ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...view updates to the AP® Statistics exam. Together, the dynamic duo will take a look at a free-response question and solutions. They also share some suggestions for using TI technology effectively on the exam. While we don’t know what the 2021 exam will look like, these tips are sure to help you g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Score Big on the ACT® With These Tried-and-True Tips for the Math Section
...Not all colleges and universities currently accept ACT® Superscoring, so you will need to check before sending to a particular college. One of the biggest advantages of the computer-based ACT® is that you’ll receive your score in about two business days, compared to over two weeks for the paper ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-19-2021-act-tips
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...-to-test” feature on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator), the Solve tool can also be used to explore mathematics. One concept my students struggle with in algebra I and II is the number of solutions to a quadratic equation in the form x2=a. My students recognize that to solve for x they n...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...lp herself and her family. She is currently the valedictorian of her class and student body president and continues to bring home A’s despite the struggles she and her family are facing. Calderon has been in the International Baccalaureate (IB®) program since middle school and is currently dually...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
... there too big of a takeoff angle? This one is particularly exciting to me — have I mentioned I am a track and field coach too? I would strongly suggest letting students experience this for themselves. Take the students out to your school’s track, and play! Have them run and jump into the sand...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
Are your students struggling with graphing the parent functions or how to graph transformations of them? Texas Instruments is here to help teachers — and students — with a video resource that contains over 250 short colorful animated videos with over 460 examples that illustrate and explain these...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...at about zombie populations? This STEM Behind Hollywood activity explores the concept of exponential growth in the context of a zombie apocalypse. Trigger an outbreak of learning and infectious fun in your classroom — STEM Behind Hollywood: Zombie Apocalypse. The activity provides studen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...ometry, number fluency sometimes impeded content mastery. My students could grasp the big ideas and explain the process of factoring, but would get bogged down by number sense. So, how do you increase fluency while teaching your content? Here’s a game that, once coded, can be played during warm-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...riences. Selecting high-quality tasks that promote reasoning, facilitating meaningful mathematical discourse, and supporting students’ productive struggle, teachers can increase the access to and learning of meaningful, grade-level mathematics content. Lessons that elicit and use evidence of stud...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...int using tables. I like that I can personalize and add in events that happen weekly into my schedule, and I don't need to rewrite it. Recently, my biggest focus has been building relationships with my students and families. As a result, my agenda has space for me to make note of who I’m checking...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...hey tap into students’ interests to push them to do better. #4 – Math Teachers care! Math makes everything in the world work, but students can struggle to see that. Math teachers provide encouragement and support. #5 – Math Teachers go above and beyond their normal duties. Math teachers g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...lore how the Pythagorean (or, should it be “pi-thagorean”?) Theorem and the circumference of a circle can be related. It’s as easy as pi! Why Bigger Is Not Necessarily Better Did you know that the tiny little biological cells that make you are tiny for a reason? Explore this biology activit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
... years ago, I wrote “Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School.” There are many things in there that are still accurate, but I have some new suggestions in light of today’s current situation. Here are five ways to make sure that this school year is better than before! 1. Build relation...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
... an opportunity to engage with STEM. We’re fresh off a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center where we went to chat with astronaut Joe Acaba, who has logged a total of 306 days in space on three missions. Check it out: Meet a NASA Astronaut. Next month we’ll be visiting the Girl Scouts of Northeast...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
... easily use. "This is the one tool that can do everything mathematically. Lillie now has equal access 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 colla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...are not given that option, and students who are new to the school don’t feel left out when they don’t know whom to sit next to. Following are some suggestions for making seating charts work in classrooms where students change each hour. Method 1: Note cards taped on desks This is my current favo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
Are you transitioning to TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculators from TI-84 Plus family models in your classroom? The TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator is a powerful tool with many features, yet it is easy to perform familiar operations like calculating and graphing. Here are some suggestions to get ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...you know that you were integral to helping them overcome whatever obstacle was in their way. The same can be said for programming. Students often struggle with programming, because they’ve been taught to expect straight-forward solutions. With programming, it doesn’t work that way. It involves a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...ational Women’s Day event and “Girls and Code, Montreal Movement”. Fun fact: English is not her first language, it’s French! Estefannie of @estefanniegg Estefannie is an embedded apps software engineering lead (makes apps for big robots) by day, and a YouTube content creator by night. During her...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
Python + Math = true love! This Valentine’s Day activity had a simple beginning. My good friend, Julie Riggins, and I were asked the question, “Will you do a Valentine's Day themed webinar?” Did we have a large bank of activities to draw from? Did we have a single idea? Nope. So, of course we s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...t their interests and how they navigated their path. We need them to answer questions like: What inspired you to choose your career? What were your biggest obstacles? What advice do you have to give the next generation? Exposure Helping students see the variety in STEM careers is very importa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
...ust created. This project allowed for student choice and creativity, and they were not afraid to make mistakes and worked tirelessly (can you say debugging code?) to correct them. Just look at some of the creative ones they came up with: There were a few students who surprised me — they...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...d you think of (the idea for) your project? “We thought of the issue of feeding animals while their owners are away, something our classmates struggled with sometimes.” — NaviGator How we thought of our idea for the project was based off of a motive that we had to increase the amo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...ts and the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts Director Corey Alderdice, 27 teachers from Arkansas and Louisiana spent two days digging into the ACT® and the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator to learn strategies for helping students improve math scores. This is particularly im...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...and developed after rounds of rapid prototyping, were made possible because the code necessary to measure soil humidity, detect ambient light, and trigger a water pump was included in the “Smart Water with TI-Innovator™” activity documentation. This jump-start on the code permitted students to “p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater