Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...edge. The first step to understanding your own finances is to do a financial asset inventory. A simple way to do this is to create a spreadsheet, or document like this one, to organize and record your financial assets. Once you know what you have, you will be better able to manage. Next, create ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...h What advice would you give to your first-year teaching self? Don't try to do it all. For example, I used to stay at school until five or six o’clock working on PowerPoint presentations, because I thought that everything had to be absolutely perfect. Eventually, a woman I worked with explaine...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...resented the information to my principal, and he purchased a set of handhelds and lots of sensors for my classes. I attend and present at various local, state and national conferences where I demonstrate to teachers how to use TI technology and Vernier sensors as a data collection solution for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...ussian and Mandarin Chinese, science communicator and research astrobiologist. Beyond that, Abigail has leveraged her passion to ensure that we as a society are ready to go to Mars within her lifetime by starting The Mars Generation, a 501C3 nonprofit which focuses on exciting and inspiring young...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...uestions. There are many TI calculator models allowed on the test; see the SAT® Calculator Policy webpage for the full list. The tips in this post focus on the TI-84 Plus CE model, but they are applicable to the entire TI-84 graphing calculator family. Be sure your calculator is fully charged o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
...rces available to help educators with any level of experience integrating STEM activities into their classroom. For every project, there are teacher documents, student documents, completed programs, supplemental reference sheets on the programming language, and even videos to demonstrate the proj...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...program and add in all the basic graphing elements. In Python, you need to define your window and put in your axes. To help see where the points are located, we will also add a grid to our graph. Let's add some color too, because everything is better in color!. First, you will need to open a ne...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...He is a national T³™ instructor presenting regularly at Texas Instruments international conferences, several Tuesday night national TI webinars, and local state teacher conferences. He is a firm believer in the integration of technology in the teaching of mathematical concepts to make learning mo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
... wall vs. time, the graph of temperature of water as it cools on a stove, or a graph of the number of pounds of bananas there are on the table at a grocery store from open until close. These don’t have to be linear. Have students talk about how things change in relation to one another, and use vo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
... Probability is one of those content areas that seems to get pushed to the end of the year, right before state testing. With the time crunch, the focus for teaching probability tends to fall on calculation instead of helping students to develop a sense of randomness. Just about any mathematics...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...uter science class and can easily be integrated in multiple subjects — not just science and math, either. STEM has a role in sports, theater, music, social studies and language arts. Check out STEM Behind Cool Careers for ideas to get your students to think about STEM’s role, including high fas...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
...earned since that time is the concept of creating a function in Python. We have emphasized creating graphics as a function that they will be able to locate on the screen based upon coordinates. Some have added an additional scaling parameter to their function! It is great to hear students say, “H...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...that the pitch of a vibrating string is proportional to and can be controlled by the length of the string. Strings that are halved in length are one octave higher than the original (the shorter the string, the higher the pitch). That’s why a guitar players hands get really close together when th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...hrilling, challenging, exhilarating.” — Stiles Middle School student member The TI Codes Contest structure — using the engineering design process to challenge student thinking Built in four phases (pitch, design, build, vote), the contest format breaks up the challenge into attainabl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...ing participants how to use and integrate TI technology to enrich math teaching and learning in the classroom. This workshop is different in that it focuses on test-taking strategies. We both have Master of Science degrees from Ohio University (we eventually fell in love in graduate school, but t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...tions. To make it even easier for your sub to fill in for you, there are links posted in the video descriptions that lead to downloadable documents for each lesson. You’ll find teacher notes, student handouts and calculator files — basically everything your sub needs to lead discussion...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...hose who like graphs. It’s important to have students understand that it’s not about simply getting the answer but about understanding the thinking process and math behind each problem. What do you love most about teaching? I love getting kids excited about math. However, I have a large populatio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
Did you know World Water Day happens on March 22 every year, and it’s about focusing attention on the importance of water? What better chance to have your students put their coding and engineering design process to work while investigating water scarcity! The World Bank reports that 40% of th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...ir learning and my teaching to discuss. Most of the time, students write about things that are actionable in their evaluations. I feel that this process makes evaluation a two-way street, since students are commenting on me and my teaching but also on themselves. By asking them to name what th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
Instagram is quickly becoming one of the world’s most popular virtual teacher lounges. Not only is this social media site a hotbed of perfectly proportioned photos, but it also has great ideas, content and classroom inspiration for teachers. From funny facts about teachers’ daily routines to mo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...rammed a “digital mood ring.” This was all done virtually — over Zoom — and the students used temperature sensors, an RGB (red green blue) LED, a microcontroller (TI‑Innovator™ Hub) and TI calculators to build a device that changed the color of the LED based on their temperature. The “Di...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...lessons, these devices enable students to work accurately and efficiently, make real-world connections and build understanding of math concepts and procedures. But no matter what level math you teach, there will always be some computational and graphing skill you will want students to know and be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
Have you heard of “Room to Grow: A Math Podcast”? For the last two years, I’ve had a standing call on my calendar with Curtis Brown, the Math Segment Manager at Texas Instruments. Our conversation on these calls is typically focused on the challenges that math teachers face, and what we thought o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
Ready for winter? (Or maybe just the winter break from school?) How about a little karaoke during your snowstorm? The TI-Nspire™ Document contains a Python program sure to put you in that wintry mood because it: Has falling snow. Plays the notes to “Jingle Bells.” Displays the synchronize...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Who knew math had moves?
...o do things like draw, dance or even crash. Students at Regan High School were having some much fun with Rover that it captured the attention of the local news. Local news photographer interviewing one of the students about what it’s like to work with Rover “I didn’t know that you could program ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover