5 Springtime Math Resources for Teachers | Texas Instruments
... Try this: Print and laminate your decor items and save them for later in a binder or folder for easy set up all year long. What new combinations of math fun will you create? 2. Bring math to life with piecewise worksheets What’s bet...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2025/fresh-spring-ideas
12 Days of Holiday Math Activities | Texas Instruments
... 11. Snow much fun with coloring pages Ready to uncover a flake-tastic surprise? This coloring page activity combines the holiday-like joy of discovery with a love for math. Students must use their trusty TI calculators to solve equations that reveal the h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/12-holiday-math-activities
Are You and Your Students Ready for the IB® Exams?
... just activities, and that teachers would also need training resources to implement the changes that would soon be upon them. The new website would become a place where teachers could find IB® aligned activities and also sign up for upcoming monthly webinars. Past webinars that discuss the change...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/ibresources
Exploring Hyperbolas
Students will explore the hyperbola by investigating links between its standard equation form and its graph. They will also discover the center and the focal lengths of the hyperbola as well as see applications of the hyperbola in the real world.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-hyperbolas
Modeling QB Passing Rates
This activity uses the measures commonly collected for football quarterbacks and provides an opportunity for students to create their own quarterback rating models.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-qb-passing-rates
TI Connect™ Software
TI Connect™ is computer software that allows for connectivity between a computer and graphing calculator. Transfer data, update your Operating System (OS), download Calculator Software Applications (Apps), and more to your graphing calculator. TI Connect™ Software TI Connect™...TI Connect software is the new-generation link software, which takes TI calculator technology to a new level of calculator, computer and Internet connectivity. Downloading and transferring data, Operating System (OS) updates, Calculator Software Applications (Apps), and programs are easier than e...https://education.ti.com/en/software/details/en/B59F6C83468C4574ABFEE93D2BC3F807/swticonnectsoftware
SimCalc MathWorlds App for the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus Families
Interactive graphs and formulas make things move, adding a new depth of meaning for key ideas....Interactive graphs and formulas make things move, adding a new depth of meaning for key ideas. MathWorlds uses the familiar and flexible structure of computer documents and menus connected to the curriculum. Interactive graphs and functions control dynamic representations, adding a new depth o...https://education.ti.com/en/software/details/en/286EBE56A56E43F5820664AEBEF0F485/simcalc_8384
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...or literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). I’m not talking about the drills required to perform addition, subtraction and other computational types of math. While those are certainly important, today’s technology gives our children an opportunity to focus on mastering higher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
...ck the purple grain of sand than you would a perfect NCAA tournament bracket (if choosing at random). Of course, we know that’s not how it really works. There are many things that factor into filling out a bracket: from the seed, to their road/home records, to how well they performed when playin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
Find the Frequen-Z!
.... New STEM Behind Hollywood activity designed to help embed coding into your math and science curriculum – and help your students avoid becoming snacks for zombies. Find the Frequen-Z! Erick Archer Find the Frequen-Z! website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...udents who ordinarily sit quietly in class can participate anonymously, sharing their work wirelessly to the teacher’s computer – right from their desks. More recently, we introduced the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. We heard from thousands of teachers who didn’t want us to change the TI-84 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...per with computer printouts and I was intrigued with what I saw, so I dipped my toe into the computer world using acoustic modems, paper tapes and decks of cards with holes punched in them, noisy teletype machines, time-sharing systems, minicomputers and mainframes. I found the strict structure a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...ents will investigate chemistry and life sciences principles, observe processes such as titration, and engage in designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing their hypotheses. Grab your TI-Nspire™ CX handheld and download the files for your students. Want to look like this guy? Download...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
... the foundations of coding. TI can help you get started! A great resource is TIdetectorBuilding.com which has helpful videos, a design sample, links to resources, and a form to request a free Detector Building kit that can be used with a TI-Innovator™ Hub. The kit has many of the components y...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
mathyoga
...f our favorite math educators, Perry High School teachers Ashley Meinke and David Olszewski, to introduce you to math yoga. So, grab a yoga mat, some comfortable clothes, a water bottle, and let’s celebrate International Day of Yoga by exploring yoga’s flexibility in math class. Why math yoga,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...Provide several different ways of explaining this mystery. Fig. 2 If you or your students have never seen this before, it surely will come as a surprise, especially if you cut out the pieces and see that they really form the square and rectangle. Well, actually they do not! This i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...author: Emily Kraus has taught math in grades three through eight in Austin, Texas. She is the creator of Kraus Math®, which provides teachers with TEKS-aligned and STAAR® test-prep resources. Check out her website at www.krausmath.com, or follow her on Instagram @krausmath. It is crucial to est...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
... sqrt(disc))/(2*a) elif disc == 0: r1 = -b/(2*a) r2 = r1 else r1 = complex(-b, sqrt(disc))/(2*a) r2 = complex(-b, -sqrt(disc))/(2*a) See? That was easy! You just integrated coding into math. A...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...r my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. From 2+2=4, graphing y=mx+b and solving complex integrals/derivatives, my TI graphing calculator and I have been through a lot together. (I even posed with it in my graduation photos!) Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...in STEM, and they created the STEM Center of Excellence in Dallas to provide girls with a safe environment to try new things (like robotics), take risks and learn from failure, all while building confidence and self-assurance. Our team members are a huge part of the success of these initiatives,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...in this series, “What Slope Means, and Four ‘Flavors’ of Slope.” Review 15 parent functions and their transformations There are also modules for 14 common parent functions as well as a module focused on applying transformations to a generic piecewise function included in this video resource. He...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...or Categorical Data (Units 6 and 8) Presentation March 1: Inference for Quantitative Data (Units 7 and 9) Presentation Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live and previously recorded Office Hours sessions on our YouTube channel here. Undoubtedly, this is going ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... calculator. Here is the Pumpkin Pi edition of our Halloween-themed slide case that you can print from a link on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3901650. Up your Halloween game by printing a Pumpkin Pi case for your TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. Create a calcula...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...but is certainly exacerbated by the pandemic: teaching students with unfinished learning from previous grades. Some key principles can help make this complicated situation more manageable. But before we think about teaching and learning math, some foundational ideas should come first. I’ll echo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-discipline by participating in virtual lessons, completing assignments and managing their time in ways that “regular school” didn’t require. Some students learned that they could engage with cont...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning