Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...s://apstudents.collegeboard.org/dates/ap-calculus-ab-exam-administration-1 Make sure that students realize that their answers are going to be scanned for the AP readers to grade electronically. Practice good penmanship and write dark enough for the scanning process. I am using a variety ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...emember: Self-care might not always feel good in the moment. After a long day, I never want to work out, let alone spend an extra hour to get my annual medical checkup. I frequently think of self-care as something that feels good, like watching Netflix in bed or having dessert after dinner. H...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
Calculus connoisseurs Tom Dick and Steve Kokoska are ready to call the Monday night action! This school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up with former AP® Calculus Chief Reader Steve Kokoska and former Test Development committee member Tom Dick to provide live, content sess...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
To STEM and Beyond!
... with Vernier sensors. I was intrigued and followed up with training sponsored by TI on STEM in the classroom, where I was then introduced to the TI-Innovator™ Hub. I was hooked! Seeing all the engaging ways that were currently available for my students to learn coding and STEM projects using thi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
The last year and a half has been really hard for many of us in education. We dealt with so many big changes in such a small amount of time. We learned new ways of doing our jobs and connecting with students. As we venture into the uncertainty of what another school year will bring in the age of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...EM Squad made its first stop in Charleston, SC, this week, where students across seven schools got to learn basic programming by working with the TI-Innovator Hub and the TI-Innovator Rover. Many of the kids were having so much fun, they didn’t even realize they were learning important math and s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
"This calculator changed my life.”Lillie Pennington, Junior, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE CHALLENGE Lillie Pennington, 17, can keep up with any high school student when it comes to academics. The Turpin High School junior took Advanced Placement history as a sophomore and scored a fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...ter and score a touchdown. Should they go for one or two? (Assume your kicker makes extra points 100% of the time and your team has a 50% chance of winning in overtime) Problem 6 | The Lottery There is a lottery where five balls are sequentially drawn (without replacement) from a bin of fifty bal...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...ss off names if there are a lot of schedule changes. It also helps with small group formations as everyone can see the names on the desks. Students cannot switch seats because the handwriting on the assignments is mine (if corrections are needed, I ask students to let me make them, which also hel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...uded a couple of examples. The Oklahoma Excel teachers provide students with a rubric: Justification Rubric. Used with permission. Jennifer Findley, at www.jenniferfindley.com, guides students to justify with an anchor chart: Justification anchor chart. We realized ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...lculate to make predictions with the linear equation on page 1.4. The linked multiple representations enable students to make powerful mathematical connections and build understanding. I find that having a short paper handout for my students to accompany the TI-Nspire CX document is he...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...grasp of your spending and saving habits, you can start considering investments. NerdWallet has an excellent article with tips and strategies for beginners. Start exploring options and plans for making your money grow. Putting off investing until later can actually cost you more money than you mi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...that picking one area to excel in is much better than being mediocre in a lot of different areas. What do you love most about teaching? I love the connections that I get to make with students. There’s nothing like witnessing students light up when they learn something new that they enjoy. Math c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...f a strong or weak acid/base. I have also added some Python coding STEM-design challenges into my chemistry classroom. We use the TI-Innovator™ Hub, which has a built-in RGB LED, to create a color display to match the flame lab tests. We also used the TI-SensorLink Adapter and a V...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
On Wednesday, September 19, Texas Instruments Education (@TICalculators) is hosting a Women in STEM Twitter Chat! Our goal is connect you to the awesome #WomenInSTEM community, both as a source of inspiration and a well of resources. Our panelists are female engineers, scientists, and mathematic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
The Heartbeat of STEM
...ree different challenges to demonstrate the function of a heart. In challenge 1, students set up a simple circuit using the breadboard on the TI-Innovator™ Hub and a red LED. They also need to write a program to get the LED to blink at a certain rate. To help the students that may be new to p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
Python + Math = true love! This Valentine’s Day activity had a simple beginning. My good friend, Julie Riggins, and I were asked the question, “Will you do a Valentine's Day themed webinar?” Did we have a large bank of activities to draw from? Did we have a single idea? Nope. So, of course we s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
... if they know of the Fibonacci sequence, they might say that they have heard of it or him but aren’t quite sure. Once they are presented with the beginning of the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 … they usually will determine the pattern. People have been seeing the Fibonacci sequence/numbers fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...ta. Once students have had a chance to experiment with walking toward and away from the wall at different rates, they will have a better ability to connect the graph to what’s really happening. The conversation should naturally lead to developing the concept of rate of change. For example:...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...he hooks that captures students’ attention. Most people (adults and students) experiencing this problem for the first time think the probability of winning when you switch in just ½. Even after listing all nine possible outcomes, it is still hard to believe the true probability of winning when sw...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...r High School in Howard County, Md. She became a T3™ Regional Instructor in 2015 and sees technology as a great way to help students make real-life connections with science. Follow her on Twitter @MrsKohout. STEM skills are important for all students. How can we get more girls interested in STE...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
...ce. The advances have been nothing short of amazing. As a high school classroom teacher, I am always watching out for engaging ways to get students connected to what we are learning in the classroom. I decided to use our affinity for using emojis to introduce programing in Python to my Intro to S...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
“Involving, innovative, inspiring” — students call it like it is on the TI Codes Contest For five years we’ve hosted the TI Codes Contest, an annual engineering design challenge for students, where they design prototypes of useful products using TI technology. Each year students are pres...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
They say “Time flies when you’re having fun.” You might not believe it, but time also flies when you are delivering math professional development workshops. For those of you who don’t know us, we are a married couple who recently celebrated their 25th anniversary and have been leading Teachers T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes