StatisticsOfficeHours
...en student and teacher content knowledge. Starnes, a former reader for the exam, will offer tried-and-true strategies to help you and your students succeed. The YouTube Live “AP® Statistics Office Hours With Daren Starnes” begin Monday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. Central time). You w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...r than Z or 90 to go back to 65. Otherwise, you’ll end up with symbols such as the “]” as seen in the shell. For example, 3 past Z, should be C. To accomplish this, use %ord(‘Z’) to determine how far past 90 the letter was shifted. Add this amount to one less than the value of A. If we move 7 pa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...perwork, or angry parents or lunch duty, it’s to help kids realize that the highest levels of math aren’t out of reach; it is something they can be successful at,” Meyer said. He concluded: “I joke with my students that you can’t win championships in practice, but you can’t win championships with...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...e successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers and dividing decimals by decimals. For most students, middle school is their first opportunity to use a calculator, and everyone can likely remember how excited they wer...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...? 100% engagement is possible! I started implementing questioning strategies my very first year of teaching, and I believe it is the key to student success, classroom management, and of course, engagement. Before you even start implementing this cycle of questioning, it is important to set some g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
... nice job in helping students see and understand Newton’s second law through the use of a simple simulation meant to collect data on mass, force and acceleration. Screenshots from the Newton’s Second Law activity. 3. Forces and Motion: Free Body Diagrams This activity has sev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...m Set // Solution Set April 26: Reviewing for the AP exam Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live sessions on our YouTube channel here. Can’t get enough of calculus? Check out our resources reviewing previous free-response...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
... conversion rate is under 50%, otherwise why are we having this conversation?) and then have a 50% chance of winning in overtime. Suppose your team succeeds in a two point conversion 100 X p% of the time. If they succeed, then on the next touchdown, they can simply kick the extra point and win. B...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...s what was needed. Along with the other teachers in Oklahoma Excel, we began to test and perfect Puzzle Problems. These are short, five to 15 minute accessible problems that allow students to practice justifying their answers first collaboratively, then individually with problem stems like “Which...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...y important enter key. Notice that trigonometry functions are all found in one key, trig. The bottom section of the keypad has alphabetical keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and ?!. Use the Scratchpad The Scratchpad is where you can perform calculations and create graphs quickly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...I will be the first to admit that I don’t know everything there is to know about finances. However, I am a strong believer in educating myself. Start by taking this short financial literacy quiz to assess your own financial knowledge. The first step to understanding your own finances is to do a f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...viduality to the table. What is your primary goal for the students you are teaching? I want them to leave school with skills that will help them be successful in life – whether in the workforce or just real life. Knowing how to persevere and be confident in overcoming challenges is important, esp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...es When questions involve fractions, absolute values, or radicals, use the MathPrint templates built into the TI-84 Plus CE. Access the fraction bar by pressing the alpha key then the X,T,Θ,n key on CE models and alpha then y= on other TI-84 Plus models. You can also easily convert between frac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
... students to build electrical circuits and write a simple program to control the model. Students become familiar with coding by using the easily accessible menu-based system within TI calculators. These activities are available using multiple platforms and languages: TI-Basic (TI-Nspire™ CX, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
... commands to let us set up and draw our graph. Add the PlotLib module: menu > TI PlotLib > import ti_plotlib as plt Now that we have access to the commands we need, have the students set their window, add the grid, add the axes and pick a color. Once the students have added ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...rthermore, 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 instructional arc is a ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...nterests. My goal as a teacher will be to help the next generation find their passions and hopefully expose them to the STEM skills they need to be successful members of the 21st century workforce. If you can integrate STEM concepts into problems your students are passionate about, where they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...What was your favorite thing about the TI Codes Contest? “My favorite thing about the TI Codes Contest was overcoming the initial problems. The success felt after a hard obstacle is a great feeling.” — NaviGator Building a working model of the group idea. It was invigorating to ex...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...te from Texas Tech University, he has a passion for helping educators discover ways to enrich the classroom learning experience and support student success. The teacher may be out, but learning is still in. Explore our collection of video lessons to make sure your students can continue their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...ution. EYW is project-based and collaborative, and each project has a dedicated customer. So, in the spring of 2018, when our coding unit came to a successful conclusion, we looked for a design challenge that incorporated technology, coding and environmental resource management. The “Smart Water ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...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, so they aren’t surprised at the end of the quarter. I make sure that my students know the grade th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
...tors) and tell us what teacher we should be sure to follow. Need some inspiration for your classroom? We’ve done our homework and found 5 Instagram accounts to add to your follow list right now. These teachers are sure to help get your creative juices flowing while adding some practical teaching...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...s just “trying things out” until something looks like a good answer. Exploration with technology is a worthy exercise during learning activities, but by assessment time, students should be able to use the graphing calculator in a targeted manner to effectively solve problems. Set up the Handhe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...urselves, we thought it would be interesting and fun to put our discussions out into the world in the form of a podcast, providing anytime, anywhere access to ideas, questions and considerations for growing as a math educator. We keep each episode to about 30-minutes long, knowing that educators’...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...oducts, and developing meaningful programming content for mathematics and science ... and still having fun with all the graphing calculators and the accompanying toys. Americans honor the Fourth of July with family and friends, cookouts and barbecues, parades, flags and … fireworks! Your calcu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth