StatisticsOfficeHours
...l offer tried-and-true strategies to help you and your students succeed. The YouTube Live “AP® Statistics Office Hours With Daren Starnes” begin Monday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. Central time). You won’t want to miss it! Below is our schedule of topics: Nov. 2: Exploring One- ...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
...eat kid, worthy of my best efforts,” said Meyer, who got choked up talking about his former student Tristan. “It’s literally why I come to work every day. It’s not for paperwork, or angry parents or lunch duty, it’s to help kids realize that the highest levels of math aren’t out of reach; it is s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... a learning classroom. Shifting our scope and sequence Alongside relationships, a focus on content is key to learning. Many math teachers plan each day, week, month and school year from a scope and sequence, providing a high-level view of the important mathematics for their grade or course. In ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...tes on these tasks. Allowing them to discuss and defend helps them remember their findings for the future. These task cards are available for free on Kate’s TPT store. I always tell my students, “A calculator only knows as much as the person using it.” It is so important for students ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...s for Surviving the First Week Back at School.” There are many things in there that are still accurate, but I have some new suggestions in light of today’s current situation. Here are five ways to make sure that this school year is better than before! 1. Build relationships with your students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ngage with STEM. We’re fresh off a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center where we went to chat with astronaut Joe Acaba, who has logged a total of 306 days in space on three missions. Check it out: Meet a NASA Astronaut. Next month we’ll be visiting the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas’ brand-new ST...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...ge their own ideas. Take a look at some of the best middle grades science activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software or TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Don’t have the software? Click here...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...0 grid, what is the minimum number of initial green squares needed for the entire grid to become green? Problem 3 | Cryptography Here’s a Valentine’s Day cryptoarithmetic puzzle. Is it possible to replace each unique letter in this equation with a unique digit (0 to 9) so that it holds? Note that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
On the first day of school, I will interact with five classes of 30-35 students each. It is important to greet students at the door and set a tone that facilitates learning and establishes classroom routines. In my world, the first day of class is only 25 minutes―not much time to take roll and g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
... Scratchpad, choose Save to Document. I do this when a class is ending and we are in the middle of some work that we’d like to continue with the next day. Graph “On the Fly” Press the Scratchpad key again, and a Graph screen appears (the Scratchpad key toggles between these two environments). To ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...e activity to consider is “Savvy About Saving.” In this activity, students are posed with a scenario that they might very well find themselves in one day. Three friends (Friend A, Friend B and Friend C) were able to secure a job at the local fast food restaurant chain. They are averaging around 4...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
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
On the SAT® exam, calculators are allowed on one of the two math sections. Read on for tips to leverage your TI-84 Plus CE for success on test day! The example questions explained below are like questions you might see on the SAT® exam. 1. Know Your Tools Bring a calculator that you are famil...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
...tudents to coding while teaching your students about the structure of the heart and flow of blood through the heart. And just in time for Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month! As an Advanced Placement biology teacher, I don’t always have the time to do as much STEM integration as I like. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...dy” 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 it is helpful that some of these ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...oject was based off of a motive that we had to increase the amount of time sleeping. (NaviGator) We bounced ideas off of each other for a few days until we eventually decided between two. We did a poll with the whole school which ended with our final idea as the result. (Stiles Middle Sch...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...re learning about functions, allowing students to physically graph and visualize how the functions work. We also sign into the Navigator System every day, regardless of whether we have an assessment or not. The Navigator lets me use the screen capture function to see if students are graphing corr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...ng our math class experience for everyone. Respond and Move Forward After I read my students’ evaluations, I respond back to the class within a few days. I choose several comments suggesting changes to my teaching and read them out loud with my responses. For example, one request was for me to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...since working together at TI. Although we don’t consider ourselves to be experts in teaching math, Curtis and I have learned a lot from our classroom days, our time supporting educators across the country with professional learning, and the work we do with educators who use or want to use TI tech...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...doesn’t work. I do tons of research – books, Twitter, websites, asking colleagues – to find ways to help. I keep track of how students are doing each day. If I notice several of them aren’t getting a concept, I will change my lesson plan and bring in new materials and activities to help explain t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Who knew math had moves?
...oom,” said Brown. Students in her computer science class were among more than 1200 students across San Antonio that participated in an area-wide STEM day, sponsored by TI. Employees from TI and T³ instructors, who were in San Antonio for the T³ International Conference, volunteered their time to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...y can be very small, very large, very fast or very slow. So how can we provide students with an experience of science phenomena in the confined 45 to 90 minutes of a class period? One option is to use simulations to give students the ability to slow down the really fast, speed up the really slow...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
Bring awareness to the many career options that exist in the field of engineering by challenging your students to solve the problems listed below. They will have fun, work together, and learn about different engineering fields that use science every day. 1. Environmental Engineering – The Garba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...with TI-Basic Any TI graphing calculator can be programmed using a language called TI-Basic. For the TI-84 Plus family and TI-Nspire CX, TI provides free lessons that teach you how to code on your calculator. These lessons walk you through the programming editor on the calculator. Once you’ve na...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...rning. The companion book, “How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures,” is also very interesting. Both of these are available to read free online, or you can download a free PDF as well. Enjoy the rest of your summer! It’s hot outside — time to beat the heat with a shady sp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list