Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
While the school year may be coming to an end, our new contest aimed at spreading the love of math is just getting started. Through September, we’re asking people across the country to recognize the parents, teachers and mentors who inspired their passion for numbers for a chance to grant them a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...iment up to the International Space Station. We learned how to use a microprocessor to run our experiment — I was intrigued. How could I utilize the skills learned in this elite group of students for all of my students? I was then introduced to the Texas Instruments TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI La...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Computational Thinking
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Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...ing entails some important changes that students and teachers must stay abreast of, and address, through their study and preparation efforts. I’m breaking down my top tips for math teachers, students and parents to prepare for the new digital format although most of the tips apply whether you’re ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
... real thing. The National Summer Learning Association reports that students lose an equivalent of two months of their grade-level math computational skills over the summer.* And, when kids return to school in the fall, about nine out of 10 teachers will spend as much as three weeks on review, bec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...ess to the technology her classmates are using..."Peggy Johnson, Principal, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE SOLUTION The Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator, created through a collaboration between Texas Instruments, the American Printing House for the Blind and Orbit Research, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...ted to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning and justification skills? In the fall of 2019, the teachers in my department began to think seriously about these questions. Our work began to revolve around a qu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
We are constantly looking for things, whether it be our car keys, ourselves or the next best smartphone. Sometimes, finding things become pop hits. Back in 1985 there was a video game that was popular called “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” Not too long after the debut of that game came ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
At the end of a marking period, students’ grades indicate their progress and achievement in math class. It is also a great time to encourage reflection and feedback on what teaching and learning practices have played out in the classroom and what changes can be made so the class is more producti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
... what their current coding opportunities were in their schools. One tiny issue that I should probably explain: I had no coding experience prior to working with TI and the TI STEM Team. Okay, I took a Fortran class in 1993 and don’t remember a single thing, except the sound of the dot matrix print...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
In this post, we will go through a few introductory steps to help you get started writing simple TI-Basic programs on your TI-Nspire CX handheld. We will use a familiar mathematical procedure – computing the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few cod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
In the spring of 2022, I was looking for some innovative ways to review my AP® Calculus students for the AP® exam. I read Peter Liljedahl’s book, “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics,” in the summer of 2021 and decided to implement some of the strategies from his book. My calculus classe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
...g Interested in learning more? Hear from this winning team’s sponsor as she shares her contest experience and helpful tips. Tc8BbPQm9tg --> Get winning insights from a team sponsor Questions? We’re here to help. For questions about contest rules, el...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2025/p0-save-the-date
Designing Your Classroom With Purpose
...ew TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator with your students. Plus, download the free TI-84 Plus CE Python posters here. About the author: Emily Kraus has taught math in grades three through eight in Austin, Texas. She is the creator of Kraus Math®, which provides teachers with TEKS-aligned ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/classroomdesign
Summer of STEM: Breaking Board Paradox
...elow, see a video of this experiment and others in action: Use this STEM experiment to take your karate chop to a new level. Summer of STEM: Breaking Board Paradox Erick Archer Summer of STEM: Breaking Board Paradox website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/breakingboard
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...mation, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 3. Balanced Systems of Equations Speaking of systems of equations, many students have a hard time understanding just what the solution to a system of equations actually means. In this ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
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
A first-of-its-kind STEM strategy charts path to help educators
In a first-ever undertaking of its kind, four of the nation’s key education leadership groups have partnered to define a strategy for improving and advancing STEM learning for all students. Over the past year, Advance CTE, the Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics (ASSM), the Council o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/a-first-of-its-kind-stem-strategy-charts-path-to-help-educators
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
... with “cleverly hidden containers” called geocaches. There are millions — yes, millions — of geocaches all around the world, and likely one within walking distance of your home. Once found, the containers have a logbook for you to sign and read and typically contain some sort of “treasure” (think...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...ed heavily on memorization to learn facts and procedures. Fortunately, that’s no longer true. Teaching techniques have evolved, and more and more kids today are learning something much more valuable and useful: algebraic thinking, number sense, and how to use multiple representations and reas...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...n physics classes, they might have explored the relationship between conservation of mechanical energy in the constant exchange between potential and kinetic energies and the diminishing rebound height. In this ball bounce activity, we explore that relationship from a slightly different perspec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Distance vs Displacement - A Particle's Journey
In this activity, students will further discuss the graphical and algebraic relationships between derivatives, integration and particle motion while using kinematics. Distance vs Displacement - A Particle's Journey apcalculus website ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-distance-v-displacement
Jack Kilby Day
Jack Kilby Day global website Grades 6-10 Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby In 1958, technology as we knew it changed forever. On Sept. 12, 1958, Jack Kilby, a TI engineer and i...https://education.ti.com/en/success-story/jack-kilby-day