Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...tems require technology that has evolved over time to bring convenience, safety, functionality and efficiency to our lives. Learn about a technology key to modern electronics and the inventor who brought it to life. Step 1: Start by watching this video: Step 2: Download and make copies of the ac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
...XN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students from across the country to propose solutions to challenges astronauts would face on a journey to Mars. The questions were based on the challenges International Space Station (ISS) commander Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko enco...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
DIY TI Codes Contest
Have you heard about our TI Codes Contest? Each spring, Texas Instruments challenges teams of students from around the U.S. to come up with creative solutions to a proposed theme and submit their ideas. As the groups advance, they ultimately build a functioning model of their concept, which they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
mathyoga
It was a stressful school year to say the least! To help you and your students exhale, while learning (or teaching) a thing or two, we’ve partnered with two of our favorite math educators, Perry High School teachers Ashley Meinke and David Olszewski, to introduce you to math yoga. So, grab a yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
... hard thing to do. After all, many of us are in love with mathematics and we love to teach the subject. But how would students respond to this? Are they ever in awe of the beauty or power of mathematics? Do they encounter things that are surprising or mysterious? If the answer is generally no, th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...-84 Plus graphing family, this video will provide some great tips to help you get started. You will learn how to show multiple representations, view key press history, and take screenshots for pasting into other documents. Give us four minutes, and we’ll give you our best secrets for TI-SmartView...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
How to Start the Year on a Math High
As we settle into the new school year, we find ourselves in the perfect position to set the tone in our math classes. We’ve all experienced students who are hesitant learners — they come in with the mindset that they hate math or aren’t good enough to make it through the school year. If this att...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Score Big on the ACT® With These Tried-and-True Tips for the Math Section
...e was scheduled to debut in the fall of 2020, those plans were put on hold, much like many things disrupted by COVID-19. At the time, the ACT® said they decided to postpone the introduction of online testing to protect the health and safety of students and test center staff, while focusing on pro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-19-2021-act-tips
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...members of the school’s award-winning math team that Mr. O coaches, along with who he calls his best awesome mathematical friend forever (BAMFF), Ashley Meinke. Ms. Meinke, who teaches calculus at the school, nominated Mr. O for the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love contest. The contest...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...ing: Just how can coding be used to enhance math instruction? Let’s look at one possible example: quadratics. We all teach it. What are some of the key ideas students should understand about quadratics? Quadratics can cross the x-axis twice, once or not at all. The quadratic formula is ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...e and type expressions like what’s shown in figure 5. By starting here, CAS can support students to form conjectures about the properties they are studying. If students want to examine more examples, a notes page can rapidly provide that opportunity. Once conjectures are establis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...ctly back into the slide for your review. In this scenario, students open a Google Slides™ presentation to begin the work. Then, when necessary, they navigate to nspireconnect.ti.com and connect their TI‑Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator to their Chromebook™ notebook computer. Sounds easy enou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...this amazing technology that helps students across the world learn and visualize the complexity of math and how it applies to the real world. Shreya Mandal began using her TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator in high school and still uses it as a full-time engineer with Texas Instruments. I w...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
... have never met in person, collaborate in different states to brainstorm an idea, design and build their prototype, and create a video explanation. They plan to donate their TI prizes to continue STEM learning in their respective high schools. The Germaphobes explain their concept and prot...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ition since it was delayed by one year due to a global pandemic. Not only is this an exciting time for the athletes but also for fans of the sports they represent. Many of us will be glued to our televisions watching the “best of the best” do their thing and experiencing the excitement and drama ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...” arranged for balloons spelling M-A-T-H and the marching band to shout “surprise” when the boys returned. Nate and Jeffery were surprised to learn they were selected from more than 1,000 entries as winners of our nationwide Spread the Math Love Contest, honoring math heroes. Cheltenham High...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...about the importance of STEM in their programming, she said, “At Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland, girls are exposed to areas of STEM education that they might not experience in other places. When girls experience science and technology in a hands-on, minds-on way, they can build confidence in a f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...nd navigate,” said Baltimore seventh-grader Khudaijah Amin. After a bit of trial and error, just about everyone has success, but more importantly, they have fun. “It’s especially cool because we live in a world where there’s a lot of opportunities for this and it’s really fun to kind of explore,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
... for a while that gender diversity in STEM careers is lacking (women comprise half of the workforce, yet hold fewer than 25% of U.S. STEM jobs), and beyond a readiness deficit by gender, as evidenced in ACT’s 2017 STEM report, there is also a confidence gap for girls that starts early on in their...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...be done outside of class. This is more efficient for the students. The students who require more assistance can obtain it easily and repeatedly, if they need it. At the same time, those students who just need a quick review are not bored by watching topics they already know and understand. All st...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
... students when I became part of an after-school organization with a team of teachers, students and professional mentors. Along with Nanoracks and Valley Christian Schools, we sent an experiment up to the International Space Station. We learned how to use a microprocessor to run our experiment — I...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
.... Watch this video to learn how to create your own calculator costume. Haunted! Or hoax? Put your students on a creepy case as they explore STEM and the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve. Ask students to analyze the science to decide if there’s even a ghost of a chance that a ghost i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... #1 — Import both the ti_system and time library. Time contains the sleep function, ti_system includes the get_key() function. #2 — Create a list dice that has your values for the weighted dice. Create a win and total plays variable....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...g the Rock, Paper, Scissors coding challenge. Shads were encouraged by TI instructors to finish coding a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors — or if they were up for it, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock. “I actually played against the computer several times during the weekend. It’s really ente...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline