Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...ration efforts. I’m breaking down my top tips for math teachers, students and parents to prepare for the new digital format although most of the tips apply whether you’re testing at home or in school. Tips for teachers: Make sure students know when they are taking their exam. Make sur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
To STEM and Beyond!
...r™ Hub (Figure 1). We learned so much and had such a great time learning together. After seeing the positive impact on these students after school, I approached my principal spring of 2020 and proposed a full-blown programming/robotics course. Here’s where it gets really good: A pandemic plus a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
... Choose 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...ths straight from March 2020 until the end of the 2021 school year. I was getting burned out. I made it a point to prioritize time for myself and set appropriate boundaries between work and home life. I set timers when I needed to shut my laptop for the day. I also prioritized time for things tha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...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 decid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...room. Follow her on Twitter @Kim_math. Take a chore and make it into a game! Read 3 ways to make seating charts you and your students will love. 3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts Kim Thomas – High School Math Teacher and Life-Long Learner 3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
... The TI-Nspire CX calculator is “menu driven” which means that most commands are found by pressing the menu key. The menus will be different for each application found on the calculator because there are different commands needed for calculating, graphing, statistics, geometry, etc. The center of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...our financial assets. Once you know what you have, you will be better able to manage. Next, create a budget. Once again, a spreadsheet (figure 1) or app could be the best way to keep track of the money going in and out of your account. The Balance provides a guide on “How To Make a Personal Budg...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ce or just real life. Knowing how to persevere and be confident in overcoming challenges is important, especially for kids in my area. We're in rural Appalachia, where the poverty level is greater than 70 percent free and reduced lunch. As I’m teaching these students skills like computer science,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...n introduction to data collection and how to use the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Vernier and Texas Instruments worked together to create an application on the TI-Nspire™ CX II handheld that will collect and analyze data. One of my favorite activities is where students use three differen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...“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 (makes apps for big robots) by day, and a YouTube content creator by night. During her day job, she programs in C++ ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
... we had. (NaviGator) I really enjoyed the critical thinking put into the project’s programming and building portions. I took a more intricate approach to solving potential problems with our model: working backward. I found potential problems and worked backward to prevent them from occurr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...s to be put aside when the focus is teaching students about test-prep strategies. To level the playing field for all students, we can teach them some approaches to get problems correct that they might not otherwise be able to solve using traditional methods. Beth, one of the participants, pick...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
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
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...a math educator. We keep each episode to about 30-minutes long, knowing that educators’ time is precious and knowing that concise, succinct ideas are appreciated. Why is it “Room To Grow”? We chose the title “Room To Grow” because we appreciate the double meaning: We want the podcast to feel lik...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...gtousethis.' I ask them: Do you ever have to think? Do you have to reason through a problem? Do you have to use your critical thinking skills? I also apply it to other areas of their lives. For example, if you play sports, do you have to do jumping jacks as a warm-up to that sport? Yes. Do you ev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...students’ data points — yet another way to find pi! 2: Have your Pi and eat it, too! Have you heard of the Buffon’s needle problem? This problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks?!? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Be rational...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/waystocelebratepi
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
... for TI. A professional goal of mine was to somehow marry these two aspects of my life for the benefit of my students and fellow teachers. When I was approached by TI in the summer of 2019 to assist in the development of an IB® resource website to do just that, I had no idea where that initial co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
... In activity 1, my students explored basic coding concepts. Students learned through explanations and provided code. Later, they applied what they had learned. There was enough scaffolding to teach basic concepts. While only in an introduction course, my small groups...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...gineering. Psst, we built a “guardrail” into our bridge. Feel free to keep that tidbit of information to yourself until you feel like the kids have grappled with this problem long enough. Tip 3: Science is perfect. Lab equipment is not. Don’t expect to see a perfectly straight line. Your data co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...IC keynotes (Yes,you can 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. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...its can be done with students during the learning phase of the morning session, and then in the late morning or afternoon session, you can add in the application (project) from each unit of the 10 Minutes of Code. Below is a picture of Unit 1, Project Traffic Light. Students program an RGB L...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...er as they cruise through the math and science that explain how wings work. Students will develop their problem-solving and analytical skills as they apply linear relationships, Bernoulli's Principal and Newton's third law of motion. STEM on the Fly works on both the TI-Nspire CX and the TI-84 Pl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...hur. “There really is no wrong in programing; it's finding an error and fixing it. That is the lasting impact that I hope students take with them and apply to their entire life.” By this time next year, Kachur hopes the club will be entirely student-managed and she can sit back and watch her stud...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...elp determine the number of German tanks. Students explore different sample statistics and use simulation to develop a statistic that is effective in approximating the maximum number in a population. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (pdf). You can view and download the full T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth