TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...ineers, scientists and STEM initiates. We received dozens of entries, ranging from ways to make the ISS cleaner and safer for the astronauts, to making processes more efficient, to improving the quality of life aboard the station. The innovation and ingenuity the teams demonstrated was outstan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...e International Baccalaureate (IB®) program since middle school and is currently dually enrolled at Palm Beach State College, where she is already working toward her associate’s degree in political science. She is applying to colleges and has dreams of going to law school one day. Despite losin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...m 205 countries (however there are only 195 countries; a great topic for discussion) in 31 sports. The flag for this worldwide event has five interlocking rings which are symbolic of the five continents where the athletes come from (again, another interesting discussion topic). The five different...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
Cheltenham High School computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and the school’s marching band, pulled a fast one on senior drumline members Nate Norward and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...nts (TI) technology to help students achieve in math and science. The girls in my troop really enjoy the STEM and coding activities, which got me thinking recently, “How can I combine my work experience with my passion for Girl Scouts?” This is my Girl Scout troop, Dublin Troop 408, on a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
In honor of National STEM Day, we want to introduce you to the Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Squad, a team of former teachers, current teachers and TI employees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been tour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
Many people know about Girl Scouts, especially when cookie season comes around and boxes of Thin Mints® and Samoas® line the break rooms of offices and accrue in the pantries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...m the video “Quick! Graph f(x+4)” for a generic piecewise function. Students are encouraged to plot transformations by discovering the patterns and making correct generalizations. Again, notice the use of color to assist this discovery. One of the most difficult concepts for students t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...ects including the Math in Motion series. He has always found joy in exploring the patterns and logic of mathematics. In his spare time he enjoys kayaking and fishing with his sons and spending time with his family. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @cbmathguy. This school year, TI has teamed ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...ats! Write creepy code on your calculator Code your calculator to draw ghosts like in the image below. Have your students draw the ghost and pumpkin using transformations of functions. Here’s a snippet of code to get you started with a ghost: 0→Xmin: 0→Ymin: 264→Xmax: 164→Ymax: For(N,0...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... Fig. 10 4 Cryptography – Basic Caesar cypher with a twist! Did you ever pass notes back in forth as a kid? Did they get intercepted along the way and read by someone other than the intended recipient? To fix this problem, did you devise a way to dis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...gh the chat feature. In the first coding workshop, TI instructors challenged Shads to solve lines of code for a counting game. “It was really fun and kind of challenging at first, but we were all helping each other so it was easy to go through it,” said Shad Emili Bykovsky, who’s from Cornwall, P...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...es that are an expected result of the disruptions to learning last spring, we can make more progress by focusing on moving students forward with the skills and knowledge that are already solidified. Instead of using formative assessment to find holes, try using them to identify what students know...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...inners of the contest and will receive a brand new TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator, along with a trip to Boston to visit MIT. “It’s all been kind of a blur. One minute I was making copies for a quiz and the next I’m going to Boston on a trip to MIT. So that’s a huge surprise and really g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...ool year. Students are more likely to feel safe and comfortable knowing that their teacher does not believe that they are starting the school year lacking something, and this safety and comfort is crucial. After all, relationships are the cornerstone of a learning classroom. Shifting our scope ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
..., my biggest focus has been building relationships with my students and families. As a result, my agenda has space for me to make note of who I’m checking in with each week and allows me to get a sense of which students I need to check in with more. Writing everything down has also allowed me...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...It was inspiring to see their creativity shine through and their minds processing the possibilities of what they could do next with their new coding skills. These activities are free and available online to any Girl Scout, or anybody, for that matter. My hope is that these activities create a sim...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...ects including the Math in Motion series. He has always found joy in exploring the patterns and logic of mathematics. In his spare time he enjoys kayaking and fishing with his sons and spending time with his family. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @cbmathguy. This school year, TI has teamed...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...nd #ThankATeacher. Learn some of the ways the math teachers are changing the world one student at a time. Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes Kim Gonzales (@kimsgonzales) Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
To STEM and Beyond!
... through a problem. This is what computer science and STEM offers our students. Being a chemistry teacher, my programming background knowledge and skills were limited to a Fortran programming class way back in my undergraduate program. I was first introduced to TI technology for my chemistry cl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...nd to give me an introduction to their interests. This allows me to go back and listen to learn their names and a little more about them. 2. Build skills for the future One of the things I missed most was hands-on learning when I was virtual and hybrid last year. I am hopeful that this year we ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...n this session we will collected and analyzed data to explore the concept of meaningful results. TI-Nspire™ CX technology Link to presentation>> Making Math Relevant Through Modeling Modeling mathematics through applied problems that students can see and touch can develop their understanding o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...Teacher of the Month Why do you enjoy teaching computer science? Computer science is a way that I'm able to be creative. For example, I’ve been working with educators at Rice University on a project that integrates culturally relevant art into python in a Geometry class, which is such a neat w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...John, who is currently pursuing his PhD in math at MIT, created each of the questions himself and wants to see students exercise their brains as they kick-off a new school year. John’s first problem looks for mathematics in one of his all-time favorite hobbies, chess. Let’s start the game clock! ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge