3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
... 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 different. Over the past 23 years I have tried everything from the dre...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...s the slope between two points as it relates to a context have a far better opportunity to understand the computation of slope and what it means than those who approach it from a formula first. (My apologies to the students I had in my early years of teaching.) About the author: Curti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
.... She was known as the “Shark Lady” and was a pioneer in the field of shark research. I sat in awe as she described swimming with whale sharks, and I thought, “I want to do that someday!” Without these women pioneers, I would not be the biology teacher I am today. We all need role models, and i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...age that all of us in the classroom can revise and improve our practices to make the rest of the year as successful as possible. About the author: Karen Campe is a T3™ National Instructor with 15 years’ experience teaching secondary math and pre-service teachers. She is passionate about...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...ut 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 you will assess without the calculator and for which ones you will allow technology s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...emical Engineering – A Good Cold Pack! Physical Science and Chemistry Chemical engineers use elements from the periodic table to design solutions to thousands of challenges and opportunities every day! From creating better processes to design microchips to creating the best cold packs for lunch ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...olution for a period of six hours. At that point, the concentration of peroxide is so low that if someone were to put the lenses back in their eyes without rinsing with a saline solution it would still be pretty safe. (You are basically just using a solution of oxygenated water at this point, whi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Innovation in Biology
...Engineering is pretty cool when you have a problem in which students can see themselves authentically as part of the solution. About the author: Jessica Kohout has taught all levels of biology, from on grade level to AP®, at Reservoir High School in Howard County, Md. She became a T3™...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
... Birdhouse Project When Ms. Herr gave out the birdhouse project directions, the students were pumped. No final exam — woo-hoo! To top it off, they thought that building a birdhouse would be pretty easy. I think it ended up being much more challenging than they first expected. It’s miter...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
TI 2021 Holiday Holiday Contest Rules | Texas Instruments
... unsafe or dangerous; Is unlawful or in violation of any law; Contains any nudity, sexually explicit, lewd, obscene, offensive, disparaging or other inappropriate content; Is unsuitable to be entered into this Contest for any reason whatsoever; and/or Communicates messages or images inconsistent ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/holiday-contest/rules
Spread the Math Love Contest Rules
...erous; Is unlawful or in violation of any law; Contains any nudity, sexually explicit, lewd, offensive, disparaging or other inappropriate content; Is unsuitable to be entered into this Contest for any reason whatsoever; and/or Communicates messages...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/math-love-contest
Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Laboratory™ (CBL) and CBL 2™.
Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Laboratory™ (CBL) and CBL 2™. Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Laboratory™ (CBL) and CBL 2™. global Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Labora...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/data-collection-accessories/general-information/11546
Summer of STEM: Egg in a Bottle
...rough the top of the bottle and past the egg. Because the fire burns up the oxygen inside the bottle quickly, and the egg is acting to stop any incoming air by acting as a seal, the air pressure inside the bottle quickly becomes less than the air pressure outside the bottle and above the egg....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/egginabottle
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
...ene actually forms a solid structure in the acetone since the air has been released; the styrene re-bonds to make a hard dense plastic. Polystyrene without air can be used to make plastic forks, spoons and knives! Below, see a video of this experiment and others in action: Use an organic solv...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
You only get one “first day of school” – use it wisely
...istakes help our brain grow. And, if you work at it, you can be successful. As the first night’s homework assignment, I ask students to journal their thoughts about math. To give them a little more structure, they select a picture from a page of pics I supply them. Their assignment: explain why t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/firstday
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...to. A new TI Education Technology survey of 1,000 students found that 46 percent of kids say they love or really like math, nearly twice as many than those that said they don’t like it. Think about that for a moment. Nearly half of all kids have positive feelings about math! That’s an encouragi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
Let’s Get Back to the Basics
..., or differentiating the expectations of the assignment based on student needs. Download the calculator printout and answer key here. About The Author: Courtney Ruggles is the Digital Content Marketing Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining Texas Instruments, Court...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtothebasicsactivity
ICYMI: Top 10 Webinars of 2019
...ost are only an hour long. You can knock one out in no time! Algebra Through Calculus: Domain and Range of Functions Hosted by Corey Boby and Kim Thomas AP® Calculus Readers discuss domain and range of functions in this second session of our “Algebra Through Calculus” series. Algebra Thro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019webinars
A case for handheld graphing calculators
...ess on personal devices that school districts have no way to lock down makes it far too tempting to take an online tool and turn it into a cheating method. What students need is a graphing calculator that was designed specifically for the classroom – without the distractions of Internet-enabled ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/may/why-graphing-calculators-add-up
Bounded Areas | TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family | Calculus
This lesson involves comparing the Riemann Sum area estimates with the exact bounded area of a curve and the x-axis. Bounded Areas | TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family | Calculus apcalculus website Mat...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-bounded-areas
Bounded Areas | TI-Nspire™ family | Calculus
This lesson involves comparing the Riemann Sum area estimates with the exact bounded area of a curve and the x-axis. Bounded Areas | TI-Nspire™ family | Calculus apcalculus website Mathematics lesson...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-bounded-areas
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions apcalculus website Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Calculus Activity Overview I...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-investigating-derivatives-common-functions
Trigonometric Patterns
In this activity, students will use the unit circle to examine patterns in the six trigonometric functions. Students will compare angles created with the x-axis in all four quadrants and discuss with one another what is happening at each coordinate as they move the point around the circle. Tri...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-trig-patterns
Percentiles
The goal of this activity is for students to use the area to the left of a value in a normal distribution to find its percentile. The process will then be reversed to find the value for a given percentile. In doing so, students will learn how to use the Normal CDF and Inverse Normal commands on...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-percentiles
Percentiles
The goal of this activity is for students to use the area to the left of a value in a normal distribution to find its percentile. The process will then be reversed to find the value for a given percentile. In doing so, students will learn how to use the Normal CDF and Inverse Normal commands on...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-percentiles