Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ncial education has been shown to have a greater effect when integrated into the curriculum [2]. It is not meant to be additional content taught in isolation, but rather a chance to give context to real-world opportunities and decision making. Providing your students with authentic scenarios that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Fatemia Fuson, a graphic designer turned math and computer science teacher. Fast Facts About Fatemia: TEACHES WHAT: AP Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry, AP Computer Scienc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...tivity dedicated to bringing space station related resources and opportunities to students and educators. She earned her Master's in Educational Technology and her Bachelor's in Mathematics from Texas A&M University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in STEM Education at Texas Tech University. Pri...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
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
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...g contexts where that makes sense. Maybe it’s a graph of the distance between a person and a wall vs. time, the graph of temperature of water as it cools on a stove, or a graph of the number of pounds of bananas there are on the table at a grocery store from open until close. These don’t have to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...my personal perspective on the topic. Representation People need to see themselves reflected in careers they are drawn toward. In elementary school, I wanted to be an astronaut after watching Sally Ride and Christa McAuliffe. In high school, I learned about Jane Goodall and Rachel Carson and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
... Mountain pixel art courtesy of /u/LDR0213. Anime pixel art courtesy of derpibooru.org. With the advancement of technology, the advancement of emojis came along quickly. In doing a quick search on the internet, there is a site called emojipedia.org — yes, an entir...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
... with different weights and vibrations. Ultimately, this led to his discovery that the pitch of a vibrating string is proportional to and can be controlled by the length of the string. Strings that are halved in length are one octave higher than the original (the shorter the string, the higher t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
“Involving, innovative, inspiring” — students call it like it is on the TI Codes Contest For five years we’ve hosted the TI Codes Contest, an annual engineering design challenge for students, where they design prototypes of useful products using TI technology. Each year students are pres...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...se of you who don’t know us, we are a married couple who recently celebrated their 25th anniversary and have been leading Teachers Teaching with Technology™ (T³™) Workshops for almost 20 years. This summer (like many other summers), we organized and led a two-day face-to-face (yay!) T³™ Summer W...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 Recap
...tion to memorize, but as a representation of real events? Get out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection. Learn some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebra through calculus. Technology: TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Katie England, a teacher who’s on a mission to change students' minds about math. Fast Facts About Katie: TEACHES WHAT: High School Mathematics Content Specialist TEACHES...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...ver your grading system is — total points, percent weight for each type of grade or standards-based grades — communicate that at the start of the school year, and remind students of pertinent details along the way. Ideally, the students should have access to their grades during the marking period...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
The summer of 2020 was filled with uncertainty. Schools had just wrapped up a year disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and summer programming was not a high priority for most school districts. Crystal R. Bishop, a STEM education coordinator at West Virginia State University, wanted to make sur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...alculators successfully on class assessments. Determine the Objectives The TI-84 Plus family and the TI-Nspire™ CX handhelds are robust teaching tools for calculating, graphing and more. During lessons, these devices enable students to work accurately and efficiently, make real-world connectio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...m days, our time supporting educators across the country with professional learning, and the work we do with educators who use or want to use TI technology. In our experience, a faculty or department meeting that focuses on a single strategy, instructional resource or trendy idea hardly ever resu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
In the U.S., Independence Day is soon upon us (for the rest of the world it’s the fourth of July). The national holiday celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Americans honor the day with family and friends, cookouts and barbeques, parades and … fireworks. Ea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom on a daily basis. This month, join us in getting to know Ellen Browne, a high school math and engineering teacher who lives with 350 teenagers at the boarding school where she teaches. Oh, and she uses her violin to tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Who knew math had moves?
...th her pre-AP computer science class. But after one 50-minute class period, she was hooked – and her students were too. Katie Brown, Reagan High School teacher (left), pictured with students in her computer science class which won the Rover dance-off, along with Peter Balyta, president of TI Edu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...variables in a simulated system to observe how each effects the system; and by doing so, students build a conceptual understanding. Simulations are tools that can be embedded within a science lesson to provide a memorable experience for students in the context of all of the background vocabulary,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...nce of a circle can be related. It’s as easy as pi! TI-Nspire CX Activity: Why Bigger is Not Necessarily Better Did you know that the tiny little biological cells that make YOU, are tiny for a reason? Explore this biology activity that uses pi to calculate the volume of these tiny little bundle...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/waystocelebratepi
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
For almost 20 years now, I have been an IB® teacher, moderator and examiner at three different schools along the east coast, and for seven years I have been an instructor for TI. A professional goal of mine was to somehow marry these two aspects of my life for the benefit of my students and fell...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...en 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 get_key() != ”esc”:. The loop body generates a random color (red, green, blue) and draws a filled circle at a random position w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
Bring awareness to the many career options that exist in the field of engineering by challenging your students to solve the problems listed below. They will have fun, work together, and learn about different engineering fields that use science every day. 1. Environmental Engineering – The Garba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...e teachers get all the good stuff: funny-looking glassware, vented goggles, lab coats. But what you want to keep an eye out for are sensors and data collecting devices. In the case of our project here, you will need: your very own TI graphing calculator, a Vernier force sensor, 20 washers, string...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath