John Urschel - From the Gridiron to the Classroom
NFL offensive lineman and published mathematician, John Urschel, took his love of mathematics to a Baltimore County high school to show students how he uses math on and off the field. NFL offensive lineman and published mathematician, John Urschel, took his love of mathematics to a Baltimore...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/august/john-urschel-love-of-math
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...reate a working conductivity sensor. The rules state: “Teams will build a durable Conductivity Device that will accurately measure and display both voltage and concentrations of NaCl in parts per million (ppm) from 0 to 5000 ppm of different water samples.” What is conductivity? So what is co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
DIY TI Codes Contest
Have you heard about our TI Codes Contest? Each spring, Texas Instruments challenges teams of students from around the U.S. to come up with creative solutions to a proposed theme and submit their ideas. As the groups advance, they ultimately build a functioning model of their concept, which they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...t is good for us! Eight reasons why awe makes your life better In this article by Summer Allen, research suggests that awe can make you happier, healthier, humbler and more connected to the people around you. Now imagine an encounter with mathematics that left you awestruck. For teachers, thi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...E emulator software for the TI-84 Plus graphing family, this video will provide some great tips to help you get started. You will learn how to show multiple representations, view key press history, and take screenshots for pasting into other documents. Give us four minutes, and we’ll give you our...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Score Big on the ACT® With These Tried-and-True Tips for the Math Section
...much like many things disrupted by COVID-19. At the time, the ACT® said they decided to postpone the introduction of online testing to protect the health and safety of students and test center staff, while focusing on providing a successful paper administration of the exam. The ACT® is optimisti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-19-2021-act-tips
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...walked in, I was just like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ I got a little misty-eyed at first, the level of stunned that I was feeling was more than I probably ever felt at any point in my life,” said Mr. O. He was clearly touched by all of the attention and excitement from his students and school staff. “It was ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
... By having your students code the Quadratic Project, they will use these three key math ideas as the foundation and will reinforce the concepts and ultimately provide the students with a tool to check their own work. Let’s take a look at the code, and see how it is used to sneak Python into expl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...h Chromebook™ notebook computers in your classroom, please tag @TICalculators on social media, or reach out to your local Educational Technology Consultant. Chromebook™, Chrome OS™, Google Drive™ and Google Slides™ are trademarks of Google LLC. About the author: Curtis Brown currently ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...s the “system” at every level contributes to these inequities. I have sought to learn and understand the causes and have seen firsthand the effects. Although this work isn’t easy or straightforward, I believe that if stakeholders from all levels of the education system work together to correct th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...d me through it all. I was amazed by the capability of graphing/solving Fourier transforms and Bode Plots. Circuit Theory and Electronics were difficult courses, but when using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, multivariable equations were easier to solve by using the unique functions on the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
... sure bet to be a class favorite. With just a little planning, teachers can even take the ideas provided in this activity and expand on them across multiple lessons if they want. It’s a fun way to create a continuous learning experience for students. Armed with their graphing calculators, stud...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
..., to improving the quality of life aboard the station. The innovation and ingenuity the teams demonstrated was outstanding. Our judges had the difficult task of picking the winners out of so many forward-thinking and inventive solutions. We are excited to introduce you to the winners of the c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...ntire household coming down with COVID-19 over the summer and losing her father to the virus just four days after Father’s Day. “It was then that I felt like my world was falling apart. And in a way, it did,” said Calderon. Calderon’s father, David Calderon-Vital, was the only financial provid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...al. What might be surprising is that, even though the runner is moving extremely fast, they are actually slowing down. Image courtesy of WENN Ltd / Alamy, found at Quantamagazine. 4. So Who’s the Shark? Let’s take the speed exploration to the water. Take a list of all the past gold...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
Cheltenham High School computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and the school’s marching band, pulled a fast one on senior drumline members Nate Norward and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
As a proud Girl Scout troop leader in Columbus, Ohio, I spend many hours on my council’s (Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland) website, reading the MyGS magazine and searching Google and Pinterest for programming ideas I can bring back to my troop. In my day job, I consult with schools and district...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...g students learn how to program robotic cars to navigate through a 3D-printed city we call Math-hattan. Students at Parkville Middle School in Baltimore use math to write programs on Texas Instruments’ newest graphing calculator, the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator, that drive a robotic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...scovering the patterns and making correct generalizations. Again, notice the use of color to assist this discovery. One of the most difficult concepts for students to understand is how to graph functions affected by horizontal stretches and shrinks. Here is an animated GIF from the vid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...eir successful smiles and “yahoos” when they determined their errors, solved their problems and designed their own projects were contagious. As a result, I wrote several grants to purchase TI-Innovator™ Hubs, I/O and breadboard kits, as well as a few TI-Innovator™ Rovers, so that we could have an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...2+N,120-(1/10)N²,1,20): End For(N,0,10,0.5): Pt-On(132-N,120-(2/5)N²,1,20): Pt-On(132+N,120-(2/5)N²,1,20): End For(N,0,2,0.1): Pt-On(132-N,120-10N²,1,20): Pt-On(132+N,120-10N²,1,20): End Add some Halloween flair to your next coding lesson by helping students write a spooky pro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...encryption might be a bit easy to crack. Let’s take the same idea, but make ten different encryption values. Since the encryption will be more difficult, we need to define both the encryption and decryption values. These values will be stored in lists. En...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...gram perfectly or seeing flashing lights match their line of code, hundreds of Shads took on coding workshops from Texas Instruments (TI) and saw results in real time. For three years, TI has challenged Shads with unique coding problems, but this time, we had new obstacles: figuring out how to t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...assroom teacher, I often didn’t even consider my own needs as I was consumed with the needs of my children, my students and their families, but this ultimately leads to frustration, burnout and even resentment. When we make the time for self-care, we refill our own tanks, so we have the energy to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
San Antonio calculus teacher Walter Meyer thought he was heading to a meeting about funding for a gardening project, but instead he was surprised with cheerleaders, a marching band and news that he was the latest winner in the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love Contest. Walter Meyer s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise