Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
...rate American Heart Month and Valentine’s Day with your students, check out Jessica Kohout’s blog post, The Heartbeat of STEM. She highlights “The Plumber: Modeling the Four-Chambered Heart” where students complete three different challenges to demonstrate the function of a heart using TI-Nspire™...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities
Writing Style Gulde
... an issue not covered in TI Educational Technology Guide to Style and Usage, you can check the online edition of the AP Stylebook. TI has a certain number of licenses available for communicators throughout TI (plus freelancers and agency staff who support TI). Why do we use the...https://education.ti.com/en/branding/writing-style-guide
Fall in Love with Polar Graphs: Top 4 Ways to Turn Heads with the TI-84 Plus
...he zoom key. Now, you will want to either press 0 or arrow down to ZoomFIT, either way works. Desire a bigger spiral? Try changing θmax to a bigger number. 2: Embrace those Butterflies Falling in love usually comes with butterflies? So, why not learn how to graph the butterfly curve: To do so...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/polargraphlove
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
... Prior to joining TI, she worked in educational publishing and actually started her career in education as a biology teacher. She enjoys the unique combination of getting to put her love for teaching and learning, technology and publishing as she manages the many activity websites TI offers. In h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...hanics of a “for” loop. Check out the TI-Nspire™ program to see the outcome of different “for” loop limits. Seeing how changing the number of iterations changed the behavior of the robot was very helpful to the student. Robots and their built-in sensors are also an effective wa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
Python Modules Have More Fun | Texas Instruments
...on is designed for this approach from the ground up. Modular programming is also useful if you or your students want to work in teams: Assign each member of the team a clearly defined task, have each develop a module, and then merge the modules into a single project. The rest of this document e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-modules-have-more-fun
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
I’m back! Are you ready to expand your skill set in Python? Remember that Python is both a procedural and an object-oriented programming language (OOP). A class is the definition (description) of an object. An object has attributes (variables) and methods (functions) that determine its propertie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
...turned on. Be aware that, when fitting a linear regression model to a set of data, the residuals are automatically stored in a list called RESID. Remember to investigate a residual plot to confirm whether your proposed regression models the data well. Refer to the video below for steps for doing ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/apstats
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
... student can find their item the quickest. I did this recently with my work team, and it was a big hit! Whatever icebreaker(s) you choose, just remember that these activities can, and should be, an important part of the new school year. Students have been through a lot over the past several mon...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Introducing the TI-Nspire CX II
...nal) Screen resolution: 125 DPI; 16-bit color Powered by the TI-Rechargeable Battery (included) USB port for computer connectivity 90 MB storage memory / 64MB operating memory 396 MHz processor speed Additional technical specifications are available online at education.ti....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/nspire
A first-of-its-kind STEM strategy charts path to help educators
...ciplines equip all students for a world that’s increasingly demanding STEM competencies. "A project of this nature has never been done before – assembling disparate yet dependent education organizations to learn from each other and collaborate together." Joleigh Honey, vice president of ASSM ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/a-first-of-its-kind-stem-strategy-charts-path-to-help-educators
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...inator In my algebra I post, the Factor tool was employed as an approach to motivate students to recognize patterns between the prime factors of a number and how to use those factors to simplify a radical with the corresponding radicand. In algebra II, the Factor tool can support students in fin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Jessica Kohout
...ear teaching self? To not take yourself so seriously. As a first year teacher, you’re always so self-conscious about what to do and what to say. Remember that it’s okay to joke around and to make mistakes. Just be yourself. What do you love most about teaching? I love interacting with the kids,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/teacher-of-the-month
You only get one “first day of school” – use it wisely
...e, “What’s a word that describes you, that starts with the first letter of your name?” I get answers like, Cool Caroline, which end up helping me remember their names much easier. Another one of my first day favorites is to give each student Play-Doh and let them make something that describes wha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/firstday
Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School
...positive adjective that begins with the same sound as the first letter of their first name. It is a great way to help you and their classmates to remember names and pronunciations. #2. Jump Right In! Start with a content lesson on the first day. Get students engaged in a team-building STEM acti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/first_week_tips
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...nger true. Teaching techniques have evolved, and more and more kids today are learning something much more valuable and useful: algebraic thinking, number sense, and how to use multiple representations and reasoning to solve real-world problems. Many kids today are not just “math people,” they a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
AP® Precalculus Resources Teachers Love | Texas Instruments
...d carefully considered its integration and how as it applies to the three overall mathematical practices students must master: 1) Procedural and Symbolic Fluency 2) Multiple Representations 3) Communication and Reasoning Like other AP® exams, the precalculus test will be three hours long ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/ap-precalculus-resources-teachers-will-love
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
...work as a software engineer for the company that created that very toy! Despite an early beginning using arithmetic for entertainment, I don’t remember ever thinking that “when I grow up, I’m going to be an engineer.” In fact, in school I never felt that I was very good at mathematics, and it...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
... see how the assignment was relevant. This learning activity was the opposite of fun; it wasn’t accessible, and it penalized risk-taking. I still remember how helpless I felt because I couldn’t commit that little table to memory. I didn’t do well in that class. I failed miserably with a low F! Ev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Using TI-Nspire™ Technology To Creatively Solve ACT® Math Problems
...By using the Relations command on a graphs page. Another great method is to use the Such That command on TI-Nspire™ technology to substitute numbers into the equations. In this problem, there are two ordered pairs that can be substituted into the equations. If the equation is true for both...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/actmathproblems
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...s are used in the U.S. every single day, according to an article in the April 15, 2018 edition of Parade magazine. This activity will help put that number into context. Let’s get started: If the straws are connected, how many times would they wrap around the Earth at the equator? To solve this q...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
7 Reasons Why Python on the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator Is a Must-Have for Your Classroom
...e™ CX II graphing calculator has several standard Python modules: math, complex math, time and random. There are also many TI-authored modules that combine the power of Python with the versatility of the TI-Nspire™ CX II platform. The TI modules enable Python programs to interact with TI-Nspire™ ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/7-reasons-why-python-is-a-must
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
...r the past 15 years, he has been teaching remotely and is sharing his top tips for successful online instruction. 1. Patience is a virtue Snow’s number one tip for teachers transitioning from in-person instruction to virtual learning environments is to have patience. You’re going to find that ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
Customize your TI calculator with a 3-D printed case
...cases. “I hope students take the design and use it to express their personality, perhaps by adding their name or experimenting with different color combinations.” With more and more students showing an interest in 3-D printing, Galu said calculator cases seem like a natural fit to expose students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/3d-slide-case
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
Standardized tests have a way of asking questions that go past number crunching, and dive into the concepts. Often, these questions reveal misconceptions that students may have or just introduce a topic that the students haven’t really had a chance to explore. The fascinating part is that usual...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84