Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
... as their teacher. Rising senior Lauryn and rising sophomore Connor Johnson, waiting to surprise their mother and math teacher, Kimberly Karaman, 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 abou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
BestofChemistry
... for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their own ideas. Take a look at some of the best chemistry activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software or TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
...s in your classroom. The bottom line (or final score, in this case) … When the final whistle is blown, we all hope our team is the big winner. And just like when the bell rings at the end of class, we hope we have engaged and motivated our students, connected their learning to their interests,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Oklahoma Students Make Their Mark Learning to Program with Rover
John Honeycutt, the only science teacher at Keota High School in rural Oklahoma started the semester determined to develop his students’ leadership skills. He assigned the junior class a special project where they would work in pairs on a “proof of concept” that they would later demonstrate to t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/seeroverdraw
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...ll TI-Nspire activity on our website. 3. Balanced Systems of Equations Speaking of systems of equations, many students have a hard time understanding just what the solution to a system of equations actually means. In this activity, students will have an opportunity to balance a pair of equations ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
... subtract the endpoint, or not, when using the compliment rule. Always remember that for the free-response section you must show the correct work and justification for the computation. The exam readers will not accept “calculator speak” as justification; i.e. “1 - binomcdf(10,.5,5)” is not consid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/apstats
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
Just about every TI calculator is approved for the math test calculator portion of the SAT® exam. And, I encourage you to know how — and when — to use your calculator. Here are some helpful tips to help you prepare you for the test: Bring your own calculator — calculators are not provided, an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...we performed any calculations, we took some time to watch parts of a video that documents the planning and development of Ingenuity, “This Helicopter Just Flew on Mars!” Another video that could be used as well is “How It Works - The Ingenuity Helicopter.” Picture of Ingenuity taken b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
...ing distance of your home. Once found, the containers have a logbook for you to sign and read and typically contain some sort of “treasure” (think a small trinket) that you can take and replace with your own for the next person to find. For more details on the ins and outs of geocaching, check ou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...seful: algebraic thinking, number sense, and how to use multiple representations and reasoning to solve real-world problems. Many kids today are not just “math people,” they are math lovers. They understand how math shapes their world, and they crave math knowledge they can relate to. A new TI E...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
Going Back to School With Stations
...nity. Wishing you all a wonderful school year! About the author: Jamie Miller has taught grades three through seven, but seventh grade math might just be her favorite. She is passionate about using a math workshop model to individualize instruction and reach all learners, and she promotes a p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
...n Mathletes as the school’s oralist representative. In this competition, I regularly earned first place explaining complex mathematical topics to the judges. Finally, during my junior year, Mr. Cichoracki supported me in an independent study programming project. This was my first real taste of so...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
Using TI-Nspire™ Technology To Creatively Solve ACT® Math Problems
... mode when taking an ACT® exam. In the top right corner of your screen, you can see if you are in radian or degree mode. If you want to change modes, just click the name of the mode in the top right corner of the screen. Pretty neat, huh? Get to know your TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/actmathproblems
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
Standardized tests have a way of asking questions that go past number crunching, and dive into the concepts. Often, these questions reveal misconceptions that students may have or just introduce a topic that the students haven’t really had a chance to explore. The fascinating part is that usual...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
5 Springtime Math Resources for Teachers | Texas Instruments
...cor Piecewise worksheets Coloring pages Calculator reminder posters Teacher resources 1. It’s a good day to decorate with math We just want to give a “sprout out” to @misscraftymathteacher and her fabulous collections of math board decor freebies! Check out some of Kathleen’s ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/fresh-spring-ideas
STEM Projects: Exploring the Heartbeat | Texas Instruments
... for students. See a student in action working through this challenge (from @MrsKohout): So what did @alstonn_ do in #APBio today? You know just build a model of a heart and an AED. Just saving lives, you know! @hcpss_rhs @TICalculators #TIinnovator #codingwithcalculators #stem pic.twit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/heartbeat-of-stem
Prime Summer Reading for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...d yet, her children today cannot afford health insurance. A powerful story to provoke thoughtful conversations for students and teachers to discuss: “Just because we can, should we?” “The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Best of Biology
...fe for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their own ideas. Take a look at some of the best biology activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software or TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...s fun, it’s cool, and best of all, students of all ages with no prior coding experience can get the Rover to move and follow their coding commands in just a few minutes! Let’s take a look at a few specific activities where educators are effectively using the Rover to elevate student understandi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/using-robotics-to-teach-math
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
... time are not evenly divisible. Simply click OK. Should the total number of samples exceed 2,500, the TI-Nspire™ CX family graphing calculator will adjust the settings automatically, or you can adjust the sampling rates if necessary. As can be seen in Figure 4, the sound is recorded in the fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Mission Celebration: Use Math to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
...ab your calculators, and let’s take a look at some out-of-this-world activities to help students mark this milestone on the moon using math. Boom! On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on approach to Tranquility Base when Armstrong realized they were flying into a field of car-siz...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/july/missioncelebration
Madness in March Underscores the “M” in STEM
...he reliance upon a robust and equitable STEM education experience for our kids is paramount, and the rallying cry for this is getting louder, but not just in the U.S. At T3 Europe’s Sharing Inspiration 2019 conference in Brussels, educators from across Europe explored ways to translate STEM teach...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/mathmadness
Measuring Air Pressure
This activity is intended for my Introductory Meteorology class; an earth science elective intended for Juniors and Seniors. (It was orginally modifed from an Introductory Meteorology Laboratory Assigment taught to undergraduates at Florida State University. However, modifications could be done t...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/measuring-air-pressure
Millikan Oil Drop Experiment Simulation
Students run a simulation on the TI-83+ or TI-84+ graphing calculator to perform a variation of the Millikan Oil Drop Experiment. The goal is to adjust the voltage across parallel plates until a droplet is suspended between the plates. The data can ba analyzed to determine the charge on the dro...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/millikan-oil-drop-experiment-simulation
Probability as Relative Frequency
In this activity, students use simulation to justify the concept of the Law of Large Numbers. They understand that as the sample size increases, the relative frequency of which an event occurs approaches the probability of that event happening. Students investigate the binomial and geometric prob...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/probability-as-relative-frequency