Leveling the Math Playing Field
...s of students must be our primary motivator. Together, we can help every student, and our country, fulfill its potential. About the author: Joanie Funderburk is a lifelong learner with a passion for leadership, education and professional learning. She believes that relationships are the corner...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...ronics were difficult courses, but when using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, multivariable equations were easier to solve by using the unique functions on the graphing calculator. I was getting answers to complex problems within minutes. I still continue to solve power equations using my...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...stronauts aboard the ISS must still guard against accidental bacterial water contamination. The concept: The Drank Tank — a water purifier that can function in zero-gravity conditions to ensure the supply of uncontaminated drinking water aboard the space station See their video. The puri...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ave some artistic students, they can use the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator or the new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator — it could be a fun challenge! Below is the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, coded with Python. The flag colors can be created using rectangles, and it ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...al Technology Consultant that can brainstorm with them on ways to achieve a badge, help them complete a badge already in progress, or simply create a fun, engaging STEM event, like our STEM Squad. We will do our best to support requests large and small. For example, this April, my colleague, Be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...xas Instruments is highly invested in increasing students’ STEM competencies, especially as we look to hire within our local talent pool. We provided funding to Girl Scouts to get more girls actively engaged in STEM, and they created the STEM Center of Excellence in Dallas to provide girls with a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...-solving, troubleshooting and teamwork. Coding and programming in a STEM classroom covers all of the skills students need to learn, and they can have fun doing it. Using TI’s 10 Minutes of Code is a time-saving, tried-and-true way to start this process in your classroom. Happy Computer Science W...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... your calculator Code your calculator to draw ghosts like in the image below. Have your students draw the ghost and pumpkin using transformations of functions. Here’s a snippet of code to get you started with a ghost: 0→Xmin: 0→Ymin: 264→Xmax: 164→Ymax: For(N,0,20,1): Pt-On(132-N,120-(1/10...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...or through the chat feature. In the first coding workshop, TI instructors challenged Shads to solve lines of code for a counting game. “It was really fun and kind of challenging at first, but we were all helping each other so it was easy to go through it,” said Shad Emili Bykovsky, who’s from Cor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...principles for math learning this year. We will get through this, and will be better educators for it on the other end. About the author: Joanie Funderburk has over 30 years of experience as a math educator, including nearly 20 years as a high school math teacher and ten years in math leader...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...we have a common goal: ensuring our students learn and recover from the events of the last 20 months. We’ve got this! About the author: Joanie Funderburk taught high school math for 20 years and has supported math educators across the country since 2015 through her work at Student Achievem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...ion are available as a part of this BulleTIn Board post. I am also watching the YouTube lessons supported by College Board®. Also, still find fun things to do with students that you would normally do in the classroom that build relationships and unity. It can be as simple as playing a vid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...ession. Sept. 14: Limits at Infinity and Infinite Limits Problem Set // Solution Set Sept. 28: Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. 12: Local Linearity and L’Hospital’s Rule Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. 26: Implici...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
To STEM and Beyond!
... again, and this year we are all back full time. Last year, I started this little adventure with only one section of 23 students. Word got out on the fun we were having, and this year I have two sections with a total of 53 students! Some students have coding experiences from middle school or on t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...her. I want to foster collaboration, creativity and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects into the content is very easy and fun for students. Editable student and teacher documents are provided, and some even have videos to help teachers starting out. Student testi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...ano notes with integer frequency must be an A note in some octave. Problem 5 Solution: This is a famous example of decision making in football (and a fun application of the quadratic formula). The key is that because there is so little time left, if the opponent scores, the game is over. If you d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...ics, geometry, etc. The center of the keypad has numerical keys and operation keys, as well as the very important enter key. Notice that trigonometry functions are all found in one key, trig. The bottom section of the keypad has alphabetical keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ere were ways that they could safely save and invest money (microsaving apps, Roth IRA, interest yielding savings and checking accounts, index mutual fund). This time, some of the three friends decided to place their saved money into a Roth IRA account that yielded an annual percentage rate of 9%...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...nd molecules. Having students collect data on the chemical phenomena helps them to “see” how these particles interact and react while making learning fun and teaching them how to become scientists. In 2015, I attended the T³™ International Conference in Philadelphia. At this conference, I was...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
The Heartbeat of STEM
... Four-Chambered Heart for the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator” activity, students need to complete three different challenges to demonstrate the function of a heart. In challenge 1, students set up a simple circuit using the breadboard on the TI-Innovator™ Hub and a red LED. They also ne...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...e represented the mathematician formerly known as Fibonacci! “Finding Fibo!” 3. Now, the art! This spiral is wonderful, and it becomes more fun when you unleash students’ creative artistic abilities. Two images that I found were the Fibonacci elephant and the Fibonacci parrot. Makes you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
... When writing music, musicians use structures, like proportional relationships, to guide the way they plan and play note sequences. Relationships are fundamental to math and create a compelling link between music and math that will help you hit a high note in class. Try these lessons below to h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
..., you’re not working on hardware that will make it onto the final robot, but it’s still useful. (Brookwood BITES) Do it with friends and have fun with the building and coding. (NaviGator) PARTICIPATE. (NaviGator) I would say that it’s best to understand that the project do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...students and your sub. Check out these three featured video resources for your substitute teacher to use when you’re away 1. Families of Functions If your students are learning how to graph parent functions, TI’s Families of Functions is the go-to video resource for your s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...es that I use TI-Nspire CX activities to help my classes understand concepts more deeply. Other times, we use it to support what we’re learning about functions, allowing students to physically graph and visualize how the functions work. We also sign into the Navigator System every day, regardless...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month