Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ere were ways that they could safely save and invest money (microsaving apps, Roth IRA, interest yielding savings and checking accounts, index mutual fund). This time, some of the three friends decided to place their saved money into a Roth IRA account that yielded an annual percentage rate of 9%...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ternet, going to more conferences and looking at what others are doing in the classroom. I try to soak in every idea that comes my way! What are some fun or unique ways you help your students learn? I've always loved using technology in the classroom, because teaching is so much more than lectur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...nd molecules. Having students collect data on the chemical phenomena helps them to “see” how these particles interact and react while making learning fun and teaching them how to become scientists. In 2015, I attended the T³™ International Conference in Philadelphia. At this conference, I was...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...women to pursue careers in engineering. Recently, Marie was a panelist at an International Women’s Day event and “Girls and Code, Montreal Movement”. Fun fact: English is not her first language, it’s French! Estefannie of @estefanniegg Estefannie is an embedded apps software engineering lead (ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
The Heartbeat of STEM
... Four-Chambered Heart for the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator” activity, students need to complete three different challenges to demonstrate the function of a heart. In challenge 1, students set up a simple circuit using the breadboard on the TI-Innovator™ Hub and a red LED. They also ne...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...e represented the mathematician formerly known as Fibonacci! “Finding Fibo!” 3. Now, the art! This spiral is wonderful, and it becomes more fun when you unleash students’ creative artistic abilities. Two images that I found were the Fibonacci elephant and the Fibonacci parrot. Makes you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...en which they might find the slope, start by offering contexts where that makes sense. Maybe it’s a graph of the distance between a person and a wall vs. time, the graph of temperature of water as it cools on a stove, or a graph of the number of pounds of bananas there are on the table at a groce...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
..., you’re not working on hardware that will make it onto the final robot, but it’s still useful. (Brookwood BITES) Do it with friends and have fun with the building and coding. (NaviGator) PARTICIPATE. (NaviGator) I would say that it’s best to understand that the project do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
They say “Time flies when you’re having fun.” You might not believe it, but time also flies when you are delivering math professional development workshops. For those of you who don’t know us, we are a married couple who recently celebrated their 25th anniversary and have been leading Teachers T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...students and your sub. Check out these three featured video resources for your substitute teacher to use when you’re away 1. Families of Functions If your students are learning how to graph parent functions, TI’s Families of Functions is the go-to video resource for your s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...es that I use TI-Nspire CX activities to help my classes understand concepts more deeply. Other times, we use it to support what we’re learning about functions, allowing students to physically graph and visualize how the functions work. We also sign into the Navigator System every day, regardless...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
... that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (construction, syntax and functionality) through this project and by working hard to meet the customer’s needs. At the end of the project, students had a chance to present t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
Instagram is quickly becoming one of the world’s most popular virtual teacher lounges. Not only is this social media site a hotbed of perfectly proportioned photos, but it also has great ideas, content and classroom inspiration for teachers. From funny facts about teachers’ daily routines to mo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...n an ongoing learning experience, and one I’d like to share more about with you! As podcast fans ourselves, we thought it would be interesting and fun to put our discussions out into the world in the form of a podcast, providing anytime, anywhere access to ideas, questions and considerations f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...what would it take to make the U.S. flag? (Warning: You might need some patience to go with your patriotism!) Tip: You can use both ti_draw functions (to make the red, white and blue rectangles) and Turtle functions (to make the stars) in the same program. Here’s some Turtle code that m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...hange my lesson plan and bring in new materials and activities to help explain the same concept in a different way until they understand it. What are fun or unique ways you teach your students? By nature I’m a designer, I love designing lesson plans or things. I love anything that has open-ended ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Who knew math had moves?
...San Antonio for the T³ International Conference, volunteered their time to go into schools and help students see how learning math and science can be fun. Since September, TI has been visiting schools around the country, teaching students how to use their graphing calculators to program Rover to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
...sets of classroom door decor. These groovy designs are all thanks to @misscraftymathteacher, a high school math teacher devoted to making learning fun and engaging. Students will love the positive math vibes, and you’ll love the color variety of this downloadable pack! Classroom door ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
...taking an IB® exam, we also need to review the calculator polices. Each calculator is only allowed to do so much for a student, therefore some of the functions on the handhelds are restricted and must be turned off. TI calculators can be put in Press-to-Test mode that will do this without much ef...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...ally get a “yes” from their intended target. Puppies, doughnuts, balloons, sky writing, and more … but yes, even calculators are being used to make a fun — and unique — promposal to get a “yes”, and maybe even a giggle too. I mean, who can say no to a pretty little calculator screen? Let’s take...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
Bring awareness to the many career options that exist in the field of engineering by challenging your students to solve the problems listed below. They will have fun, work together, and learn about different engineering fields that use science every day. 1. Environmental Engineering – The Garba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...ger in my classroom this year. There are eight main topics. The topics are in no particular order. Meaning, you could teach Loops before Lists and Functions after Loops. You choose the order that makes sense to you. Python lessons by topic on TI’s computer science resources website. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...created a lesson that “builds bridges” between math and science concepts. To help get you started, we’ve outlined some tips that will help you plan a fun – and meaningful – project for your students. Tip 1: Raid your science teachers’ closets. As a math teacher, your closet is full of things only...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
Math is a subject that a lot of students look forward to in high school. Many students love to program their calculators to do fun things like display messages to friends, develop games or just for some extra help on their math homework. What many kids don’t know is that learning to code on the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
... on what actually matters in helping all students learn mathematics. “This is definitely one of my favorite math ed publications ever.” — Joanie Funderburk “One on One 101: The Art of Inspired & Effective Individualized Instruction” by Robert Ahdoot Communicating effectivel...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list