roboticsweek2021
... products without having to worry about reassembling them. In celebration of National Robotics Week, I wanted to introduce you to the Electronics Online Challenge that was part of the VEX Robotics competition season. This teardown contest was organized by the Robotics Education & Competition Fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...a really big test. Below are a few of their favorite poses to incorporate movement into math class. Yoga name: Mountain pose Math name: Vertical Line Use the Mountain pose to talk about concepts like vertical lines or asymptotes. Mountain pose Yoga name: Crescent pose Math name...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...similar triangles, slope and trigonometry. Although the scale is exaggerated, figure 3 shows what is really happening: The diagonal of the rectangle (line segment IL) is actually a long and thin parallelogram whose area is equal to 1 square unit. Fig. 3 Here is another surprise. Lo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
... Python makes it easy to code simulation, then export the data to the TI-84 Plus CE Python system. · In only nine short lines, students can roll a pair of dice 50 times and store the sum. · The data is exported to L1 for use on the statplot and graph page...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
.... 3. Uncover the truth about the haunting of Dead Man’s Curve The ghostly legend of Biker Bob was born the fateful night when he crossed the centerline at Dead Man’s Curve and skidded into the great beyond. Now a popular TV show claims it has proof the tall tales are true. It’s up to your stud...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
Cheltenham High School computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and the school’s marching band, pulled a fast one on senior drumline members Nate Norward and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
Many people know about Girl Scouts, especially when cookie season comes around and boxes of Thin Mints® and Samoas® line the break rooms of offices and accrue in the pantries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... To augment a flipped classroom It is modular — you only use what you want or need! And students can work at their own pace. Explore linear relations and slope For introducing graphs of linear relationships, here is a screenshot from the video “How to Graph y = mx +b” that has s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... occur. It may not have looked the same as in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-discipline by participating in virtual lessons, completing assignments and managing their time in ways that “regular school” didn’t require. Some student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...rough and their minds processing the possibilities of what they could do next with their new coding skills. These activities are free and available online to any Girl Scout, or anybody, for that matter. My hope is that these activities create a simple path for girls to discover coding, and suppor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...y again, and a Graph screen appears (the Scratchpad key toggles between these two environments). To enter a function, press tab to bring up the entry line quickly, or press menu and select Graph Entry/Edit. Instead of Y= that you are used to seeing on TI-84 Plus family graphing calculators, the T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
... Friend C will maintain twice as much savings as Friend B. This data can then be represented as a graph on a Data & Statistics page and appears to be linear, but with continued growth in actuality is not (figure 6). This will be explored further in the activity. Fig. 5. Saving with 9% in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...1, 2, 3, or 4 digits long, including any decimal point or fraction bar, and the answer won’t be negative. So if your answer does not meet these guidelines, you know it must be wrong and you will have to try again. Use the TI-84 Plus CE to help you work more efficiently, compute more accurately, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...y energetic kids that, quite honestly, had more important things on their mind than mathematics. Let’s face it: their understanding of the slope of a line was limited, at best. In my mathematical mind, the first thing I needed to do was “correct” that. I believed if they only understood how to co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...oblem, it is what you think is the answer to the question. Notice I am not asking for a number or a probability or a percentage. Just a degree of likeliness. For the Monty Hall problem, it is about what your gut is telling you about switching doors. Should you switch doors? Or should you stick...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
...vorite here? Fun fact: World Emoji Day is July 17. Why that date? Image courtesy of Emoji Timeline. The evolution of emojis is quite fascinating. From a face that was created using a colon, a h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
... would say that it’s best to understand that the project doesn’t need to be stressful. The whole process is broken into parts already, so setting deadlines accordingly isn’t a problem. Don’t think too hard about it, and just try what makes sense. (ThePetSaviors) Find what works best for t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...make many discoveries. It wasn’t uncommon to hear the occasional “No way!” or “Cool” accidentally escape from a teacher’s lips. (We love this!) Jacqueline summarized her feelings after the workshop by saying, “I am so appreciative of this training because it will equip me with some new ideas that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
... watch and let the learning begin. Families of Functions features a full library of learning modules for each function family, first starting with linear relations then ranging from quadratics to exponentials and more. From linear relations to quadratics, exponentials and more, each module inc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...nd gather their feedback. One of my favorite things is giving students an open-ended question, then asking them to work together in order to create a linear function. Using the Navigator tool allows the students to check the answer visually, while allowing me to determine who hasn’t graphed the f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...r. I make sure that my students know the grade they earned in my class and how the different components contributed to that grade. Before we had an online grading portal for students to check their progress, I would print out grade slips so students could clearly see each test, quiz and project g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
...n) This teacher means business. She shares what we all love most: practical resources that help teachers navigate principles like absolute value and linear functions. Get ready to scroll until your thumbs hurt. Did we forget one of your faves? DM us on Instagram (@TICalculators) and tell us wha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...opment for the educators or facilitators, the equipment or inventory that youth would utilize, and any other materials to teach or learn, including online resources. Most importantly, a shared network for educators and youth or community of practice allows real-time interactive communication to d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...d sought a math teacher’s license through alternative certification. He taught high school math and, in particular, was charged with building the pipeline of Advanced Placement® (AP®) students at his school. This work influenced his thinking about teaching and learning math to this day. As you li...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...tex angles (the points of the stars) will be larger. Either int(n’2 or int(n/2)+1 yield the smallest vertex angles. Try it yourself. See the online lesson in TI Codes for all the details and step-by-step instructions. On another patriotic note, the U.S. flag is another great opportunity ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth