Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
... would be proud that she continues “to do right by him.” Striving to help her family, Calderon plans to keep leaning into academics, college scholarship pursuits and long-term ambitions. “I have to do this; I wanna make sure that my family is OK.” Here’s to Calderon and spreading math love! ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...ng 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 (T³IC), March 13–15, 2020. Jeffery...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...nking recently, “How can I combine my work experience with my passion for Girl Scouts?” This is my Girl Scout troop, Dublin Troop 408, on a zip line adventure in Columbus, Ohio. Every other month we try and take a field trip together as a troop. I asked my manager if it would be po...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...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 Instruments, and is the president of TI Education Technology. He serves on a variety of boards that support his desire to engage stude...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...utilized in several ways: As a teaching and learning tool inside and outside the classroom As independent study and review To augment a flipped classroom It is modular — you only use what you want or need! And students can work at their own pace. Explore linear relations...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...ke. These sessions will contain content, data and questions that are directly related to the Big Ideas in the “AP® Statistics Course and Exam Description.” The content will be original, unique problems and data sets that Starnes has written for our Office Hours series to deepen student and tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... 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)N²,1,20): Pt-On(132+N...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... for practice. This activity can be used with the TI-Innovator™ Hub. Cryptography — Students create either a basic or advanced Caesar cipher to encode and decode messages using modular arithmetic. How Good Is Your Memory — A computer science project that uses the TI-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
Over the past month, students have seen games, light sequences, scales and even familiar songs come to life during ShadOnline. Hundreds of ShadOnline participants solved coding problems virtually during Texas Instruments’ innovative workshops. Whether it was running a program p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
The start of a new school year has always been my favorite time of year. The freshness, anticipation and possibilities energize and excite me as I reconnect with colleagues and build relationships with new students and families. This year, though, educators are also facing the impact of a global ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
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
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...nxiety of being called on in class. No matter which student you call on after this period, everyone should have something to share. Teacher tip: Set clear expectations for turn-and-talk with your senses. Have students model what turn-and-talk should look like and sound like, even with ol...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...onalize and add in events that happen weekly into my schedule, and I don't need to rewrite it. Recently, my biggest focus has been building relationships with my students and families. As a result, my agenda has space for me to make note of who I’m checking in with each week and allows me to get ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
To STEM and Beyond!
...ovator™ Hub. I was hooked! Seeing all the engaging ways that were currently available for my students to learn coding and STEM projects using this equipment, I had to get my hands on some. I wrote several grants and acquired TI-Innovator™ Hubs, I/O kits and TI-Innovator™ Breadboard Packs. I sta...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...t students experiment with the Homemade Pi activity with objects (or treats!) brought from home. Either way, the included calculator keypress quick tips sheet will keep students moving forward! Download the worksheets When the lesson is done, you and your students can wolf down your sweet tre...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ic car, Rover, to navigate a volcano on Mars. Interested in learning more? Check out our STEM resources here. #3. Join us for a live, virtual field trip TI will host live, virtual field trips this summer to give even more students an opportunity to engage with STEM. We’re fresh off a visit to NAS...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...you could help students see slope not as an equation to memorize, but as a representation of real events? We got out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection and learned some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebra through ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...essors from Rice University to integrate art into coding. Fast Facts About Alice: TEACHES WHAT: AP Computer Science and AP Computer Science Principles, 9th-12th grade TEACHES WHERE: Bellaire High School, Houston, Texas TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 13 years Alice in her own words: Why did...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
... is the one tool that can do everything mathematically. Lillie now has 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 T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...a bin of fifty balls containing five copies of the numbers 0 through 9. If you guess all five numbers correctly, your prize is the product of the multiplicities of the numbers drawn (for example, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2 gives a prize of six). What lottery ticket would you buy? Solutions Problem 1 Solution...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...ame into focus when the teachers in my school began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning and justification skills? In the f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...s.” Once you have a better grasp of your spending and saving habits, you can start considering investments. NerdWallet has an excellent article with tips and strategies for beginners. Start exploring options and plans for making your money grow. Putting off investing until later can actually cost...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...rned math and computer science teacher. Fast Facts About Fatemia: TEACHES WHAT: AP Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry, AP Computer Science Principles, and Java Programming I & II TEACHES WHERE: Knox Central High School in Kentucky TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 4 years Fatemia in her own words: Wh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...essions as well as any other with data collection in the science classroom. When I returned back to my school, I presented the information to my principal, and he purchased a set of handhelds and lots of sensors for my classes. I attend and present at various local, state and national conferen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...ng through making while simultaneously challenging communities through the lens of digital equity and diversity. Marie of @girlknowstech Marie-Philippe Gill is a fourth-year software engineering student at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal. She also holds a degree (DEC) in Comp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat