How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...or literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). I’m not talking about the drills required to perform addition, subtraction and other computational types of math. While those are certainly important, today’s technology gives our children an opportunity to focus on mastering higher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-Nspire™ CX Graphing Calculator
...that you will be asked to draw a scatterplot on the exam; however, being familiar with creating and analyzing a scatterplot of bivariate data could prove crucial. Your data should be stored in a Lists & Spreadsheet page in named lists. One of the key advantages of the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calcu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/apstatstipsfornspire
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
... will be the same format as prior years, several features of the TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator will still be useful for you. In this post, I have compiled a list of 6 of the most important statistics features to know for the TI-84 Plus CE. 1: Regression Analysis It is unlikely that you will ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/apstats2021
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
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...acher can give direct feedback to the students on work they’ve shared from their calculator. As easy as students can share their work, teachers can provide their feedback as well. Assigning ready-made activities (TI‑Nspire™ files) for exploration Did you know TI offers tons of FREE resources ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...velocity Calculate acceleration Plot distance versus velocity Calculate how fast they are running in miles per hour In the screenshots above, the distance of the race was plotted against the velocity for the 10-meter interval. What might be surprising is that, even though the runner ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...p students achieve in math and science. The girls in my troop really enjoy the STEM and coding activities, which got me thinking recently, “How can I combine my work experience with my passion for Girl Scouts?” This is my Girl Scout troop, Dublin Troop 408, on a zip line adventure in Col...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...ntries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scientists, engineers, innovators, and leaders, is truly remarkable. We’ve known for a while that gender diversity in STEM careers is lacking (women comprise half of the wor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...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 classrooms for calculatio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-discipline by participating in virtual lessons, completing assignments and managing their time in ways that “regular school” didn’t require. Some students learned that they could engage with cont...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
... out our resources reviewing previous free-response questions through the lens of graphing calculators. See Kokoska and Dick’s scoring commentary, their assessment of common errors, and extension videos on how to use the TI-84 Plus CE and the TI-Nspire™ CX families of graphing calculators. Find t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...ills for the future One of the things I missed most was hands-on learning when I was virtual and hybrid last year. I am hopeful that this year we can complete STEM Projects together. I want to foster collaboration, creativity and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects int...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...t alternative is to use a simulation. It’s Just a Lunar Phase will enable students to observe the positions of the moon relative to Earth and the sun over months, as well as observe each of the phases. Screenshots from It’s Just a Lunar Phase activity. Life science topics 5....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... 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 increase their mathematical reasoning ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...bber hand” used for grabbing and moving objects on the Graphing or Geometry pages. The TI-Nspire CX calculator is “menu driven” which means that most commands are found by pressing the menu key. The menus will be different for each application found on the calculator because there are different c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...ave about the field. While male and female students perform typically the same in science and mathematics classes, females are underrepresented in computer science and engineering classes. As these students continue into the workforce, women make up 47 percent of the total workforce, but only...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...include a video consultation with a team of TI experts who answer questions and provide valuable feedback to the teams about their design. Students become immersed in a complete product design experience — an incredibly valuable experience from a real-world perspective. The engineering ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...to the customer’s design constraints. This easy on-ramp freed kids to explore questions about plant physiology and consider how dry the soil should become (and how quickly that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
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
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...ents writing code for a familiar process or procedure is that they must think about the procedure from a big picture perspective. For instance, the above program will work great, so long as x1 and x2 are not equal. But what about dividing by zero? We need a way to deal with the situation of undef...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...ames can be the implementation of conjectures and counterexamples. By allowing students to state conjectures and ponder counterexamples, we in turn provide space for curiosity, ownership and courage. Finkel reminded us that answers and facts end learning experiences, while questions and conject...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
...spiration. Below are our top 10 books, with high SPF (summer professional fun) levels, to dive into this summer. Take a cue from summer assignments to students and create your own summer reading list for professional learning, inspiration and fun. We’ve compiled a top 10 list for teacher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
BestofChemistry
... and Periodic Table: Periodicity of Properties This lesson is great for introducing the concepts of periodicity and the periodic table. The lesson provides some history about the development of the periodic table, how it works and the patterns it reveals. Screenshots from the Periodicity ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...ass to experience each group’s analysis. This has empowered more of my students to take ownership of their lab experiences and learning, as well as provide an opportunity for reflective thinking and learning in the science classroom. And, it has assisted those apprehensive learners by giving them...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
Introducing the TI-Nspire CX II
... CX II and TI-Nspire CX II CAS give students more opportunities to visualize important, abstract concepts, not just in math class, but in science and computer programming courses. "Students and teachers asked us to make their graphing calculator more responsive as they are using it increasingly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/nspire