Leveling the Math Playing Field
...nd they demand our attention — now. Arbitrary circumstances into which kids are born — such as their race, ethnicity, ZIP code and socioeconomic status — should not be predictors of academic success. The fact that certain groups of students consistently underperform is an indication that our sys...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...nto practice in a space-themed challenge. We asked students to think of ways to improve a process or product on the International Space Station (ISS) using TI technology. Each team was tasked with putting together a brief video synopsis to present their concept as well as their prototype. In ad...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
This Valentine’s Day, we want to celebrate a straight-A student whose love of learning is inspiring everyone around her. Jasmine Calderon, 17, is an exceptional senior at Pahokee High School in Florida who continues to excel despite her entire household coming down with COVID-19 over the summer...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...p students achieve in math and science. The girls in my troop really enjoy the STEM and coding activities, which got me thinking recently, “How can I combine my work experience with my passion for Girl Scouts?” This is my Girl Scout troop, Dublin Troop 408, on a zip line adventure in Col...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
StatisticsOfficeHours
...rch 1: Inference for Quantitative Data (Units 7 and 9) Presentation Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live and previously recorded Office Hours sessions on our YouTube channel here. Undoubtedly, this is going to be a challenging school year for students and teach...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...o, where he is majoring in business and biomedical engineering. Tristan took AP® Calculus with Meyer and scored a 5 on the exam. He then went on to become Meyer’s teaching assistant. Tristan said he learned about the contest from a geometry teacher at the high school, and he immediately knew he w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...ng loss” has dominated the media, professional education organizations and conversations amongst educators. It makes logical sense to assume that because students were not consistently in classrooms they weren’t learning math as they would have without the pandemic. Shifting our perspective to fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...for their students, which means students will not be able to choose exam dates on their own. Below are the dates and administrations for the AP Calculus and AP Statistics exams. AP Calculus AB and BC Admin1: Tuesday May 4, 8AM local time (Paper, in-person only) Admin2: Monday May 24, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
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
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...ills for the future One of the things I missed most was hands-on learning when I was virtual and hybrid last year. I am hopeful that this year we can complete STEM Projects together. I want to foster collaboration, creativity and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects int...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...bber hand” used for grabbing and moving objects on the Graphing or Geometry pages. 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 c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...r understanding about personal finances are better prepared for financial management and long-term economic 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 stan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Fatemia Fuson, a graphic designer turned math and computer science teacher. Fast Facts About Fatemia: TEACHES WHAT: AP Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry, AP Computer Scienc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...er does not meet these guidelines, you know it must be wrong and you will have to try again. Use the TI-84 Plus CE to help you work more efficiently, compute more accurately, and verify answers. Just like you would in your math class, do some scratch work on the test paper before using the calcu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
... fly, or crashed horribly into the ground, is for someone else to decide. We each came up with an idea. Riggins created a wonderful activity. While using Python, 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
... I am not one to question things too critically, but why is it that animated fish get lost so easily? We can save that for another blog post. Because I am a math guy, and with all of this “looking,” I thought that perhaps we should do a little “Finding Fibo!” Yup, Fibonacci — that Fibo is qui...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...e at a grocery store from open until close. These don’t have to be linear. Have students talk about how things change in relation to one another, and use vocabulary like: increasing, decreasing, at a constant rate, and at an increasing/decreasing rate. The goal is to associate the features of the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...e? If you know about this problem and you know the answer, feel free to skip ahead! Image courtesy of Cepheus on Wikimedia. An instructional arc for teaching probability Probability is one of those content areas that seems to get pushed to th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
.... But, I do remember emails that sent images in the signature, some basic, some complex and some from people who had way too much time on their hands using ASCII art. As an early user of the TI-80 … something (TI-81, TI-83 and TI-84 graphing c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
Sure, math probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of music. But, surprisingly, the creative art of music is intimately tied to the structure and logic of math. Some of these concepts are easy to explain, while others are probably better suited for someone professionally...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
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
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
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...ke real-world connections and build understanding of math concepts and procedures. But no matter what level math you teach, there will always be some computational and graphing skill you will want students to know and be able to do without a calculator. Decide which math skills and problems y...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“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