Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...Provide several different ways of explaining this mystery. Fig. 2 If you or your students have never seen this before, it surely will come as a surprise, especially if you cut out the pieces and see that they really form the square and rectangle. Well, actually they do not! This i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...ncepts by exploring chemistry and life sciences principles and observing processes, such as titration, all while designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing hypotheses. Download all the files you need in an instant. Run this way. 2. Will creepy, crawly maggots lead you to the answ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
Texas Instruments (TI) teamed up with NASA earlier this year to host the TI Codes Contest, where students could compete in teams to put their programming, problem-solving and creativity into practice in a space-themed challenge. We asked students to think of ways to improve a process or product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
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
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
Over the past month, students have seen games, light sequences, scales and even familiar songs come to life during ShadOnline. Hundreds of ShadOnline participants solved coding problems virtually during Texas Instruments’ innovative workshops. Whether it was running a program p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Best_Of_Science
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either for in-person or virtual instruction. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring important science concepts to life for students by enabling them to test...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/best_of_science
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...same interest and confidence in math and science, so when an opportunity to partner with Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas (GSNETX) came to my attention combining all of these things, I threw my heart and head into this project to make it happen. It is such a joyful event when different aspects of m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...nomic success [1]. Three strategies that we can use to help our students build a foundation for financial literacy are further educating ourselves, becoming familiar with financial education standards, and integrating financial literacy concepts and skills into our current curricula. In honor of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...cci heart by reflecting one of the curves and filling in the arcs. Check out the activity and programming behind it. Little did I know that Texas Instruments was way ahead of me. Just the other day I saw that they had created their “Spread Math Love” stickers! “Finding Fibo!” 6. Where...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...crificing content. Furthermore, 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 inst...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
...xelized screen to create scenes like these: Mountain pixel art courtesy of /u/LDR0213. Anime pixel art courtesy of derpibooru.org. With the advancement of technology, the advancement of emojis came along quickly. In doing a quick search on the internet, ther...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...include a video consultation with a team of TI experts who answer questions and provide valuable feedback to the teams about their design. Students become immersed in a complete product design experience — an incredibly valuable experience from a real-world perspective. The engineering ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...and can save time or get extra problems right by using it. As the two days moved along, we had several teachers make many discoveries. It wasn’t uncommon to hear the occasional “No way!” or “Cool” accidentally escape from a teacher’s lips. (We love this!) Jacqueline summarized her feelings aft...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...er or later, but now you can make it easy to keep your students learning key math concepts while you’re away. Bookmark this webpage for when the time comes, and take advantage of these video resources to help make things easier on you and your sub. About the author: Mark Watson is the Sen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...to the customer’s design constraints. This easy on-ramp freed kids to explore questions about plant physiology and consider how dry the soil should become (and how quickly that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
... of the configuration where students wrote code on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator was that they didn’t need to switch applications on their computers between listening to the instruction and writing their programs. They also did not need to install any applications on their home PCs. An...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...s is and always has been a self-described “tech geek,” intrigued by inventive ways to use technology to explore and make sense of the world, and that comes out when we talk about teaching and learning math. As for me, well, I was born to be a teacher. At ten years old, I was playing school with ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
... with 0. Initializing a list As seen in the above example, a list can be initialized by stating its elements inside the brackets and separated by commas. We can use the list( ) method to create a list: myListA = list( range(10) ) produces the list [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] cha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
...o your classroom with TI’s coloring books. Grab some markers and start coloring 4. Stickers for your calculators When it comes to learning math, sometimes students need some chill reminders now and again. These “hip”-py stickers feature useful tips and reminders to he...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
...ty sheets, and choose the activity style right for your classroom. Students can determine functions that made an image or practice transformations to complete a picture, or challenge them to create their own cat or bat design. Special thanks to Sarah Hultman for helping create these worksheets...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
... just activities, and that teachers would also need training resources to implement the changes that would soon be upon them. The new website would become a place where teachers could find IB® aligned activities and also sign up for upcoming monthly webinars. Past webinars that discuss the change...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...w can I (or my students) make my own? Well, these examples are meant to inspire and motivate you and your students to get creative with those little computers. These two projects involving balloons and buttons have a lot of common features: Both use a graphical display Both utilize...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
... still register!) “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics” by Peter Liljedahl This easy read includes easily applied and practical recommendations. It also includes relevant research on what actually matters in helping all students learn mathematics. “This is definitely one ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...l or your district, are considering hosting STEM and coding camps this summer, take a look at TIstemProjects.com for ideas, downloadable lessons, instructional videos, and even learn how to borrow everything you need to do the projects. Getting started I was first introduced to STEM projects...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...provide students with the best education possible. Nearly 75% of teachers we surveyed expect to offer some mix or remote and in–person instruction this school year whereas only 2% expect to deliver instruction entirely in-person. Be Flexible Teachers are being asked to go ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020