Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
...grams that could connect to temperature, humidity, soil moisture and light sensors, read them and make decisions based on data collected by them. Tip 4: Plan for students to move at different paces. You may need to provide additional support to students who fall behind or additional challenges to...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
... robotics, to help all kids see that coding and the basics of engineering can be easy to learn and fun," said Balyta. "After today, I’d say mission accomplished.” Click here to see Rover in action at Travis Vanguard Academy. To learn how to get your hands on Rover, and to check out some of the a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...980s. The district quickly jumped on the personal computer bandwagon with Radio Shack TRS-80s and then IBM PC Juniors. I bought my own computer in 1984 — an Atari 800 — and used a cassette recorder for storing programs, and the passion kept me up very late many nights. The disc drive cost as much...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...ents will investigate chemistry and life sciences principles, observe processes such as titration, and engage in designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing their hypotheses. Grab your TI-Nspire™ CX handheld and download the files for your students. Want to look like this guy? Download...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...a conductivity sensor When designing your sensor, think about the materials you’ll need. You’ll need a TI handheld such as a TI-Nspire™ CX II or TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator or a computer. A microcontroller device, such as a TI-Innovator™ Hub, micro:bit, Arduino or Raspberry Pi, is a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...Provide several different ways of explaining this mystery. Fig. 2 If you or your students have never seen this before, it surely will come as a surprise, especially if you cut out the pieces and see that they really form the square and rectangle. Well, actually they do not! This i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
How to Start the Year on a Math High
... it. The more predictable their day is, the more fearless they will be. My goal is always that my students are able to run the classroom without me. 4. Ban “raising hands” in your classroom Crazy, right? My students always look shocked when I tell them they are not allowed to raise their hands. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...untry, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter @ellenfishpaw. David Olszewski, a math teacher from Canton, Ohio, is the final winner of TI’s Spread the Math Lov...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...unity gap. Raise Expectations A common, underlying issue in many systems is low expectations. In “The Opportunity Myth,” research showed that while 71% of students were successful in their high school course work, only 17% exhibited success with grade-level standards. Well-meaning educators woul...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...r my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. From 2+2=4, graphing y=mx+b and solving complex integrals/derivatives, my TI graphing calculator and I have been through a lot together. (I even posed with it in my graduation photos!) Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
... curiosity, and they inspire me to bring my best game to teaching every day.” As part of their prize, the boys received a TI-Innovator™ Rover, a TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator and a trip to Dallas with a family member to attend the Teachers Teaching with Technology™ International Conference (...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbus, Ohio Nashville, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...appy Girl Scouts Day! Interested in this blog? Read more. International Women’s Day Women in STEM: You Belong Math Readiness Drops to 14-Year Low among the US High School Graduates, According to ACT 2018 Report The Condition of STEM 2017 About The Author: Peter Balyta, Ph.D.,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...in this series, “What Slope Means, and Four ‘Flavors’ of Slope.” Review 15 parent functions and their transformations There are also modules for 14 common parent functions as well as a module focused on applying transformations to a generic piecewise function included in this video resource. He...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... calculator. Here is the Pumpkin Pi edition of our Halloween-themed slide case that you can print from a link on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3901650. Up your Halloween game by printing a Pumpkin Pi case for your TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. Create a calcula...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...but is certainly exacerbated by the pandemic: teaching students with unfinished learning from previous grades. Some key principles can help make this complicated situation more manageable. But before we think about teaching and learning math, some foundational ideas should come first. I’ll echo...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
...o, where he is majoring in business and biomedical engineering. Tristan took AP® Calculus with Meyer and scored a 5 on the exam. He then went on to become Meyer’s teaching assistant. Tristan said he learned about the contest from a geometry teacher at the high school, and he immediately knew he w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...atory in Dallas, TX, that provides year-round opportunities in robotics, computer coding, botany, chemistry and more. Other field trips will follow. #4. Leverage learning from vacations Everyone wants to have fun over the summer, and the great outdoors, amusement parks and beaches can help provid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
... equal access to the technology her classmates are using..."Peggy Johnson, Principal, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE SOLUTION The Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator, created through a collaboration between Texas Instruments, the American Printing House for the Blind and Orbit ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...grid: each square is colored either green (if it knows a given piece of information) or red (if it does not). A red square learns this information (becomes green) if at least two of its neighbors (sharing an edge) already knows it. For example, in this situation the bottom middle square becomes g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...nomic success [1]. Three strategies that we can use to help our students build a foundation for financial literacy are further educating ourselves, becoming familiar with financial education standards, and integrating financial literacy concepts and skills into our current curricula. In honor of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
The Heartbeat of STEM
..., transport and homeostasis, but it also allows students to build electrical circuits and write a simple program to control the model. Students become familiar with coding by using the easily accessible menu-based system within TI calculators. These activities are available using multiple pla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...t these are the first of many Fibo-mojis! (I do love emojis. Check out a previous blog I wrote on this topic.) “Finding Fibo!”… even in art! 4. The number play People are always looking for number patterns and finding them in other numbers. So, if the following ratio 100/9899 = .0101020...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...ave about the field. While male and female students perform typically the same in science and mathematics classes, females are underrepresented in computer science and engineering classes. As these students continue into the workforce, women make up 47 percent of the total workforce, but only...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...cies sound better in combination with frequencies that are proportional to that note. For example, notes that are of a ratio of 2:3 such as a note of 440Hz and a note of 660Hz, sound good together. In music theory, that ratio is a “fifth.” Music theory relies on relationships like this to make mu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music