Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...vent called Detector Building. In the 35-year history of Science Olympiad, incorporating coding has been challenging because of inequitable computer availability and a lack of training resources for teachers and students. In the last few years, Texas Instruments (TI) has helped to close the gap. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...ing how your students are progressing in a concept-unfolding lesson. The TI-Nspire™ CX Navigator™ System allows for teachers to have that technology available daily. Within the TI-Nspire™ CX Navigator™ System, teachers can use the TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software to create predetermined ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
Science Activities for Heart Health Month It’s American Heart Month and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. What better time to explore cardiovascular health with your students? Here are several science lessons that will get your heart pumping! The first activity uses the T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities
Fall in Love with Polar Graphs: Top 4 Ways to Turn Heads with the TI-84 Plus
We get this question a lot from students and teachers: How do you draw things like hearts and flowers on your TI graphing calculator? In honor of Valentine’s Day, we are here to share the love and teach you how to turn your TI calculator into a love note. You’ll have your classmates swooning wit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/polargraphlove
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
...ring a win to your classroom and set the stage for the big game coming up. A real fan favorite: “Field Goal for the Win” Can’t get much more relevant than this. This TI-84 Plus graphing calculator lesson is suitable for middle grades math through algebra II, and encourages students to model,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Oklahoma Students Make Their Mark Learning to Program with Rover
...t” that they would later demonstrate to the class. Two of his students, juniors Justin Hickman and Brooklyn Martin, were eager to use the new TI-Innovator Rover, a robotic car that students program using a TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator. The high school received 10 Rovers last fall through par...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/seeroverdraw
Python Modules Have More Fun | Texas Instruments
...X II graphing calculator. Where are my files? On the TI-84 Plus CE Python edition, all our .py files are stored as AppVars and have a special PY designation next to them when viewing them using [mem] > Memory Mgmt > AppVars. Some of my files seen here are in RAM an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-modules-have-more-fun
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
I’m back! Are you ready to expand your skill set in Python? Remember that Python is both a procedural and an object-oriented programming language (OOP). A class is the definition (description) of an object. An object has attributes (variables) and methods (functions) that determine its propertie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...to finding numeric answers, a CAS calculator provides algebraic answers in simplest form and can perform calculus commands, such as integrals and derivatives. Which calculators are not allowed? The SAT® policy also lists functionality that is not permitted on the exam, which includes: Models...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
... 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 live. For the spring of ’22, we are updating our schedule. The YouTube Live “Monday Night Calculus” sessions be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus
A first-of-its-kind STEM strategy charts path to help educators
In a first-ever undertaking of its kind, four of the nation’s key education leadership groups have partnered to define a strategy for improving and advancing STEM learning for all students. Over the past year, Advance CTE, the Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics (ASSM), the Council o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/a-first-of-its-kind-stem-strategy-charts-path-to-help-educators
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...o benefit the algebra II classroom. Finding a lowest common denominator In my algebra I post, the Factor tool was employed as an approach to motivate students to recognize patterns between the prime factors of a number and how to use those factors to simplify a radical with the corresponding...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
A Teacher’s 5 Words That Changed My Life
...d I didn’t know any African American engineers. Yet, it never dawned on me that I couldn’t be an engineer. Computers and internet weren’t as readily available as they are today, so back to the library I went, researching engineering careers. Upon finishing high school, I chose to commit my whole ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/intlwomensday
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...tes of terror,” the Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars. Perseverance carried an arsenal of scientific instruments designed to hunt for signs of past microbial life, if it ever existed. In other words, its mission is to hunt directly for these “biosignatures.” But Persev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
AP® Precalculus Resources Teachers Love | Texas Instruments
... on remedial math courses that don’t count toward their degrees because they lack sufficient math skills.* This is a staggering reality and a key motivation in the development of the AP® Precalculus course. Whether you are already teaching this course or will begin teaching it next year, it’...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/ap-precalculus-resources-teachers-will-love
Let’s Get Back to the Basics
...r Activity, students are required to challenge themselves with high-level problem-solving by graphing functions and equations, interpreting tables of values and evaluating expressions. This activity is designed for algebra I and intended to be completed in one class period, but can be modified ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtothebasicsactivity
Going Back to School With Stations
...f school. “Student Survey” station Learn about your students’ interests, hobbies, learning styles, etc. with the student survey. This survey is available in paper or digital format and serves as a great tool for relationship and community building, allowing teachers to refer to the informati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
Professional basketball star donates TI calculators to his former high school
...ack and give back to the students that were in his same place when he was a student here – it really means a lot to us,” said Riverside High School’s Varsity Basketball Coach, Brian Strickland. The third-year Phoenix Suns forward took time to visit with students and autograph Texas Instruments “...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/february/tj-warren-donates
The Long Road to My STEM Career
...gnment in junior high trigonometry class was to memorize a three-by-three grid of the relationships among the three sides of a right triangle and the value of each sine, cosine and tangent function. At 12 years old, I didn’t see how the assignment was relevant. This learning activity was the oppo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...as close to a real-world application problem as possible. Also, we strongly encourage the use of calculators and the practice of storing intermediate values into different variables, as well as not rounding any number until the final answer. Here is an example of the solution to the question, “A...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
7 Reasons Why Python on the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator Is a Must-Have for Your Classroom
...-purpose programming language. It’s widely used in many industries, as well as in education, and is designed to be easy to learn. Python is used in a variety of applications, including artificial intelligence, financial services and data science. #2: TI’s support of coding in STEM Texas Instr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/7-reasons-why-python-is-a-must
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
...justed, and you have to accept the fact that it’s not going to happen on the first day.” 2. Build the relationships and the learning will come One advantage teachers have in transitioning from the classroom to an online environment is that relationships have already been formed. You have been wi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
Customize your TI calculator with a 3-D printed case
...designs and he’s excited to add calculator cases to his current portfolio of pencil holders, drawer organizers and multipurpose tools. What’s his motivation for creating the cases? Galu said he often finds himself using the case of his graphing calculator as a straight edge when he’s drafting des...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/3d-slide-case
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
The start of a new year is the perfect time for setting new goals and prepping for the next few months of classes. Perhaps your goal is a large, year-long project, or maybe it’s a small, daily habit that you’d like to implement. Either way, one of the best ways to keep yourself motivated is by ha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...ratic? Not so much. Using the recently improved Transformation app on the TI-84 Plus CE provides an illustration of the movement that changing the value of b has on the graph. Here are the steps to graph the function using the Transformation app: Press Œ} and choose the Transfrm to start th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84