Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...eachers this back to school are daunting. But while it can feel overwhelming, remember that we’re all in this together — parents, teachers and administrators united by a common goal of taking care of, and educating, our children. The reality is: This generation of students has already learned a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
...hey were erroneously told that they couldn’t use that on the ACT®. After a few years, the ACT® policy made the directions clearer for the test administrators by putting the note you see above. The TI naming convention being so similar (TI-Nspire™ CX vs. TI-Nspire™ CX CAS) may have contributed to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/which-ti-calculator-for-the-act-and-why
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...uld be doing math tasks in the classroom. We need to develop better problem-solvers. The birdhouse project had roadblocks that every group had to overcome. It wasn’t as easy as they thought it would be. Designing, planning, drawing scale drawings, figuring surface area of unusual shapes — there i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
... the TI-84 Plus CE or TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator, you can request a software license from your local Educational Technology Consultant to demonstrate these activities for use in your classroom. Any additional equipment or materials that may be needed for data collection and analysis are...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
Four seconds left in the big game, and the score is 27-28 — you’re behind. A 50-yard field goal wins the game. Your task is to use a mathematical model to demonstrate kicking a field goal to win the game. Wait … are you more into the celebration and all the hoopla (I mean all those snacks and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
... activities in their classes, robots can enrich all classes — including history, science and math. I have the pleasure of leading TI’s robotics outreach programs and get to work with partners to increase student participation in STEM and robotics competitions. Through this work, I am often in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
Python Modules Have More Fun | Texas Instruments
...TI_IMAGE and TI_DRAW modules as well as TI_PLOTLIB, TI_SYSTEM, TI_HUB and TI_ROVER, a BBC micro:bit module, and more to come. For some introduction and practice with some of the TI modules, see the additional [+] Python Modules section of TI Codes for TI-84 Plus CE Python. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-modules-have-more-fun
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
...perhaps teach you a thing or two about your class. But with many schools across the country starting virtually, getting to know your students, with a computer screen between you and them, has its challenges. For starters, a virtual setup makes it harder to read students’ facial expressions, and i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Introducing the TI-Nspire CX II
... CX II and TI-Nspire CX II CAS give students more opportunities to visualize important, abstract concepts, not just in math class, but in science and computer programming courses. "Students and teachers asked us to make their graphing calculator more responsive as they are using it increasingly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/nspire
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
Calculus connoisseurs Tom Dick and Steve Kokoska are ready to call the Monday night action! For the 2021–22 school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has once again teamed up with former AP® Calculus Chief Reader Steve Kokoska and former Test Development committee member Tom Dick to provide l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus
A first-of-its-kind STEM strategy charts path to help educators
...borated in order to lay out a framework that can help educators across disciplines equip all students for a world that’s increasingly demanding STEM competencies. "A project of this nature has never been done before – assembling disparate yet dependent education organizations to learn from eac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/a-first-of-its-kind-stem-strategy-charts-path-to-help-educators
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...ed “The seven minutes of terror,” the Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars. Perseverance carried an arsenal of scientific instruments designed to hunt for signs of past microbial life, if it ever existed. In other words, its mission is to hunt directly for these “biosigna...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
...p to spread math love around the U.S. and, ultimately, the globe, through some supercute exclusive trackables. These trackables are small tokens that come in five different, fun “math buddy” designs: Acutie on Duty Buddies² Infinitely in Love Irrational Love of Pi Far Out Fractals, Man ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...ealthy and calm? Vanessa Vakharia, known as The Math Guru, has been in your shoes. In fact, when Vanessa was in high school, math class was a huge struggle. Thanks to some amazing teachers and life-changing learning environments, she’s a math lover, math teacher and founder of the trendy XAM st...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...t reply, “Oh, you don’t need to know that.” If the students fail to ask the necessary questions, should we supply that information anyway? We don’t recommend that. Eventually students will ask for the necessary information. We want this to be as close to a real-world application problem as possib...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
...e to get adjusted, and you have to accept the fact that it’s not going to happen on the first day.” 2. Build the relationships and the learning will come One advantage teachers have in transitioning from the classroom to an online environment is that relationships have already been formed. You h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...may have or just introduce a topic that the students haven’t really had a chance to explore. The fascinating part is that usually the questions cover common topics, but the tests take an uncommon approach to asking the question. I am going to share two ACT® questions that do precisely that. T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
5 Springtime Math Resources for Teachers | Texas Instruments
... We particularly love the polar flower graphs from “Spring Into Math," the groovy lettering and flowers from “It’s a Good Day To Do Math," and the extra-large rainbow lines from her “Back to School” bundle. Find more free printables and other ideas on our Classroom Decor Pinterest board. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/fresh-spring-ideas
STEM Projects: Exploring the Heartbeat | Texas Instruments
...d write a simple program to control the model. The activities available from TI STEM resources offer students different challenges that help them become more and more familiar with programming. The easy-to-use, menu-based system built into TI graphing calculators helps guide them through and se...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/heartbeat-of-stem
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
... Week is simple: to inspire students in robotics and STEM-related fields and to share the excitement of robotics with audiences of all ages. Texas Instruments can help you, inspire your students, with the TI-Innovator™ Rover programmable vehicle. It’s fun, it’s cool, and best of all, students of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/using-robotics-to-teach-math
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...r you can adjust the sampling rates if necessary. As can be seen in Figure 4, the sound is recorded in the form of air pressure variations in arbitrary units by the Vernier microphone. The sensor uses an electret microphone that has a frequency response covering essentially the range of the h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
How to Recycle Calculators | Texas Instruments
...lators the eco-friendly way and reduce waste. Texas Instruments makes it easy to recycle your calculators. Get details. website https://education.ti.com/en/about/calculator-recycling .align-verticall...https://education.ti.com/en/about/calculator-recycling
Solution 25970: Engraving Texas Instruments Basic, Elementary, Scientific, Financial, and Graphing Calculators.
...| TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family of products Knowledge Base Knowledge Base Search Does Texas Instruments recommended engraving TI basic, elementary, scientific, financial, and graphing calculators? Texas Instruments does not recommend engraving any of ...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/general-information/25970
Solution 12005: Unexpected Complex Answer Results (i Imaginary) on the TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus, and TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.
... when calculating i^7? The answer displayed when calculating i^7 is the complex number -3E-13-i. The real part, -3E-13, is an approximation of zero. Thus, -3E-13-i is the same as 0-i which is equal to -i. With certain computations, these calculators use very sophisticated algorithms to calculate...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/troubleshooting-messages-unexpected-results/12005
Solution 14510: Unexpected Results for Standard Normal Cumulative Distribution Using the normalpdf () Function on TI-83 Plus Family or TI-84 Plus Family Graphing Calculators.
...nd TI-84 Plus family of products Knowledge Base Knowledge Base Search Why am I getting the wrong answer when computing Standard Normal Cumulative Distribution using the normalpdf () function on my TI-83 Plus family or TI-84 Plus family calculator? Standar...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/troubleshooting-messages-unexpected-results/14510