Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...ling Distributions In this activity, your students will be challenged with the same problem the WWII Allies’ generals had: How do you determine how many German tanks there are? In WWII, the statisticians working for the Allies used sample statistics and sampling distributions to help determine th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
... recommended by John Urschel, this captivating read shines a light on the history and importance of calculus in a grounded way that does not require any mathematical background. It’s a must-read for anyone preparing to take calculus or anyone who wants to experience the beauty of calculus without...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...re burning for a couple of days.” Another said, “BURNING. My eye was bright red for pretty much the next 24 hours, to the point that I refused to do anything social that didn’t include sunglasses. I’m so paranoid about solution now.” The lesson of this experiment is that students use kinetic conc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
.... Let’s face it, what is being asked of educators in this time of uncertainty and heightened anxiety is nothing short of heroic. If we’ve learned anything from the pandemic, I hope it’s that the teaching profession, which has often been minimized and overlooked despite its critical role in sha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Learning With Your Students
... resources available such as Science Through Engineering Design and Science in Motion using the TI-Innovator™ Rover. It was very helpful to have so many resources I could use to begin this journey, but the real test would come with my final project. The Grand Finale By the end of the year, s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...up to the school thinking that she was meeting with the principal, but instead opened the door to find cake, balloons and several of her students screaming, “Surprise!” Kimberly Karaman received a teacher pack of TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculators for her classroom. That is what her son, Connor, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...perhaps one of the quickest ways to visualize Riemann sums and students can look at the left hand, right hand, and midpoint Riemann sums easily for many different functions and intervals. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
There probably aren’t too many people on the planet that haven’t heard of COVID-19. The viral contagion that caused a global pandemic has taught us a lot about the science and math behind viral transmission, exponential growth, and herd immunity. Unlike epidemics/pandemics in the past, COVID-1...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...ear (which means they believe it was worthwhile). What I Am Not Sure About For me, I think my biggest concern would be that students may not have any kind of cumulative test in mathematics. There is an easy fix, though. Maybe the best practice is to always have cumulative tests throughout the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...d back with just a few simple rules: move ½ of the reactant pennies to the product side and then move ¼ of the product pennies to the reactant side; any time students end up with a fractional amount of pennies, they must round that up to the nearest whole number. Then they count the new number of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
... incorporating these holiday-themed challenges into your lesson plans.--> As if it hasn’t been hard enough to keep kids focused this year with the many distractions brought on by 2022, now we can add the holidays to the list. And, let’s face it, it’s going to take more than an extra shot in your...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
BestofChemistry
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...res an integration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, making it a true STEM project! Looking at each of the letters of the STEM acronym in more detail, it becomes obvious that students who participate in this project will get a much deeper understanding of how sensors actually w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...f I can go on with the new content for the day, or I need to review. Real-time data of student progress is visible for me as a teacher, as well as anonymously (if desired) for students. A display of the wrong/right answers can be projected, and meaningful lesson-enriched conversations can be cond...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
Glossary of Terms
...nce: Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Content and Mathematical Practice Second acceptable reference: Any abbreviated form (below) For referencing both content and practice without emphasizing either: ...https://education.ti.com/en/branding/glossary-of-terms
Writing Style Gulde
...lish-language stylebooks It’s used by most of the print media and has been used at TI for both media relations and employee communications for many years It takes a straightforward, practical approach to style and usage The online edition is fully searchable. The “Ask the Editor" colum...https://education.ti.com/en/branding/writing-style-guide
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
...ology teacher. She enjoys the unique combination of getting to put her love for teaching and learning, technology and publishing as she manages the many activity websites TI offers. In her spare time, she spends her weekends on the soccer, baseball and lacrosse fields cheering on her two sons. Sh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Oklahoma Students Make Their Mark Learning to Program with Rover
...grade student Kenjie Her (left) watches with fascination as junior Sierra Bishop (right) helps draw a robot using the TI-Innovator Rover. “We are a tiny little school, isolated from the large metro areas, and now these kids know that someone is paying attention to them and they are being acknowle...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/seeroverdraw
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...aurants. The one place where we don’t have enough robots is the classroom. Robots can be a very valuable addition to all classrooms. They come in many shapes, sizes, and don’t always look like you would think a “robot” would. There’s a common misconception that only robotics or a technical cour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
Python Modules Have More Fun | Texas Instruments
...ertainly at least save you time. Modules give us a powerful way to reuse common code These custom “support” files are easily shared among my many Python programs and can be shared with others. When developing a Python programming project, I find it helpful to divide the project into piece...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-modules-have-more-fun
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
...ython graphing calculators. In the beginning ... As seen in the two partial examples above, I start a class using the keyword class followed by any class name and a colon: class balloon: and the rest of the class definition is indented. An important method in defining a class is called __...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...es (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 3. Balanced Systems of Equations Speaking of systems of equations, many students have a hard time understanding just what the solution to a system of equations actually means. In this activity, students will have an ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
Summer of STEM: Egg in a Bottle
...ut through the top of the bottle and past the egg. Because the fire burns up the oxygen inside the bottle quickly, and the egg is acting to stop any incoming air by acting as a seal, the air pressure inside the bottle quickly becomes less than the air pressure outside the bottle and above the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/egginabottle
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...on the exam, which includes: Models that can access the internet, have wireless, Bluetooth, cellular, audio/video recording and playing, camera or any other smartphone-type feature Models that have a typewriter-like keyboard, pen input or stylus (more on this below) Models that use electrical...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
Icebreakers are important parts of any learning environment — they encourage students to participate from the start of class, allow students to get to know one another, and perhaps teach you a thing or two about your class. But with many schools across the country starting virtually, getting to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers