How to Start the Year on a Math High
As we settle into the new school year, we find ourselves in the perfect position to set the tone in our math classes. We’ve all experienced students who are hesitant learners — they come in with the mindset that they hate math or aren’t good enough to make it through the school year. If this att...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
David Olszewski, better known as Mr. O on the grounds of Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, has been teaching math for the past five years. Ask any of his students, or fellow teachers, and it’s clear he has quickly become a campus favorite. “Mr. O is a really fun teacher to have because he alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Leveling the Math Playing Field
... levels of the education system work together to correct the issues that contribute to these inequities, we could make true and lasting change toward closing the opportunity gap. Raise Expectations A common, underlying issue in many systems is low expectations. In “The Opportunity Myth,” researc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...ty in 2018. She is now a full-time engineer at TI. Starting my career in electrical engineering at Texas A&M University, I had a lot of challenging classes, but the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator helped me through it all. I was amazed by the capability of graphing/solving Fourier transforms ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...erance of this new generation of future engineers, scientists and STEM initiates. We received dozens of entries, ranging from ways to make the ISS cleaner and safer for the astronauts, to making processes more efficient, to improving the quality of life aboard the station. The innovation and i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...s, “We never needed anything.” Among her wishes was a green TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator to use in her IB®: Math Applications and Interpretation class and in future college courses. It’s a wish we were more than happy to grant, along with some other goodies to hopefully put a smile on Calder...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...I’m excited; overwhelmed with joy,” said Jeffery Gaskin, a senior at Cheltenham High School outside of Philadelphia. “This was a good surprise,” said classmate, and co-winner, Nate Norwood. Nate Norwood, a senior at Cheltenham High School, is being interviewed by a local news station about w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...y Consultant for Texas Instruments. She has been a Girl Scout troop leader for six years in Dublin, Ohio, where she leads a troop of Cadettes which includes her daughter. She is married with two children and enjoys spending time with her family exploring local parks, watching the kids in their va...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...phing calculator, that drive a robotic car around a futuristic, 3D-printed city. Using a TI graphing calculator, students program their robotic vehicles to drive to different places in Math-hattan, like a football stadium, the park or an electric charging station. Talk about a crash course in p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...and is the president of TI Education Technology. He serves on a variety of boards that support his desire to engage students in STEM subjects. This includes serving on the Board of Directors of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas. Follow him on Twitter@pbalyta. Girls can’t be what they can’t see. On...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
StatisticsOfficeHours
...ion Feb. 1: Inference for 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. Un...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...mputer science topics such as cryptography. Why limit computer science to only one week? You might find more than one of these projects fit into your classes at different times of the year. Why not integrate computer science throughout the year? Try one or try all five! The abridged versions of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
... Instruments (TI) and saw results in real time. For three years, TI has challenged Shads with unique coding problems, but this time, we had new obstacles: figuring out how to take our hands-on, in-person workshops online. “It’s incredible to see how this partnership was able to overcome those ch...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
Sometime last March, our lives changed forever. Our specific start dates to the COVID-19 pandemic might be slightly different, but now, nearly eight months later, it’s clear that things will never be the same. Everyone’s lives and many people’s work have been impacted, but educators may be ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...ch duty, it’s to help kids realize that the highest levels of math aren’t out of reach; it is something they can be successful at,” Meyer said. He concluded: “I joke with my students that you can’t win championships in practice, but you can’t win championships without practice, so getting them to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...engagement is possible! I started implementing questioning strategies my very first year of teaching, and I believe it is the key to student success, classroom management, and of course, engagement. Before you even start implementing this cycle of questioning, it is important to set some ground r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
...vailable for free with your TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software or TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Don’t have the software? Click here to get started. 1. Skills of Science: Tool — Vector When your students get to vectors, have them use this TI-Nspire™ tool. It all...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...lf-care routine with this free journal resource on Yi’s TpT store. Write down what you need to do each day. This year, I don’t have my own classroom and am transitioning daily between three different spaces, as well as different teaching schedules daily. When I first started the school...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
... April 19: Strategy for testing Series Problem Set // Solution Set April 26: Reviewing for the AP exam Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live sessions on our YouTube channel here. Can’t get enough of calculus? Check out...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...nderstand – and that you make the effort to help them get it! #2– Math teachers make math fun! Math teachers know how to ÷ and conquer their math class to make it the life of the party! #3 – Math Teachers get to know their students. Math teachers relate to their students and find ways to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...us diameter on a graph, then calculate the slope of the data points. What will they observe about the slope? The Ready-made Pi activity is great if class/prep time is short. Or, let students experiment with the Homemade Pi activity with objects (or treats!) brought from home. Either way, the i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...uild relationships with your students Whether you start school virtually, hybrid or in person, it is so important to get to know the students in your classroom. We need to know who they are as people and what their interests are so we can make our content relevant to their lives. Being able to co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...shops at #NCTMannual 2018 Exploring What's Typical: Understanding the World Through Data How do you know you can trust the data you see in a news article? Is “statistically significant” practically relevant? In this session we will collected and analyzed data to explore the concept of meaningful ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Alice Fisher, an AP computer science teacher from Houston, who collaborates with professors from Rice University to integrate art into coding. Fast Facts About Alice: TEACHES...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...til the end of her sophomore year at Turpin High School. Lillie’s lack of sight jeopardized her chance to use her gift for mathematics, especially in classes like AP Statistics, where graphs and other visual representations are required. In the past, this has been the end for students, like Lilli...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion