5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...ath? We need our brains working properly to be good at math, right? And our brains live in our bodies.” Below, Vakharia talks through some tips and habits you can practice to keep your brain healthy and happy during exam week. Watch her full takeover on our Instagram Story. Anxiety Tip #1: Start ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
...ward to high school when I took my first programming class, AP® Computer Science, with Greg Cichoracki. As the youngest student in the class, I was a bit intimidated at first. But, with Mr. Cichoracki’s encouragement, I soon became the go-to student when others needed help with their own programm...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...d the student sheets, teacher notes, a video to use with students who are “working from home,” and a video for teachers to help with the solutions at bit.ly/plastraw. Additional resources and background information for this activity are available at bit.ly/plasticstraw2020. In addition, you can ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
... and available on demand. Watch recordings on your schedule and at your own pace. After finishing a webinar, don’t forget to print a certificate of completion. This may be accepted at your school or district for continuing education credit. Introducing the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
ICYMI: Top 10 Webinars of 2019
...ctices that support the implementation of high-quality tasks using TI technology. After finishing a webinar, don’t forget to print a certificate of completion. This may be accepted at your school or district for continuing education credit. If you enjoyed these on-demand webinars, you should a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019webinars
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
... or you can adjust the sampling rates if necessary. As can be seen in Figure 4, the sound is recorded in the form of air pressure variations in arbitrary units by the Vernier microphone. The sensor uses an electret microphone that has a frequency response covering essentially the range of the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Calculus + Graphing Calculator = More Teachable Moments
...is was a profound shift. The student’s attention was not on a blackboard graph that the teacher had drawn, but on a graph that they had produced, exhibiting a feature that was surprising and worthy of explanation. Was this a machine bug or was there a mathematical explanation that would make sens...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/september/calculascalcs
STEMnauts
... The Communication Radio Frequency Onboard Network Utilization Specialist (CRONUS) is responsible for managing the transfer of data between orbiting satellites, the International Space Station and mission control. It also provides information technology support and software updates for IS...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/stem/stem-behind-nasa/stemnauts
Calculated Collection | Texas Instruments
...is a unique resource that I have been making for over 10 years. Flowcharts are magical because they take a complicated process and break it down into bite-sized, easy-to-follow steps. Guided notes: These promote critical soft skills like quality note taking, organization and studying. Guided n...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/calculated-collection
Webinar: Testing Tips for the SAT Exam
In this on-demand webinar, we will share bite-size lessons designed to help prepare students to score their best on the SAT Exam.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sat-prep_webinar
Which Dog Is Roundest? | Texas Instruments
...e is the only human that Holly actually likes, Tracy did all the measurements. Even given Holly’s affection for Tracy, there was some squirming and a bit of growling by the end of the data collection. Despite that, the following data was collected: Measurements collected from Holly, the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/dog-day-which-dog-is-roundest
Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...hot summer reading! “Rise of the Rocket Girls” by Nathalia Holt Start off with a bang with this true story about the women “human computers” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1940s and ’50s. Follow the story of how this elite group of young women transformed rocket de...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
...ctive duty, Harold retired with the officer rank of Major. Throughout his working life, Harold had an eye on retirement savings. He realized every bit helped to ensure a more comfortable life after his working years were through. Harol...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
... follows their commands. “I believe the lesson allowed students to understand coding a little better, learn to problem-solve, understand a little bit more about the complexity of coding and codes that they encounter through simple things such as their phones.” Students create the full h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
5 Study Tips from a Student #StudyGrammer | Texas Instruments
...tarted with dashes of glamour and artistic visuals. But when she started adding relatable, research-backed study tips to help improve her own study habits, she found she wasn’t alone. Thousands of students wanted to know more. Not only how to make the most of their time by studying more effici...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-study-tips-from-a-student-studygrammer
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
...rework display with this coding challenge. This design is modified from a completely different activity and is another great example of what a little bit of experimentation can do after learning basics from the TI Codes modules. The original activity created explosions to celebrate the end of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
...quation. Joey, on the other hand, gave a detailed explanation as to how he solved the equation to find the right answer. However, when prodding him a bit more by asking how he would solve the problem using his method if a 2 was placed in front of the first term, Joey had no idea what he would do....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
The Tale of Two Tangents
This activity allows students to investigate the relationship between the angle formed by two tangents to a circle and the arcs they intercept.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-tale-of-two-tangents
The Magic of Central Angles
This activity allows students to investigate the relationship between central angles and the arcs they intercept.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-magic-of-central-angles
Elliptical Orbits
This lesson involves generating equations of best fit for an ellipse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/elliptical-orbits
Elliptic Variations
This lesson involves exploring the curves that result from varying the defining conditions of an ellipse.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/elliptic-variations
Cybersecurity 1: All Clear
Activity 1 introduces students to “cleartext” messaging. Students will send messages between two micro:bit radios on one of 83 radio channels using plaintext characters, referred to as cleartext. The “student hacker” will attempt to eavesdrop on the conversation by listeni...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-1
Cybersecurity 7- Pick the Lock
This bonus activity challenges students to put all the concepts they’ve learned together in order to successfully pick a micro:bit lock. Will your students be able to discover what’s locked away inside the old treasure chest?https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-7
Cybersecurity 2 - Channel Surfing
Inspired by Hedy Lamarr’s revolutionary work, this activity builds on the concepts learned in Activity 1 and introduces students to frequency hopping. Students will learn the method of hiding radio messages by transmitting bits and pieces over several radio channels until an entire message ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cybersecurity-2-@-channel-surfing
One Small Bite for Man
One Small Bite for Man is a project-based STEM activity that explores cellular respiration and will engage your students in the engineering design process while using TI-Nspire™ CX with the TI-Innovator™ Hub.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/one-small-bite-for-man