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
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
... Plus, TI provides some more advanced lessons for creating games, like Snake. (Side note - do you remember Snake? This millennial used to play on my old flip phone 😊). If creating a Snake game isn’t for you, why not trying programming your calculator to become a pet? When I was a kid, I loved ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
... on what actually matters in helping all students learn mathematics. “This is definitely one of my favorite math ed publications ever.” — Joanie Funderburk “One on One 101: The Art of Inspired & Effective Individualized Instruction” by Robert Ahdoot Communicating effectivel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
If you are a teacher like me, you probably always have lots of ideas. I certainly do! Thank goodness I also have a circle of friends that share my passion and help me bring those ideas full circle. Many of my ideas seem to have a common theme: Provide fun, learning, engaging, real-world experien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...national STEM contest While in Dallas, Alex met with veteran Southwest Airlines pilot, Captain Adam Schindall, who consulted on STEM on the Fly. The fun, free activity and accompanying video, that stars Alex, puts students at the controls of an intercontinental airliner as they cruise through th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...e the students are to circle the ones that meet the criteria given. In the MVT one to the right, the students had calculators to be able to graph the function over the given interval to make a decision about the hypotheses. Examples of “Classifying a Mathematical Object” task: ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...ch your calculator to that mode, you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide complex numbers. You can even calculate the powers of i. 2: Evaluating Functions On the ACT, you are often asked to evaluate functions and composition of functions. You can save time by using a feature on the TI-84 P...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...ow to program. “I went to our activities person and said we want to start a coding club and I need money for equipment, so she gave us some ideas for fundraising,” said Kachur. “We ended up raising almost $1,000 in candy bar sales, so that we could get 5 TI-Innovator Hubs along with all of the ac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
...follow @TICalculators on social media. The more entries you earn, the better your chances to win. Two winners will be randomly selected to receive a fun holiday gift package featuring items like our cozy blanket, and more. At the end of the sweepstakes, one Grand Prize winner will not only recei...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...ou can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 3: Exploring Domain and Range In this activity, your students will develop the fundamental relationship between a function and its domain and range. This activity is an opportunity to focus on functions and establishing the co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
... 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 summer reading list for professio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Learning With Your Students
... Then, we introduced the TI-Innovator™ Hub and made traffic lights, using different frequencies to make different sounds. The students thought it was fun, so we moved on to building a conductivity probe using resources from Path to STEM’s “How Clean is the Water?” We had been learning about water...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
...ccording to the ACT® calculator policy. TI Calculators Prohibited on the ACT® Calculators with built-in or downloaded computer algebra system (CAS) functionality are not allowed, including: All model numbers that begin with TI-89 or TI-92 TI-Nspire™ CX CAS graphing calculator Note: The TI...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/which-ti-calculator-for-the-act-and-why
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
... finally give back to her, and give her something that will make her life easier, rather than her giving us something that makes our lives easier, is fun,” said Lauryn. As her prize, Karaman won a teacher pack of TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculators so that all of her students can work on the same ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...o play your favorite holiday tune. Or let your students play “Jingle Bells,” which we have already created for you. ; 3) Let’s Play Dreidel Have some fun with Hanukkah by asking your students to write code on their TI graphing calculators that will spin the dreidel. See who comes out the winner. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
NASA Events Calendar
...e Space Vehicle Mock-Up Facility to see some of NASA’s latest robots! Watch the recording on the NASA Distance Learning Network – DLN Info Channel. Fun with Technology Driving on Another Planet: An Inside Look at NASA’s Space Exploration Vehicles Recorded: May 8, 2017 Get an up-close...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/nasa-event-calendar
BestofChemistry
...rons, protons and electrons, all while discovering the patterns of atomic number, atomic mass and properties of different atoms. Students then play a fun game to test their knowledge. This is based on the popular Phet simulations. Screenshots from the Build an Atom activity. 4. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
...rtbeat of STEM. She highlights “The Plumber: Modeling the Four-Chambered Heart” where students complete three different challenges to demonstrate the function of a heart using TI-Nspire™ CX technology and the TI-Innovator™ Hub. Give one of these exciting activities a try and make your teachin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities
Fall in Love with Polar Graphs: Top 4 Ways to Turn Heads with the TI-84 Plus
...tarted, you will need to put your TI-84 Plus graphing calculator in polar mode. Press the mode key, then press the arrow down button until you get to FUNCTION, then move right 2 spaces to POLAR and press the enter key. Now you are in the right mood mode 😊. 1: Hypnotize your Honey Use your calcul...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/polargraphlove
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...s! This is an introduction to interior versus exterior angles that they won’t soon forget. And solving a system of two linear equations is a lot more fun when it involves two robots driving at each other and crashing at the point of intersection. A prompt like “One robot starts at that corner” is...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
...) balloon with a center at (100,100) and a radius 50. The __init__ method assigns each argument to a corresponding attribute. Then ... print(b1.r) would display the value 50 which is assigned to the attribute self.r in the __init__( ) method. Each balloon created has its own attributes and met...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...This lesson is designed to help students think of slope as a rate of change. As a result, students will be prepared to move to applications of linear functions where the change in one quantity is proportional to the change in another quantity. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
Insider Tips for Winning the TI Codes Contest
...ge that makes all the magic happen. With TI-Basic, you can write programs on your graphing calculator that help find the slope of a line or create a fun adventure game. You can start programming your current graphing calculator now without any special equipment by visiting education.ti.com/ticod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/ticodescontest
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Daniel Wilkie
...are not going to learn in their other classes, but it could open doors to possibilities of what they might want to do in their future. Plus it’s just fun. I love getting to Friday and students asking me, ‘Are we going to code today?’ It's a good feeling. What is most important to you about being ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/teacherofthemonth
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...typically choose a case where one denominator has a “repeated factor” and/or a denominator containing a factor of “x.”) Transformations of functions In part 1 of this post, which highlights usage of CAS in algebra I, I used the Solve tool to encourage students to consider the number o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2