Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...resentations. A TI-Nspire document is the perfect place to do so. The TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator is like a computer because it can save and use multi-page documents. Press Home/ON and view the Home Screen. Press 2 to access My Documents and see what documents are on your calculator. Ther...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ave the world, but that’s just not reality. Instead, I would say start small. Focus on your niche. I’ve realized that picking one area to excel in is much better than being mediocre in a lot of different areas. What do you love most about teaching? I love the connections that I get to make with ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...in Philadelphia. At this conference, I was first introduced to TI technology for my chemistry classes as a data collection solution and interactive simulations for tough-to-teach concepts. I attended every session that I could to learn more and to figure out how to bring this new tool back to my ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
On Wednesday, September 19, Texas Instruments Education (@TICalculators) is hosting a Women in STEM Twitter Chat! Our goal is connect you to the awesome #WomenInSTEM community, both as a source of inspiration and a well of resources. Our panelists are female engineers, scientists, and mathematic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...ause it will slow you down. 2. Know the Test The Math-Calculator section of the SAT® exam is 55 minutes long and contains 38 questions. There are 30 multiple-choice questions, each with four answer choices, and 8 “grid-in” questions with no choices provided. There is also a set of reference for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
... his arrow through a heart, and it just might even win over your students’ hearts in math class. Getting started and setting up the graph First, we must lay the foundation for the activity. Here we are going to start the program and add in all the basic graphing elements. In Python, you need to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...art of a collaborative team working toward a common goal. STEM is not just for engineering and computer science class and can easily be integrated in multiple subjects — not just science and math, either. STEM has a role in sports, theater, music, social studies and language arts. Check out STEM...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
Do you recognize any of these? The first (known-to-me) emojis! Yup, quite primitive, and predating the smartphone versions of the fancy emojis we know and love today. But, I do remember emails that sent images in the signature, some basic, some complex and some from people who had way too much t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...erspective. The engineering design process. Student brainstorming diagrams done in early stages. Finally, students must present their ideas with a short video describing their innovation to be voted on by the public — effectively teaching students how to communi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...s workshop. Every time we have presented it, teachers seem so thankful, like Kenya who said, “This was the best PD I have ever attended. I learned so much more about the TI calculator. Also, I now understand there are three parts to the math portion of the ACT®. I will definitely be taking these ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...f Texas at Austin. Ellen Browne is a Texas Instruments national instructor and lives at the Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut. After teaching music for 25 years, she switched over to teaching math in 2003 and then she added engineering in 2015. She has always been captivated by the possib...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...re. Here is how I have turned my end-of-quarter evaluations into valuable conversations about how to make math class better for all of us. Clear Communication Whatever your grading system is — total points, percent weight for each type of grade or standards-based grades — communicate that at ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
... State University (WVSU), a historically Black public institution with land grant status. WVSU is “a living laboratory of human relations,” with a community of students, staff and facilities committed to academic growth, service and racial and cultural diversity preservation. WVSU operates the Ce...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...whether the calculator is helpful, necessary or a disadvantage in a particular situation. If there are calculator buttons or menu items that students must remember, include those in class notes, and discuss issues such as rounding decimals to a certain place value, if that is important for you. B...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...e a very loose structure by identifying a few key ideas and a couple of guiding questions that we use while we record. We are careful not to have too much of the conversation while we are planning, because we want our podcast episodes to be authentic discussions rather than scripted talking point...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
... They got to see the Rovers in action and wanted to know how to solve the problem. We then talked about the system of equations and how to use the formula. It’s great when you have students asking, 'how do you do this?' and eagerly wanting to know the answer. How do you help your students learn d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
...e myListC. This is very different than the comparable operation on both the TI-84 Plus CE Python or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators, which just multiplies each element of the list by the scalar value 5. Then what does [1, 2, 3] * 5 create? Here’s the answer using a Shell: Are you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
There’s nothing quite like a newly spruced up classroom to kick off another school year. And we know getting your classroom decorations organized and set up is simply a must for back to school! To help make your classroom glow up easy and FREE, we’ve rounded up a set of awesome resources to fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
...w. So how can we provide students with an experience of science phenomena in the confined 45 to 90 minutes of a class period? One option is to use simulations to give students the ability to slow down the really fast, speed up the really slow, and see the very large or very small. Simulations en...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...orn! That’s when my work really got started to help drive the development of this new site, created for IB® teachers specifically. This has been a multiyear endeavor that started with a group effort of IB® teachers, who were also TI instructors, like me, from around the world. We were tasked w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...t of garbage when creating new neighborhoods or businesses. In the “Garbage Problem” activity for the TI-84 graphing calculator, students realize how much garbage we create, which can lead to great discussions about finding reasonable solutions to a problem we have yet to solve. Link to Activity ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...and now as a teacher and a programmer, I realize that it is not just about the “how” to code and that my old outlook put me behind when it came to communication. The language of coding is important. Words such as “concatenation,” “conditional” and “selection” are important. That’s how programmers...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...nal constant, g. So all that time we spend telling students that they will “use this someday”, well, this is a great example. When we talk about how much weight the bridge can support, we are really talking about the downward force exerted on the structure, due to the mass of the washers and gra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...s across all languages. The syntax is the only thing that changes from one programming language to another, so, once you’ve mastered TI-Basic, its’s much easier to start learning other programming languages. Create Fun Programs, like a Coding a Calculator Pet Now that you’ve got the basics dow...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...cations ever.” — Joanie Funderburk “One on One 101: The Art of Inspired & Effective Individualized Instruction” by Robert Ahdoot Communicating effectively is an art form, and all arts have their own “secret sauce.” What is the “secret sauce” it takes to effectively reach and ins...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list