Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbus, Ohio Nashville, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
... careers is lacking (women comprise half of the workforce, yet hold fewer than 25% of U.S. STEM jobs), and beyond a readiness deficit by gender, as evidenced in ACT’s 2017 STEM report, there is also a confidence gap for girls that starts early on in their educational journeys. Simply put, girls ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
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
TI’s Response to COVID-19: We Are Here for You
... Instruments (TI) continues to support you and your students during this challenging time. Our team has been hard at work creating new resources, and identifying existing ones, that can support virtual learning. We’re offering free six-month licenses of TI software to all teachers and students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/coronavirusresponse
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...have without the pandemic. Shifting our perspective to focus on the positive experiences students had, though, allows us to understand that learning did occur. It may not have looked the same as in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...ew year and a better me! Plan out time just for you. I like to keep one weekday and one weekend day free every week to do things I enjoy outside of work. For example, during the week I like to make Wednesday my day of rest. On Wednesdays, I try my best to leave school right when school d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
... needle problem? This problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Everybody loves Pi and coloring! These Pi themed coloring pages are a great activity for when students (or you) need a mental brea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...tics through applied problems that students can see and touch can develop their understanding of the concepts they are learning. In this session, we did some hands-on experiments that connect math concepts to real-world observations. TI-Nspire™ CX technology Link to presentation>> Rate of Change:...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...Principles, 9th-12th grade TEACHES WHERE: Bellaire High School, Houston, Texas TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 13 years Alice in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I’ve always liked the idea of helping others. Initially, I choose a pre-med path in college, but while in college I reali...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...represents a breakthrough in math and science education for students who are blind or visually impaired. The talking graphing calculator looks nearly identical to the TI-84 Plus that Lillie’s classmates use with the exception of an extension that houses the talking components. Students who are bl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...re. How many different, six move routes could the king take? Problem 2 | Virality Suppose we have the following model for information (e.g. photo, video, post) transfer (i.e. spread) in a grid: each square is colored either green (if it knows a given piece of information) or red (if it does not...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...e to learn students’ names and personalities. It also gives all students a sense of belonging from day one: the quiet and shy ones who might want to hide in the back are not given that option, and students who are new to the school don’t feel left out when they don’t know whom to sit next to. Fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...lication on the TI-Nspire™ CX II handheld that will collect and analyze data. One of my favorite activities is where students use three different liquids — water, acetone and alcohol — and the temperature sensor to determine the strength of the intermolecular forces of attraction between the mole...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
... models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can’t be what you can’t see.” – Sally Ride Rafranz of @RafranzDavis Rafranz Davis has dedicated her career to empowering students and teachers to share their voices throughout their co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...ction of the SAT® exam is 55 minutes long and contains 38 questions. There are 30 multiple-choice questions, each with four answer choices, and 8 “grid-in” questions with no choices provided. There is also a set of reference formulas and diagrams provided for your use; so don’t memorize what is...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
...o get the LED to blink at a certain rate. To help the students that may be new to programming, comments are embedded in the Python editor page to provide support. Challenge 2 brings in modeling of the flow of blood through the heart by writing a program to blink four LED lights in a sequen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...xplain how things relate to one another. Music is much the same. When writing music, musicians use structures, like proportional relationships, to guide the way they plan and play note sequences. Relationships are fundamental to math and create a compelling link between music and math that will ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 Recap
...tanding' Session Converting Students’ Curiosity and Creativity Into Understanding Have your students wondered how driverless cars work? Have you considered the math that it takes for vehicles to drive on Mars? In this session, we will code robotic vehicles using mathematics to drive, make turns ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
... what we thought or had learned about these challenges through our own careers, both prior to and since working together at TI. Although we don’t consider ourselves to be experts in teaching math, Curtis and I have learned a lot from our classroom days, our time supporting educators across the co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...graphing calculator. You will find the fireworks activity in the "Turtle Graphics" section, and you will need the Turtle module on your calculator or computer software. The code that generates one star polygon is: n is an odd number between 5 and 11. The is the number of vertices on t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...eering, 9th-12th grade TEACHES WHERE: Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 38 years Ellen in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I know the exact moment that I wanted to be a teacher. In high school, I was asked to teach someone how to play the violin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...eedle problem? This problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks?!? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Be rational, get real! Another fun way to celebrate pi is to have your students dress up like someone who uses pi in the real world. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/waystocelebratepi
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...signing the best cold pack. Link to Activity 3. Biomechanical Engineering – It’s Alive! Life Science and Biology Biomechanical engineering covers a wide range of careers and possibilities. Biomechanical Engineers work on a variety of projects – from creating solutions for people who have lost li...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
... for some extra help on their math homework. What many kids don’t know is that learning to code on the TI graphing calculator can lead to a degree in computer science, engineering and many other great careers. We wanted to share a few secrets from an insider that might help inspire your students ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...e 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 regularly as a volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly