Mission Imagination
NASA and TI are excited to announce the design challenge winning team. A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students fro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...l Instructor for over 27 years, and a classroom chemistry and physics teacher for 43 years. Erick Archer is the Science/STEM Strategy Manager for Texas Instruments. *While supplies are available. Help your Science Olympiad team prepare for changes to the Detector Building event with TI ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
DIY TI Codes Contest
Have you heard about our TI Codes Contest? Each spring, Texas Instruments challenges teams of students from around the U.S. to come up with creative solutions to a proposed theme and submit their ideas. As the groups advance, they ultimately build a functioning model of their concept, which they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
roboticsweek2021
Did you know that the best way to understand how something works is to take it apart and examine the insides? That’s why “teardown” videos are so popular — they show us what’s on the inside of everyday products without having to worry about reassembling them. In celebration of National Roboti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
... transformations and end behavior; to describe geometry and calculus terminology; to build upon social and emotional learning; and to destress after exams. They’ve also used it as an activity to celebrate holidays such as Valentine’s Day. All this to say: The sky is the limit with how you can use...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...ci sequence (defined below) is a golden source of results and relationships that can be the makings of awe moments for your students. Here are three examples for you to share with your students. Awe moment number 1 The square shown below has been divided into two congruent trapezoids and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...u how to reset Press-to-Test mode, which will keep the applied restrictions but clear out prior work if another group is immediately taking the same exam. For more test-prep resources, visit education.ti.com/en/resources/test-preparation. 9. Live Lesson: The Mathematics Behind a Zombie Apocaly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
.... So far, we’ve received more than 600 entries in the Spread the Math Love Contest for a chance to make someone’s math dreams come true. This week, Texas Instruments (TI) surprised the first winner of the contest, calculus teacher Glen Marr from Park Vista Community High School, just outside of P...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...ever assume anything. When setting up my classroom, preparing for a lesson or creating an activity, I pretend that common sense does not exist. For example, I store warm-up packets in my classroom bins, and every year we walk through how we pass out, hand in, and place our work in the bins. As c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
... calls his best awesome mathematical friend forever (BAMFF), Ashley Meinke. Ms. Meinke, who teaches calculus at the school, nominated Mr. O for the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love contest. The contest honors people who are helping spread a love of math. Ashley Meinke nominated her ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
... languages across a variety of industries. You might be asking: Just how can coding be used to enhance math instruction? Let’s look at one possible example: quadratics. We all teach it. What are some of the key ideas students should understand about quadratics? Quadratics can cross the x-ax...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...intervention on key, unfinished learning and previewed upcoming algebra I content. Teachers were strategic about using graphing technology, such as Texas Instruments (TI) calculators, to visualize key mathematical concepts to help students break through computational road blocks. This approach ul...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
In honor of National Engineers Week (Feb. 16–22), a week dedicated to increasing understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology careers, I wanted to share how my love for my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...anding the function of various parts of the human brain Investigating and discussing factors dealing with immunity and vaccines Examine the four parts of the brain impacted by the zombie virus. If you want to keep the zombie fun going for a full week of Halloween-themed...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...ation. Policies subject to change. Visit www.ibo.org. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI six years ago, Fishpaw was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...way to use their calculator to analyze math. Did you know you can import images onto your TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator? Example 1: Javelin toss Students can look for photos online to import onto their TI-Nspire™ CX family graphing calculator to do an analysis of the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...ring math heroes. Cheltenham High School senior Jeffery Gaskin, computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and senior Nate Norwood showcase the Texas Instruments (TI) technology they won. WATCH A VIDEO OF THE SURPRISE: HERE. “I immediately knew I wanted to nominate these two boys when I he...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
In honor of National STEM Day, we want to introduce you to the Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Squad, a team of former teachers, current teachers and TI employees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been tour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...idence gap for girls that starts early on in their educational journeys. Simply put, girls can’t be what they can’t see. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and Texas Instruments (TI) and the TI Foundation are partnering to change that. As a company comprised largely of engineers, Texas Instruments...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
Are your students struggling with graphing the parent functions or how to graph transformations of them? Texas Instruments is here to help teachers — and students — with a video resource that contains over 250 short colorful animated videos with over 460 examples that illustrate and explain these...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...nt — I was intrigued. How could I utilize the skills learned in this elite group of students for all of my students? I was then introduced to the Texas Instruments TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board. My students were already using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator in our science cla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
This school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up with author and master teacher, Daren Starnes, to provide live AP® Statistics sessions via YouTube geared toward teachers and students alike. These sessions will contain content, data and questions that are directly related to the Big Id...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
Halloween is the first big holiday of the school year, and teachers would be ghoulish not to take advantage of students’ excitement and the Halloween spirit. Here are five of our favorite ways to tap into the Halloween spirits with Texas Instruments. No tricks, only treats! Write creepy code...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...an do with students of all ages is called a Caesar cipher. In a Caeser cipher, every letter in the message is shifted the same number of spaces. For example, you could shift all the letters three spaces using the key in figure 11. Original ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...t educators may be the most impacted of all. As we continue into the new school year, math teachers face a challenge that isn’t new but is certainly exacerbated by the pandemic: teaching students with unfinished learning from previous grades. Some key principles can help make this complicated sit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips