How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ily and the TI-Nspire CX put students in the middle of competition and challenges them to make meaningful connections between math and science. It might just give your students an edge while their friends are busy playing catch-up. *Excerpted from “Doesn’t Every Child Deserve a Memorable Summer?,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Inspiring students and simulating space travel with TI technology
TI Education Technology president Peter Balyta inspires students at STEMsmart summit in Sarasota. Read His Thoughts TI Education Technology president Peter Balyta inspires students at STEMsmart summit in Sarasota. Inspiring students and simulating space travel with TI technology Peter Balyta ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/june/skys-limit
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
... legally blind. The fact that Lillie can’t see never slowed her down – until the end of her sophomore year at Turpin High School. Lillie’s lack of sight jeopardized her chance to use her gift for mathematics, especially in classes like AP Statistics, where graphs and other visual representations ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...and be indivisible (YOU, ME, MATH, and LOVE are all prime numbers). This one is not for the faint of heart, but if you enjoyed this challenge, you might want to give this one a try. The solution is unique. Problem 4 Solution: Because A1 is the lowest piano note with an integer frequency, it suff...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...is enables me to learn students’ names and personalities. It also gives all students a sense of belonging from day one: the quiet and shy ones who might want to hide in the back are not given that option, and students who are new to the school don’t feel left out when they don’t know whom to sit ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...tten in such a way as to evoke exploration and justification. It can be rewritten like this: As we move forward with this work in light of the NAEP 2026 framework, we believe that the next natural step to explore is that of mathematical modeling. We have begun working to understa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...acts like a “swiper” pad similar to the touch screen on a tablet or laptop. You can swipe in any direction, press the edges for up, down, left and right arrows, or “click” in the center. The blue ctrl key acts together with other keys. Look around for the blue icons above those keys. You don’t n...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ginners. Start exploring options and plans for making your money grow. Putting off investing until later can actually cost you more money than you might realize. For more information, read “6 Reasons Why You Should Start Investing Right Now.” It is never too late to start an investment account! ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ng self? Don't try to do it all. For example, I used to stay at school until five or six o’clock working on PowerPoint presentations, because I thought that everything had to be absolutely perfect. Eventually, a woman I worked with explained to me that kids aren’t going to know the difference be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
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
The Heartbeat of STEM
...ditor page to provide support. Challenge 2 brings in modeling of the flow of blood through the heart by writing a program to blink four LED lights in a sequence to show the flow of blood through the heart starting with the right atrium and ending with the left ventricle. Students add in so...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...it that animated fish get lost so easily? We can save that for another blog post. Because I am a math guy, and with all of this “looking,” I thought that perhaps we should do a little “Finding Fibo!” Yup, Fibonacci — that Fibo is quite sneaky! Technically, he is pretty easy to find. He is ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
Understanding Slope Is More Than Computing It When I first started teaching, I taught algebra I to ninth-graders. My students were similar to most — highly energetic kids that, quite honestly, had more important things on their mind than mathematics. Let’s face it: their understanding of the sl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
... An instructional arc for teaching probability Probability is one of those content areas that seems to get pushed to the end of the year, right before state testing. With the time crunch, the focus for teaching probability tends to fall on calculation instead of helping students to devel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
As a science teacher, I love to encourage all my students to pursue their interests and expose them to career opportunities that they may never have considered, including STEM careers. As a female science teacher, I especially want to highlight to my female students that STEM careers are for eve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...s of music by the numbers. It was Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras who discovered that you can make different sounds 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 leng...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...e years, students have built designs for space, the environment and, most recently, for pets and animals. The results have been astounding! We caught up with the students and teachers of the five finalist groups from the 2022 TI Codes Contest to get their feedback and insights into their exper...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
... lessons provide an overview of several topics in a sequence, starting with transformations and followed by congruence, similarity, then distance, right triangles and circles. Check out Smart Space for your class 3. Math video lessons Are your students using TI-Nspire™ CX II...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...I can’t do this” or “this is so frustrating,” to weeks later, when they’re the ones explaining to the students around them about how their math is right. I love to watch that change in mindset. If all I accomplish this year is changing these kids’ minds about math, then I’ll feel on top of the wo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...challenge: Create an autonomous and efficient watering system to deliver spring showers to our May flowers. A little background … In 2015, we brought the Engineer Your World (EYW) course, developed for high schools by The University of Texas at Austin, to our Pomfret School campus. The course ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
... conversations about how to make math class better for all of us. Clear Communication Whatever 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 al...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...were several challenges — for the students as well as for the organizers — during this virtual summer camp, but the feedback from the students highlighted the value and long-term impact of this hands-on STEM experience. One of the advantages of the configuration where students wrote code on th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...emory, or use “Press-to-Test” to disable programs, certain commands and apps, and block access to user data and files. Full instructions are found at https://education.ti.com/en/resources/calculator-set-up. Electronic Quizzes With the TI-Nspire™ CX Navigator™ System The TI-Nspire™ CX Navigato...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...g of the State of Texas: Taking a closer look at the geometry in the image above, what would it take to make the U.S. flag? (Warning: You might need some patience to go with your patriotism!) Tip: You can use both ti_draw functions (to make the red, white and blue rectangles) a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...in mind. What do you love most about teaching? My students. I love helping my students reach their goals. I also love watching my students’ faces light up when they have an aha-moment and get a concept we’ve been working on. What is most important to you about being a teacher? "Connecting with...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth