STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
If you are a teacher like me, you probably always have lots of ideas. I certainly do! Thank goodness I also have a circle of friends that share my passion and help me bring those ideas full circle. Many of my ideas seem to have a common theme: Provide fun, learning, engaging, real-world experien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
At Texas Instruments, we love a good contest or quiz that helps get students and teachers excited about math and science. And, the winner of our latest #GenSTEM contest, gets us even more excited about math and science than usual. I didn’t even know that was possible! Meet Alex Livingston, a so...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
Thanks for joining our Facebook Live office hours. If you missed it or want to watch it again, the video link is included below. Five of my favorite tips are highlighted below, but you can view more of my favorite tips and tricks for the TI-84 Plus graphing calculator in this PDF. Tip 1: Viewi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...ng the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few coding concepts. Expressing a problem and a solution in a way that a computer, or human, can carry it out is computational thinking. Coding on the calculator is one method to give students an opportunity t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
In the spring of 2022, I was looking for some innovative ways to review my AP® Calculus students for the AP® exam. I read Peter Liljedahl’s book, “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics,” in the summer of 2021 and decided to implement some of the strategies from his book. My calculus classe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
When math teacher Jessica Kachur joined the faculty of Kenosha Unified School District’s Indian Trail High School, she embarked on a mission to start an after-school coding club. Her goal was to ensure that math students had an opportunity to get together and explore the important, life-long ben...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
It’s the mathiest season of all! And we want to make sure you’re ready to celebrate in style. On social media, you may have seen our posts highlighting the picture-perfect Math Love gear that we are giving away this holiday season. Show us a sine of love by entering the sweepstakes, and it coul...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
For teachers, the summer months can be a prime time for catching up on reading to get inspired and recharge your batteries for the upcoming school year. One of the most effective ways to keep your teaching skills sharp is the same thing we encourage our students to do over the summer: read. We p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
What do Chemistry Cat, toilet bowl cleaner and contact lens cleaning solution have in common? They’re all ways to take the abstract subject of chemistry and make it come alive and make sense for high school students. Throughout my career, I have strived to make this subject applicable to the rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Innovation in Biology
When you hear things in your classroom such as, “Well, that didn’t work! Let’s try this …” or “That was so hard! I am so proud of myself,” it is music to an educator’s ears. By incorporating engineering design and coding skills in my biology classroom, I was able to tap into my students’ creativ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
Teachers are supposed to know it all, right? When I first started teaching, I was terrified by the idea of a student asking me questions to which I did not know the answer. I would imagine myself freezing on the spot, turning beet red, and jabbering about something close to what they were lookin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
Connor Johnson is the first person at Pope John Paul II High School in Lacey, Washington, to enter into precalculus as a freshman. Where does he get the confidence to pursue an advanced course at such a young age? From his mother, of course, who also happens to be his math teacher. Connor and hi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...a of the region R, bounded above by the graph of y = f(x), below by the x-axis, and by the lines x = a and x = b. This is perhaps one of the quickest ways to visualize Riemann sums and students can look at the left hand, right hand, and midpoint Riemann sums easily for many different functions an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...ial growth, and herd immunity. Unlike epidemics/pandemics in the past, COVID-19 symptoms aren’t as severe and, thus, not as easy to identify right away. The time it takes before an infected person may show signs can be between two to 14 days. COVID-19 also seems to be more transmissible than pa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
...phing calculators — numeric, algebraic, graphical, geometric, statistical — allow me to push my students to approach problems in more than one “right way.” By connecting these environments and making student thinking visible when we dig into a mathematical situation, we support students in produc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
..., Ms. Dunlap, started a Cooking with Chemistry project where students describe in detail all of the chemical reactions that occur. Our administration was encouraging us to think outside the box and rethink how we could assess our students’ progress for final exams. I am head of the math departme...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
Chemical equilibrium is one of the most difficult concepts for students to understand, and it’s even more difficult to find a model that will work every time. Like the late-night infomercials say, “I’ve tried everything.” I’ve used the popular method of moving water from one beaker to another ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...quation. The answer is certain to make them smile this holiday season. ; 6) Tree Twister We’ve got a holiday challenge for you: If our Christmas tree was 15 rows taller, what numbers would be on the two center pieces? 7) Tacky Sweater For us, holiday cheer is the sum of two parts: math and the p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
Sines of Spring Sweepstakes | Texas Instruments
... Fresh ideas, resources and ways to win a TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator! li {padding-bottom: 20px;} --> Sines of Spring Sweepstakes --> 2024 Sine...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/sinesofspringsweepstakes
BestofChemistry
...me of the best chemistry activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software or TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Don’t have the software? Click here to get started. 1. Skills of Science: Tool ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...ympiad leadership worked with teachers and industry partners to develop the Detector Building event. This new event requires teams to build a working waterproof temperature sensor, code it, calibrate it and test it. The event requires an integration of science, technology, engineering and mathema...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like an Absolute Value Graph ❤ by @TICalculators
...ct 1:abs(. Enter the equation |2X|-8 to start transforming your TI calculator into a virtual love note. Press the graph key to check out what we see. Want to change the color of the graph to red? Of course you do. Just arrow to the line color before Y1, and select RED. To fill out your heart, pre...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/create-math-valentines
Solution 35834: Resolving Issues with Lost Settings During TI-Nspire™ Family Version 3.6 Upgrade.
...ly of products Knowledge Base Knowledge Base Search How do I resolve issues with lost settings during TI-Nspire Family software version 3.6 upgrade? If your settings have become lost during an upgrade to TI-Nspire Family software version 3.6 you can use the steps below ...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/kbase-templates-and-archive/previous-pages-obsolete/35834
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
Four seconds left in the big game, and the score is 27-28 — you’re behind. A 50-yard field goal wins the game. Your task is to use a mathematical model to demonstrate kicking a field goal to win the game. Wait … are you more into the celebration and all the hoopla (I mean all those snacks and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Oklahoma Students Make Their Mark Learning to Program with Rover
...g is pretty simple, it sends a message to Rover to connect to the calculator, and after that it’s just a series of SEND codes that tell it to move forward, turn and reverse,” said Hickman. Hickman’s teacher was so impressed that he invited local media to the school to watch as the juniors lead K...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/seeroverdraw