A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...s, I discovered that I was frequently neglecting self-care. In 2020 — you are hearing it here first — I want to commit to some more realistic, more attainable goals to take better care of myself. So here we go with some much-needed reminders for me (and hopefully some of you) on how I plan to mak...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
The last year and a half has been really hard for many of us in education. We dealt with so many big changes in such a small amount of time. We learned new ways of doing our jobs and connecting with students. As we venture into the uncertainty of what another school year will bring in the age of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
... The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their own ideas. Take a look at some of the best middle grades science activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...r sophomore year at Turpin High School. Lillie’s lack of sight jeopardized her chance to use her gift for mathematics, especially in classes like AP Statistics, where graphs and other visual representations are required. In the past, this has been the end for students, like Lillie. She and others...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...y? Do I know how to help them? All of these lingering questions came into focus when the teachers in my school began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increas...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
As a chemistry teacher, I have grown to love the inclusion of real-world data collection and analysis in my classroom instruction. Chemistry is a difficult subject for most students to grasp because of the invisible nature of atoms and molecules. Having students collect data on the chemical phen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...better not to use a calculator because it will slow you down. 2. Know the Test The Math-Calculator section 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. Th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
... design process to challenge student thinking Built in four phases (pitch, design, build, vote), the contest format breaks up the challenge into attainable steps for the students and teacher (or sponsor). This structure encourages teams to incorporate an engineering design mindset and refine t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
Instagram is quickly becoming one of the world’s most popular virtual teacher lounges. Not only is this social media site a hotbed of perfectly proportioned photos, but it also has great ideas, content and classroom inspiration for teachers. From funny facts about teachers’ daily routines to mo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
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
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...esources from Texas Instruments? Now is the perfect time to check it out! As one of the contributing authors, I’d love to help show you around. Let’s take a look at the highlights. The main page contains Python lessons by topics, links to 10 Minutes of Code (for TI‑Nspire™ CX II and TI-84 Plus...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
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
...s in Mathematics,” in the summer of 2021 and decided to implement some of the strategies from his book. My calculus classes did numerous thin-slicing tasks in random groups at our VNPSs (vertical nonpermanent surfaces — aka white boards on the wall) throughout the 2021–22 school year. I was convi...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
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...ned the conference by encouraging educators to create a culture of ownership, rigor and joy in their classes. He suggested that we invite students to take ownership by rightly framing their work. Frames that are too thin make it hard for students to focus, while frames that are too thick do not i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
There probably aren’t too many people on the planet that haven’t heard of COVID-19. The viral contagion that caused a global pandemic has taught us a lot about the science and math behind viral transmission, exponential growth, and herd immunity. Unlike epidemics/pandemics in the past, COVID-1...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
2019 Summer/Fall Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
2019 Summer/Fall Webinar Sweepstakes Rules global website 2019 SUMMER/FALL WEBINAR SWEEPSTAKES The 2019 Summer/Fall Webinar Sweepstakes is a random drawing OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES 2019 Important: Ple...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2019-summer-fall-webinar-sweepstakes
2019-2020 International Baccalaureate Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
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2019 Spring Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
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2020 Winter Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
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2020 Spring Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
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2017 Email Campaign SWEEPSTAKES
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2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
Get ready for the 2025 TI Codes Contest. Assemble your own team to design, code and build innovative solutions — compete for the grand prize! Get details. 2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2025/p0-save-the-date
Sines of Spring Sweepstakes | Texas Instruments
Explore spring ideas and resources to spruce up the classroom. Enter today for a chance to win a new TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator in fun colors. Sines of Spring Sweepstakes | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/sinesofspringsweepstakes
Math (X)pression Quiz | Social Butter-Pi
Take the Math (X)pression Quiz to discover your math personality! Plus, you’ll have a chance to enter our sweepstakes and earn cool prizes. Start the quiz >> Math (X)pression Quiz | Social Butter-Pi global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/math-xpression-quiz/social-butter-pi