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...ching With TI Technology Implementing Tasks That Promote Reasoning and Problem-Solving in a Mathematics Classroom Implementing TI-Innovator™ Rover in the Mathematics Classroom Implementing Formative Assessment with the TI-Nspire™ Navigator™ System – Next Steps for Int...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/onsite-workshops/listing
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...h changed everything. It left me partially paralyzed for a couple weeks and ended my dreams of being a professional hockey or baseball player. The recovery period changed my life, but not in the way I had expected. Laying in bed recuperating, I had a moment of clarity. What if the sports I loved ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
...that little voice saying, “What if I became the first person ever to fill out a perfect bracket?” But, do the math, and it’s easy to see the odds are overwhelmingly against it. Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket Curtis Brown (@cbmathguy) Every year, millions of people fill...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
mathyoga
...a with your students. Perry High School math teachers Ashley Meinke and David Olszewski have developed a variety of math yoga poses to bring movement into math class. So, what are their top tips for getting started? First thing’s first: Find some yoga mats. They recommend reaching o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
While the school year may be coming to an end, our new contest aimed at spreading the love of math is just getting started. Through September, we’re asking people across the country to recognize the parents, teachers and mentors who inspired their passion for numbers for a chance to grant them a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...h, even though the problems are hard.” Mr. O returning to his Perry High School classroom to learn he is the final winner of TI’s Spread the Math Love contest. Olivia and Toree are members of the school’s award-winning math team that Mr. O coaches, along with who he calls his best awesome ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...round the “achievement gap” shifts to the more appropriate term “opportunity gap,” which places responsibility on an inequitable system that is not providing opportunities for all kids to achieve to the best of their potential, our focus as a country must be on implementing sensible policies and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
Texas Instruments (TI) teamed up with NASA earlier this year to host the TI Codes Contest, where students could compete in teams to put their programming, problem-solving and creativity into practice in a space-themed challenge. We asked students to think of ways to improve a process or product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
This Valentine’s Day, we want to celebrate a straight-A student whose love of learning is inspiring everyone around her. Jasmine Calderon, 17, is an exceptional senior at Pahokee High School in Florida who continues to excel despite her entire household coming down with COVID-19 over the summer...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...boys returned. Nate and Jeffery were surprised to learn they were selected from more than 1,000 entries as winners of our nationwide Spread the Math Love Contest, honoring math heroes. Cheltenham High School senior Jeffery Gaskin, computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and senior Nate Nor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
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
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
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
Over the past month, students have seen games, light sequences, scales and even familiar songs come to life during ShadOnline. Hundreds of ShadOnline participants solved coding problems virtually during Texas Instruments’ innovative workshops. Whether it was running a program p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
Sometime last March, our lives changed forever. Our specific start dates to the COVID-19 pandemic might be slightly different, but now, nearly eight months later, it’s clear that things will never be the same. Everyone’s lives and many people’s work have been impacted, but educators may be ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
San Antonio calculus teacher Walter Meyer thought he was heading to a meeting about funding for a gardening project, but instead he was surprised with cheerleaders, a marching band and news that he was the latest winner in the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love Contest. Walter Meyer s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
TI’s Response to COVID-19: We Are Here for You
...r TI-84 Plus CE for Chrome OS™ to support remote learning. This app is a temporary solution to support schools and districts that have closed due to COVID-19. This trial is valid through Aug. 15, 2020. Please complete this form for more information. --> CALCULATOR LOANS: Schools with economical...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/coronavirusresponse
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... the 2021–22 school year, but by shifting our perspectives, we can view each of these challenges as an opportunity for positive change, growth and recovery. Shifting our language Language around “learning loss” has dominated the media, professional education organizations and conversations among...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...knowledge on a problem or how a problem should be graded. As an AP® reader, I reference the PDF slides often and appreciate the extensions that are provided for different problems. The Monday Night Calculus YouTube series by Texas Instruments is a good way to allow calculus students to review...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
Like many of you, I wear a variety hats in a day — daughter, sister, wife, mom, marketing professional, runner, math education advocate, PTA member, college football fan and, last but not least, a Girl Scout leader! I started my career in engineering because I loved math and science. Both subject...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
Calculus connoisseurs Tom Dick and Steve Kokoska are ready to call the Monday night action! This school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up with former AP® Calculus Chief Reader Steve Kokoska and former Test Development committee member Tom Dick to provide live, content sess...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
Python + Math = true love! This Valentine’s Day activity had a simple beginning. My good friend, Julie Riggins, and I were asked the question, “Will you do a Valentine's Day themed webinar?” Did we have a large bank of activities to draw from? Did we have a single idea? Nope. So, of course we s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...n Sandiego?” Not too long after the debut of that game came a low-tech “looking/finding” activity book called “Where’s Waldo?” (1987). We had to wait over 16 years before we went looking for a clown fish in “Finding Nemo.” Then, 16 years after that, we went “Finding Dory.” Now, I am not one to qu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...supply. With this in mind, and eager to learn more about the operation of our school’s aquaponic greenhouse, we leveraged the “Smart Water with TI-Innovator™” project to extend our students’ engineering skills and their appreciation of water conservation. The challenge: Create an autonomous and e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
The summer of 2020 was filled with uncertainty. Schools had just wrapped up a year disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and summer programming was not a high priority for most school districts. Crystal R. Bishop, a STEM education coordinator at West Virginia State University, wanted to make sur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
...ts like myListA = [7, 15, 4] myListB = [ ] # an empty list and to refer to an element of a list as in myListA[1], which is the number 15 seen above. List indices (subscripts) begin with 0. Initializing a list As seen in the above example, a list can be initialized by stating its element...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists