Insider Tips for Winning the TI Codes Contest
...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/ticodes . TI provides free lessons that go over programming on the calculator. With TI-Basic, yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/ticodescontest
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Daniel Wilkie
...ou the answer, it's a tool to aid in the process. The other thing I’d say is, just get help. Put yourself out there and ask for help. There are so many people older than you that have experienced so much more and can help you through the teaching process. You don't have to do it by yourself. You...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/teacherofthemonth
Introducing the TI-Nspire CX II
...al technical specifications are available online at education.ti.com/TI-Nspire-CXII SAT* and AP*are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board PSAT/NMSQT* is a registered trademark of the College Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation IB is a registered tradem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/nspire
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
...the Math Segment manager at Texas Instruments. He taught mathematics and AP® Statistics for several years. Since starting at TI in 2015, he has led many content development projects including the Math in Motion series. He has always found joy in exploring the patterns and logic of mathematics. In...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...tigation comprehending that if y = f(x) + k, a function translates “up” k units and if y = f(x + k), a function translates “left” k units. However, many students leave the investigation puzzled as to why in one instance “+ k” results in a positive movement, up, and in the other instance, “+ k” re...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
A Teacher’s 5 Words That Changed My Life
...gineer. More importantly, he said, “I could be an engineer.” Those words changed my life. I didn’t really know what an engineer did. I didn’t know any female engineers, and I didn’t know any African American engineers. Yet, it never dawned on me that I couldn’t be an engineer. Computers and int...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/intlwomensday
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
...re to acetone. Only use enough acetone to cause the cup to dissolve. Follow your school’s chemical safety guidelines at all times when using this or any chemical available to the school’s science department. What you’ll need: Foam polystyrene cup(cups or packaging material) Container (p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School
...at might help in developing groups throughout the year. There is no need to start with rules and policies on the first day. You may need to identify any routines as needed for the activities. However, the first day should focus on developing a classroom community and demonstrating to your passion...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/first_week_tips
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
How many times have you heard someone say they’re not a “math person?” Probably more than you can count. Most of the time, it’s an adult saying this. It’s likely because their math education relied heavily on memorization to learn facts and procedures. Fortunately, that’s no longer true. Te...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
Professional basketball star donates TI calculators to his former high school
...they need to succeed. The hoops star said it puts a smile on his face knowing Riverside students will be able to use these graphing calculators for many years to come. Warren was the 14th overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft and is currently the starting forward for the Phoenix Suns. “I think it sa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/february/tj-warren-donates
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
One of my earliest memories is of me in the car, at the age of four, playing electronic math drill games on my Little Professor. For many years, my primary car entertainment was seeing how many answers I could get right in a row. I could have never imagined that today I would actually work as a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
... experience in the assessment industry, so believe me when I say that girls and boys perform equally well in math and science standardized tests. If anything, girls are doing better than boys in the early grades. So, if boys and girls are equally capable, why do fewer women enter the STEM fields?...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
7 Reasons Why Python on the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator Is a Must-Have for Your Classroom
... must-have for all educators and students: #1: Why Python? Python is a high-level and general-purpose programming language. It’s widely used in many industries, as well as in education, and is designed to be easy to learn. Python is used in a variety of applications, including artificial inte...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/7-reasons-why-python-is-a-must
Customize your TI calculator with a 3-D printed case
...tor as a straight edge when he’s drafting designs. But, because the slide cases are beveled, they aren’t ideal for drawing a straight line. So, like any good engineer, Galu identified a problem and created a solution to solve it. With his 3-D printable designs, you can print a slide cover that ha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/3d-slide-case
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...dent thought to use the value of the discriminant in order to find which values for b would yield no solutions for the quadratic. I’m convinced too many students are just memorizing steps. In order to use the discriminant to find out how many and what type of solutions a quadratic has, I want stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
ICYMI: Top 10 Webinars of 2019
...ectations across the grade levels to prep for AP® Calculus. Something Old, Something New With the TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator Hosted by Johnny Ashurst and Kathy Hale In this webinar, the presenters promote strategies that connect some frequently overlooked TI-84 Plus CE capabilities wi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019webinars
A case for handheld graphing calculators
... costs of hardware, IT infrastructure, bandwidth and device management, the overhead for implementing this type of solution can be overwhelming for many school districts. Not to mention the toll it takes on school Wi-Fi networks – I have heard too many stories where online tools freeze or crash, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/may/why-graphing-calculators-add-up
Best of Biology
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/bestofbiology
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
... a time of .293 s, which corresponds to the first entry in cell B2 in the Lists & Spreadsheet (L&S) page (Figure 6). Record all those times, for as many bounces as possible, in the second column. Using these entries allows us to compute the difference in time between bounces and enter those in co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions
...s will investigate the derivatives of sine, cosine, natural log and natural exponential functions by examining the symmetric difference quotient at many points. They develop the idea of the derivative as a function. They gather evidence toward some common derivative formulas. They also use numeri...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-investigating-derivatives-common-functions
Analyzing Country Data
...nd Statistics Activity Overview This activity involves sample listings of the ages of 200 people from each of three countries: USA, Kenya and Japan. Students will: Consider why a summary of ages is important and how a summary of the ages can be connected to a better understan...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-analyzing-country-data
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Tim Collier
... made me realize that I’d like to give back and teach others, just like they did for me. Teaching is my calling, and I wouldn’t feel fulfilled doing anything else. "Focusing on building relationships with students is much more important than teaching rigorous math lessons." Tim Collier, TI Tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/february/teacherofthemonth
Analyzing Country Data
...nd Statistics Activity Overview This activity involves sample listings of the ages of 200 people from each of three countries: USA, Kenya and Japan. Students will: Consider why a summary of ages is important and how a summary of the ages can be connected to a better understan...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches/nspire-analyzing-country-data
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions
...s will investigate the derivatives of sine, cosine, natural log and natural exponential functions by examining the symmetric difference quotient at many points. They develop the idea of the derivative as a function. They gather evidence toward some common derivative formulas. They also use numeri...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches/84-investigating-derivatives-common-functions
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions apcalculus website Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Analysis and Approaches | Calculus Activity Overview One of the...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches/nspire-investigating-derivatives-common-functions