Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...calaureate (IB®) program since middle school and is currently dually enrolled at Palm Beach State College, where she is already working toward her associate’s degree in political science. She is applying to colleges and has dreams of going to law school one day. Despite losing her father, Calde...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...rom 205 countries (however there are only 195 countries; a great topic for discussion) in 31 sports. The flag for this worldwide event has five interlocking rings which are symbolic of the five continents where the athletes come from (again, another interesting discussion topic). The five differe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...h Technology™ International Conference (T³IC), March 13–15, 2020. Jeffery Gaskin, a senior at Cheltenham High School, is being interviewed by a local news station about winning the Spread the Math Love Contest from TI. “I’m excited; overwhelmed with joy,” said Jeffery Gaskin, a senior at C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...s, we decided not only to lend our technology but also our exper“TI”se. Get it? So now, troop leaders and Council Program Managers can contact their local ETC to schedule a STEM experience for their girls. We can deliver customized content based on the age of your Girl Scouts and program goals. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...rised largely of engineers, Texas Instruments is highly invested in increasing students’ STEM competencies, especially as we look to hire within our local talent pool. We provided funding to Girl Scouts to get more girls actively engaged in STEM, and they created the STEM Center of Excellence in ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...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. Here is a list of the parent functions that are...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...ntors. Along with Nanoracks and Valley Christian Schools, we sent an experiment up to the International Space Station. We learned how to use a microprocessor to run our experiment — I was intrigued. How could I utilize the skills learned in this elite group of students for all of my students? I...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...tions, but what about zombie populations? This STEM Behind Hollywood activity explores the concept of exponential growth in the context of a zombie apocalypse. Trigger an outbreak of learning and infectious fun in your classroom — STEM Behind Hollywood: Zombie Apocalypse. The activity pr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
.... Do I share projects that are content specific, math intensive, light on coding or coding intensive? How many lines of code are too many? Should it focus on Python to teach math, Python to enhance math or computer science that uses math? I decided the answer to all the questions above was, “Yes!...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...xperience, she liked how she was able to take on challenges even after the session was over. Students worked together to start solving the Rock, Paper, Scissors coding challenge. Shads were encouraged by TI instructors to finish coding a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors — or if they w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
... teaching and learning math, some foundational ideas should come first. I’ll echo what flight attendants remind us during the review of emergency procedures before a flight: “Secure your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” In other words, take care of yourself first. Many teachers have an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...s. This year, though, educators are also facing the impact of a global pandemic on students’ mathematical understandings, opportunities to learn and social-emotional well-being. The situation creates unique challenges as we begin the 2021–22 school year, but by shifting our perspectives, we can v...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...wn. Below are the dates and administrations for the AP Calculus and AP Statistics exams. AP Calculus AB and BC Admin1: Tuesday May 4, 8AM local time (Paper, in-person only) Admin2: Monday May 24, 8 AM local time (Paper, in-person only) Admin3: Wednesday June 9, 11 AM local time (Digi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...ng tables. I like that I can personalize and add in events that happen weekly into my schedule, and I don't need to rewrite it. Recently, my biggest focus has been building relationships with my students and families. As a result, my agenda has space for me to make note of who I’m checking in wit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
Like many of you, I wear a variety hats in a day — daughter, sister, wife, mom, marketing professional, runner, math education advocate, PTA member, college football fan and, last but not least, a Girl Scout leader! I started my career in engineering because I loved math and science. Both subject...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...and Infinite Limits Problem Set // Solution Set Sept. 28: Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. 12: Local Linearity and L’Hospital’s Rule Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. 26: Implicit Differentiation Problem Set // Solution Set ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
To STEM and Beyond!
...me of those projects too! If any of this interests you, please feel free to email me at svthibodeaux@gmail.com, or contact the TI STEM team or your local Educational Technology Consultant (ETC). Both can assist you with borrowing TI technology to try out STEM in your classroom, like me. You may ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects into the content is very easy and fun for students. Editable student and teacher documents are provided, and some even have videos to help teachers starting out. Student testing their “mood” using the TI-Innovator™ Hub and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
While school may be winding down, it’s not a time for students to stop learning, especially when it comes to STEM subjects. Turns out, the summer learning loss, often referred to as the summer brain drain, is a real thing. The National Summer Learning Association reports that students lose an eq...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...st part: no coding experience needed and we used the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. Link to presentation>> The Mathematics Behind A Zombie Apocalypse A zombie “virus” is spreading – people are turning into zombies! Will you be the next victim? In this session, we used math to model the s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...nd get college credit. More importantly, I want my students to have the ability to solve problems in more than one way. I want to shift my students’ focus from being concerned with figuring out an answer, to thinking about different ways they can solve a problem. To me, what’s most important is b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...as they kick-off a new school year. John’s first problem looks for mathematics in one of his all-time favorite hobbies, chess. Let’s start the game clock! John Urschel, MIT mathematics PhD student and former NFL player Problem 1 | Chess On a chessboard, it takes a king, on the h4 square, six m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...d Note cards are sturdy and will last two weeks if you ask students not to doodle or write on them. Learning names is a personal challenge, and the process of writing them out on visual aids helps me remember without having to look at the seating chart. I also continuously ask high school student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... question sent a chill down my spine. Can my students justify? Will they? Do I know how to help them? All of these lingering questions came into focus when the teachers in my school began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...Look at the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator: it has a color backlit screen and a keypad whose layout is different from that of a TI-84 Plus model. Locate these important keys arranged around and near the Touchpad: Home/ON (with its house icon), menu, esc, Scratchpad (looks like a “moving” calcu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire