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
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...using modular arithmetic. How Good Is Your Memory — A computer science project that uses the TI-Innovator™ Hub to create a sequence of colored lights and sounds the user must remember and repeat in order to continue playing. Note: The code shown is written for the TI-Nspire™ CX ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...e updated with Python this fall. TI also mailed out their TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board, which allowed Shads to code lights in different colors and play with varying frequencies of sound. These sessions were held in virtual classrooms, where instructors could interact with Shads ove...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...ool math teacher and ten years in math leadership and professional learning positions at the district, state and national level. She lives in Parker, Colorado, and currently serves as the Strategic Alliances and State Policy Director for Texas Instruments and as President of the Colorado Council ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...nd Illustrative Mathematics. Joanie previously chaired NCTM’s Membership and Affiliate Relations Committee and is the immediate Past-President of the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Funderburk’s passion for professional learning for educators and equitable math learning for all stude...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...mates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Everybody loves Pi and coloring! These Pi themed coloring pages are a great activity for when students (or you) need a mental break or have some downtime. Even better ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
... Problem 2 | Virality Suppose we have the following model for information (e.g. photo, video, post) transfer (i.e. spread) in a grid: each square is colored either green (if it knows a given piece of information) or red (if it does not). A red square learns this information (becomes green) if at...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
... desks on the back of the note cards. On the front of each card, write students’ names alongside the hour each will be in class. It works best if you color code the names. (I also leave a space between each hour for those times when I need to correct spellings or change to preferred names.) By th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...ating and graphing. Here are some suggestions to get you started. Take a Tour of the Keypad Look at the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator: it has a color backlit screen and a keypad whose layout is different from that of a TI-84 Plus model. Locate these important keys arranged around and near t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
... added some Python coding STEM-design challenges into my chemistry classroom. We use the TI-Innovator™ Hub, which has a built-in RGB LED, to create a color display to match the flame lab tests. We also used the TI-SensorLink Adapter and a Vernier sensor to design an automated system, that based o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
..., you need to define your window and put in your axes. To help see where the points are located, we will also add a grid to our graph. Let's add some color too, because everything is better in color!. First, you will need to open a new document and add a Python Editor. Doc > File ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
World-Emoji-Day
... The evolution of emojis is quite fascinating. From a face that was created using a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis to a colorful and warm smiley face. The advances have been nothing short of amazing. As a high school classroom teacher, I am always watching out for en...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...ts used temperature sensors, an RGB (red green blue) LED, a microcontroller (TI‑Innovator™ Hub) and TI calculators to build a device that changed the color of the LED based on their temperature. The “Digital Mood Ring” STEM project. The students also wrote code in Python on the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...llustrative Mathematics. Funderburk previously chaired NCTM’s Membership and Affiliate Relations Committee and is the immediate Past-President of the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Funderburk’s passion for professional learning for educators and equitable math learning for all stude...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
...nd science classes alike! 1. Start at the door Set the tone for your classroom every time students walk through the door with these colorful sets of classroom door decor. These groovy designs are all thanks to @misscraftymathteacher, a high school math teacher devoted to maki...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...hem gain a better understanding of structure and charge. This simulation is an adaptation of the very popular PhET simulations from the University of Colorado. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (pdf). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire CX activity on our website. Even ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...gan with the skeleton shown below, balloons.py, which uses my favorite control structure: while get_key() != ”esc”:. The loop body generates a random color (red, green, blue) and draws a filled circle at a random position with a random radius (x, y, r) somewhere on the screen. These circles conti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...could work through them with partners and without any direct instruction from me. While they were busy learning how to use RGB values to change light colors, import the random library and generate random integers for RGB, I was able to interact one-on-one with students and learn their names. By t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...he Digital Mood Ring and Coding the Sounds of Music. The mood ring uses input from a temperature sensor, in a conditional statement, to code the color of the RGB LED built in on the TI-Innovator™ Hub. Students can then add a print statement within the if, else conditional statement to determ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
..., we're programming Rovers to drive in various shapes, but soon we're going to start some mood ring activities,” said St. Peter. Students will make a colored LED change based on temperature of their hands, similar to the way a mood ring changes color. The students in the club range in skill level...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...number of drops of 1.0 molar sodium hydroxide solution until the acid in the cleaner has been neutralized and the phenolphthalein indicator goes from colorless to faint pink. Using the relationship Macid x Vacid = Mbase x Vbase, students calculate the concentration of acid in each cleaner. Not on...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
... TI‑Basic anymore. It also integrates with Python. This opens up a whole new world for students and Python. Any time my students get to play with RGB colors and sound, the inquiry, enthusiasm and engagement increase tenfold. If you also have input devices such as a temperature or moisture sensor,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...e winner. 4) Happy New Year Hook up to the TI-Innovator™ Hub and challenge your students to play “Auld Lang Syne.” Take it a step further, and add a colorful fireworks display on your TI-84 Plus CE. 5) Happy Holidays Ask your students to manipulate this equation. The answer is certain to make t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges