Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...y continue through the different phases of the contest. The design and build stages include a video consultation with a team of TI experts who answer questions and provide valuable feedback to the teams about their design. Students become immersed in a complete product design experience — an incr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...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 can save tim...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...ices have played out in the classroom and what changes can be made so the class is more productive in the future. Here is how I have turned my end-of-quarter evaluations into valuable conversations about how to make math class better for all of us. Clear Communication Whatever your grading sy...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...ught it would be interesting and fun to put our discussions out into the world in the form of a podcast, providing anytime, anywhere access to ideas, questions and considerations for growing as a math educator. We keep each episode to about 30-minutes long, knowing that educators’ time is preciou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...urriculum that were about to take place. To make these activities even more usable to IB® teachers, we recognized they would also need IB® exam style questions to go hand in hand with each activity. But as IB® teachers ourselves, we knew the need would be more than just activities, and that teach...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...mportant, life-long benefit of knowing how to program. “I went to our activities person and said we want to start a coding club and I need money for equipment, so she gave us some ideas for fundraising,” said Kachur. “We ended up raising almost $1,000 in candy bar sales, so that we could get 5 TI...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...ng and problematic — not anymore! Traditional Python can be tricky because it uses specific indentation for iteration and selection. Instead of squinting to see if the spacing is correct, TI-84 Plus CE Python uses diamonds ◊ to makes it easier to learn and debug Python spacing. I don’t know ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Innovation in Biology
...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/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...the popular method of moving water from one beaker to another using two straws of different widths. This approach can result in always-changing water levels due to spillage. Students don’t get to see that equilibrium means that there is a constant rate of change between two parts of a system and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
BestofChemistry
...e. Periodic table, periodicity, atom, atomic structure, atomic mass, atomic weight, atomic number, protons, neutrons, electrons, balancing chemical equations, bonding, chemical bonding, ionic compounds, ionic bonding, intermolecular forces, Electron configurations BestofChemistry website...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...a new high school event called Detector Building. In the 35-year history of Science Olympiad, incorporating coding has been challenging because of inequitable computer availability and a lack of training resources for teachers and students. In the last few years, Texas Instruments (TI) has helped...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...on The TI-Nspire™ CX or CX II graphing calculator is an amazing tool that can be used in partnership with a Vernier sensor or probe. The Vernier DataQuest™ App for TI-Nspire™ technology is built right into the calculator’s home screen. Students can collect real-world data, analyze that data and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
...play it safe and cheer for the “field goal” or always want your team to go for the touchdown? No matter how you like to celebrate, the big game is quickly approaching, and it can be a great opportunity to get your students talking math and sports. And even food, if that’s more your thing. TI h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...ely because their math education relied 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 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
Let’s Get Back to the Basics
... family of graphing calculators. Download the calculator printout and answer key here. In the Back to the Basics Calculator Activity, students are required to challenge themselves with high-level problem-solving by graphing functions and equations, interpreting tables of values and evaluating ex...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtothebasicsactivity
Going Back to School With Stations
...nt serves as an excellent tool for students to reference throughout the year. Scavenger hunt for the TI-84 Plus CE Python. “Syllabus Quiz” station Students explore the class syllabus, and discover classroom procedures, routines, etc. Students will then complete a Google form qu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
Free Resources for AP® Calculus by @TICalculators
...repare for teaching calculus. The TI in Focus: AP® Calculus resources provide videos, documents and calculator files that are intended to give that required depth. We will briefly discuss each of the video types in order to help you make better use of this valuable set of resources. The videos ar...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/january/free-resources-for-ap-calculus
2022 Virtual T3IC | July 28–29 | Texas Instruments
...or free. Group discount Register by July 1 to receive your free conference swag box featuring an exclusive T³IC hat, fun calculator squishy, notebook and more.* *While supplies last. Claim your swag box We’ll lend you the technology you need to get the most from...https://education.ti.com/en/t3-professional-development/t3-international-conference-2022
TI-Nspire™ Programming Activities | Texas Instruments
...ms but are not the same. Functions can have many statements and look like other programs in the Program Editor. Functions are different from programs because their purpose is to return a value. The value can be a number, list, string, matrix, or any other built-in data type. Programs are limited ...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/ti-codes/nspire/10-minutes
Girl Scouts Coding Basics Badge with TI-Nspire™ CX
...commands from the onboard menus, as you will soon see.The TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators can be used at this level. Requirements Junior Coding for Good, Badge 1 requirements: 1. Create algorithms for a computer that follow a sequence. 2. Use loops to im...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/ti-codes/nspire/coding-for-good-webpage
Building Concepts Math Activities | Texas Instruments
...ions only in terms of describing fractions greater than 1. Converting improper fractions into mixed numbers does not appear until after students have become familiar with adding fractions. The Big Idea This lesson uses a dynamic geoboard to extend the concept of fraction to u...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities
Biographies | TI STEM Exchange | Understanding Students’ Ways of Thinking in Mathematics | March 2022
...loud, Minnesota, before moving to Colorado to work on her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder. After completing her doctoral studies, Pittman became the Director of Mathematics for Boulder Valley School District before moving to the Colorado Department of Education as their PK–12 Mathemat...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/ti-stem-exchange/march2022-event/panel-biographies
Calculated Collection | Texas Instruments
...ollection: Ashley – Algebra Skills Review – 3-in-1 activity Audrey – Graphing Calculator Boot Camp DeJaune – Basketballs in the Hoops: Linear Equations and Inequalities Kate – Graph Transformation Stations Activity Kelly – Algebra 1 Statistics Task Card Activity Michelle – Buying a Car ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/calculated-collection
Sound Intensity
Students investigate the relationship between sound intensity and distance for a commercial loudspeaker. They use collected data to identify a mathematical model for the relationship. They then compare this model with the inverse square law for an ideal point source.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sound-intensity
Balancing Torques and Forces
In this activity, students explore the conditions necessary to produce static equilibrium using first-, second-, and third-class levers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-torques-and-forces