7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...hered a list of seven books that every math teacher can enjoy and maybe even gain new ideas for the classroom. Featured books from our 2022 T3IC keynotes (Yes,you can still register!) “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics” by Peter Liljedahl This easy read includes easily a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...GB LED built in on the TI-Innovator™ Hub. Students can then add a print statement within the if, else conditional statement to determine the “mood” they are feeling based on temperature and RGB LED color. This is the Coding the Sounds of Music project. This project engages students by chall...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...st, gets us even more excited about math and science than usual. I didn’t even know that was possible! Meet Alex Livingston, a sophomore at Tech Valley High School in Albany, New York and an aspiring commercial airline pilot. The 15-year-old submitted a photo showing how he uses math and science...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
...e your graph and the table at the same time? Press y= and type your equations. In this screenshot below we use Y1= ½X² and Y2= X+1. Press the mode key and about midway through the screen you will see a row that says FULL HORTIZONTAL GRAPH-TABLE. Arrow over to GRAPH-TABLE and press the enter key...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...f a concept and explore computational thinking. It has a similar effect of asking a student to explain something to one of their peers to make sure they understand it. Coding also gives students valuable exposure to writing programs, which can be a powerful experience. STEP 1: Never programmed? H...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...et you started! Here is my first Mixed Six. Example: Mixed Six activity I gave it to my students a few weeks later to complete, and they immediately started making suggestions of other topics. I was a little overwhelmed at first. I sent out an email to several other AP® Calculus f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...re the important, life-long benefit of knowing how to program. “I went to our activities person and said we want to start a coding club and I need money for equipment, so she gave us some ideas for fundraising,” said Kachur. “We ended up raising almost $1,000 in candy bar sales, so that we could ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
.... 30 at 9am CT and end on Dec. 16 at 11:59pm CT. Don’t delay — enter the sweepstakes today! Holiday Social Media Contest About the author: Kareya Saleh is the Social Media Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. It’s the mathiest season of all! And we want to make sure you’r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...ow math can help them in their personal lives. If students can see the incredible impact of continuously compounding interest on a small amount of money invested over a long period of time, they may be more motivated toward wise money management strategies. For further exploration, students can e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...s, schools and educational communities. The 2021 T³™ International Conference was appropriately themed, Encourage. Engage. Empower. From the opening keynote with Dan Finkel, Ph.D., to the 7 for7 “Ideas that Inspire,” and everything in between, #T3IC2021 did not disappoint! Finkel opened the con...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
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
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...red, “How is this different from programming Python on other platforms? How could this benefit my computer science students?” Menus? Yes! First, keywords can be menu driven or directly typed. The menus can help when introducing and reinforcing new topics. Students don’t have to remember the e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
This is a back to school like no other; it is taking shape in living rooms, bedrooms and classrooms, and our already overworked and underappreciated teachers are being asked to do more than ever before. Whether finding ways to develop relationships with students they have never met, coming up ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
...to my students’ creativity and push them to excel in areas unfamiliar to them. The Inspiration In Baltimore’s Inner Harbor sits an adorable, googly-eyed invention that prevents trash from running off the Jones Falls Watershed and getting in the harbor and, in turn, the Chesapeake Bay. Its name ...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
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
...on about the ACT® calculator policy. At that time, I had multiple students who went to take the ACT® with the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator and they were erroneously told that they couldn’t use that on the ACT®. After a few years, the ACT® policy made the directions clearer for the test admin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/which-ti-calculator-for-the-act-and-why
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
...wnload the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. Calculus is the study of rates of change and how things vary together. Dynamic interactivity is key to teaching this course. In this blog post, we will discuss 5 key interactive activities for teaching concepts in calculus using TI-Nspire CX te...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
The Math Behind 'Going Viral'
... to the question, what exactly does it mean to “go viral? By definition, it means that, on average, every time one person engages with your tweet, they share it and compel at least one other person to share it to their followers as well. This is exponential growth at its finest. We have a quick ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/the-math-behind-going-viral
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...t observations, for example, fitting a polynomial regression to a set of observed COVID-19 cases. Empirical models are justified solely by how well they extrapolate and predict future values. This type of model has several weaknesses. They are only as good as the data they are based on, there cou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
...t hand. 1. Riding the Curves and Turning the Tables When studying quadratic and polynomial functions, I begin by having students tell me everything they see on a graph. They mention things like y-intercepts, x-intercepts, high points and low points. We use TRACE and the commands in the CALC menu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...ut. Birdhouse Project When Ms. Herr gave out the birdhouse project directions, the students were pumped. No final exam — woo-hoo! To top it off, they thought that building a birdhouse would be pretty easy. I think it ended up being much more challenging than they first expected. It’s mi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...d foolproof. All we need is a few hundred pennies (or buttons, M&M’S®, etc.). Students start out with 40 reactant pennies and zero product pennies. They move the pennies from the reactant to the product side and back with just a few simple rules: move ½ of the reactant pennies to the product side...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
BestofChemistry
...ty. 3. Atomic Structure and Periodic Table: Build an Atom (HS) This is a great way to introduce students to the structure of the atom. They will construct atoms with neutrons, protons and electrons, all while discovering the patterns of atomic number, atomic mass and properties of di...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...nsor against a known digital thermometer. Therefore, students will need to understand science concepts such as accuracy and precision. In addition, they will learn how circuits work as they build their sensor using a breadboard, wires, resistors and an analog temperature sensor or thermistor. The...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding