Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...ow this elite group of young women transformed rocket design, shaped lunar missions, and ushered in a new era of space with their pencils, papers and quick-thinking mathematical minds. “If you liked ‘Hidden Figures,’ then you need to read this! You will gain a better understanding of history,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
... passed it on to the Education Technology division with employees who also understand the importance of financial literacy. An interesting and unique story unfolds of Retired Air Force Major Harold Peters, the 90-year-old author of that letter. After speaking with him, we realized that his pa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
Inverse Functions on the TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...nal math topics. Introducing inverse functions Suppose your family takes a road trip to visit Toronto for a long weekend. Upon arrival, a quick glance at a weather map is initially terrifying. You quickly remember that Canada uses ° Celsisus for its temperatures and there is a functio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/investigating-inverse-functions-ti-84-plus-ce
Fall-Tastic Ideas for Your Classroom | Texas Instruments
...challenge your students to: Determine the functions that form the full image. Practice transformations to complete the partial image. Develop unique designs with their own math. Piece the activities together to finish the image. Download free activities with three lev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/falltastic-ideas-enhance-classroom
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
... School, Greenville, New York Objective: The Rover can be used to introduce interior and exterior angles by having the students make Rover draw a square and then a triangle. The students pick up very quickly that the 90 degrees for a square is the same inside and outside. However, for drawing ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
6 Resources to Jump-Start the School Year | Texas Instruments
... alike. These video tutorials can be found at education.ti.com/tutorials in a step-by-step, easy-to-follow format! Be sure to check out the brand new Quick Tutorials for the TI-84 Plus CE calculator. Free classroom activities for math and STEM! TI offers free classro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/tiresources
A New School Year, A New You(Tube) | Texas Instruments
...ce things are looking a little different on our channel … and for the better! It’s all been reorganized to make finding the videos you’re looking for quicker and easier. Here’s a taste of what you’ll find: How-to videos for the TI-84 Plus and TI-Nspire™ families of graphing calculators Resour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/new-school-year-new-youtube
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
...elevision, my heavy eyelids closed, and I learned personally how true this is. I find myself in a bustling saloon in the Wild West sipping liquid courage, when a troublemaker writes 6/2(2+1)=1 on a bar napkin and throws it down on the table like a gauntlet. I hear myself say, “Them’s fig...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations
5 Study Tips from a Student #StudyGrammer | Texas Instruments
... way, according to the memory model, you’re more likely to remember the material. (And, ultimately, the hope here is students will do better on their quizzes and tests.) View this post on Instagram A post shared by ˗ˏˋsophia´ˎ˗ (@girlmeetsdesk) Study tip #3: Stay hap...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-study-tips-from-a-student-studygrammer
Expressions of Love for TI-Cares™ Support | Texas Instruments
...couldn’t love our teachers, administrators, students and parents more, and we are always flattered when they take the time to love us back! Below are quotes from customers who reached out to TI-Cares™ support or the TI Workshop Loan Program. These customers definitely know their way to our hearts...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/ti-cares-customer-support-love
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
... looked at operations with integers and fractions. What are some other key middle school concepts? Integers Fractions ? ? How about solving equations? Students develop skills through middle and high school to solve single-variable equations. How do students progress through various l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
5 Teacher Tips for Classroom Management | Texas Instruments
...start? That’s why we asked our teacher community to share their tips for managing a classroom. Here are the top five approaches, featuring a few unique styles and techniques, they shared for managing a math classroom. 1. Relationship building and engagement Hands down, the most popular...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-teacher-tips-classroom-management
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
...ate many data points at once. The ability to use your own code to double-check your own work. For example, she said, “When solving complicated math equations, students will type in every step in the calculator … to check their work. But you can also code it in four to five lines to get the same ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2022 | Texas Instruments
... can use with students to get them to love mathematics as much as we all do. You’ll explore: Graphing functions and the relationships between the equation, table and graph. Expressions using the home screen and tables. Inequality graphing and applications. Geometric transformations. “Awe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/2022-webinars-top-10
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...g challenge. This design is modified from a completely different activity and is another great example of what a little bit of experimentation can do after learning basics from the TI Codes modules. The original activity created explosions to celebrate the end of a game. It was originally writ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
...ty, student-to-student academic feedback, we must first set the stage in our classrooms. We must provide a risk-free environment where students feel safe in sharing their thinking — a space that embraces failing forward and is free from ridicule when making mistakes. It takes intentionality and t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
... work. What sets TI graphing calculators apart from other calculators and calculator apps is that they’re not a simple shortcut to quick, easy answers. Rather, our calculators are made to truly help students learn, visualize and understand math better. All the features of our p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
... and milestones are all mapped out. Many factors go into writing a successful proposal, but remembering these five common mistakes and knowing what questions to ask yourself can help make things go a bit smoother. Let’s countdown the top five mistakes. Mistake #5: Ignoring the impo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...oups and were actively engaged during the entire four days of building, designing and refining their projects. On the last day, a few groups were not quite ready to showcase their project. They had a little more tinkering to do and begged me to shorten their review for their final exam in favor o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Fan’s Favorite Features on TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...nica on Facebook For this split screen view, start from a graph screen. Press the “mode” key and then select “graph-table.” This quick view allows students to compare the data in the table to what their graph shows, enabling them to make their own connections. You can even co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/five-fan-favorite-features-ti84plus
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
...to create and do hands-on projects with his students. Learn through playing — build a slide whistle to examine linear equations Play … create … try something different! If you do that, you will sometimes stumble into/ onto something that you can use to engage your ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
Exploring Circle Equations
Students explore the equation of a circle by connecting the coordinates of the center of the circle and the length of the radius to the corresponding parts of the equation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-circle-equations
Running Circles Around Quads
Students explore various properties of cyclic quadrilaterals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/running-circles-around-quads_1
Properties of Parallelograms - 1
Students explore the various properties of parallelograms and the necessary and sufficient conditions that guarantee that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-parallelograms_1
Slippery Slope
In this activity, students will create Distance versus Time plots and calculate the slopes of the plots. They explore the mathematical concept of slopes and understand how slopes can be used to interpret how one physical quantity changes with respect to another.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/slippery-slope