AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
...miliar with creating and analyzing a scatterplot of bivariate data could prove crucial. Make sure that your regression diagnostics are turned on. Be aware that, when fitting a linear regression model to a set of data, the residuals are automatically stored in a list called RESID. Remember to inve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/apstats2021
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...overnight. For the past 30 years, we have worked with teachers to ensure that every product we develop is built for the sole purpose of improving the ways in which students engage with math and science. With this in mind, TI is focused on making improvements to classroom technology. In just the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
We all want students to dive into real projects that tie together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in ways that inspire them to innovate, create and problem-solve. Yet, the need to cover the required curriculum, and limits on time, resources and training, complicate the task of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
... math, science and engineering and to show them that learning to program can be fun. “I’m not really the most tech-savvy person and I didn’t think I was going to understand this very well,” said Hope Stanley, an eighth-grader at Travis Vanguard Academy. “But this was really easy and it was actua...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Celebrate Jack Kilby Day
...dents to Jack Kilby, teach them about the integrated circuit and show them how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is all around them. I want to inspire innovation in my students! What can I do? Watch this video to learn more about Jack Kilby. Teach your students about the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/september/celebrate-jack-kilby-day
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
This is a saga of a (nearly) career-long passion to promote computer programming in school. First, some history. ... I always found mathematics “easy” because it made sense and decided to become a mathematics teacher in high school because I could explain things to classmates better than the te...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...grated circuit technology E in STEM: Learning to code like engineers M in STEM: Using math to win every day Below are directions for how to walk through each of the four STEM activities and links to where you can download further materials. We hope you and your students have fun envisio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
...’ teacher, said he didn’t even know his students were entering the contest until they asked for help submitting their project on the deadline day. “I was flabbergasted when I found out they won,” said Hill, science teacher at Hyde Park Middle School. “I feel like the luckiest teacher in the world...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...ty Device that will accurately measure and display both voltage and concentrations of NaCl in parts per million (ppm) from 0 to 5000 ppm of different water samples.” What is conductivity? So what is conductivity anyway, and how is it measured? Conductivity is the measure of the ability of an ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
... current trends, follow best teaching practices and help your students grow. And to save you even more time, we’ve compiled a list of our top 10 most-watched videos from 2020 that you can enjoy and watch at your convenience. Knock one out (or all 10) in no time! Without further ado, here are ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...ory to receive an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, nominated Marr for inspiring her love of math and helping to facilitate her military career. WATCH A VIDEO OF THE SURPRISE: HERE. Texas Instruments today surprised the winner of the Spread the Math Love contest, Calculus teacher Glen Marr f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
... year. If this attitude isn’t addressed from the start, it can make or break their experience and chances of success. Fortunately, there are several ways to gently help students of all types ensure they approach math with a positive mindset and feel comfortable and confident. It is crucial to es...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
David Olszewski, better known as Mr. O on the grounds of Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, has been teaching math for the past five years. Ask any of his students, or fellow teachers, and it’s clear he has quickly become a campus favorite. “Mr. O is a really fun teacher to have because he alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...y ideas students should understand about quadratics? Quadratics can cross the x-axis twice, once or not at all. The quadratic formula is one way to calculate the x-intercepts. The discriminant can be used to determine if there are two distinct real x-intercepts, one double real x-in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
You can't spell Calculus without the letters C, A, and S, but a Computer Algebra System has unforeseen potential in any math class that requires algebraic thinking. (Try to find one that doesn't!) I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't sure I was a “CAS fan” when first introduced to it. I didn...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...e as a high school math teacher, district math content specialist, state math teacher leader and professional learning provider, I have seen the many ways the “system” at every level contributes to these inequities. I have sought to learn and understand the causes and have seen firsthand the effe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
In honor of National Engineers Week (Feb. 16–22), a week dedicated to increasing understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology careers, I wanted to share how my love for my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
Teachers are always keeping an eye out for stimulating activities that can get students more involved in their lessons. With Halloween just around the corner, these crowd-pleasing activities offer great opportunities to turn class time into good, ghoulish fun — while still delivering instruction...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
This Valentine’s Day, we want to celebrate a straight-A student whose love of learning is inspiring everyone around her. Jasmine Calderon, 17, is an exceptional senior at Pahokee High School in Florida who continues to excel despite her entire household coming down with COVID-19 over the summer...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
It’s that time again! Every four years there is a worldwide international athletic competition that features the very best athletes in the world. On July 23, these athletes began to assemble in Japan in a much-anticipated competition since it was delayed by one year due to a global pandemic. Not...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
In honor of National STEM Day, we want to introduce you to the Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Squad, a team of former teachers, current teachers and TI employees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been tour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...evelop critical thinking skills and promotes cooperation and team building, while building the structures around one central theme (this year’s theme was “countries around the world”). "Engineers are problem-solvers, and the methods we apply are the same – whether we’re working on a technical p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... over 460 examples that illustrate and explain these essential graphs and their transformations. This easy-to-use resource can be utilized in several ways: As a teaching and learning tool inside and outside the classroom As independent study and review To augment a flipped classroom ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
It’s Computer Science Education Week, an annual event for partners and educators to come together and encourage students to try computer science. In 2015, I was introduced to coding with students when I became part of an after-school organization with a team of teachers, students and professi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti