Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...luding AP® Biology and marine science, at Reservoir High School in Howard County, Maryland. She is a T³™ National Instructor and sees technology as a great way to help students make real-life connections with science. Follow her on Twitter @MrsKohout. Make the most out of this school year wit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
... second week of school. This enables me to learn students’ names and personalities. It also gives all students a sense of belonging from day one: the quiet and shy ones who might want to hide in the back are not given that option, and students who are new to the school don’t feel left out when th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...ess enter to select the function. Angles are in radian mode by default; this can be changed in the Home Screen Settings menu or overridden with the degree° symbol found on the pi π key. The TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator can verify if mathematical statements are true or false, which is great ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
... skills organized around six topic areas: earning income, spending, saving, investing, managing credit and managing risk. While these standards are a great resource for financial education expectations, check your individual state for implemented standards requirements. For more information about...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...rsevere and be confident in overcoming challenges is important, especially for kids in my area. We're in rural Appalachia, where the poverty level is greater than 70 percent free and reduced lunch. As I’m teaching these students skills like computer science, my hope is that even if they don't lea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...knowstech Marie-Philippe Gill is a fourth-year software engineering student at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal. She also holds a degree (DEC) in Computer Science. As a female in tech, she is passionate about sharing her experiences on her “Girl Knows Tech” blog and social chann...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
The Heartbeat of STEM
...to provide support. Challenge 2 brings in modeling of the flow of blood through the heart by writing a program to blink four LED lights in a sequence to show the flow of blood through the heart starting with the right atrium and ending with the left ventricle. Students add in sounds after ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...es or arcs, known as the golden ratio, which is the ratio of a term divided by its previous term. Its value is 1.6180339887 ... and symbolized by the Greek letter phi (Φ) pronounced fee (or some say it phi, rhyming with fly). The value is an irrational number, which would be a great addition to o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
... 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 Hall problem is presented as a probability puzzle loosely based on this show and named after its original host, Monty ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...ogy, from on grade level to AP®, at Reservoir High School in Howard County, Md. She became a T3™ Regional Instructor in 2015 and sees technology as a great way to help students make real-life connections with science. Follow her on Twitter @MrsKohout. STEM skills are important for all students....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
...ction that they will be able to locate on the screen based upon coordinates. Some have added an additional scaling parameter to their function! It is great to hear students say, “How can we create a function for this?” Here’s a basic program to create the happy face emoji on the TI-Nspire™ CX...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...suited for someone professionally trained in music (or math for that matter). So let’s just cover a few of the basics of music by the numbers. It was Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras who discovered that you can make different sounds with different weights and vibrations. Ultimately,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...achers, so it always felt natural to me to be a leader, a questioner and a teacher toward others — it’s all a part of my personality. I also had some great middle school teachers that really inspired me, because they were engaging, kind and always had a positive demeanor. I still remember them an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...ols — designed and programmed a “digital mood ring.” This was all done virtually — over Zoom — and the students used temperature sensors, an RGB (red green blue) LED, a microcontroller (TI‑Innovator™ Hub) and TI calculators to build a device that changed the color of the LED based on their temper...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...ng their mathematical knowledge. Setting up the handhelds before testing helps meet this goal. A simple reminder to the class to set calculators to degree mode, for example, can avoid a potential issue for students. If there is a data set that everyone needs, transferring lists to the handhelds a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...o see the Rovers in action and wanted to know how to solve the problem. We then talked about the system of equations and how to use the formula. It’s great when you have students asking, 'how do you do this?' and eagerly wanting to know the answer. How do you help your students learn difficult co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
...back to school! To help make your classroom glow up easy and FREE, we’ve rounded up a set of awesome resources to fill your room with inspiration. Great for math and science classes alike! 1. Start at the door Set the tone for your classroom every time students walk through t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
... skeleton shown below, balloons.py, which uses my favorite control structure: while get_key() != ”esc”:. The loop body generates a random color (red, green, blue) and draws a filled circle at a random position with a random radius (x, y, r) somewhere on the screen. These circles continue to appea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...ds or businesses. In the “Garbage Problem” activity for the TI-84 graphing calculator, students realize how much garbage we create, which can lead to great discussions about finding reasonable solutions to a problem we have yet to solve. Link to Activity 2. Chemical Engineering – A Good Cold Pack...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...s, the washers we used exerted almost the same amount of force as the noise level on the force sensor. The noise will be accounted when you run the regression. That noise will show up as a y-intercept in your regression equation. Now you know why. You can breathe now. Tip 4: Gravity is a harsh m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
... or just for some extra help on their math homework. What many kids don’t know is that learning to code on the TI graphing calculator can lead to a degree in computer science, engineering and many other great careers. We wanted to share a few secrets from an insider that might help inspire your s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...Disp” command. Disp slope Below is a screenshot that shows the entire program. I named it m. STEP 5: Running and testing your code One of the really great things about students writing code for a familiar process or procedure is that they must think about the procedure from a big picture perspec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...ixed Six activities. I was instantly intrigued by this concept. A Mixed Six is basically a mathematical task design using Pointon’s and Sangwin’s question taxonomy to develop thinking skills. I did a little research, and I was excited to see that much of the discussion and research was center...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...cated toward the bottom of the menu. 6: Solving Trig Ratios and Identities For trig questions, it is important to make sure your calculator is in DEGREE mode. You can check by pressing the mode key and going to down to the third row. Two identities that are referenced often on the ACT are: T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...teps to understand exactly what she is doing,” said Kachur. “Her first exposure to coding was on the TI-Nspire and she's really getting it. It’s just great to watch.” Junior Jahnai Harley said, “I joined the Coding Club because I wanted to learn more about computer science and thought it'd be coo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub