Find the Frequen-Z!
...reat if you are able to find the “Z note”... a special sound that is terribly offensive to their kind. The task? Find the frequency of the Z note and code a program to play it when a zombie trips a light beam that will be set up by the students. The students will use a TI graphing calculator, tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...e slimmer design and fun colors help get many students excited about math and science class. Through the years, teachers have told us how learning to code on their TI graphing calculators inspired them to pursue STEM careers. Now, as more schools look for ways to engage all students in STEM, we h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
... others from your school. Did you know that the math teacher down the hall used to be an engineer? Or that the history teacher taught herself how to code? Getting others from your school involved not only adds different sets of expertise, it also helps build a sense of community around the proje...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
...nce. Given the simple programming language on TI graphing calculators, the students were able to get started with Rover right away. “I learned how to code and program which I have never done before and it’s super exciting, as it may be a new career option in the future,” said seventh-grader, Sara...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...and math courses: S in STEM: The science of zombies T in STEM: The invention of the integrated circuit technology E in STEM: Learning to code like engineers M in STEM: Using math to win every day Below are directions for how to walk through each of the four STEM activities and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
Detector Building has changed! The 2021–22 Science Olympiad Division C once again will include the Detector Building competition which challenges students to build, code and test a working sensor. Last year’s competition required students to build a working thermometer, but this year’s competiti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...e about the limit of tn, suggest to them that they write a TI-Basic or Python program that calculates tn for large values of n. In order to write the code, they will need to figure out the coding for calculating the lcm of a set of numbers. The details are too complicated to get into here, but ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
TICodesContestTips
Have you heard of the TI Codes Contest? Perhaps you have seen some of the videos from previous contest submissions and thought that it looked fun, but you or your students didn’t have the knowledge or skills to be competitive. I’m here to bust any misconceptions about our annual contest and pro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodescontesttips
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
... CE. Follow her on Twitter @ellenfishpaw. In celebration of National STEM Day, meet TI’s STEM Squad. They are traveling the country teaching kids to code and inspiring innovation. Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School Ellen Fishpaw (@ellenfishpaw) Meet TI’s STEM Squad ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... calculator. Here is the Pumpkin Pi edition of our Halloween-themed slide case that you can print from a link on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3901650. Up your Halloween game by printing a Pumpkin Pi case for your TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. Create a calcula...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...ally during Texas Instruments’ innovative workshops. Whether it was running a program perfectly or seeing flashing lights match their line of code, hundreds of Shads took on coding workshops from Texas Instruments (TI) and saw results in real time. For three years, TI has challenged Shad...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
... on the back of the note cards. On the front of each card, write students’ names alongside the hour each will be in class. It works best if you color code the names. (I also leave a space between each hour for those times when I need to correct spellings or change to preferred names.) By the time...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...e and encourage girls and women to pursue careers in engineering. Recently, Marie was a panelist at an International Women’s Day event and “Girls and Code, Montreal Movement”. Fun fact: English is not her first language, it’s French! Estefannie of @estefanniegg Estefannie is an embedded apps sof...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
The Heartbeat of STEM
...® Biology students, I had an idea to extend it and developed an end-of-year project for my AP® students. Now that they were familiar with writing the code and setting up the heart to show both the flow of blood (LEDs) and calculating the heart rate, I wanted them to do some research on arrhythmia...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...se any names you want. Have fun. Personally, I went for short names. Using the lists, we can now draw the scatterplot. Have the students put in the code and run the program. (ctrl + R) Can they make the dots red? Drawing the first linear function from (3,0) to (5,-4) As we...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
... for students to combine learning about Fibonacci and exploring some computer programing. To learn more about the ti_draw feature in Python, visit TI Codes. Encourage your students to continue this “Finding Fibo” game, and they just may actually blow your mind on what they discover and share. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...a door with a goat and you switch to the unopened door, which must have the car behind it. This is the logic behind the IF statement on line 9 in the code below. if (car==playerPick and not switch) or (car != playerPick and switch): Based upon the results of this once-at-a-time simulation, do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...s see the variety in STEM careers is very important. Many people have the misconception that a STEM career will involve sitting at a desk and writing code all day. We need to highlight the aspects of the field that many people overlook, such as creativity, problem-solving and being part of a coll...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
...than creating emojis on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators using Python. (Are you or your students new to Python? No problem! Check out the TI Codes with Python website to learn the basics.) The first emoji project After taking the students through a quick tutorial on how to make a ba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 Recap
...e your students wondered how driverless cars work? Have you considered the math that it takes for vehicles to drive on Mars? In this session, we will code robotic vehicles using mathematics to drive, make turns and complete a challenge. Best part: no coding experience needed! Technology: TI-Nspir...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...r system The successful designs (figure 1) fashioned by our students, and developed after rounds of rapid prototyping, were made possible because the code necessary to measure soil humidity, detect ambient light, and trigger a water pump was included in the “Smart Water with TI-Innovator™” activi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...device that changed the color of the LED based on their temperature. The “Digital Mood Ring” STEM project. The students also wrote code in Python on their calculators as part of this project. There were several challenges — for the students as well as for the organizers — durin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Who knew math had moves?
...ng this year, but this was their first experience using a graphing calculator to enter the commands. “I never knew that you could use a calculator to code anything,” said Zachary True, one of the students. “I was proved wrong today. It’s definitely possible.” Students crowded into the hallway out...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
... Calculators can be put into Press-to-Test modes Note: For the latest OS on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator, you can enter the IB® code: 0000-179. During that final webinar, we also looked at commonly asked IB® questions and what the TI-84 Plus CE and the TI-Nspire™ CX II gr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...es that I wrote for the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator using Python. I’ll even provide the .tns files if you want to download them to study the code and take a crack at editing to make it uniquely yours. There are also two PDF files explaining the programs in more detail which can help you ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals