Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...acher’s lips. (We love this!) Jacqueline summarized her feelings after the workshop by saying, “I am so appreciative of this training because it will equip me with some new ideas that can be added to my instruction. It is nice to collaborate and share with colleagues. I particularly enjoyed learn...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 Recap
... TI Exhibitor Workshops at #NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 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? Get out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...track with your lesson plans for extended periods of time. For instance, the Smart Space geometry lessons provide an overview of several topics in a sequence, starting with transformations and followed by congruence, similarity, then distance, right triangles and circles. Check out Smart Space...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...ld that they “can’t,” students who have missed previous math classes, or students who are immigrants with language barriers, they all need to receive equal attention. Because of this, I’ve really concentrated on shifting their math mindsets. I love when I can finally see that shift; it goes from ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...rt Water with TI-Innovator™” activity documentation. This jump-start on the code permitted students to “plug and play,” gain immediate access to the required sensors, and manipulate variables within the code tied to the customer’s design constraints. This easy on-ramp freed kids to explore questi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...flect and write, and the ground rules are that they can’t say “nothing” and can’t propose major changes like “stop giving homework/tests.” Because I require them to be specific, they have to find some details about their learning and my teaching to discuss. Most of the time, students write about ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...le school math concepts, such as real and whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, rates, proportions, percentages, complex expression, and simple equations. To this end, I highly recommend checking out Building Concepts in Math. WVSU STEM Lab Camp logo used with permission. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
... for students to answer without technology, so I walk around and check each student’s paper in real time before they take out their calculator. I require my students to show enough of their mathematical thinking on all test questions so that someone reading their work is able to follow their s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
... 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 students continues to drive her work at Texas Instruments, where she serves as the Strategic Alliance and State Pol...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
In the U.S., Independence Day is soon upon us (for the rest of the world it’s the fourth of July). The national holiday celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Americans honor the day with family and friends, cookouts and barbeques, parades and … fireworks. Ea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
... Recently I did a classroom activity with the TI-Innovator Rover, “Two Rovers Leave the Station…” as an introduction to my math class for systems of equations. Instead of teaching them the basics and then going to the word problem, I switched the class around. They got to see the Rovers in actio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
... list( ‘Hello’ ) produces the list [ ‘H’, ‘e’, ‘l’, ‘l’, ‘o’ ] (A string is a Python iterable. An iterable is a Python object that can be used as a sequence.) Here’s a unique Python feature: myListC = [0] * 5 creates the list [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] and stores it in the variable myListC. Th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...tools that can be embedded within a science lesson to provide a memorable experience for students in the context of all of the background vocabulary, equations, rules, laws, or theories associated with the phenomenon. Try these 5 simulation-based lessons with your students: 1: 'Freshwater Chemis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
...u look boo-tiful! Time to get this party startled! Give ’em pumpkin to talk about! Learn how to use your graphing calculator and equations to “carve” a jack-o’-lantern on an imported image on a TI-84 Plus CE or TI-Nspire™ CX family graphing calculator. Middle school students ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...le questions for teachers to use. Example: Further IB® extension (arcs and angles) A surveyor standing on the bank of the Reedy River measures the equal distance to the far left end and the far right end of the Liberty Bridge in Greenville, South Carolina, at a central angle of 120°. She found...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...he “No” button is not really clickable! It moves away as soon as the mouse cursor goes over the button. Only the “Yes” button can be clicked. So the requester will always get the answer they had hoped for. A win-win! What now? How can I (or my students) make my own? Well, these examples are me...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...gned by a mechanical engineer. Mechanical engineering is also among the oldest of the engineering disciplines and has a rich history. This activity requires your students to use mechanical engineering skills to rescue a deep ocean rover from the murky sea floor. Link to Activity Bring awareness...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...keep that tidbit of information to yourself until you feel like the kids have grappled with this problem long enough. Tip 3: Science is perfect. Lab equipment is not. Don’t expect to see a perfectly straight line. Your data collecting instruments probably aren’t up to NASA’s snuff, so expect wha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...hat product managers do in the real world. A product manager has to think through all of the features of the product she is building and the varying requirements for each feature. In the case of the calculator pet, I encourage you to think through the features you want your pet to have (i.e. a na...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...ions for teaching in the age of personalized education.” — Yong Zhao, Ph.D. “The Impact of Identity in K–8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices” by Julia Aguirre, Karen Mayfield-Ingram and Danny Martin Filled with insightful descriptions and recommendations on impac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
.... Tip 1: Viewing the Graph and Table Simultaneously Did you know that you can see your graph and the table at the same time? Press y= and type your equations. In this screenshot below we use Y1= ½X² and Y2= X+1. Press the mode key and about midway through the screen you will see a row that say...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...f code below. This will prompt the user to input the x- and y-coordinates for the two points and store them in variables with corresponding names. Request “X1?”,x1 Request “Y1?”,y1 Request “X2?”,x2 Request “Y2?”,y2 Next, the program will need to perform the calculation. It is easiest to define ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...riends and they started writing some too. We then started collecting a file of various Mixed Six activities. The power of the Mixed Six is in the sequencing of the six tasks. I learned so much when writing these Mixed Six for calculus. Let’s take a look at what goes into a Mixed Six and how to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...important, life-long benefit of knowing how to program. “I went to our activities person and said we want to start a coding club and I need money for equipment, so she gave us some ideas for fundraising,” said Kachur. “We ended up raising almost $1,000 in candy bar sales, so that we could get 5 T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...provides an engaging opportunity to use quadratic functions to model data. Using the regression capabilities on the calculator, students can generate equations to model the relationship between stopping distance and speed for different driving conditions and compare the differences in the models ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth