Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...f Kraus Math®, which provides teachers with TEKS-aligned and STAAR® test-prep resources. Check out her website at www.krausmath.com, or follow her on Instagram @krausmath. How many times have you heard an administrator, professional development presenter or master teacher say, “100% engagement”?...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
... get a sense of which students I need to check in with more. Writing everything down has also allowed me to schedule dedicated time for self-care instead of just hoping it happens. Remember: Self-care might not always feel good in the moment. After a long day, I never want to wor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...e Grooms, one of our TI Educational Technology Consultants (and also a fellow Girl Scout leader), shared her experience that she had been using Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculators and our 10 Minutes of Code activities to help Girl Scouts earn badges related to coding. I immediately knew w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...r that can help you make decisions on where to invest your money. U.S. News provides some tips on how to find a financial advisor, and some financial institutions also offer support for their customers. You won’t know until you ask. 2. Get to know the financial literacy standards There is a set...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...ollect data on the chemical phenomena helps them to “see” how these particles interact and react while making learning fun and teaching them how to become scientists. In 2015, I attended the T³™ International Conference in Philadelphia. At this conference, I was first introduced to TI technol...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...exas A&M University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in STEM Education at Texas Tech University. Prior to joining NASA nine years ago, Becky taught high school mathematics in Central Texas. As an educator, Becky seeks ways to connect students and educators to authentic STEM experiences and to in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
The Heartbeat of STEM
...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’ STEM Projects give you a place to start with so many resources available to help educators with any level of experience integrating ST...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...al number Φ, and its relationship to Fibonacci, I dare say that we could refer to him now as Φbonacci. Or possibly just Φ, and he could have been the inspiration for Prince changing his name to . Who knows, Φ could have represented the mathematician formerly known as Fibonacci! “Finding Fibo!” ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...crificing content. Furthermore, 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 inst...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
...t Comsewogue High School on Long Island in New York. He has been teaching for 26 years and also coaches varsity track and field. He is a national T³™ instructor presenting regularly at Texas Instruments international conferences, several Tuesday night national TI webinars, and local state teacher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...lace in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Presenter, Corey Boby, engaging with participants during the workshop. Thanks to support from Texas Instruments and the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts Director Corey Alderdice, 27 teachers from Arkansas and Louisiana spent...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...ly build on top of one another, so your sub should have no problem keeping students on track with your lesson plans for extended periods of time. For instance, the Smart Space geometry lessons provide an overview of several topics in a sequence, starting with transformations and followed by congr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...West Virginia State University, wanted to make sure that students had the opportunity to continue learning. She partnered with the STEM Team at Texas Instruments to offer a virtual STEM camp to middle schoolers. Bishop managed all the outreach, marketing, registration, logistics and class managem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
... with 0. Initializing a list As seen in the above example, a list can be initialized by stating its elements inside the brackets and separated by commas. We can use the list( ) method to create a list: myListA = list( range(10) ) produces the list [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] cha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
...Bats worksheets with three lesson types. Download the Calculating Cats and Bats worksheet bundles » I want to teach your BRAAIINS! Add a creepy twist to an exponential growth lesson with zombies! Exponential growth and decay are often taught in the context of human popula...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
... just activities, and that teachers would also need training resources to implement the changes that would soon be upon them. The new website would become a place where teachers could find IB® aligned activities and also sign up for upcoming monthly webinars. Past webinars that discuss the change...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
... In my promposal research, I came across a picture of a poster covered by balloons to be popped to reveal an invitation written on the poster. That inspired the balloon theme in this project, so I began with the skeleton shown below, balloons.py, which uses my favorite control structure: while ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
... still register!) “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics” by Peter Liljedahl This easy read includes easily applied and practical recommendations. It also includes relevant research on what actually matters in helping all students learn mathematics. “This is definitely one ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...chool or your district, are considering hosting STEM and coding camps this summer, take a look at TIstemProjects.com for ideas, downloadable lessons, instructional videos, and even learn how to borrow everything you need to do the projects. Getting started I was first introduced to STEM proj...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...orning in early March and saw a post by Ben Gordon (@mathsmrgordon). He shared a Google drive full of middle school level Mixed 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 dev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...” and everything in between, #T3IC2021 did not disappoint! Finkel opened the conference by encouraging educators to create a culture of ownership, rigor and joy in their classes. He suggested that we invite students to take ownership by rightly framing their work. Frames that are too thin make ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
... to do over the summer: read. We polled some of our favorite educators for the books they turn to for inspiration. Below are our top 10 books, with high SPF (summer professional fun) levels, to dive into this summer. Take a cue from summer assignments to students and create your own summ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...their mother and math teacher, Kimberly Karaman, the July winner of TI’s Spread the Math Love Contest. Connor said he was up late one night scrolling Instagram (don’t tell his mom) and saw a post about Texas Instruments’ (TI) Spread the Math Love Contest. He knew immediately that he had to nomina...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...ey are based on, there could be odd mathematical behavior outside of the dataset that has no meaning to the phenomenon, and importantly, they lend no insight into the phenomenon. Alternatively, a theoretical mathematical model is based on a currently accepted theory. Historically, theoretical mo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...uld be doing math tasks in the classroom. We need to develop better problem-solvers. The birdhouse project had roadblocks that every group had to overcome. It wasn’t as easy as they thought it would be. Designing, planning, drawing scale drawings, figuring surface area of unusual shapes — there i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam