Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
... geometry teacher at the high school, and he immediately knew he wanted to enter Meyer. “I have never met another teacher who is as dedicated to his job and who genuinely cares about their students more than Mr. Meyer. He sacrifices sleep, comfort and many of the pleasures of life in order to sup...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...we have a common goal: ensuring our students learn and recover from the events of the last 20 months. We’ve got this! About the author: Joanie Funderburk taught high school math for 20 years and has supported math educators across the country since 2015 through her work at Student Achievem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
... find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can use a simple four-function variety, but rarely do they have experience with scientific calculators. Giving them time to explore and experiment helps them understand ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...ion are available as a part of this BulleTIn Board post. I am also watching the YouTube lessons supported by College Board®. Also, still find fun things to do with students that you would normally do in the classroom that build relationships and unity. It can be as simple as playing a vid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...oose from two quick-start activities; Ready-made Pi or Homemade Pi. In these activities, students learn how to gather and input the data of circular objects. Students will plot the circumference versus diameter on a graph, then calculate the slope of the data points. What will they observe about...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...her. I want to foster collaboration, creativity and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects into the content is very easy and fun for students. Editable student and teacher documents are provided, and some even have videos to help teachers starting out. Student testi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ss seven schools got to learn basic programming by working with the TI-Innovator Hub and the TI-Innovator Rover. Many of the kids were having so much fun, they didn’t even realize they were learning important math and science skills. And, the STEM Squad has several other visits up their sleeve. W...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...ano notes with integer frequency must be an A note in some octave. Problem 5 Solution: This is a famous example of decision making in football (and a fun application of the quadratic formula). The key is that because there is so little time left, if the opponent scores, the game is over. If you d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...ics, geometry, etc. The center of the keypad has numerical keys and operation keys, as well as the very important enter key. Notice that trigonometry functions are all found in one key, trig. The bottom section of the keypad has alphabetical keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ere were ways that they could safely save and invest money (microsaving apps, Roth IRA, interest yielding savings and checking accounts, index mutual fund). This time, some of the three friends decided to place their saved money into a Roth IRA account that yielded an annual percentage rate of 9%...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ternet, going to more conferences and looking at what others are doing in the classroom. I try to soak in every idea that comes my way! What are some fun or unique ways you help your students learn? I've always loved using technology in the classroom, because teaching is so much more than lectur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...nd molecules. Having students collect data on the chemical phenomena helps them to “see” how these particles interact and react while making learning fun and teaching them how to become scientists. In 2015, I attended the T³™ International Conference in Philadelphia. At this conference, I was...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...women to pursue careers in engineering. Recently, Marie was a panelist at an International Women’s Day event and “Girls and Code, Montreal Movement”. Fun fact: English is not her first language, it’s French! Estefannie of @estefanniegg Estefannie is an embedded apps software engineering lead (ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...students learn about slope as they work to deliver flowers from Jack’s house to Diane’s house. (Yes, “Jack & Diane” dates us a little bit, but it’s a fun song.) By the way, I love Riggins’ virtual flowers. If you want to learn more about Riggins’ activity, read to the end, and you can watch ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
... When writing music, musicians use structures, like proportional relationships, to guide the way they plan and play note sequences. Relationships are fundamental to math and create a compelling link between music and math that will help you hit a high note in class. Try these lessons below to h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
..., you’re not working on hardware that will make it onto the final robot, but it’s still useful. (Brookwood BITES) Do it with friends and have fun with the building and coding. (NaviGator) PARTICIPATE. (NaviGator) I would say that it’s best to understand that the project do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...rkshop “Leveraging the TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator for ACT® Test Success” which took place in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Presenter, Corey Boby, engaging with participants during the workshop. Thanks to support from Texas Instruments and the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...students and your sub. Check out these three featured video resources for your substitute teacher to use when you’re away 1. Families of Functions If your students are learning how to graph parent functions, TI’s Families of Functions is the go-to video resource for your s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...es that I use TI-Nspire CX activities to help my classes understand concepts more deeply. Other times, we use it to support what we’re learning about functions, allowing students to physically graph and visualize how the functions work. We also sign into the Navigator System every day, regardless...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
... that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (construction, syntax and functionality) through this project and by working hard to meet the customer’s needs. At the end of the project, students had a chance to present t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...le to participate in person in the summer of 2022, Bishop organized another camp with TI technology. This camp was focused more on strengthening math fundamentals like ratios, rates and proportions. We wanted to learn more about both these camps and how other educators could conduct similar ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...n an ongoing learning experience, and one I’d like to share more about with you! As podcast fans ourselves, we thought it would be interesting and fun to put our discussions out into the world in the form of a podcast, providing anytime, anywhere access to ideas, questions and considerations f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...hange my lesson plan and bring in new materials and activities to help explain the same concept in a different way until they understand it. What are fun or unique ways you teach your students? By nature I’m a designer, I love designing lesson plans or things. I love anything that has open-ended ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Who knew math had moves?
...San Antonio for the T³ International Conference, volunteered their time to go into schools and help students see how learning math and science can be fun. Since September, TI has been visiting schools around the country, teaching students how to use their graphing calculators to program Rover to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
It’s that chilling time of the year again — no, not testing season — Halloween! Lift spirits in the classroom with these three spooky, fun math activities. Students will never know you tricked them into learning math concepts. Plus, we’ve included a costume template that will make you look boo-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun