Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
We all want students to dive into real projects that tie together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in ways that inspire them to innovate, create and problem-solve. Yet, the need to cover the required curriculum, and limits on time, resources and training, complicate the task of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
... also edit or use this program as a guide to customize the show on your own calculator. Click here to download a TI-84 Plus CE program for the TI-Innovator Hub that plays the Star Spangled Banner. You can find more information about learning to code with TI technology on our TI Codes website. Be ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...the responsibility of running our school’s educational computer system, an HP2000 minicomputer with 32 CRT terminals in the early 1980s. The district quickly jumped on the personal computer bandwagon with Radio Shack TRS-80s and then IBM PC Juniors. I bought my own computer in 1984 — an Atari 800...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...y? What if we asked you to go a day without your phone, a week without lights, a month without a car or public transportation? All of these systems require technology that has evolved over time to bring convenience, safety, functionality and efficiency to our lives. Learn about a technology key t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
NASA and TI are excited to announce the design challenge winning team. A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students fro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...l need a TI handheld such as a TI-Nspire™ CX II or TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator or a computer. A microcontroller device, such as a TI-Innovator™ Hub, micro:bit, Arduino or Raspberry Pi, is also required. Make sure to read the rules carefully as some devices are prohibited. To build ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
roboticsweek2021
...ness, learning about mergers in the industry through their parts research. The teams discovered that over the years there were numerous mergers and acquisitions. Among the 26 manufacturers, only six U.S. companies have not been acquired by other or foreign companies and, fun fact, finding their d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
... (awe-less?) experience for these students. I vividly remember a high school teacher who told us that the area of the region shown in figure 1 was equal to the natural logarithm of 2. We had not yet studied how to calculate the area between two curves, and I was blown away by this result. I cou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...fits and highlight TI resources that are available for teachers, students and enthusiasts to get you programming with Python today. 6. Visualizing Quadratics | Teaching Tips (7 minutes) This video offers tips for teachers on how to use the TI-Nspire™ CX Visualizing Quadratic Expressions file ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...nce to help them win a math wish at https://education.ti.com/mathlove. Watch local news coverage of the surprise: WPBF-TV: Student's contest entry equals big win for Palm Beach County math teacher WPTV-TV: Park Vista High School math teacher honored About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Medi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...are five ways you can start the year on a math high. 1. Warm and inviting presence While I am a sucker for bright bulletin boards and a motivational quote, you create your classroom environment. Smile — a lot. Your energy is contagious, and while it is important to set and maintain clear rules a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Score Big on the ACT® With These Tried-and-True Tips for the Math Section
...as well. When it comes to the CBT, you will still need to register for a test date and take the exam in a test center. The online test will only be available if you have already taken at least one full ACT® on paper. The online test will be for “Section Retesting.” In other words, you don’t have...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-19-2021-act-tips
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...e the first to admit that I wasn't sure I was a “CAS fan” when first introduced to it. I didn't necessarily want my AP® Calculus students to find derivatives, or my algebra students to solve equations simply by pushing buttons. Thankfully over time, my vision for CAS and its utility has grown. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
... on their device directly back with you. For example, on a Google Slides™ web-based presentation program slide containing a task, some instruction or questions, students can work through their exploration on their calculator, and then capture and add a screenshot of their exploration directly bac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...the high school I attended in Sugarland, Texas. I was instantly captivated by the LED backlit screen and graphing capabilities. To simply type in an equation and have the visual in seconds, it made pre-calculus and calculus so much easier to understand. From conics to quadratics, the options were...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...eived dozens of entries, ranging from ways to make the ISS cleaner and safer for the astronauts, to making processes more efficient, to improving the quality of life aboard the station. The innovation and ingenuity the teams demonstrated was outstanding. Our judges had the difficult task of picki...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...s Instruments engineer Education is critical to our future, our industry, and to the communities where we operate around the globe. Today’s world requires STEM aptitude, and like ACT and Girl Scouts, we’re hard at work to ensure all students are prepared. Barring cookies, nothing could be sweet...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...ips, here is a screenshot from the video “How to Graph y = mx +b” that has students discover the relationship between the slope, y-intercept and the equation of a line and how to graph the line. Students should recognize that the y-intercept is always the constant being added (or subtrac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. Central time). You won’t want to miss it! Below is our schedule of topics: Nov. 2: Exploring One- and Two-Variable Data (CED Units 1 and 2) Presentation Dec. 3: Collecting Data, Probability, Random Variables and Sampling Distributions (Units 3, 4 an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...e and high school physics, the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve engages students in explorations of electromagnetism, the relationship of wavelength, and frequency and practical applications of electromagnetic principles with the TI‑Nspire™ CX or TI‑Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Unrav...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...mpact of a global pandemic on students’ mathematical understandings, opportunities to learn and social-emotional well-being. The situation creates unique challenges as we begin the 2021–22 school year, but by shifting our perspectives, we can view each of these challenges as an opportunity for po...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...ir calculators incorrectly and usually have no idea why their answer is wrong. Inevitably, they end up raising their hands during tests with profound questions. The answer the calculator gave them isn’t an answer choice. So much for being the secret weapon! The reality is that many students lack ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...isn’t always about treating yourself in the moment, but setting your future self up for success. That may include taking the stairs instead of the elevator, eating healthy instead of snacking, drinking water instead of soda, and sleeping instead of scrolling through your Facebook or Instagram fee...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...culator and start following the activities themselves. Our website has an easy-to-follow path that coaches the girls through each of the five badge requirements. Troop workshops. Troop leaders can borrow TI graphing calculators from TI, or have the girls bring their calculators from home, an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...love when they understand – and that you make the effort to help them get it! #2– Math teachers make math fun! Math teachers know how to ÷ and conquer their math class to make it the life of the party! #3 – Math Teachers get to know their students. Math teachers relate to their students a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld