Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...as Instruments engineer Education is critical to our future, our industry, and to the communities where we operate around the globe. Today’s world requires STEM aptitude, and like ACT and Girl Scouts, we’re hard at work to ensure all students are prepared. Barring cookies, nothing could be swee...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...hips, here is a screenshot from the video “How to Graph y = mx +b” that has students discover the relationship between the slope, y-intercept and the equation of a line and how to graph the line. Students should recognize that the y-intercept is always the constant being added (or subtra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...ce and high school physics, the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve engages students in explorations of electromagnetism, the relationship of wavelength, and frequency and practical applications of electromagnetic principles with the TI‑Nspire™ CX or TI‑Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Unra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...e messages 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-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
Over the past month, students have seen games, light sequences, scales and even familiar songs come to life during ShadOnline. Hundreds of ShadOnline participants solved coding problems virtually during Texas Instruments’ innovative workshops. Whether it was running a program p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...st, expressing empathy and connecting on a human level is more important than ever for educators and the students and families they work with — a prerequisite for any semblance of learning in this unusual time. Don’t be afraid to take the time for relationships, even if you feel that you might be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...nts learned self-discipline by participating in virtual lessons, completing assignments and managing their time in ways that “regular school” didn’t require. Some students learned that they could engage with content at a different pace or have discussions with their classmates in breakout rooms —...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...asking your students to explain the theory behind the Pythagorean Theorem, or what the product of 2 and 3 is, every single student should be given an equal opportunity to engage in the lesson. In turn, everyone is engaged. STAAR is a registered trademark of the Texas Education Agency. Kra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
As a child, every new year my dad would ask my sisters and me to write down our New Year’s resolutions. On top of my list was always, “get straight A’s and exercise every day.” To this day, that has never happened. Ever. In 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequentl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...lculator and start following the activities themselves. Our website has an easy-to-follow path that coaches the girls through each of the five badge requirements. Troop workshops. Troop leaders can borrow TI graphing calculators from TI, or have the girls bring their calculators from home, a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
To STEM and Beyond!
...Innovator™ Hub. I was hooked! Seeing all the engaging ways that were currently available for my students to learn coding and STEM projects using this equipment, I had to get my hands on some. I wrote several grants and acquired TI-Innovator™ Hubs, I/O kits and TI-Innovator™ Breadboard Packs. I ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
While school may be winding down, it’s not a time for students to stop learning, especially when it comes to STEM subjects. Turns out, the summer learning loss, often referred to as the summer brain drain, is a real thing. The National Summer Learning Association reports that students lose an eq...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...observations. TI-Nspire™ CX technology Link to presentation>> Rate of Change: Algebra to Calculus What if you could help students see slope not as an equation to memorize, but as a representation of real events? We got out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
... 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 Lillie. She and others simply had to stop learning mathematics because no graphing c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...grid to become green? Problem 3 | Cryptography Here’s a Valentine’s Day cryptoarithmetic puzzle. Is it possible to replace each unique letter in this equation with a unique digit (0 to 9) so that it holds? Note that once a letter is given a digit, that is its digit throughout the equation (if you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...to the TI-Nspire™ CX Navigator™ System, and it’s easier to change the seating chart after class routines are firmly in place. Advantages This method requires less preparation time than the note card method, and it’s simpler to change the seating chart. Additionally, it is easy to take a screen sh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...Problem by Tracy Matthews, McAlester High School. Working individually or in small groups, the focus of the problem is the exploration and subsequent justification of the mathematical concept that is the objective of the lesson. We began to see more connections. Doug Roberts, our T³™ in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...π key. The TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator can verify if mathematical statements are true or false, which is great for checking your work. Use the equals key = alone and with ctrl for these. If you mistype anything, arrow to edit and press the del key. You can Clear Scratchpad by pressing doc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...anaging risk. While these standards are a great resource for financial education expectations, check your individual state for implemented standards requirements. For more information about your state’s requirements, visit your state’s Department of Education website or review the “Survey of the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...e edtech ecosystem to advocate for STEM and creative learning through making while simultaneously challenging communities through the lens of digital equity and diversity. Marie of @girlknowstech Marie-Philippe Gill is a fourth-year software engineering student at École de Technologie Supérieu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...so the previous answer is used in the next step and you don’t have to retype numbers. Example 1: If 26 + 3x is 11 less than 79, find x. Write the equation: 26 + 3x = 79 – 11 and solve using these algebraic steps: You can also copy and edit previous entries. In example 2, you have an inequa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
... to provide support. Challenge 2 brings in modeling of the flow of blood through the heart by writing a program to blink four LED lights in a sequence to show the flow of blood through the heart starting with the right atrium and ending with the left ventricle. Students add in sounds after...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...y like the linear functions. I would help the students put in and understand the code for the first quadratic function, but I would not give them the equation for the first quadratic function. I would have them write the code for the second quadratic function themselves. If you have not cover...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...pitch). That’s why a guitar players hands get really close together when the pitch is really high. Pythagoras also discovered that notes of certain frequencies sound better in combination with frequencies that are proportional to that note. For example, notes that are of a ratio of 2:3 such as a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...nts are going and moves the project from impossible to possible. Everyone should have that opportunity. (NaviGator) I liked that the project required the students to write code for use on a physical device. (Stiles Middle School) Q: What advice would you give to teachers thinking abou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda