3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...education technology and teacher and student software. A proud graduate from Texas Tech University, he has a passion for helping educators discover ways to enrich the classroom learning experience and support student success. The teacher may be out, but learning is still in. Explore our colle...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...tie in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I think it was an ingrained trait in me. I had other family members that were teachers, so it always felt natural to me to be a leader, a questioner and a teacher toward others — it’s all a part of my personality. I also had some great middle sc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...-of-quarter evaluations into valuable conversations about how to make math class better for all of us. Clear Communication Whatever your grading system is — total points, percent weight for each type of grade or standards-based grades — communicate that at the start of the school year, and re...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...ciently, 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 able to do without a calculator. Decide which math skills and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...veloping meaningful programming content for mathematics and science ... and still having fun with all the graphing calculators and the accompanying toys. Americans honor the Fourth of July with family and friends, cookouts and barbecues, parades, flags and … fireworks! Your calculator can help...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Who knew math had moves?
...n Musa, worked together to program their Rover to dance to a Bruno Mars song. “We are trying to sync it with the lyrics of the song so that when it says go there, we are having Rover go left and right,” said Musa. They wrote a program to make Rover drive left, right, backward and spin in a circle...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
...education technology and teacher and student software. A proud graduate from Texas Tech University, he has a passion for helping educators discover ways to enrich the classroom learning experience and support student success. With the new school year just around the corner, we offer free (and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...ast, speed up the really slow, and see the very large or very small. Simulations enable students to build a mental framework for how a “hard to see” system works. They can change variables in a simulated system to observe how each effects the system; and by doing so, students build a conceptual u...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...spire™ CX II-C CAS graphing calculator (OS version 5.0 or higher) Note: All TI-Nspire™ models must be updated to the latest operating system (OS) as indicated. All TI-Nspire™ models must be placed in Press-to-Test mode with the correct features blocked (see list below). Here are...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...eat discussions about finding reasonable solutions to a problem we have yet to solve. Link to Activity 2. Chemical Engineering – A Good Cold Pack! Physical Science and Chemistry Chemical engineers use elements from the periodic table to design solutions to thousands of challenges and opportuniti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...ns Python lessons by topics, links to 10 Minutes of Code (for TI‑Nspire™ CX II and TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculators), a collection of smart systems activities, robotic vehicle activities, and organized professional learning opportunities such as on-demand webinars. There are so many ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...d force on the force sensor is the independent variable. The slope of the regression line is approximately 9.8 – which you will recognize from your physics classes as the gravitational constant, g. So all that time we spend telling students that they will “use this someday”, well, this is a great...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
If you are a teacher like me, you probably always have lots of ideas. I certainly do! Thank goodness I also have a circle of friends that share my passion and help me bring those ideas full circle. Many of my ideas seem to have a common theme: Provide fun, learning, engaging, real-world experien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...splacing a minus sign. For this reason, I suggest that students save some time and do matrix multiplication, evaluating the determinant, and solving systems on the calculator. Let’s say that you encounter a problem with the matrices above. You can enter the matrices in the TI-84 Plus by pressing...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
...gear that we are giving away this holiday season. Show us a sine of love by entering the sweepstakes, and it could all be yours! There are several ways to enter, including simply using the links below to follow @TICalculators on social media. The more entries you earn, the better your chances to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
For teachers, the summer months can be a prime time for catching up on reading to get inspired and recharge your batteries for the upcoming school year. One of the most effective ways to keep your teaching skills sharp is the same thing we encourage our students to do over the summer: read. We p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
What do Chemistry Cat, toilet bowl cleaner and contact lens cleaning solution have in common? They’re all ways to take the abstract subject of chemistry and make it come alive and make sense for high school students. Throughout my career, I have strived to make this subject applicable to the rea...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
...ble If your students use the TI-84 Plus CE Python, Python is now in the palm of their hand, and they don’t need 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 ver...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...eing 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 teachers t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
When you hear things in your classroom such as, “Well, that didn’t work! Let’s try this …” or “That was so hard! I am so proud of myself,” it is music to an educator’s ears. By incorporating engineering design and coding skills in my biology classroom, I was able to tap into my students’ creativ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
Teachers are supposed to know it all, right? When I first started teaching, I was terrified by the idea of a student asking me questions to which I did not know the answer. I would imagine myself freezing on the spot, turning beet red, and jabbering about something close to what they were lookin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...of the region R, bounded above by the graph of y = f(x), below by the x-axis, and by the lines x = a and x = b. This is perhaps one of the quickest ways to visualize Riemann sums and students can look at the left hand, right hand, and midpoint Riemann sums easily for many different functions and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
How Else Can We Show This?
...e support students in productive struggle and deepen their understanding.* Read on for two scenarios in which my students and I pursue multiple pathways to show and make sense of the mathematics at hand. 1. Riding the Curves and Turning the Tables When studying quadratic and polynomial functions,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...ncern would be that students may not have any kind of cumulative test in mathematics. There is an easy fix, though. Maybe the best practice is to always have cumulative tests throughout the year (called spiraling). On any chapter test, any topic of a previous chapter would also be fair game. That...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...thing.” I’ve used the popular method of moving water from one beaker to another using two straws of different widths. This approach can result in always-changing water levels due to spillage. Students don’t get to see that equilibrium means that there is a constant rate of change between two part...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever