2021 US TI Cods Contest P3-semifinals
...t related to health, wellness or medicine. Then use coding and Texas Instruments (TI) technology to build a model of the solution. Our fourth annual competition is underway Judging at each round will be based on the definition of the problem, the purpose of the solution, creativi...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2021/p3-semifinals
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...or literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). I’m not talking about the drills required to perform addition, subtraction and other computational types of math. While those are certainly important, today’s technology gives our children an opportunity to focus on mastering higher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Picking the perfect bracket! Each year, millions of people across the world gather to watch an incredible display of basketball skill and passion. During this annual tradition, many will attempt to predict the outcome of each game in the tournamen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
Find the Frequen-Z!
Practical Ways for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse to Come Teachers are continuously told how important STEM and coding will be for their students’ future career options. But how is a teacher supposed to engage students in coding and STEM, while still getting through all of the academic standard...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...overnight. For the past 30 years, we have worked with teachers to ensure that every product we develop is built for the sole purpose of improving the ways in which students engage with math and science. With this in mind, TI is focused on making improvements to classroom technology. In just the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
We all want students to dive into real projects that tie together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in ways that inspire them to innovate, create and problem-solve. Yet, the need to cover the required curriculum, and limits on time, resources and training, complicate the task of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
... robotics, to help all kids see that coding and the basics of engineering can be easy to learn and fun," said Balyta. "After today, I’d say mission accomplished.” Click here to see Rover in action at Travis Vanguard Academy. To learn how to get your hands on Rover, and to check out some of the a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
This is a saga of a (nearly) career-long passion to promote computer programming in school. First, some history. ... I always found mathematics “easy” because it made sense and decided to become a mathematics teacher in high school because I could explain things to classmates better than the te...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...ents will investigate chemistry and life sciences principles, observe processes such as titration, and engage in designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing their hypotheses. Grab your TI-Nspire™ CX handheld and download the files for your students. Want to look like this guy? Download...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
...’ teacher, said he didn’t even know his students were entering the contest until they asked for help submitting their project on the deadline day. “I was flabbergasted when I found out they won,” said Hill, science teacher at Hyde Park Middle School. “I feel like the luckiest teacher in the world...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...ty 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 conductivity anyway, and how is it measured? Conductivity is the measure of the ability of an ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
How to Start the Year on a Math High
... year. If this attitude isn’t addressed from the start, it can make or break their experience and chances of success. Fortunately, there are several ways to gently help students of all types ensure they approach math with a positive mindset and feel comfortable and confident. It is crucial to es...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
David Olszewski, better known as Mr. O on the grounds of Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, has been teaching math for the past five years. Ask any of his students, or fellow teachers, and it’s clear he has quickly become a campus favorite. “Mr. O is a really fun teacher to have because he alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
... sqrt(disc))/(2*a) elif disc == 0: r1 = -b/(2*a) r2 = r1 else r1 = complex(-b, sqrt(disc))/(2*a) r2 = complex(-b, -sqrt(disc))/(2*a) See? That was easy! You just integrated coding into math. A...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...r my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. From 2+2=4, graphing y=mx+b and solving complex integrals/derivatives, my TI graphing calculator and I have been through a lot together. (I even posed with it in my graduation photos!) Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...ncepts by exploring chemistry and life sciences principles and observing processes, such as titration, all while designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing hypotheses. Download all the files you need in an instant. Run this way. 2. Will creepy, crawly maggots lead you to the answ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
This Valentine’s Day, we want to celebrate a straight-A student whose love of learning is inspiring everyone around her. Jasmine Calderon, 17, is an exceptional senior at Pahokee High School in Florida who continues to excel despite her entire household coming down with COVID-19 over the summer...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
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
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbus, Ohio Nashville, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...evelop critical thinking skills and promotes cooperation and team building, while building the structures around one central theme (this year’s theme was “countries around the world”). "Engineers are problem-solvers, and the methods we apply are the same – whether we’re working on a technical p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...in this series, “What Slope Means, and Four ‘Flavors’ of Slope.” Review 15 parent functions and their transformations There are also modules for 14 common parent functions as well as a module focused on applying transformations to a generic piecewise function included in this video resource. He...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Computational Thinking
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Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...o, where he is majoring in business and biomedical engineering. Tristan took AP® Calculus with Meyer and scored a 5 on the exam. He then went on to become Meyer’s teaching assistant. Tristan said he learned about the contest from a geometry teacher at the high school, and he immediately knew he w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-discipline by participating in virtual lessons, completing assignments and managing their time in ways that “regular school” didn’t require. Some students learned that they could engage with cont...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...students lack the mathematical understanding needed to solve problems and, as a result, make conceptual errors even with the help of a calculator for computations. I find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes