Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...wn calculator, this empowers them to practice concepts as often as they choose. The eval() function in Python lets students enter calculations as an input and store the result in a variable. In the example below, students do not need to know to play the game. They can enter sqrt(18**2+16) as the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...ering design was introduced, was an automatic dispenser. This dispenser used the built-in TI-Innovator™ Hub brightness sensor, RGB LED lights and an input of a servo motor. Students spent one day with an introduction to engineering design and sketched their design. The next two days were spent bu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...of your grade, or your state’s priority standards, if they have them. If you have the chance to collaborate with teachers of other grades, get their input on the topics that deserve the most attention. You can’t do it all and will only frustrate yourself by trying, so give yourself permission to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...cuments can feel overwhelming, and they are sometimes accompanied by the expectation that teachers cover a specific topic on a specific day. In this unprecedented year, students will benefit if their teachers pare back the standard scope and sequence document to allow for more focused instruction...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
To STEM and Beyond!
...e built-in RGB and range (distance) sensors. They created automated machines that used the TI-SensorLink Adapter and a Vernier sensor. Based on data input from the sensor, an action was taken. This activity was a modification from the TI STEM Project “Some Like It Tepid.” They also had an opportu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
... Activity Worksheets Choose from two quick-start activities; Ready-made Pi or Homemade Pi. In these activities, students learn how to gather and input the data of circular objects. Students will plot the circumference versus diameter on a graph, then calculate the slope of the data points. Wh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
... display to match the flame lab tests. We also used the TI-SensorLink Adapter and a Vernier sensor to design an automated system, that based on data input from the sensor, an action was taken. This activity was a modification from the TI STEM Project “Some Like It Tepid.” They also had an opportu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...igail has leveraged her passion to ensure that we as a society are ready to go to Mars within her lifetime by starting The Mars Generation, a 501C3 nonprofit which focuses on exciting and inspiring young people about STEM and space exploration while also supporting them to pursue careers in those...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
The Heartbeat of STEM
... challenge models the autonomic nervous system. Students will need to write a program to show how the heart rate changes based on different external input. A Grove temperature sensor is used to modify the input, and students will need to write a program to increase the heart rate as temperature i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...tion that graphs a line between the points (-6,0) and (3,-3). I would give them the rest of the code and ask them what they think it does. Once they input the code, encourage them to run the program and have fun with it. If the arrow is moving too fast, you can slow it down. Go back to the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
... summer camp hosted across West Virginia that focused solely on the TI-Innovator™ Hub and TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. The youth programmed input and output feedback controls to make the built-in lights on the TI-Innovator™ Hub mimic the colors of a mood ring in the “Digital Mood Ring” a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...ught high school math for just under 20 years, served as a district math coordinator for six years, then spent five years at two different national nonprofit organizations supporting math instruction and high-quality curriculum all over the country before joining TI three years ago. I hope that i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...e other actions in the loop, thus making animation possible. get_mouse() is also found in the ti_system menu and is another input tool. It takes no arguments and returns the current mouse position on the screen (the tip of the arrow pointer). It returns two values: the x ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...ker on the Hub, and then create a corresponding patriotic light show using the LEDs. What’s really cool about microcontrollers is that you can add input and output devices like motors or temperature sensors to model a product or invention. For example, you can create a model of a product that ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...of my favorite introductory projects to work through with students are the Digital Mood Ring and Coding the Sounds of Music. The mood ring uses input from a temperature sensor, in a conditional statement, to code the color of the RGB LED built in on the TI-Innovator™ Hub. Students can then a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
... to TI-Basic code. The first step in our pseudocode is to get two points. You can do that with the lines of code below. This will prompt the user to input the x- and y-coordinates for the two points and store them in variables with corresponding names. Now that we have the pseudocode, let’s trans...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...r of 2021 and decided to implement some of the strategies from his book. My calculus classes did numerous thin-slicing tasks in random groups at our VNPSs (vertical nonpermanent surfaces — aka white boards on the wall) throughout the 2021–22 school year. I was convinced that these strategies were...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...nd resources for using TI technology to engage students, whether learning in person or virtually. On the first conference day, John Staley, Ph.D., unpacked the D.U.E.S (see below) to guide teacher choices while teaching STEM with intentionality. The focus of this session was discussing how we m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...ts and Python. Any time my students get to play with RGB colors and sound, the inquiry, enthusiasm and engagement increase tenfold. If you also have input devices such as a temperature or moisture sensor, or output devices such as the TI-RGB array or an LED, you can incorporate those into your co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
... Be Flexible Teachers are being asked to go boldly where no one has gone before; flexibility will be critical to navigating a complex and unpredictable school year. Think of yourself as the captain of a ship with very precious cargo. Start the year by figuring out where you are, where ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Fall in Love with Polar Graphs: Top 4 Ways to Turn Heads with the TI-84 Plus
... catch the eye of that special someone. Press the y= key. In r1 enterθ by pressing the "X,T,θ,n" key. Then press the window key. Then, in θmax try inputting 5π. Then, press the zoom key. Now, you will want to either press 0 or arrow down to ZoomFIT, either way works. Desire a bigger spiral? Try...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/polargraphlove
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...e a fantastic addition to a coding-related class. The sense of accomplishment that the students have when they see their code make something move is unparalleled. A French educator once described to me how a student was having difficulty in understanding a “for” loop until they coded a robot a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
... 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 calibrate sensors. Project titles are “Build a Speaker,” “Make a Switch From a Banana,” “...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
... 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 and upper boundary. This is helpful because it means you do not need to standardize (turn to z-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/apstats
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...luetooth, cellular, audio/video recording and playing, camera or any other smartphone-type feature Models that have a typewriter-like keyboard, pen input or stylus (more on this below) Models that use electrical outlets, make noise or have a paper tape Calculator function on a mobile phone ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat