Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...cial media channels. Abby’s favorite quote: “Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can’t be what you can’t see.” – Sally Ride Rafranz of @RafranzDavis Rafranz Davis has dedicated her career to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...the next step and you don’t have to retype numbers. Example 1: If 26 + 3x is 11 less than 79, find x. Write the equation: 26 + 3x = 79 – 11 and solve using these algebraic steps: You can also copy and edit previous entries. In example 2, you have an inequality and numerical choices, so you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...re going to draw a picture, you need dots. How else are you supposed to draw a picture if you don’t have dots to connect? (My best artwork always involved books where you connect the dots.) We are going to graph our dots by graphing a scatterplot. First, we will type in two lists: x...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
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
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
Origins of the Monty Hall problems “Let’s Make a Deal” was a variety game show that started in 1963 and was co-created and co-produced by Monty Hall. The format of “Let’s Make a Deal” involves selected members of the studio audience making deals with the host. The audience member would ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...choosing STEM careers? I may not know all the answers, but here is my personal perspective on the topic. Representation People need to see themselves reflected in careers they are drawn toward. In elementary school, I wanted to be an astronaut after watching Sally Ride and Christa McAuliffe....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...s led to his discovery 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
“Involving, innovative, inspiring” — students call it like it is on the TI Codes Contest For five years we’ve hosted the TI Codes Contest, an annual engineering design challenge for students, where they design prototypes of useful products using TI technology. Each year students are pres...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...es. To level the playing field for all students, we can teach them some approaches to get problems correct that they might not otherwise be able to solve using traditional methods. Beth, one of the participants, picked up on one of our favorite ACT® strategies, “usually, figures are drawn to s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...ity of Texas at Austin, to our Pomfret School campus. The course stresses the use of the engineering design process (EDP) as a valuable approach to solving problems, first by identifying and describing the problem, and then ideating potential solutions, embodying designs of merit, and finalizing ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...eir 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 they are going to do differently for the coming quarter, I place the responsibility on their shoulders for making...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...ntic STEM experiences in and out of their NASA Aerospace Education Laboratory (AEL), as well as a mobile creator’s innovation maker space, family involvement curriculum, events, professional development for formal and informal (youth-serving organizations) educators, and community and school outr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...cise during learning activities, but by assessment time, students should be able to use the graphing calculator in a targeted manner to effectively solve problems. Set up the Handhelds When using calculator technology on a test or quiz, it is critical that the device itself is a useful tool...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...hought or had learned about these challenges through our own careers, both prior to and since working together at TI. Although we don’t consider ourselves to be experts in teaching math, Curtis and I have learned a lot from our classroom days, our time supporting educators across the country with...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...ing them the basics and then going to the word problem, I switched the class around. They got to see the Rovers in action and wanted to know how to solve the problem. We then talked about the system of equations and how to use the formula. It’s great when you have students asking, 'how do you do ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...ement park or may be too nervous to ride a roller coaster. They aren’t just missing out on the thrills of amusement park rides – those rides also involve a lot of awesome science! Use this simulation to help students explore the concepts of kinetic and potential energy. For more information, do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...e usable to IB® teachers, we recognized they would also need IB® exam style questions to go hand in hand with each activity. But as IB® teachers ourselves, we knew the need would be more than just activities, and that teachers would also need training resources to implement the changes that would...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...? Well, these examples are meant to inspire and motivate you and your students to get creative with those little computers. These two projects involving balloons and buttons have a lot of common features: Both use a graphical display Both utilize Python classes (objects) Both u...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
Bring awareness to the many career options that exist in the field of engineering by challenging your students to solve the problems listed below. They will have fun, work together, and learn about different engineering fields that use science every day. 1. Environmental Engineering – The Garba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...ivity in their groups, we discussed as a large group key ideas and coded a few class projects before I turned them loose to work on projects by themselves. Teacher resources are on target! Each activity comes with teacher notes and student documents. The teacher notes have solu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...n mathematics. This book helps identify the things math teachers do or don’t do that have an impact on how students think of mathematics and of themselves as mathematics learners. “Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success For All” by National Council of Teachers of Ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...ey leave us. The occupational outlook for the next 10 years includes careers/jobs that all have some background in computer science skills, problem-solving, troubleshooting and teamwork. Coding/programming is an engaging way to cover a multitude of skills, and students may even have a little fun ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...ntrols of an intercontinental airliner as they cruise through the math and science that explain how wings work. Students will develop their problem-solving and analytical skills as they apply linear relationships, Bernoulli's Principal and Newton's third law of motion. STEM on the Fly works on bo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
...nd add, subtract, multiply and divide functions. You can even evaluate the composition of functions like in the example. 3: Evaluate Expressions Involving More Than One Variable Sometimes you will need to evaluate expressions on the ACT. In the screenshot below, you can see an example on how to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...o see that coding is not just for the advanced computer programmers, but something all students should know and understand. “Coding teaches problem-solving and perseverance. It gives students that opportunity to look at something a little more than just as right or wrong,” said Kachur. “There rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub