Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
Computer Science Education Week is just around the corner … are you ready for some Python fun with your students? How do you plan to spend the week? Will you incorporate a little computer science every day? Will you teach a little computer science history? What types of activities do you like to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...his fall. TI also mailed out their TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board, which allowed Shads to code lights in different colors and play with varying frequencies of sound. These sessions were held in virtual classrooms, where instructors could interact with Shads over video or through the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...s with Meyer and scored a 5 on the exam. He then went on to become Meyer’s teaching assistant. Tristan said he learned about the contest from a geometry teacher at the high school, and he immediately knew he wanted to enter Meyer. “I have never met another teacher who is as dedicated to his job a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...l of your students, even the most distracted, most reluctant learner? 100% engagement is possible! I started implementing questioning strategies my very first year of teaching, and I believe it is the key to student success, classroom management, and of course, engagement. Before you even start i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...n Spring of 2021, the AP® tests will have 3 distinct administrations. This is in response to the broad range of situations at schools across the country. Each school will choose the testing options to offer for their students, which means students will not be able to choose exam dates on their ow...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
As a child, every new year my dad would ask my sisters and me to write down our New Year’s resolutions. On top of my list was always, “get straight A’s and exercise every day.” To this day, that has never happened. Ever. In 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequentl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...es with a few girls from my Junior troop. The Volunteer Guide made it easy for me to get started! We followed the plan and started with the introductory TI Codes lessons. Within 10 minutes they had written their first program. Their sweet faces gleamed when they realized they had created somethin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...ble to answer your questions. The YouTube Live “Monday Night Calculus” sessions begin Monday, Sept. 14 at 7 pm Eastern time, and will continue every other Monday through the end of November. Score! Below, you can download a problem set or two for the upcoming session. We’ll continue to upda...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...their students and find ways to motivate them. They tap into students’ interests to push them to do better. #4 – Math Teachers care! Math makes everything in the world work, but students can struggle to see that. Math teachers provide encouragement and support. #5 – Math Teachers go above ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
To STEM and Beyond!
As a chemistry teacher, I have always been intrigued on how to do what the engineering design and computer science teachers do in their classes. “Why,” do you ask? We are educating the future workforce. Our students are being trained and taught for jobs that haven’t even been created yet. The ev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...This problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Everybody loves Pi and coloring! These Pi themed coloring pages are a great activity for when students (or you) need a mental break or have some do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...ojects together. I want to foster collaboration, creativity 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. S...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...s summer, and we’re sharing them with you: #1. Meet the “STEM Squad” Starting now through September, TI’s STEM Squad will visit kids across the country sharing some of our favorite project-based learning activities that engage kids with math, science and basic engineering. The STEM Squad made it...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...reative. For example, I’ve been working with educators at Rice University on a project that integrates culturally relevant art into python in a Geometry class, which is such a neat way to integrate art with coding and math. What is your primary goal for your students this year? The obvious one...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
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
Do you have what it takes to go head-to-head with former pro-football player turned professional mathematician, John Urschel? Now is your chance to flex your mental muscles and find out. Each problem tackles a subject from chess to cryptography -- things students are naturally interested in – an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Albuquerque schools using high-tech devices to teach math
TI technology is changing the way Albuquerque Public School students learn math. Read the Story TI technology is changing the way Albuquerque Public School students learn math. Albuquerque schools using high-tech devices to teach math Texas Instruments Albuquerque schools using high-tec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/october/ti-tech-in-use
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
... first unit test, my methods for those first days when I don’t know students names are dramatically different. Over the past 23 years I have tried everything from the dreaded alphabetical seating chart to allowing students to pick their own seats. In my experience, the best solution is having an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning and justification skills? In the fall of 2019, the teachers in my department be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...e fraction template, and ctrl then click (center of Touchpad) is for the “grabber hand” used for grabbing and moving objects on the Graphing or Geometry pages. The TI-Nspire CX calculator is “menu driven” which means that most commands are found by pressing the menu key. The menus will be differe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...er Software. How You Can Help Your Students Become More Financially Literate 1. Educate 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Fatemia Fuson, a graphic designer turned math and computer science teacher. Fast Facts About Fatemia: TEACHES WHAT: AP Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry, AP Computer Scienc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...ator family. Be sure your calculator is fully charged or has fresh batteries for test day. And keep in mind that the calculator is not needed for every question; it is sometimes better not to use a calculator because it will slow you down. 2. Know the Test The Math-Calculator section of the SAT®...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
... exams are over, I utilize as many of the STEM projects as possible. “The Heart Project” is a favorite of mine to go more in depth about the circulatory system, transport and homeostasis, but it also allows students to build electrical circuits and write a simple program to control the model. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem