5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...d to great discussions about finding reasonable solutions to a problem we have yet to solve. Link to Activity 2. Chemical 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 oppo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
... Tip 1: Raid your science teachers’ closets. As a math teacher, your closet is full of things only you think are fun – protractors, compasses, and stacks of graph paper. Science teachers get all the good stuff: funny-looking glassware, vented goggles, lab coats. But what you want to keep an eye o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...mming your calculator to become a pet? When I was a kid, I loved to play with the popular digital pets that lived on a keyring and attached to your backpack. Basically, I created a program that does the same thing for your graphing calculator and turns it into a pet. This is a good exercise that ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...(K–5, 6–8 and 9–12) collaborative discussions. Many teachers have teaching 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 discon...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...ts’ learning for what will benefit them when they leave us. The occupational outlook for the next 10 years includes careers/jobs that all have some background in computer science skills, problem-solving, troubleshooting and teamwork. Coding/programming is an engaging way to cover a multitude of s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...ncepts. As part of his prize for winning the contest, Alex traveled to Dallas where he visited with mathematicians and scientists at TI, sat in the cockpit of a flight simulator at Dallas’ Love Field and filmed his starring role in a special, aviation edition of STEM Behind Cool Careers -- STEM o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
Thanks for joining our Facebook Live office hours. If you missed it or want to watch it again, the video link is included below. Five of my favorite tips are highlighted below, but you can view more of my favorite tips and tricks for the TI-84 Plus graphing calculator in this PDF. Tip 1: Viewi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...ammed with your calculators, start by displaying “HELLO WORLD” on the screen. This is a common starting point in learning any programming language. Luckily, TI offers step-by-step guidance on how to display text to the screen and other introductory programs in our 10 Minutes of Code resources. St...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
..., I had my students complete the top three tasks individually, then assign them to random groups at the VNPSs (aka white boards). They would first check their work for the top three tasks and make corrections if necessary. The students would then work on the bottom three tasks together. T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...that to do b(a(4)) in this case would be Y₂ (Y₁ (4)). You can find Y₁ and Y₂ by pressing the alpha key and then trace (f4). Now that you know this trick, you can use it to do simple things like evaluating functions or take it to the next level and add, subtract, multiply and divide functions. You...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...ents take with them and apply to their entire life.” By this time next year, Kachur hopes the club will be entirely student-managed and she can sit back and watch her students refine a skill that will serve them well in whatever career path they pursue. Watch the Indian Trail TV feature on the co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
...rs on social media. The more entries you earn, the better your chances to win. Two winners will be randomly selected to receive a fun holiday gift package featuring items like our cozy blanket, and more. At the end of the sweepstakes, one Grand Prize winner will not only receive a holiday gift p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...e students to take ownership by rightly framing their work. Frames that are too thin make it hard for students to focus, while frames that are too thick do not invite students to contribute. An immediate application of appropriate frames can be the implementation of conjectures and counterexample...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
...s passions. It’s a winner! “Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly. Now a major motion picture, this powerful book reveals the true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. This is a truly inspirational rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...d in the peroxide solution 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
#NCTMregionals Hartford 2018 Recap
Thanks for stopping by the TI booth or joining a session at #NCTMregionals Hartford. We loved meeting all of you! You can check out some of the resources we shared, and download the materials from your favorite exhibitor workshop below. Texas Instruments Staff at the NCTM Hartford Booth TI Exh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/nctm-hartford
Innovation in Biology
...ped during the two-week long project. Students developed a full understanding of the problem by participating in a campus-wide cleanup and by tracking their own single-use plastic consumption. Armed with their own data and realization of the enormous problem of single-use plastics, we dove i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
... remove single-use plastics out of waterways based on the concept of Mr. Trash Wheel. Since this was an original project, I could not directly fall back on the resources on the education.ti.com website. I had to help my students figure it out, and many of my answers to their questions were, “I do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
...nctionality portion of their calculator policy? Right now, it is not strictly enforced. In other words, test administrators do not come around and check or clear calculators. TI-84 Plus calculators have TestGuard capabilities, and TI-Nspire™ graphing calculators have Press-to-Test capabilities. H...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
...rincipal, but instead opened the door to find cake, balloons and several of her students screaming, “Surprise!” Kimberly Karaman received a teacher pack of TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculators for her classroom. That is what her son, Connor, chose as her prize. “She does so much for us, to be able ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...se 5 lessons are some of our favorites for helping students to make connections in calculus. 1. Riemann Sums In this activity, your students can quickly learn that for a continuous nonnegative function f, there is one interpretation of the definite integral f(x)dx from a to b, the area of the r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
Summer of STEM: Loop to Loop Cups
...: The cups are wound by the rubber band which has a lot of potential energy. As the rubber band/cups are released, the rubber band moves quickly back to its unstretched form and transfers energy into the cups. The cups spin rapidly backward but are also propelled forward simultaneo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/cups
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...erson may show signs can be between two to 14 days. COVID-19 also seems to be more transmissible than past viruses and has spread across the globe quickly as a result. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control have recommended social distancing to “flatten the curve” — an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...owing all calculations. They kept a daily log of the contributions they made to the project. Before proceeding to the next step, each group had to check in with Ms. Herr. They also had to learn how to use a miter saw. Some groups went through a lot of wood in order to get it right. Final Produ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...&M’S®, etc.). Students start out with 40 reactant pennies and zero product pennies. They move the pennies from the reactant to the product side and back with just a few simple rules: move ½ of the reactant pennies to the product side and then move ¼ of the product pennies to the reactant side; an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever