Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...call on every one of your students. Whether you are asking your students to explain the theory behind the Pythagorean Theorem, or what the product of 2 and 3 is, every single student should be given an equal opportunity to engage in the lesson. In turn, everyone is engaged. STAAR is a reg...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...n 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequently neglecting self-care. In 2020 — you are hearing it here first — I want to commit to some more realistic, more attainable goals to take better care of myself. So here we go with some much-needed reminders for me (and hopef...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...ery week in advance of the next session. Sept. 14: Limits at Infinity and Infinite Limits Problem Set // Solution Set Sept. 28: Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. 12: Local Linearity and L’Hospital’s Rule Problem Set // Solut...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
To STEM and Beyond!
...uch 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 new hands-on course? Was I absolut...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...oving forward! Download the worksheets When the lesson is done, you and your students can wolf down your sweet treats for a Pi Day of fun! --> 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ce skills. And, the STEM Squad has several other visits up their sleeve. Who knows? TI’s STEM Squad may pop up at a school or summer camp near you. #2. Experiment with TI’s STEM activities We’re currently having fun experimenting with a selection of activities that introduce students from middle...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...graphs or who need a little review. Screenshot from the Building and Interpreting Graphs activity. Earth and space science topics 2. Earth’s Surface: Earth’s Lithosphere — Ring of Fire This activity takes students on a journey around the Pacific Rim and the infamous “Ring of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
... a chessboard, it takes a king, on the h4 square, six moves to reach the b4 square. How many different, six move routes could the king take? Problem 2 | Virality Suppose we have the following model for information (e.g. photo, video, post) transfer (i.e. spread) in a grid: each square is colore...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...es―not much time to take roll and get to know students. I have tried a variety of ways to put students into assigned seats the first week of school. Compared to how I assign seats after the first unit test, my methods for those first days when I don’t know students names are dramatically differe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
... some tips on how to find a financial advisor, and some financial institutions also offer support for their customers. You won’t know until you ask. 2. Get to know the financial literacy standards There is a set of unified “National Standards for Personal Financial Education” from the Jump$tart...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...cal 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 first introduced to TI technology for my chemistry cla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
... I love Riggins’ virtual flowers. If you want to learn more about Riggins’ activity, read to the end, and you can watch the webinar from Feb. 8, 2022, here. For me, I decided to create an activity where students use Python to shoot cupid’s arrow through a heart while learning about linear ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...er one of the above examples. Have your students act out a graph of the distance a person is from a wall vs. time. In the graph below, I used the CBR 2™ device to collect distance vs. time data. Once students have had a chance to experiment with walking toward and away from the wall at different ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...cale from 1 (not confident) to 4 (very confident). Or it could be in the form of a “stat coin” wager. Would you wager 800 stat coins? 400 stat coins? 200? 100? On a scale of 1 (not confident) to 4 (very confident), how confident are you in your answer to the question “should you switch doors?”...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...n computer science and engineering classes. As these students continue into the workforce, women make up 47 percent of the total workforce, but only 24 percent of STEM jobs are represented by women. So, why such a difference? Why are women not choosing STEM careers? I may not know all the answe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
...arted teaching — students using the draw command on the pixelized 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 al...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...tes of certain frequencies sound better in combination with frequencies that are proportional to that note. For example, notes that are of a ratio of 2:3 such as a note of 440Hz and a note of 660Hz, sound good together. In music theory, that ratio is a “fifth.” Music theory relies on relationship...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...a full list of all the available learning modules and lessons, download this Quick Reference Guide. Explore more of Families of Functions 2. Smart Space Smart Space features full-length math lessons, which can be particularly useful for teachers planning on being away from t...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
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...ents answer these four open-ended prompts on paper. Names are optional. 1. Tell me something specific you did well or are proud of this quarter. 2. Tell me something specific you want to improve for next quarter. 3. Tell me something you think I did well. 4. Tell me something you want me to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...he exterior angles of a polygon is 360 degrees. But ... r is the number of revolutions the turtle makes to complete a star polygon. The value int(n/2) gives the “pointiest” stars. Why? If I use a larger or smaller value, then the vertex angles (the points of the stars) will be larger. Either in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...chool where she teaches. Oh, and she uses her violin to teach math. Fast Facts About Ellen: TEACHES WHAT: Integrated math and engineering, 9th-12th grade TEACHES WHERE: Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 38 years Ellen in her own words: Why did you bec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
...name, the note length and the lyric associated with that note (usually just a syllable in this case). Each element is a Python tuple such as (“f4”,0.125,“the”) which represents the note “F” in the 4th octave as a quarter note (0.25) for the word “the.” The program also uses a Ball Class (see m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
...hteacher. Downloadable PDF with print-ready designs by @misscraftymathteacher. Download the free printables on TPT 2. Posters for every wall Every class should have cute posters hanging up on every wall. We have so many designs to choose from, you’ll n...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...screen. These circles continue to appear on the screen until the user presses [esc]. Simple, eh? But, then what? More on that shortly. Example 2: Yes! Or No? As you can see, this is a fun take on the old circle “YES” or “NO.” But in this Yes/No program, two “buttons” are displayed f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals