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
...You can store your favorite window setting into memory and recall it at any time. Press the window key and then change the window setting values to those you want to store. Then press the zoom key and arrow over to MEMORY. Then select ZoomSto and press enter. This setting will be stored until you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
In this post, we will go through a few introductory steps to help you get started writing simple TI-Basic programs on your TI-Nspire CX handheld. We will use a familiar mathematical procedure – computing the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few cod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...so excited to introduce you to the why and how of Mixed Six activities. I happened to be on Twitter one Saturday morning in early March and saw a post by Ben Gordon (@mathsmrgordon). He shared a Google drive full of middle school level Mixed Six activities. I was instantly intrigued by this co...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
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...lationship between stopping distance and speed for different driving conditions and compare the differences in the models to describe the effect of those conditions on stopping distance. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (pdf). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
When attending a conference, most participants hope to leave inspired, motivated and empowered with strategies and tools to make positive impacts in their classrooms, schools and educational communities. The 2021 T³™ International Conference was appropriately themed, Encourage. Engage. Empower....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
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
...Cleaners that use organic surfactants won’t work here.) I use three main brands: Lysol®, Sno Bol® and The Works®. Not only do these cleaners vary in cost per mL, but they also vary in effectiveness, as students soon discover. The main concept behind this lab is for students to perform several mic...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
... reinforcing new topics. Students don’t have to remember the exact syntax; they only need to recognize which one to select. It also avoids keyword typos. Notice, the templates below have the keywords in black and use blue placeholders to indicate where parameters belong. Python spacing can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
#NCTMregionals Hartford 2018 Recap
...help students see slope not as an equation to memorize, but as a representation of real events? Get out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection. Learn some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebra through calculus. Technolo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/nctm-hartford
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
... like having a flexible mindset, growing and leveraging your network, and investing in yourself in order to provide students with the best education possible. Nearly 75% of teachers we surveyed expect to offer some mix or remote and in–person instruction this school year whereas only 2...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
... wheel. When upper-level ninth-grade students ask you to do something like this, you know they are engaged in learning. This project was by far the most rewarding and engaging activity I have ever participated in during my career as a teacher. I was able to see students get excited about the eng...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
...raman, the July winner of TI’s Spread the Math Love Contest. Connor said he was up late one night scrolling Instagram (don’t tell his mom) and saw a post about Texas Instruments’ (TI) Spread the Math Love Contest. He knew immediately that he had to nominate her — a former college math professor t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...ies of TI-Nspire Technology to enact the problem in multiple representations: diagrammatic, graphic, numeric, geometric and symbolic. The problem is posed on the title screen shown at the right. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
The Math Behind 'Going Viral'
... the star-studded selfie from the 2014 Academy Awards in which an Ellen Degeneres tweet nearly broke the Internet. Within hours it became one of the most-retweeted posts in Twitter’s history, garnering more than 3.3 million retweets. Which brings me to the question, what exactly does it mean to ...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
...ore an infected person may show signs can be between two to 14 days. COVID-19 also seems to be more transmissible than past viruses and has spread across the globe quickly as a result. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control have recommended social distancing to “flatte...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
...visible when we dig into a mathematical situation, we support students in productive struggle and deepen their understanding.* Read on for two scenarios in which my students and I pursue multiple pathways to show and make sense of the mathematics at hand. 1. Riding the Curves and Turning the Tabl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...ce in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 2009. Follow him on Twitter. Follow him on Twitter @jmccalla1. You aren’t giving a final exam? Have you lost your mind? Are there other ways to assess student progress in your classes? What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam Jeff McCalla, math ...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
... Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the micropho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
Math (X)pression Quiz | Question 2 | Texas Instruments – U.S.
... You have a 2,000-piece puzzle — what’s your approach? Look at the cover art closely to find each piece’s location Dive in and grab handfuls of pieces at a time ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/math-xpression-quiz/question-2
Spread the Math Love Contest Rules
...TEST DESCRIPTION: You can participate in the 2020 Texas Instruments Contest by submitting a photo of your Halloween-inspired math love – (ex. décor, costumes, classroom activities, puns, etc.) on Twitter or Instagram for a chance to win a runners up prize package or the Grand Prize. The Grand Pri...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/math-love-contest
Math (X)pression Quiz | Calculated Constant
...ding. Not sure? Find out which calculator is right for you Calculated Constant Community Mottos: “There are only 10 types of people in the world” and/or “That’s complete. Next step!” × What's your math (x)pression ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/math-xpression-quiz/calculated-constant