How to Start the Year on a Math High
...ear. If this attitude isn’t addressed from the start, it can make or break their experience and chances of success. Fortunately, there are several ways to gently help students of all types ensure they approach math with a positive mindset and feel comfortable and confident. It is crucial to esta...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
David Olszewski, better known as Mr. O on the grounds of Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, has been teaching math for the past five years. Ask any of his students, or fellow teachers, and it’s clear he has quickly become a campus favorite. “Mr. O is a really fun teacher to have because he alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...se it since high school. My advice to teachers hoping to spark an engineering interest in their students: Continue to find creative and innovative ways to engage your students in STEM fields, and give real-world examples on how critical problem-solving skills can be used in the industry. In the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TICodesContestTips
...rocontroller device), sensors and actuators. TI will send you graphing calculators, TI-Innovator™ Hubs and project materials to borrow for up to 30 days (while supplies are available). The projects have lesson guides and sample code which makes trying this with your class a breeze. I suggest gett...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodescontesttips
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
Cheltenham High School computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and the school’s marching band, pulled a fast one on senior drumline members Nate Norward and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...s deficit by gender, as evidenced in ACT’s 2017 STEM report, there is also a confidence gap for girls that starts early on in their educational journeys. Simply put, girls can’t be what they can’t see. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and Texas Instruments (TI) and the TI Foundation are partnerin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...ver 460 examples that illustrate and explain these essential graphs and their transformations. This easy-to-use resource can be utilized in several ways: As a teaching and learning tool inside and outside the classroom As independent study and review To augment a flipped classroom ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...tistics for several years. Since starting at TI in 2015, he has led many content development projects including the Math in Motion series. He has always found joy in exploring the patterns and logic of mathematics. In his spare time he enjoys kayaking and fishing with his sons and spending time w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...help clarify the purpose of each section of code, but are not essential code elements to include.) #1 — Import both the ti_system and time library. Time contains the sleep function, ti_system includes the get_key() function. #2 — Cr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...aid Bykovsky. Shad Victoria Sephton liked that she was able to combine her passion for coding and her love of music, proving that coding isn’t always just about the numbers. “The lights were really fun to turn on, but I’m also musical myself so I like to play around with it. I was just figurin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...explore, I then go over how to actually use the calculator. As we push past the four basic functions, I like to have them complete specific error-analysis tasks pertaining to calculator use. Using a set of 20 Calculator Mysteries Task Cards, I have students look at each problem, analyze the work ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Best_Of_Science
...udents see processes otherwise too slow or too fast to see. In this activity, students not only get a better understanding for the role that light plays in photosynthesis, but they can also get a glimpse of the effects of specific wavelengths of light on the stomata of a leaf. Screenshots ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/best_of_science
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...o commit to some more realistic, more attainable goals to take better care of myself. So here we go with some much-needed reminders for me (and hopefully some of you) on how I plan to make self-care a priority. Here’s to a new year and a better me! Plan out time just for you. I like to k...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
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
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...HES WHERE: Bellaire High School, Houston, Texas TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 13 years Alice in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I’ve always liked the idea of helping others. Initially, I choose a pre-med path in college, but while in college I realized that I really enjoyed helping m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...X 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” calculator), and the blue ctr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...te yourself I will be the first to admit that I don’t know everything there is to know about finances. However, I am a strong believer in educating myself. Start by taking this short financial literacy quiz to assess your own financial knowledge. The first step to understanding your own finances...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...a teacher? I was originally in the field of graphic design, and actually decided pretty late in life that I wanted to be a teacher. However, I’ve always known that I wanted to make a contribution to the world and help make a real difference. I want to show kids that math isn't as scary as people ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
... at Texas Tech University. Prior to joining NASA nine years ago, Becky taught high school mathematics in Central Texas. As an educator, Becky seeks ways to connect students and educators to authentic STEM experiences and to increase the number of underrepresented and underserved students in STEM ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...rrect answer. 3. Use the Home Screen History When calculating on the home screen, use the previous answer and previous entry history to save some keystrokes and time. Pressing the next operation key immediately after a result will insert Ans so the previous answer is used in the next step and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
We are constantly looking for things, whether it be our car keys, ourselves or the next best smartphone. Sometimes, finding things become pop hits. Back in 1985 there was a video game that was popular called “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” Not too long after the debut of that game came ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...2.75 seconds, was the person moving at a faster average rate? How do you know? A conversation like the above, especially after the students have physically acted out some distance vs. time graphs, lays a solid foundation for computing rate of change (slope) and why it might be relevant. Ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
World-Emoji-Day
...a close parenthesis to a colorful and warm smiley face. 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 emoji...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...uivalent. They will also explore intervals where the power function has greater value than the corresponding exponential. Sound Waves and Beats (Physics): In this data collection activity, students use a Vernier microphone attached to the TI-Nspire Lab Cradle to collect wave data from tuning f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...ruments and the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts Director Corey Alderdice, 27 teachers from Arkansas and Louisiana spent two days digging into the ACT® and the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator to learn strategies for helping students improve math scores. This is particular...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes