Get Ready for a Math-Packed School Year
You could win this Math Love pack by entering our back-to-school contest. As the new school year quickly approaches, we want to make sure you love the supplies packed in your bag. On Instagram, you may have seen a picture-perfect pack of Math Love gear that we are giving away for this back-to-sc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschoolcontest
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...to update our products to meet the needs of the classroom by adding features that support learning under new standards. Each new product or feature requires extensive research and feedback from teachers. We have to be certain that we think of everything when designing technology for the classroom...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
...nts a problem: How can people living in this community with no running water design a system to irrigate plants efficiently and effectively? The newspaper article was our “hook” – the real-world problem, the reason – to compel students to find a solution. It also offered some background informati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
--> If you follow us on social media, you’ve likely seen our new #TIpTuesday video series, but if you don’t – go follow @TICalculators on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat now! In this new summer series, we post a short Snapchat video each Tuesday across all channels that highlights q...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...the responsibility of running our school’s educational computer system, an HP2000 minicomputer with 32 CRT terminals in the early 1980s. The district quickly jumped on the personal computer bandwagon with Radio Shack TRS-80s and then IBM PC Juniors. I bought my own computer in 1984 — an Atari 800...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...y? What if we asked you to go a day without your phone, a week without lights, a month without a car or public transportation? All of these systems require technology that has evolved over time to bring convenience, safety, functionality and efficiency to our lives. Learn about a technology key t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
...ngth and nutrition to how to detect and prevent potential collisions with orbital debris. The winning team of students proposed a vertical garden to capitalize on limited space to feed the astronauts and developed intricate plans for reinforcing the spacecraft’s outer hull to protect against spac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
... (awe-less?) experience for these students. I vividly remember a high school teacher who told us that the area of the region shown in figure 1 was equal to the natural logarithm of 2. We had not yet studied how to calculate the area between two curves, and I was blown away by this result. I cou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...nce to help them win a math wish at https://education.ti.com/mathlove. Watch local news coverage of the surprise: WPBF-TV: Student's contest entry equals big win for Palm Beach County math teacher WPTV-TV: Park Vista High School math teacher honored About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Medi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
... to find one that doesn't!) I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't sure I was a “CAS fan” when first introduced to it. I didn't necessarily want my AP® Calculus students to find derivatives, or my algebra students to solve equations simply by pushing buttons. Thankfully over time, my vision for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...the high school I attended in Sugarland, Texas. I was instantly captivated by the LED backlit screen and graphing capabilities. To simply type in an equation and have the visual in seconds, it made pre-calculus and calculus so much easier to understand. From conics to quadratics, the options were...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...of the brain impacted by the zombie virus. If you want to keep the zombie fun going for a full week of Halloween-themed lessons, download the sequel activity (available for TI-Nspire™ CX technology). Students will dive deeper into science concepts by exploring chemistry and life sciences pr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...eived dozens of entries, ranging from ways to make the ISS cleaner and safer for the astronauts, to making processes more efficient, to improving the quality of life aboard the station. The innovation and ingenuity the teams demonstrated was outstanding. Our judges had the difficult task of picki...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...s Instruments engineer Education is critical to our future, our industry, and to the communities where we operate around the globe. Today’s world requires STEM aptitude, and like ACT and Girl Scouts, we’re hard at work to ensure all students are prepared. Barring cookies, nothing could be sweet...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...e and high school physics, the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve engages students in explorations of electromagnetism, the relationship of wavelength, and frequency and practical applications of electromagnetic principles with the TI‑Nspire™ CX or TI‑Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Unrav...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...nology. Like previous years, TI instructors led collaborative coding sessions using TI software and technology. But this year, instead of using a graphing calculator, Shads were equipped with a perpetual license of the TI-Nspire™ CX Student Software, which will be updated with Python this fall....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...ir calculators incorrectly and usually have no idea why their answer is wrong. Inevitably, they end up raising their hands during tests with profound questions. The answer the calculator gave them isn’t an answer choice. So much for being the secret weapon! The reality is that many students lack ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
As a child, every new year my dad would ask my sisters and me to write down our New Year’s resolutions. On top of my list was always, “get straight A’s and exercise every day.” To this day, that has never happened. Ever. In 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequentl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...love when they understand – and that you make the effort to help them get it! #2– Math teachers make math fun! Math teachers know how to ÷ and conquer their math class to make it the life of the party! #3 – Math Teachers get to know their students. Math teachers relate to their students a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
Any day is a better day with a little π (pi). Let’s celebrate Pi Day with some fun, meaningful activities that show students how the mathematical constant shows up in real life. 1: Happy Pi Day Activity Worksheets Choose from two quick-start activities; Ready-made Pi or Homemade Pi. In thes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...e summer brain drain, is a real thing. The National Summer Learning Association reports that students lose an equivalent of two months of their grade-level math computational skills over the summer.* And, when kids return to school in the fall, about nine out of 10 teachers will spend as much as ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...rally interested in – and force students to explore the math behind them. John, who is currently pursuing his PhD in math at MIT, created each of the questions himself and wants to see students exercise their brains as they kick-off a new school year. John’s first problem looks for mathematics in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Albuquerque schools using high-tech devices to teach math
TI technology is changing the way Albuquerque Public School students learn math. Read the Story TI technology is changing the way Albuquerque Public School students learn math. Albuquerque schools using high-tech devices to teach math Texas Instruments Albuquerque schools using high-tec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/october/ti-tech-in-use
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
... second week of school. This enables me to learn students’ names and personalities. It also gives all students a sense of belonging from day one: the quiet and shy ones who might want to hide in the back are not given that option, and students who are new to the school don’t feel left out when th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and ?!. Use the Scratchpad The Scratchpad is where you can perform calculations and create graphs quickly that you don’t intend to save. Rather than open a TI-Nspire document, you can simply use the Scratchpad. Turn on the TI-Nspire CX calculato...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire