Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ir TI-Nspire™ CX family graphing calculator to do an analysis of the initial angle of a javelin toss. This could be a great springboard to launch (no pun intended) a discussion of projectile motion or even a way of incorporating parametric equations. Questions to ask students might include: ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
Cheltenham High School computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and the school’s marching band, pulled a fast one on senior drumline members Nate Norward and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...n. The STEM Squad from Texas Instruments is bringing fun, interactive and hands-on STEM lessons to kids across the country. The STEM Squad has put together a selection of fun and simple activities that introduce students of all ages to STEM, coding and the basics of engineering design. For...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
... gender, as evidenced in ACT’s 2017 STEM report, there is also a confidence gap for girls that starts early on in their educational journeys. Simply put, girls can’t be what they can’t see. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and Texas Instruments (TI) and the TI Foundation are partnering to change ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...) during his 35-year career, where he received the Presidential Award and attained National Board Certification. He was an adjunct mathematics and computer science instructor at Youngstown State University for 38 years. Since 2009, Reardon has been a senior math advisor for Texas Instruments in p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...matics. In his spare time he enjoys kayaking and fishing with his sons and spending time with his family. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @cbmathguy. This school year, TI has teamed up with author and master teacher, Daren Starnes, to provide live AP® Statistics sessions via YouTube geared t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... treats! Write creepy code on 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...f your grade, or your state’s priority standards, if they have them. If you have the chance to collaborate with teachers of other grades, get their input on the topics that deserve the most attention. You can’t do it all and will only frustrate yourself by trying, so give yourself permission to d...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
...ncluded: “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 buy into the idea that working hard in math is necessary and worth it is what it is all about.” Meyer and Tristan are both proof that practice makes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...ning classroom. Shifting our scope and sequence Alongside relationships, a focus on content is key to learning. Many math teachers plan each day, week, month and school year from a scope and sequence, providing a high-level view of the important mathematics for their grade or course. In the bes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...dents lack the mathematical understanding needed to solve problems and, as a result, make conceptual errors even with the help of a calculator for computations. I find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can us...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
... author: Emily Kraus has taught math in grades three through eight in Austin, Texas. She is the creator of Kraus Math®, which provides teachers with TEKS-aligned and STAAR® test-prep resources. Check out her website at www.krausmath.com, or follow her on Instagram @krausmath. How many times have...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
...tational environments. Students will also observe the relationships between kinetic, potential and total energy. This activity was adapted from the popular Phet series of simulations. Screenshots from the Physics: Energy Skate Park activity. 5. Rotational Equilibrium and Simple...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...e of you) on how I plan to make self-care a priority. Here’s to a new year and a better me! Plan out time just for you. I like to keep one weekday and one weekend day free every week to do things I enjoy outside of work. For example, during the week I like to make Wednesday my day of res...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...ath Teachers get to know their students. Math teachers relate to their students and find ways to motivate them. They tap into students’ interests to push them to do better. #4 – Math Teachers care! Math makes everything in the world work, but students can struggle to see that. Math teachers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...Activity Worksheets Choose from two quick-start activities; Ready-made Pi or Homemade Pi. In these activities, students learn how to gather and input the data of circular objects. Students will plot the circumference versus diameter on a graph, then calculate the slope of the data points. Wha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
... spreading – people are turning into zombies! Will you be the next victim? In this session, we used math to model the spread of the virus through a population, and learned how to weave science concepts into your next lesson about exponential and logistic growth. (No zombies were harmed in this se...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Albuquerque schools using high-tech devices to teach math
TI technology is changing the way Albuquerque Public School students learn math. Read the Story TI technology is changing the way Albuquerque Public School students learn math. Albuquerque schools using high-tech devices to teach math Texas Instruments Albuquerque schools using high-tec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/october/ti-tech-in-use
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...You can also use del to remove the label altogether. One of the most powerful features of the TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator is the ability to manipulate a function with Grab. Move the cursor to one of your functions and it will turn into either a four-way arrow (for translate shifts), a circ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
In order to raise public awareness about the importance of financial education in the U.S., April is designated Financial Literacy Month. Research shows that individuals who have a deeper understanding about personal finances are better prepared for financial management and long-term economic su...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Fatemia Fuson, a graphic designer turned math and computer science teacher. Fast Facts About Fatemia: TEACHES WHAT: AP Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry, AP Computer Scienc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...does not meet these guidelines, you know it must be wrong and you will have to try again. Use the TI-84 Plus CE to help you work more efficiently, compute more accurately, and verify answers. Just like you would in your math class, do some scratch work on the test paper before using the calculat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...on for the activity. Here we are going to start the program and add in all the basic graphing elements. In Python, you need to define your window and put in your axes. To help see where the points are located, we will also add a grid to our graph. Let's add some color too, because everything is b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
Understanding Slope Is More Than Computing It When I first started teaching, I taught algebra I to ninth-graders. My students were similar to most — highly energetic kids that, quite honestly, had more important things on their mind than mathematics. Let’s face it: their understanding of the sl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
As a science teacher, I love to encourage all my students to pursue their interests and expose them to career opportunities that they may never have considered, including STEM careers. As a female science teacher, I especially want to highlight to my female students that STEM careers are for eve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective