Percentiles & Z-Scores
Students explore percentiles and z-scores of normal distributions by graphing and calculating.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/percentiles--zscores_1
TI Leadership Summits
...as Instruments Leveraging Social Media Culture to Foster the Productive Struggle In today's digital age, social media plays a significant role in shaping the culture of learning for our students. The habits of instant gratification, seeking likes and valuing comments are prevalent in their ever...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/leadership-summit
Density Curves
Students will be introduced to density curves as a simple analysis of a data set. They also will investigate where the median and mean lie on symmetric or skewed graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/density-curves_1
Webinar | Take Learning to New Heights with CoDrone EDU and TI Technology
...ollecting and analyzing real-world data. We’ll explore pre-built activities and Robolink’s free curriculum, giving students tangible ways to connect equations and experiments. You’ll also gain practical strategies for classroom implementation, including safety considerations, example videos, and ...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/for-teachers-and-teams/online-learning/on-demand-webinars/2025/nov-18-2025-take-learning-to-new-heights-with-codrone-edu-and-ti--technology
1-14-2016-mission-imagination
...anuary 14, 2016) – Pairing the endless possibilities of space exploration with the limitless opportunities of education, Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) and NASA are partnering to show students how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) make feats like space exploration possible wi...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/1-14-2016-mission-imagination
Pro Football Player John Urschel Visits School District Students to Explore STEM Behind Sports
... of athletics makes sense to them in an exciting way it didn’t before. We are grateful to John Urschel and our partners for helping to bring these unique learning opportunities to our students.” When not playing football, Urschel, a Penn State University graduate, is completing a Ph.D. in applie...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/5-24-2017-john-urschel-visits-school-district-students
Students challenged to engineer new solutions in a food-themed coding contest from Texas Instruments
...tudents to imagine and create new solutions in food-themed coding contest. "At TI, we are hungry for future engineers, so we’re always looking for unique ways to increase students’ understanding of and interest in engineering and technology,” said Peter Balyta, president of TI Education Technolog...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/2-19-2019-students-challenged-to-engineer
5-19-2016-mission-imagination-winners
... five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students from across the country to propose solutions to challenges astronauts would face on ...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/5-19-2016-mission-imagination-winners
Brainy Professional Football Player, John Urschel, helps students tackle unexpected STEM careers
...vital for any career, even careers students least expect. John Urschel, a 6-foot-3-inch, 305-pound offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, is uniquely suited to help students make these calculations. When he is not blocking defenders, he is hitting the books at the Massachusetts Institute of...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/7-19-2017-stem-careers
7-11-2016-john-urschel
...ionships of time, distance and elevation, and discussing why the kick was good or fell short. Urschel, a 6-foot-3, 305-pound offensive lineman, is uniquely suited to help students make these calculations. He is getting his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) wh...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/7-11-2016-john-urschel
Texas Instruments and NASA launch virtual scavenger hunt with out-of-this-world prizes
...STEM tools on planet Earth. Students are also invited along on weekly virtual field trips, offering exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to NASA’s headquarters. Student teams can check out where they stand, in relation to their classmates and other competing teams from around the country, by follo...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/4-19-2017-search-for-stemnauts
Texas Instruments challenges students to find ways to make the world safer and healthier in new coding contest
... mathematical skills of students and their attitudes toward math. For more information, visit education.ti.com. Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as indu...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/3-09-2021-ti-codes-contest
Former Football Player turned Full-Time Mathematician, John Urschel, kicks-off the #GenSTEM contest to get kids pumped up to go back to school
...mer Football Player turned Full-Time Mathematician, John Urschel, kicks-off the #GenSTEM contest to get kids pumped up to go back to school Take the quiz or take a photo - just be sure to enter to win $500 and a starring role in a new, nationwide STEM lesson DALLAS – (August 15, 2017) To get mor...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/8-15-2017-genstem-contest
3-17-2015-stem-behind-health
...ts and Sanford Health partner to inspire students to pursue STEM careers DALLAS (March 17, 2015) -- For parents and teachers tired of answering the question, "Why do I have to learn this?" comes an exciting new activity series from Texas Instruments (TI) and Sanford Health called "STEM Behind H...https://education.ti.com/en/about/press-center/3-17-2015-stem-behind-health
Trigonometric Ratios
Students discover the trigonometric ratios through measuring the side lengths of similar triangles and calculating their ratios. The formal definitions of the sine, cosine, and tangent or an angle are presented and applied to find the missing side lengths.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/trigonometric-ratios_1
Common Core Nuggets: Geometry
These are a series of short, interactive LUA applets that help students grasp the important ideas of specific indicators in the Common Core Curriculum. This collection contains applets that will help teachers implement Common Core Geometry Standard G-GPE 1, 3 for High School Mathematics. There ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/common-core-nuggets-geometry
How High Will it Bounce?
Students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2™. They find the relationship between the bounce number and the bounce height. They also learn to graph scatter plots, calculate the maximum value of a parabola, analyze and find an exponential regression for the rebou...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-high-will-it-bounce
How high will it bounce?
Students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2™. They find the relationship between the bounce number and the bounce height. They also learn to graph scatter plots, calculate the maximum value of a parabola, analyze and find an exponential regression for the...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-high-will-it-bounce_ns