You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...ss can participate anonymously, sharing their work wirelessly to the teacher’s computer – right from their desks. More recently, we introduced the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. We heard from thousands of teachers who didn’t want us to change the TI-84 Plus. That is, until we told them we cou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
...s Vanguard Academy. To learn how to get your hands on Rover, and to check out some of the activities for getting started, click here. Download the TI-84 Plus CE and TI-Nspire™ CX program files students used to choreograph Rover to dance here. Middle school gifted and talented students at Travis ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...long, I took over the responsibility of running our school’s educational computer system, an HP2000 minicomputer with 32 CRT terminals in the early 1980s. 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 1...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
Mission Imagination
... Subhan Wade, Caitlyn Coloma, Jaiden Reddy, Isha Shah and Nicholas Ho receive assorted space goodies and their choice of either a TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator and software. The team will also have the opportunity to chat with a NASA astronaut about their wining submission. “...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
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 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
roboticsweek2021
...s to follow COVID-19 safety protocols. But none of them let the pandemic affect their interest in understanding what makes products work. There were 181 entries for this competition — a record number of entries, and proof that sanctioned destruction of interesting devices is a wonderful way to en...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...long and thin parallelogram whose area is equal to 1 square unit. Fig. 3 Here is another surprise. Look at the numbers in the diagram: 8, 13, 21. These are three consecutive terms of the Fibonacci sequence. You can create additional geometrical vanishes using any three consecutive ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...ountry, 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 Lo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...ulator and I have been through a lot together. (I even posed with it in my graduation photos!) From using the TI-36X Pro scientific calculator and TI-84 Plus graphing calculator, to my favorite, the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, it is truly an amazing opportunity to work for the company prov...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...d 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
...ternational 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., leads academic engagement and corporate citizenship for Texas Inst...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...al 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 product strategy and development. Recently he has been focusin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...side look at the math and science real-life epidemiologists use to track and curb the spread of diseases through a population. Dress up your TI-84 Plus CE or the TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator Gather some orange and black filament and 3D-print a spooky spare case for your TI-84 P...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Computational Thinking
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Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...ountry, 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. Read how calculus teacher Walter Meyer, the latest winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest, he...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
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
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...he math and science behind a well-executed field goal, to make the game-winning play, with our STEM Behind Sports series. These activities for the TI-84 Plus family and the TI-Nspire CX put students in the middle of competition and challenges them to make meaningful connections between math and s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...s 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
...letter is given a digit, that is its digit throughout the equation (if you set O to be 3 in YOU, it is also 3 in LOVE). Problem 4 | Music There are 88 keys on a piano, with the lowest note being A0, with a frequency of 27.5 Hertz. Two consecutive keys differ in frequency by a factor of 12√2. T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...e data. Ask the question: Does doubling the interest rate balance out half the investment? For instance, if Friend B were to invest their savings at 18%, instead of 9% (Friend B2), would that yield the same amount of money as Friend C’s $50 invested at 9%? Use the Lists & Spreadsheet page to show...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
The Heartbeat of STEM
... system within TI calculators. These activities are available using multiple platforms and languages: TI-Basic (TI-Nspire™ CX, TI-Nspire™ CX II or TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculators) and Python (TI-Nspire™ CX II and TI-84 Plus CE Python edition graphing calculators). The activities available at T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
We are constantly looking for things, whether it be our car keys, ourselves or the next best smartphone. Sometimes, finding things become pop hits. Back in 1985 there was a video game that was popular called “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” Not too long after the debut of that game came ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
World-Emoji-Day
...rom people who had way too much time on their hands using ASCII art. As an early user of the TI-80 … something (TI-81, TI-83 and TI-84 graphing calculators), I can remember classmates and — once I started teaching — students using the draw com...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day