Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...mple calculator page or notes page (figure 2), students can compute the wages. What’s great about this software is that students can manipulate the numbers to meet a variety of needs. For instance, what if the student had a goal of making around $500 a month? They could explore how many hours the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
.... Students can collect gas pressure versus volume data. This activity has pressure versus volume simulation, a data collection component, as well as embedded questions that can be used as a formative assessment during or after the completion of the activity. pH sensor — In this act...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
On Wednesday, September 19, Texas Instruments Education (@TICalculators) is hosting a Women in STEM Twitter Chat! Our goal is connect you to the awesome #WomenInSTEM community, both as a source of inspiration and a well of resources. Our panelists are female engineers, scientists, and mathematic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...sing the next operation key immediately after a result will insert Ans so the previous answer is used in the next step and you don’t have to retype numbers. Example 1: If 26 + 3x is 11 less than 79, find x. Write the equation: 26 + 3x = 79 – 11 and solve using these algebraic steps: You can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
...om set up students for success by completing building skills with different challenges to help them become familiar with programming. In “The Plumber: Modeling the Four-Chambered Heart for the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator” activity, students need to complete three different challenge...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...th the beginning of the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 … they usually will determine the pattern. People have been seeing the Fibonacci sequence/numbers forever, and with a quick internet search you can be in awe of what has been found. The rings on a sunflower or a pineapple are two that come...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...aybe it’s a graph of the distance between a person and a wall vs. time, the graph of temperature of water as it cools on a stove, or a graph of the number of pounds of bananas there are on the table at a grocery store from open until close. These don’t have to be linear. Have students talk about ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
Origins of the Monty Hall problems “Let’s Make a Deal” was a variety game show that started in 1963 and was co-created and co-produced by Monty Hall. The format of “Let’s Make a Deal” involves selected members of the studio audience making deals with the host. The audience member would ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...y goal as a teacher will be to help the next generation find their passions and hopefully expose them to the STEM skills they need to be successful members of the 21st century workforce. If you can integrate STEM concepts into problems your students are passionate about, where they feel they a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
Do you recognize any of these? The first (known-to-me) emojis! Yup, quite primitive, and predating the smartphone versions of the fancy emojis we know and love today. But, I do remember emails that sent images in the signature, some basic, some complex and some from people who had way too much t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...obably better suited for someone professionally trained in music (or math for that matter). So let’s just cover a few of the basics of music by the numbers. It was Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras who discovered that you can make different sounds with different weights and vibration...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...test is for you, read on. Their words, enthusiasm and ideas will inspire. “Thrilling, challenging, exhilarating.” — Stiles Middle School student member The TI Codes Contest structure — using the engineering design process to challenge student thinking Built in four phases (pitch, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
... can enhance my students’ understanding of the concepts while prepping for the ACT®. Graphing calculator techniques and ACT® strategies are a great combination for a summer workshop.” This was a particularly rewarding comment for us because Jacqueline was part of a group of teachers who came to t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
... TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 19 years Katie in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I think it was an ingrained trait in me. I had other family members that were teachers, so it always felt natural to me to be a leader, a questioner and a teacher toward others — it’s all a part of my personal...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...gn process (EDP) as a valuable approach to solving problems, first by identifying and describing the problem, and then ideating potential solutions, embodying designs of merit, and finalizing a finished design solution. EYW is project-based and collaborative, and each project has a dedicated cust...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
...ath teacher who just moved from Boston to the Bay Area will make you wish she was the one who taught you how to multiply fractions and divide whole numbers. 3. Esther Brunat (@estherbrunat) This hilarious millennial describes herself as a math teacher to hormonal high schoolers. Her life goal: ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
... activity, that explores the design thinking and engineering process. It highlights challenging middle school math concepts, such as real and whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, rates, proportions, percentages, complex expression, and simple equations. To this end, I highly recommend chec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...he calculator is helpful, necessary or a disadvantage in a particular situation. If there are calculator buttons or menu items that students must remember, include those in class notes, and discuss issues such as rounding decimals to a certain place value, if that is important for you. Be clear w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...s across the country since 2015 through her work at Student Achievement Partners and Illustrative Mathematics. Funderburk previously chaired NCTM’s Membership and Affiliate Relations Committee and is the immediate Past-President of the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Funderburk’s pas...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
..., and you will need the Turtle module on your calculator or computer software. The code that generates one star polygon is: n is an odd number between 5 and 11. The is the number of vertices on the polygon. To make a regular polygon we use 360/n for the turtle’s turning angle since th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...u become a teacher? I know the exact moment that I wanted to be a teacher. In high school, I was asked to teach someone how to play the violin. I remember the lesson. I remember the student. I remember thinking, this is what I want to do, this is it. I am just as excited to teach 38 years later. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
...lus CE Python or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator, you will find some interesting and distinctive features when using Python lists. The list symbol is the pair of square brackets: [ ]. This symbol is used to enclose list elements like myListA = [7, 15, 4] myListB = [ ] # an empty lis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Who knew math had moves?
...he 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 do things like d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...mulated system to observe how each effects the system; and by doing so, students build a conceptual understanding. Simulations are tools that can be embedded within a science lesson to provide a memorable experience for students in the context of all of the background vocabulary, equations, rules...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
...lculating Cats and Bats worksheet bundles » I want to teach your BRAAIINS! Add a creepy twist to an exponential growth lesson with zombies! Exponential growth and decay are often taught in the context of human populations, but what about zombie populations? This STEM Behind Holly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun