Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ight and diameter of each of the medals is as follows: With this information, along with the current gold prices, students can calculate how valuable (financially, of course) a gold medal is versus a silver medal. Students can find the historical value of gold per ounce (interactive char...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...ch includes her daughter. She is married with two children and enjoys spending time with her family exploring local parks, watching the kids in their various sports and events and volunteering at her kids’ school. Grooms can be found streaming a ridiculous amount of TV series and movies, vacation...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... is a list of the parent functions that are explained in great detail and also as a quick review. In each function module, you will see the various transformations and combinations of the following transformations illustrated and explained in depth. For each parent function, th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. Central time). You won’t want to miss it! Below is our schedule of topics: Nov. 2: Exploring One- and Two-Variable Data (CED Units 1 and 2) Presentation Dec. 3: Collecting Data, Probability, Random Variables and Sampling Distributions (Units 3, 4 an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
Halloween is the first big holiday of the school year, and teachers would be ghoulish not to take advantage of students’ excitement and the Halloween spirit. Here are five of our favorite ways to tap into the Halloween spirits with Texas Instruments. No tricks, only treats! Write creepy code...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... Sense (algebra and higher) — Students create a game to practice number sense used in factoring quadratics. This activity can be used with the TI-Innovator™ Hub. The Power of Exponents (pre-algebra and higher) — Students create a game to generate a base number with either a positiv...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...t they may not have had if they had been in in-person classrooms. Ensuring that students know that their learning, whatever it was, is recognized and valued by their teachers will help teachers establish a positive and safe environment for learning in their classrooms. Intentional use of language...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can use a simple four-function variety, but rarely do they have experience with scientific calculators. Giving them time to explore and experiment helps them understand how power...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
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
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...g to be scanned for the AP readers to grade electronically. Practice good penmanship and write dark enough for the scanning process. I am using a variety of resources and considering different perspectives. The TI in Focus: AP® Calculus Resources are a great way to refresh teacher knowledge o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
... Girl Scout leader! I started my career in engineering because I loved math and science. Both subjects were concrete, straightforward and fascinating to me. I want my daughters and other young girls to find the same interest and confidence in math and science, so when an opportunity to partner wi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
... Dick will review some original, unique problems they’ve written that are bound to come up in the sequence of teaching the course. They will also be available to answer your questions. The YouTube Live “Monday Night Calculus” sessions begin Monday, Sept. 14 at 7 pm Eastern time, and will cont...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
To STEM and Beyond!
...th Vernier sensors. I was intrigued and followed up with training sponsored by TI on STEM in the classroom, where I was then introduced to the TI-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 e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...ant 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 correctly pronounce each student’s name is the easiest way to show that you care about them. I have started usin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
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
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
"This calculator changed my life.”Lillie Pennington, Junior, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE CHALLENGE Lillie Pennington, 17, can keep up with any high school student when it comes to academics. The Turpin High School junior took Advanced Placement history as a sophomore and scored a fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...ishes classroom routines. In my world, the first day of class is only 25 minutes―not much time to take roll and get to know students. I have tried a variety of ways to put students into assigned seats the first week of school. Compared to how I assign seats after the first unit test, my methods ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...of the Touchpad for the arrows. Notice that the fraction result will be displayed in exact form if possible; to convert to the approximate decimal value, press ctrl then enter. And you can make use of the previous answer and previous entry History by up arrow to the desired expression and pres...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...nd traditional curriculum content, consequently becoming more literate in multiple areas. There are many ways to incorporate financial education into various subject areas, but for this blog, we are going to concentrate on incorporating financial literacy into the mathematics classroom using the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...hool, I presented the information to my principal, and he purchased a set of handhelds and lots of sensors for my classes. I attend and present at various local, state and national conferences where I demonstrate to teachers how to use TI technology and Vernier sensors as a data collection sol...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...braic steps: You can also copy and edit previous entries. In example 2, you have an inequality and numerical choices, so you can substitute in one value into the expression to check if it works. Then arrow up twice to highlight the expression and press enter to use it again. Left arrow to ed...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
...oduce your students to coding while teaching your students about the structure of the heart and flow of blood through the heart. And just in time for Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month! As an Advanced Placement biology teacher, I don’t always have the time to do as much STEM integration...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...are two that come to mind. Let’s look at a few examples: 1. The squares Using “the sequence,” you can create a visual of it using the sequence value to represent the length of an edge of a square. They can be creatively arranged in such a manner as to create this image. Recognize this? “Fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...rs of the studio audience making deals with the host. The audience member would typically be offered something of value and given a choice of whether to keep it or exchange it for a different item that may or may not be of greater value. The Monty Hall problem is presented as a probability pu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
... like these: Mountain pixel art courtesy of /u/LDR0213. Anime pixel art courtesy of derpibooru.org. With the advancement of technology, the advancement of emojis came along quickly. In doing a quick search on the internet, there is a site called emojipedia.o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day