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...videos. For the most recent contest in spring of 2022, the student teams had to imagine and design a solution that automates or optimizes something related to pets or animals. Q: What was your favorite thing about the TI Codes Contest? “My favorite thing about the TI Codes Conte...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...y lie in pure mathematics and the elegance and connections it brings. In the back of our minds, we both want to do the problem using the traditional methods followed with supporting methods to enhance understanding of the concept. But that mindset needs to be put aside when the focus is teaching ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...er or later, but now you can make it easy to keep your students learning key math concepts while you’re away. Bookmark this webpage for when the time comes, and take advantage of these video resources to help make things easier on you and your sub. About the author: Mark Watson is the Sen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...ask students about their mathematical disposition: what is their confidence level in math class, what topics they enjoyed the most or the least, or whether they feel challenged enough or too much and how often. The survey can be anonymous to encourage students to give honest answers. If you wan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...he projects they did “sparked their imagination.” Eighty-six percent agreed that they were able to connect the activities they participated in to something outside the classroom such as a real-world concern or issue. A third of the students surveyed said, “Participation in this program has me t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors