Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...ations are tools that can be embedded within a science lesson to provide a memorable experience for students in the context of all of the background vocabulary, equations, rules, laws, or theories associated with the phenomenon. Try these 5 simulation-based lessons with your students: 1: 'Freshw...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
...ential growth and decay are often taught in the context of human populations, but what about zombie populations? This STEM Behind Hollywood “Zombie Apocalypse” activity explores the concept of exponential growth in the context of a zombie apocalypse. Trigger an outbreak of learning...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...er of IB® aligned activities for both TI-Nspire™ and TI-84 graphing family users. Each recommended activity also contains an IB® exam style question document that allow the students to practice and prepare for the exam. Let’s talk about training for a minute … Over the past two years, there h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
... k is assigned a new value when a key is pressed. If it is the “center” key, then one of the two buttons is processed. (There’s one more detail in the program not shown here.) You can have a look at th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...cal engineers use elements from the periodic table to design solutions to thousands of challenges and opportunities every day! From creating better processes to design microchips to creating the best cold packs for lunch coolers, chemical engineers are in high demand. In this activity, students c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...students and learn their names. By the end of the week, my students had an introduction to variables, conditional statements, loops and lists. Last block of the day on the first day of school can be a bit trying for students after summer vacation. Not my students. These students were laughing, bu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
... endless). What do these features require? There are lots of things to think through with this one. Here’s a program to get you started. Add a Microcontroller to Create Your Own Products If coding seems like something you want to do more of, try adding a microcontroller like the TI-Innovator H...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...ematics Discussions” by Margaret Smith and Mary Kay Stein This book is an incredible resource for math teachers wanting to implement more student-focused lessons and effectively tap into student thinking during their instruction. The “five practices” provide a lesson planning framework tha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...just content deliverers. We must look to the future and plan the context of our students’ learning for what will benefit them when they leave us. The occupational outlook for the next 10 years includes careers/jobs that all have some background in computer science skills, problem-solving, trouble...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...a volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program, an auxiliary of the U.S Air Force. We’ve since learned Alex is one of the youngest members of his local flying club to solo pilot a glider and has logged nearly 25 hours of flight time in his young life. He’s kind of a big deal! High school stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
In this post, we will go through a few introductory steps to help you get started writing simple TI-Basic programs on your TI-Nspire CX handheld. We will use a familiar mathematical procedure – computing the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few cod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...e discussion and research was centered about first year calculus and helping students develop thinking skills in mathematics. (Download the research document.) I was hooked. I wrote my first Mixed Six for calculus review immediately. I decided to focus on these six tasks: Factual Recall Car...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...students, from freshmen to seniors, meet every Tuesday afternoon after-school in what is now the club’s second year. In meetings, students generally focus on using the TI-Nspire CX calculators that the school’s math department has to explore programming. “A typical meeting consists of all of us ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
It’s the mathiest season of all! And we want to make sure you’re ready to celebrate in style. On social media, you may have seen our posts highlighting the picture-perfect Math Love gear that we are giving away this holiday season. Show us a sine of love by entering the sweepstakes, and it coul...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...is activity, your students will develop the fundamental relationship between a function and its domain and range. This activity is an opportunity to focus on functions and establishing the concept of domain and range of a function. First, by dragging a point along the graph of a function, student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...classes. He suggested that we invite students to take ownership by rightly framing their work. Frames that are too thin make it hard for students to focus, while frames that are too thick do not invite students to contribute. An immediate application of appropriate frames can be the implementatio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
...you to shoot for the moon. “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning” by Peter C. Brown et al. Recommended by T³™ instructor and Ontario Association of Mathematics Education President, Paul Alves, this book draws on recent work in cognitive psychology and other disciplines with a goal t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
... reveals interesting things about branding and marketing of consumer products. To begin, you need several brands of toilet bowl cleaners that use hydrochloric acid as the main cleaning agent. (Cleaners that use organic surfactants won’t work here.) I use three main brands: Lysol®, Sno Bol® and Th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...eed an internet connection and can literally code anywhere! Since the handheld isn’t connected to the internet, there goes the distraction of games, social media, email … and becomes a very focused learning environment for a very distracted age group. I’m excited about the implications for my AP...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...re being asked to do more than ever before. Whether finding ways to develop relationships with students they have never met, coming up with plans to socially distance already cramped classrooms, or risking their own health and safety to educate our children, the demands being placed on our teache...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
...machine and use it to engage my students in solving a real-world problem of single-use plastics while building skills in engineering design. The Process The task was to build a working model of Mr. Trash Wheel while bringing awareness to the effects of single-use plastics on watersheds. To fu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...he Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 3. Filling the Urn The Filling_the_Urn.tns TI-Nspire document provides for a graphical investigation of related rates. The physical context is the filling of an urn with liquid, depicted in a window on...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
The Math Behind 'Going Viral'
... from a bag. Students will collect data and model the data with different methods for determining the exponential equations. How does an ordinary social media post go viral? It’s simple math. Read more to learn how to use social media to explore exponential growth with your students. The Math...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/the-math-behind-going-viral
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...ast viruses and has spread across the globe quickly as a result. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control have recommended social distancing to “flatten the curve” — an effort to reduce the potential for transmitting the virus from one person to another and hopefully kee...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
...equations, confirm whether they are equivalent, and to be sure that we factored or expanded or completed the square correctly. This video shows the process for Y = x2 – 5x + 4. ; Once we have found the important points in the function’s graph and in the equation, I ask my students, “What exact...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this