Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...gies. For further exploration, students can explore the effects of changes in the interest rate, period, and principal amounts by using the finance solver on the TI-Nspire handheld. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (pdf). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
... and implementing instructional practices. Participants were encouraged to consider how the classroom is designed to empower students to see themselves as capable, creative thinkers and doers in STEM. As educators, we must reflect on what implicit biases must be addressed, and recognize and ac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
...ence 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 to promote more productive learners. Throughout the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...r. Day one, students practice sequential programing using only rv.forward, rv.left and rv.right. I set up obstacle courses and let students problem-solve the steps needed to complete the course. This physical setup teaches students that coding is sequential. Day two, I ask students to code variou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Innovation in Biology
...ves of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore. I knew I could take this charismatic and innovative 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 mode...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
... for. I soon learned that this was a terrible idea, and saying, “I don’t know,” is an acceptable answer. What makes it more powerful for everyone involved is following it up with, “Let’s find out together!” Taking the Plunge This year, I took a major leap into the unknown by introducing coding ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
...p Corporation. ACT is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc. IB is a registered trademark of the International Baccalaureate Organization. None were involved in the production of, nor do they endorse these products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.com and www.act.org. Ab...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/which-ti-calculator-for-the-act-and-why
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...and how the volume and the integral are related. This interactive demonstration can help students make connections between the solid generated by revolving the function graph about the x-axis and disks centered on the x-axis, the radius of which correspond to the value of the function at that poi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
How Else Can We Show This?
...” if they aren’t already. Unfortunately, that procedural rule isn’t robust enough to take students through to graphing absolute value functions and solving absolute value equations and inequalities, some of the difficult topics they might encounter in algebra class. With my students, I have expan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...e groups: Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3. I think each group had a slide on what went wrong. What a great thing to talk about. Building things while solving math problems can get messy. It’s great to see their perseverance. What Do You Think? Would you consider giving a group project instead o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...f a system and that, at equilibrium, you usually get different, yet constant, levels of water in both beakers. There have been other models, too, involving nuts and bolts, film cans with and without lids, and blindfolds, but none of these methods give good, reasonable, quantifiable results. Event...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
...to make decisions about patient care. Jump start your heart with STEM activities If you’re looking for a heart-themed activity that involves coding as you celebrate American Heart Month and Valentine’s Day with your students, check out Jessica Kohout’s blog post, The Heartbeat of ST...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities
Oklahoma Students Make Their Mark Learning to Program with Rover
...d you guys figure it out,” said Honeycutt. “It took them 3 or 4 days to figure out how to draw a line, but when they did, they were so proud of themselves and the beams on their faces were quite beautiful.” Keota junior Justin Hickman (right) inspects a TI-Innovator Rover while junior Trevor Do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/seeroverdraw
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...hough they specified a turn of 60 degrees is priceless! This is an introduction to interior versus exterior angles that they won’t soon forget. And solving a system of two linear equations is a lot more fun when it involves two robots driving at each other and crashing at the point of intersectio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...with no coding or engineering experience. Texas Instruments has offered the “Path to STEM Projects” for several years. Each of the six units involves small projects that teach necessary skills as they relate to analog and digital input and output, feedback and control systems, and how to cal...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
Every student encounters algebraic concepts in their mathematics career. As teachers, it can sometimes be hard to help students grasp concepts they find abstract in nature. Technology can help by demonstrating those concepts in a new and intriguing way. By involving dynamic visualization and int...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
...es The computation of probabilities for random variables that are normally distributed is a core concept in the course. You can expect a question involving a normal probability computation on the AP Statistics exam. The normalcdf( command takes inputs of the mean, standard deviation, and an lower...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/apstats
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...graphing calculator TI-81 graphing calculator TI-82 graphing calculator TI-83 graphing calculator and TI-83 Plus graphing calculator TI-83 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculator TI-84 Plus graphing calculator and TI-84 Plus T graphing calculator TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator and TI-84 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Daniel Wilkie
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom on a daily basis. This month, join us in getting to know Daniel Wilkie, a high school IB math teacher who gets his students involved in coding activities with “Coding Fridays.” Fast Facts About Daniel: TEACHES WHAT...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/teacherofthemonth
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...ontaining a factor of “x.”) Transformations of functions In part 1 of this post, which highlights usage of CAS in algebra I, I used the Solve tool to encourage students to consider the number of solutions to a quadratic equation in the form x2 = a. In algebra II, I have found success ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
A Teacher’s 5 Words That Changed My Life
...and carriers I work with a team passionate about education and helping educators and students achieve academic success My STEM career has been evolving for many years. I’ve often been the only female and, more often, the only African American in the room; still I chose to be heard and activel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/intlwomensday
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Jessica Kohout
...racting with the kids, and seeing how my passion can translate into their passion, by giving them a chance to explore and figure things out for themselves. When you get to see those “Aha!” moments come to life for your students, it makes it all worthwhile. What TI technology do you use in the cl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/teacher-of-the-month
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...students who had a TI-Nspire™ CX CAS graphing calculator performed their calculations using the correct units. That, more than the calculations themselves, turned out to be quite interesting. Conversion of angular velocity ⍵ and calculation of acceleration α. Using the given radius ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
How do you make a foam polystyrene cup disappear? Put it in an organic solvent such as acetone! Important note: Doing the project in a well ventilated space and using gloves are smart ways to avoid unnecessary exposure to acetone. Only use enough acetone to cause the cup to dissolve. Follow your...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
Three Pawsitively Fun TI-Nspire Math Activities
...CX and TI-Nspire™ CX CAS Teacher Software. This blog is for all the dog lovers out there. In this post, we will share a few math activities that involve dogs. Who knew dogs were pedagogically helpful too? Three Pawsitively Fun TI-Nspire Math Activities Curtis Brown Three Pawsitively Fun ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/dog_blog