Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...n teaching math, I think it’s a very rewarding and meaningful profession,” said Mr. O. 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, wo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...reat delight in breaking down a number into its prime factors, then finding pairs of common factors to help simplify a radical. However, I wonder how much of the process of simplifying a radical, the end goal, was lost in the construction of my pleasing factor tree? That's the power of CAS! On ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...nsibility on an inequitable system that is not providing opportunities for all kids to achieve to the best of their potential, our focus as a country must be on implementing sensible policies and practices that enhance the quality of every child’s education. In its position paper on access and e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
... the LED backlit screen and graphing capabilities. To simply type in an equation and have the visual in seconds, it made pre-calculus and calculus so much easier to understand. From conics to quadratics, the options were endless. Shreya Mandal graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in e...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
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
... study how unsanitary drinking water conditions affect the health and well-being of populations on Earth, and discover that astronauts aboard the ISS must still guard against accidental bacterial water contamination. The concept: The Drank Tank — a water purifier that can function in zero-gravi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...onal Baccalaureate Organization. Policies subject to change. Visit www.ibo.org. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI six years ago, Fishpaw was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...es not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. 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, wo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...iculous amount of TV series and movies, vacationing yearly with her high school girl friends, playing video games like a teenager, tracking down live music on a warm summer day and using sarcasm abundantly. You can follow her on Twitter @Mlg5791. Did you know that Girl Scout troops can borrow ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...orado 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, wo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...te. My advice to other women: Be bold!" Ayesha Mayhugh, Texas Instruments engineer Education is critical to our future, our industry, and to the communities where we operate around the globe. Today’s world requires STEM aptitude, and like ACT and Girl Scouts, we’re hard at work to ensure all st...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...erminology for analyzing a sinusoidal function after a combination of transformations has been applied: period, phase shift, point of inflection, maximum, minimum. This is encouraged throughout the video series. Get started: Download the Quick Reference Guide In order to access all the c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...jects. One project was to create a traffic light using the TI-Innovator™ Hub with built-in RGB LEDs and a speaker. They also used the speaker to make music and learned how to read basic sheet music to have the TI-Innovator™ Hub play the songs. The next project, where engineering design was intro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...g calculator. Unravel a ghostly tale of a ride gone horribly wrong. 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, wo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
... principles for teaching and learning: Stay grounded in grade-level content and the most important mathematical ideas of the grade you teach. As much as possible, ensure that the mathematics students engage with this year is content for their grade level. By using resources (such as the Cohe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...irely digital, there are many things which are still new, and the switch to digital testing entails some important changes that students and teachers must stay abreast of, and address, through their study and preparation efforts. I’m breaking down my top tips for math teachers, students and paren...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...you are hearing it here first — I want to commit to some more realistic, more attainable goals to take better care of myself. So here we go with some much-needed reminders for me (and hopefully some of you) on how I plan to make self-care a priority. Here’s to a new year and a better me! Pla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...ka and former Test Development committee member Tom Dick to provide live, content sessions via YouTube for students and teachers alike. Consider this must-see AP® Calculus TV! The sessions will cover content and questions that teachers have specifically asked us to review. And, as an added bonu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
To STEM and Beyond!
...ay back in my undergraduate program. I was first introduced to TI technology for my chemistry classes as a data-collection solution and interactive simulation, so I knew about the graphing calculators and how they can be used with Vernier sensors. I was intrigued and followed up with training spo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
..." webinar. Any day is better with a little (or a lot of) pi. Happy Pi Day! About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the former Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Currently she works in Corporate Communications for TI. Follow her on Twitter @elle...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...heir grade-level math computational skills over the summer.* And, when kids return to school in the fall, about nine out of 10 teachers will spend as much as three weeks on review, because of summer learning loss. The good news – your friends at TI have come up with five ways to help keep stude...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
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/bestofmgscience
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...it go a little bit, but then you come back to it. From there, you start adding that concept back into your lesson plans. Not just that week, but over multiple weeks so that students can start getting a better understanding. Any other words of wisdom for other teachers? I think that you have to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
On the first day of school, I will interact with five classes of 30-35 students each. It is important to greet students at the door and set a tone that facilitates learning and establishes classroom routines. In my world, the first day of class is only 25 minutes―not much time to take roll and g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts