3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...i Day! Celebrate pi day using these fun math activities your students are sure to love. It’s as easy as 3.1415…. 3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day Kimberly Gonzales (@kimsgonzales) 3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/waystocelebratepi
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...and how TI technology could be used to enhance their lessons could also be accessed. Today, this resource continues to grow and offers a growing number of IB® aligned activities for both TI-Nspire™ and TI-84 graphing family users. Each recommended activity also contains an IB® exam style quest...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...on in any class is the constructor. It is called whenever you create a new object variable. Its job is to assign the values of the arguments to the member variables of the class which all begin with the prefix self. The draw(self) function is responsible for displaying th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...a wide range of careers and possibilities. Biomechanical Engineers work on a variety of projects – from creating solutions for people who have lost limbs to developing medical solutions, such as artificial organs. These problem-solvers are becoming increasingly important as technological breakthr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...on. Happy Engineers Week! Build bridges, literally, between math and science concepts with this fun, and meaningful project that lets all students embrace their inner engineer. Building Bridges with Math + Engineering Kelly Kutach @TIKellyK Building Bridges with Math + Engineering ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...omputer science, engineering and many other great careers. We wanted to share a few secrets from an insider that might help inspire your students to embrace computer science! Learn the Basics with TI-Basic Any TI graphing calculator can be programmed using a language called TI-Basic. For the TI-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...aching experience at a certain grade, but may not realize that by providing tricks, mnemonics or cutesy kinds of tools to help students learn and remember mathematics they are inadvertently contributing to confusion and disconnect for their students down the road. A good read for teachers help...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...should probably explain: I had no coding experience prior to working with TI and the TI STEM Team. Okay, I took a Fortran class in 1993 and don’t remember a single thing, except the sound of the dot matrix printer printing my program to turn into my teacher. I am a classroom chemistry teacher by ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
... regularly as a volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program, an auxiliary of the U.S Air Force. We’ve since learned Alex is one of the youngest members of his local flying club to solo pilot a glider and has logged nearly 25 hours of flight time in his young life. He’s kind of a big deal! H...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...Lastly, you will need to display the slope. Don’t forget this last, important step. The code runs exactly what you tell it to do, so if you don’t remember to include “display” it won’t know to display the answer. Below is an example of pseudocode for this logic: Get two points → calculate slope →...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...acy I revised it numerous times over the weekend and then contacted my friend Tony Record. By the way, Tony and I presented a webinar in early November on Mixed Six. You can view the on-demand version of the webinar here. As it turns out, Tony loved them and has his fellow math teachers at his...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...I-84 Plus graphing calculator is allowed during the entire portion of the math section of the ACT.* The questions get more difficult as the problem number increases, so you should aim to do questions #1-20 in 30 seconds each, #20-40 in 60 seconds each, and #40- 60 in 90 seconds each, on average. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
When math teacher Jessica Kachur joined the faculty of Kenosha Unified School District’s Indian Trail High School, she embarked on a mission to start an after-school coding club. Her goal was to ensure that math students had an opportunity to get together and explore the important, life-long ben...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...y German tanks there are? In WWII, the statisticians working for the Allies used sample statistics and sampling distributions to help determine the number of German tanks. Students explore different sample statistics and use simulation to develop a statistic that is effective in approximating the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
... phenolphthalein indicator and 3 mL of water (to add some volume to the solution, as toilet bowl cleaner can be viscous). They then add the correct number of drops of 1.0 molar sodium hydroxide solution until the acid in the cleaner has been neutralized and the phenolphthalein indicator goes from...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...s! First, keywords can be menu driven or directly typed. The menus can help when introducing and reinforcing new topics. Students don’t have to remember the exact syntax; they only need to recognize which one to select. It also avoids keyword typos. Notice, the templates below have the keywords...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...nd safety to educate our children, the demands being placed on our teachers this back to school are daunting. But while it can feel overwhelming, remember that we’re all in this together — parents, teachers and administrators united by a common goal of taking care of, and educating, our children....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
... sketches of their designs and had discussions about what would and would not work. Collaboration was crucial in this project. Each team had four members, each with a specific role: The Project Manager’s role was to motivate and keep tabs on time management. They had to submit daily report...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
...Prohibited on the ACT® Calculators with built-in or downloaded computer algebra system (CAS) functionality are not allowed, including: All model numbers that begin with TI-89 or TI-92 TI-Nspire™ CX CAS graphing calculator Note: The TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator is permitted if not mark...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/which-ti-calculator-for-the-act-and-why
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...oth attend the small private Catholic school outside of Olympia, Washington, where they were in the same math class this past year, with their mom, Kimberly Karaman, as their teacher. Rising senior Lauryn and rising sophomore Connor Johnson, waiting to surprise their mother and math teacher, Kimb...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...ynamic linking capabilities of TI-Nspire Technology to enact the problem in multiple representations: diagrammatic, graphic, numeric, geometric and symbolic. The problem is posed on the title screen shown at the right. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and dow...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
How Else Can We Show This?
...for some concepts in calculus. ; 2. Absolute Certainty When most students first learn of absolute value, it is an easy idea to grasp — it “turns numbers positive” if they aren’t already. Unfortunately, that procedural rule isn’t robust enough to take students through to graphing absolute value...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...he product pennies to the reactant side; any time students end up with a fractional amount of pennies, they must round that up to the nearest whole number. Then they count the new number of pennies on each side, recording the data and continuing with another round. Keep these rounds going until s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
.... So go ahead and use that excitement to your advantage by incorporating some of our favorite holiday-themed activities and challenges into your December lesson plans. We reached into our Santa sack to bring you 12 days of holiday-themed math and coding challenges. Consider it TI’s gift to you!...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...lations of tough-to-see concepts In chemistry, in order for students to have a full understanding of concepts, knowledge of both the molecular and symbolic views of those concepts must be achieved. Visualization of chemical reactions concepts on the molecular level can be tough for students to g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek