Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
...et 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 design “wins” early in the project helped get them engaged at the very begi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...et of numbers. The details are too complicated to get into here, but I can tell you that the sequence tn does have a limit and it converges very slowly. Here are the first 20 decimal places of the limit: 0.60792710185402662866... Are you sitting down? I ask because I have something to tell yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...be channel and shared our videos 3,240 times. And, students and teachers smashed that like button 9,616 times on our videos. Way to spread the knowledge, and we hope you keep it going in the New Year. Cheers! AP® is a trademark registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...ducation. In its position paper on access and equity in mathematics education, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) states: “Acknowledging and addressing factors that contribute to differential outcomes among groups of students are critical to ensuring that all students routin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...signing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing hypotheses. Download all the files you need in an instant. Run this way. 2. Will creepy, crawly maggots lead you to the answer? A body of a male victim has been discovered in an open field just outside the city limits — but who is it? St...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...s 10 Minutes of Code, but added the TI-Innovator™ Hub. My students rose to the challenge with very little coding experience, as well as my limited knowledge, and we learned together. Their successful smiles and “yahoos” when they determined their errors, solved their problems and designed their o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
...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 the exam, will offer tried-and-true strategies to help you and your students succeed. The YouTube Live “AP® ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... Fig. 11 The message: “Tell everyone it is Computer Science Education week!” Becomes: “Whoo hyhubrqh lw lv Frpsxwhu Vflhqfh Hgxfdwlrqzhh!” Converting messages by can time consuming. How long would it have taken your student to encode the example above? Using Python, students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...n expected result of the disruptions to learning last spring, we can make more progress by focusing on moving students forward with the skills and knowledge that are already solidified. Instead of using formative assessment to find holes, try using them to identify what students know and understa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...am using a variety of resources and considering different perspectives. The TI in Focus: AP® Calculus Resources are a great way to refresh teacher knowledge on a problem or how a problem should be graded. As an AP® reader, I reference the PDF slides often and appreciate the extensions that are pr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
To STEM and Beyond!
...nd persevere through a problem. This is what computer science and STEM offers our students. Being a chemistry teacher, my programming background knowledge and skills were limited to a Fortran programming class way back in my undergraduate program. I was first introduced to TI technology for my ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ons. Check it out: Meet a NASA Astronaut. Next month we’ll be visiting the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas’ brand-new STEM Center of Excellence, a sprawling 92-acre living laboratory in Dallas, TX, that provides year-round opportunities in robotics, computer coding, botany, chemistry and more. Oth...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
... students don’t know how to do the problem, they can sometimes solve the problem by estimating a distance or an angle. Also, students can use this knowledge to quickly check if their answer makes sense. While the mathematicians in us might cringe at this notion, students love this strategy and ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...r quiz, it is critical that the device itself is a useful tool for students and doesn’t interfere with the process of assessing their mathematical knowledge. Setting up the handhelds before testing helps meet this goal. A simple reminder to the class to set calculators to degree mode, for example...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...s day. As you listen to the different discussion topics we’ve explored in the podcast, you’ll hear Curtis’ beliefs in students’ ownership of their knowledge and learning. As an AP® Statistics teacher, he saw that when he focused on presenting relevant topics with explicit connections to the world...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
... sure to put you in that wintry mood because it: Has falling snow. Plays the notes to “Jingle Bells.” Displays the synchronized karaoke-style crawl of the lyrics on the screen. Note: See the file for authoring credits. At the heart of the code is … a list: Python code for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Who knew math had moves?
...dance-off, along with Peter Balyta, president of TI Education Technology “Since they have implemented more robotics into the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills), it’s a perfect time for us to be able to have something like this in the classroom,” said Brown. Students in her computer scien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
There’s nothing quite like a newly spruced up classroom to kick off another school year. And we know getting your classroom decorations organized and set up is simply a must for back to school! To help make your classroom glow up easy and FREE, we’ve rounded up a set of awesome resources to fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...uisiana at Lafayette. She is currently at Southside High School in Youngsville, Louisiana, where she teaches all levels of chemistry I and II and a newly created Introduction to Robotics course. She was awarded the T³™ Leadership Award in 2022. She uses TI technology to assist her teaching, robot...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...displaying the roots of a quadratic given in standard form. All of these calculation-type programs give students an opportunity to reinforce their knowledge and deepen their understanding of those relationships, and exposes them to writing code for mathematical processes. There are other types of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...lves as capable, creative thinkers and doers in STEM. As educators, we must reflect on what implicit biases must be addressed, and recognize and acknowledge what students bring to the class. This helps educators understand their students. In an effort to use data as a reflection tool, it is impor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
What do Chemistry Cat, toilet bowl cleaner and contact lens cleaning solution have in common? They’re all ways to take the abstract subject of chemistry and make it come alive and make sense for high school students. Throughout my career, I have strived to make this subject applicable to the rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
BestofChemistry
...s, all while discovering the patterns of atomic number, atomic mass and properties of different atoms. Students then play a fun game to test their knowledge. This is based on the popular Phet simulations. Screenshots from the Build an Atom activity. 4. Atomic Structure and Perio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...e vocal learners each day. Simulations of tough-to-see concepts In chemistry, in order for students to have a full understanding of concepts, knowledge of both the molecular and symbolic views of those concepts must be achieved. Visualization of chemical reactions concepts on the molecular l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
...physiological changes, and compare collected data to normal ranges for healthy blood pressure. The activity includes questions to assess students’ knowledge and facilitate discussion. Subject: Biology Duration: 45 minutes Equipment needed: TI-Nspire™ CX/CX II graphing calculator Vern...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities