Looking at Statistics Through Circles
Students will measure round objects to determine the circumference and diameter, and use the data to explore geometric concepts of the circle with statistics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/looking-at-statistics-through-circles
A Math Teacher’s Guide to Valentines Fun | Texas Instruments
...Piecewise activities Mathentine cards Classroom decor T-shirts Webinars Piecewise activities to get students buzzing When it comes to students practicing their math skills, piecewise activities are a great way to reinforce their knowledge of functions, limited domains and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2025/math-teachers-guide-valentines-day-fun
5 Springtime Math Resources for Teachers | Texas Instruments
... Try this: Print and laminate your decor items and save them for later in a binder or folder for easy set up all year long. What new combinations of math fun will you create? 2. Bring math to life with piecewise worksheets What’s bet...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2025/fresh-spring-ideas
TI-Nspire™ Lab Cradle - US and Canada
... Ability to replay data-collection experiments at various rates to encourage class-wide analysis and discussion 32 MB of storage space for large amounts of data Capture up to 100,000 samples per second Compatible with all TI-Nspire™ family graphing calculators (except...https://education.ti.com/en/products/data-collection/ti-nspire-lab-cradle
Breast Cancer: When Good DNA Goes Bad | Texas Instruments
...nd knew this as the diagnosis was crossing the lips of the pathologist who was charged with sharing the tough news with her. Her work life had just become her personal life. She responded with force and with fortitude. Egland chose to undergo a procedure called a double mastectomy, a surgery that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/breast-cancer-dna-stem-activity
It's Just a Lunar Phase
In this lesson, students will study the cycle of lunar phases.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/its-just-a-lunar-phase
TI-Nspire™ CX Handheld Operating System
... Cable and use TI-Nspire™ Teacher Software with TI-SmartView™ or TI-Nspire™ CX Student Software. To load latest OS version, you will need 15MB free space on your handheld. To free space, please delete or transfer files to a computer. Once you update your handheld to latest version, you cannot...https://education.ti.com/en/software/details/en/E7EE7A44207B41069B05C45A8149A7F9/ti-nspirecx_os
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...or literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). I’m not talking about the drills required to perform addition, subtraction and other computational types of math. While those are certainly important, today’s technology gives our children an opportunity to focus on mastering higher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
... content development projects including the Math in Motion series. He has always found joy in exploring the patterns and logic of mathematics. In his spare time, he enjoys kayaking and fishing with his sons and spending time with his family. Every year, millions of people fill out a bracket for ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
...dents a problem: How can people living in this community with no running water design a system to irrigate plants efficiently and effectively? The newspaper article was our “hook” – the real-world problem, the reason – to compel students to find a solution. It also offered some background informa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...if, while …) and relies on simple indentation to control program flow and structure. The TI developers facilitate the indentation rules with special “space symbols” that are easy to see and count. The modular nature of Python makes it a powerful and far-reaching platform for all sorts of software...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...ully crafted to help you understand current trends, follow best teaching practices and help your students grow. And to save you even more time, we’ve compiled a list of our top 10 most-watched videos from 2020 that you can enjoy and watch at your convenience. Knock one out (or all 10) in no time!...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
You can't spell Calculus without the letters C, A, and S, but a Computer Algebra System has unforeseen potential in any math class that requires algebraic thinking. (Try to find one that doesn't!) I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't sure I was a “CAS fan” when first introduced to it. I didn...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...r my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. From 2+2=4, graphing y=mx+b and solving complex integrals/derivatives, my TI graphing calculator and I have been through a lot together. (I even posed with it in my graduation photos!) Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...tories they see but may find their own minds racing on all the rich opportunities for sports-related ideas to engage students in the math and science classroom. Let’s take a look at five activities you can try with your students. 1. Code the Flag This year, there will be approximately 10,000...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
StatisticsOfficeHours
...or Categorical Data (Units 6 and 8) Presentation March 1: Inference for Quantitative Data (Units 7 and 9) Presentation Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live and previously recorded Office Hours sessions on our YouTube channel here. Undoubtedly, this is going ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...udents. If it were in my classroom, there would be a number that we would tear down each day with a Calculus meme on it. Instead, I’m using Remind to communicate with my kids. Teach the structure of the test. No matter if the test is on papers (admin 1 and 2) or online (admin 3), this year th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...n 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequently neglecting self-care. In 2020 — you are hearing it here first — I want to commit to some more realistic, more attainable goals to take better care of myself. So here we go with some much-needed reminders for me (and hopef...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
To STEM and Beyond!
As a chemistry teacher, I have always been intrigued on how to do what the engineering design and computer science teachers do in their classes. “Why,” do you ask? We are educating the future workforce. Our students are being trained and taught for jobs that haven’t even been created yet. The ev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
... your first-year teaching self? Don't be so hard on yourself. Even if you make mistakes, which I still do, be forgiving of yourself and then be transparent with your students so that you are a role model for them. "The other thing I would say is, don’t give meaningless homework – give meanin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...es―not much time to take roll and get to know students. I have tried a variety of ways to put students into assigned seats the first week of school. Compared to how I assign seats after the first unit test, my methods for those first days when I don’t know students names are dramatically differe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
... you have to be inventive in the classroom in order to keep students engaged. The popularity of cellphones and videogames makes it so kids’ attention spans are smaller than they used to be, but integrating technology helps me effectively solve this problem. Technology such as the TI-Innovator Hub...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...nelists: Becky of @NASAedu Becky Kamas is the Activity Manager for STEM on Station, a NASA Office of STEM Engagement activity dedicated to bringing space station related resources and opportunities to students and educators. She earned her Master's in Educational Technology and her Bachelor's i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...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 incredibly valuable experience from a real-world perspective. The engineering ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...to the customer’s design constraints. This easy on-ramp freed kids to explore questions about plant physiology and consider how dry the soil should become (and how quickly that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater