Celebrate Jack Kilby Day
Use these fun, free resources to teach students how STEM can change the world Fifty-nine years ago on September 12, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby ushered in the era of modern electronics when he shared his invention of the integrated circuit (IC). Jack's world-changing creation began wit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/september/celebrate-jack-kilby-day
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...xtremely versatile language to be able to deliver useful instructional content while helping the development teams by providing feedback on features, functionality and bugs. The teams created custom Editors and runtime Shells for Python independently but cooperatively for the TI‑Nspire™ CX II and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...ns 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 envisioning what’s next. S in STEM: The science of zombies In this activity, students make a zombie brain to test a hypothesis for counter-at...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...ing and/or electronics are new to you, TI has some helpful resources to get you started. TI’s Path to STEM Projects walk students step by step in the fundamentals of electronics and sensor design. The Path to STEM program has helpful documents and quick videos to help you learn the skills you’ll ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
roboticsweek2021
..., taking apart a Samsung POWERbot electronic vacuum. The students’ research was very thorough; they studied the components, learned about their functions and even tracked down data sheets when they could find them. The judges were impressed by the students’ level of detail and delighted by ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...anton, Ohio, math yoga has become increasingly more popular. Meinke and Olszewski currently use it as a math club activity; in the classroom to teach functions, transformations and end behavior; to describe geometry and calculus terminology; to build upon social and emotional learning; and to des...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...roduct is always one less or one more than the square. Try it! Readers are invited to find a formula for the height of the parallelogram as a function of terms of the Fibonacci sequence and then to show that the height tends to 0 as n tends to infinity. Awe moment number 2 Let a and b b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Score Big on the ACT® With These Tried-and-True Tips for the Math Section
...iliar with. Please don’t take the test with a calculator (online or handheld) that you have never or rarely used. You won’t be able to access all the functionality of the calculator because you certainly won’t have the time to learn how to use the calculator during the test. If you use a TI-84 Pl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-19-2021-act-tips
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
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...OS™ to connect their calculator and capture screenshots. Here is a quick sample activity. In the GIF below, students are asked to consider a rational function, and explore points of interest, and share back screenshots of what they found interesting. Example of a template that students w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...s of students must be our primary motivator. Together, we can help every student, and our country, fulfill its potential. About the author: Joanie Funderburk is a lifelong learner with a passion for leadership, education and professional learning. She believes that relationships are the corner...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...ronics were difficult courses, but when using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, multivariable equations were easier to solve by using the unique functions on the graphing calculator. I was getting answers to complex problems within minutes. I still continue to solve power equations using my...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...stronauts aboard the ISS must still guard against accidental bacterial water contamination. The concept: The Drank Tank — a water purifier that can function in zero-gravity conditions to ensure the supply of uncontaminated drinking water aboard the space station See their video. The puri...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ave some artistic students, they can use the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator or the new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator — it could be a fun challenge! Below is the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, coded with Python. The flag colors can be created using rectangles, and it ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...al Technology Consultant that can brainstorm with them on ways to achieve a badge, help them complete a badge already in progress, or simply create a fun, engaging STEM event, like our STEM Squad. We will do our best to support requests large and small. For example, this April, my colleague, Be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...m elementary school through high school how to get started with coding and inspire innovation. 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 t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...xas Instruments is highly invested in increasing students’ STEM competencies, especially as we look to hire within our local talent pool. We provided funding to Girl Scouts to get more girls actively engaged in STEM, and they created the STEM Center of Excellence in Dallas to provide girls with a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...-solving, troubleshooting and teamwork. Coding and programming in a STEM classroom covers all of the skills students need to learn, and they can have fun doing it. Using TI’s 10 Minutes of Code is a time-saving, tried-and-true way to start this process in your classroom. Happy Computer Science W...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... 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(N,0,20,1): Pt-On(132-N,120-(1/10...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...or through the chat feature. In the first coding workshop, TI instructors challenged Shads to solve lines of code for a counting game. “It was really fun and kind of challenging at first, but we were all helping each other so it was easy to go through it,” said Shad Emili Bykovsky, who’s from Cor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...principles for math learning this year. We will get through this, and will be better educators for it on the other end. About the author: Joanie Funderburk has over 30 years of experience as a math educator, including nearly 20 years as a high school math teacher and ten years in math leader...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
San Antonio calculus teacher Walter Meyer thought he was heading to a meeting about funding for a gardening project, but instead he was surprised with cheerleaders, a marching band and news that he was the latest winner in the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love Contest. Walter Meyer s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...we have a common goal: ensuring our students learn and recover from the events of the last 20 months. We’ve got this! About the author: Joanie Funderburk taught high school math for 20 years and has supported math educators across the country since 2015 through her work at Student Achievem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
... find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can use a simple four-function variety, but rarely do they have experience with scientific calculators. Giving them time to explore and experiment helps them understand ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
... say, “I hate math.” But, they really do love when they understand – and that you make the effort to help them get it! #2– Math teachers make math fun! Math teachers know how to ÷ and conquer their math class to make it the life of the party! #3 – Math Teachers get to know their students. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld