You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
..., we carefully investigate with teachers how that feature will impact learning in the classroom, as well as reliability and security for important exams. We don’t innovate just to claim that we do. Our product development team listens to educators to understand their key challenges and constraint...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
...the added skills brought to the table by other teachers and staff. Tip 3: Get kids doing hands-on right away, then teach the science concepts. It seems like you should teach concepts first, then have students apply their knowledge to a problem. In this case, we found that giving students small ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
...uick tips and fun activities using TI technology. Because July 4th happens to fall on a Tuesday this year, we decided to feature some patriotic programs for a special edition of #TIpTuesday. Click here to download a TI-84 Plus CE program that creates a firework display on your calculator. You can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...While we can’t know for sure what next great invention will make history like the integrated circuit, what we do know is the students in your classrooms are the future scientists, engineers and mathematicians that will envision and create the solutions to our world’s greatest problems. In celebra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
...tional Space Station (ISS) commander Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko encountered in the first year-long mission aboard the ISS. The problems ranged from what to eat in space for optimal strength and nutrition to how to detect and prevent potential collisions with orbital debris. The w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
April Showers
Tom Reardon shows off the best blooms to brighten your classroom using TI technology. Find out how Tom Reardon shows off the best blooms to brighten your classroom using TI technology. April Showers Texas Instruments April Showers website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/april-showers
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
... test a working sensor. Last year’s competition required students to build a working thermometer, but this year’s competition will instead require teams to create a working conductivity sensor. The rules state: “Teams will build a durable Conductivity Device that will accurately measure and displ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
DIY TI Codes Contest
Have you heard about our TI Codes Contest? Each spring, Texas Instruments challenges teams of students from around the U.S. to come up with creative solutions to a proposed theme and submit their ideas. As the groups advance, they ultimately build a functioning model of their concept, which they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
roboticsweek2021
...cs and STEM-related fields, and share the excitement of robotics across all ages. Let me explain a little more on how teardowns work. Student teams take apart electronics products, catalog their findings and submit a report. They have to follow safety protocols and get permission from their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...ransformations and end behavior; to describe geometry and calculus terminology; to build upon social and emotional learning; and to destress after exams. They’ve also used it as an activity to celebrate holidays such as Valentine’s Day. All this to say: The sky is the limit with how you can use m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...at’s familiar and demonstrating how it ties into something new? As teachers, we trust that all of our students are capable of shining in our classrooms. It is our job to lay the groundwork for our students to feel the same. STAAR is a registered trademark of the Texas Education Agency.Kraus Mat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
... really fun teacher to have because he always keeps the energy up in the classroom, so you’re never bored, even when you are doing complex math problems,” said Perry High School senior Olivia Lane. “I like that he is very energetic,” said senior Toree Fogle. “We can walk into class and not really...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...lay around with CAS tools, the more creative ways I find to help students explore and understand math. CAS definitely has a place in all math classrooms if we give it a chance! About the author: Scott Knapp has been teaching math for 21 years and has served as a T³™ Regional Instructor for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
... from a Chromebook™ notebook computer plus calculator mix in your classroom. Using screenshots As you create and assign activities through your LMS — such as Canvas or Google Classroom — consider the depth of exploration students can have using their own, dedicated graphing calculator. Now s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Leveling the Math Playing Field
... even further behind. In this era of accountability, long-standing inequities are being exposed, and they demand our attention — now. Arbitrary circumstances into which kids are born — such as their race, ethnicity, ZIP code and socioeconomic status — should not be predictors of academic success...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...nging classes, but the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator helped me through it all. I was amazed by the capability of graphing/solving Fourier transforms and Bode Plots. Circuit Theory and Electronics were difficult courses, but when using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, multivariable equat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
... Biker Bob was born the fateful night when he crossed the centerline at Dead Man’s Curve and skidded into the great beyond. Now a popular TV show claims it has proof the tall tales are true. It’s up to your students to find out the truth. Taking on the role of an inquisitive photojournalist, st...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TICodesContestTips
...borrow for up to 30 days (while supplies are available). The projects have lesson guides and sample code which makes trying this with your class a breeze. I suggest getting started with our Digital Mood Ring project as it’s consistently a crowd pleaser. Step 3 Ready to take it up notch? Studen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodescontesttips
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
... think any year is a good year to win a gold medal. Gold medals are required to be made from at least 92.5% silver and must contain a minimum of 6 grams of gold. All medals must be at least 60mm in diameter and 3mm thick. Chart courtesy of Macrotrends. 3. Who is the “World’s Fastes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...early. We already have a few other Girl Scouts events on our calendar and are looking forward to scheduling more. About the author: Michelle Grooms is an Educational Technology Consultant for Texas Instruments. She has been a Girl Scout troop leader for six years in Dublin, Ohio, where she l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...robotic cars to navigate through a 3D-printed city we call Math-hattan. Students at Parkville Middle School in Baltimore use math to write programs on Texas Instruments’ newest graphing calculator, the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator, that drive a robotic car around a futuristic, 3D-pri...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
Many people know about Girl Scouts, especially when cookie season comes around and boxes of Thin Mints® and Samoas® line the break rooms of offices and accrue in the pantries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... students can learn at their own individual pace. About the author: Tom Reardon taught every math course at Fitch High School (Ohio) during his 35-year career, where he received the Presidential Award and attained National Board Certification. He was an adjunct mathematics and computer scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...s Instruments TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board. My students were already using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator in our science classrooms for calculations, graphing, data collection and mathematical analysis of that data. What if I added some coding and programming into the classro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
... questions that are directly related to the Big Ideas in the “AP® Statistics Course and Exam Description.” The content will be original, unique problems and data sets that Starnes has written for our Office Hours series to deepen student and teacher content knowledge. Starnes, a former reader for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours