Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...kes your life better In this article by Summer Allen, research suggests that awe can make you happier, healthier, humbler and more connected to the people around you. Now imagine an encounter with mathematics that left you awestruck. For teachers, this is probably not a hard thing to do. After ...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
While the school year may be coming to an end, our new contest aimed at spreading the love of math is just getting started. Through September, we’re asking people across the country to recognize the parents, teachers and mentors who inspired their passion for numbers for a chance to grant them a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...their hands. This strategy guarantees that I call on each kid with the same frequency. While the level of questioning may vary, every student has the opportunity to share their thinking. This also holds every student accountable. 5. Tie in familiar concepts to instill confidence Starting the yea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...ke. Ms. Meinke, who teaches calculus at the school, nominated Mr. O for the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love contest. The contest honors people who are helping spread a love of math. Ashley Meinke nominated her best awesome mathematical friend forever, David Olszewski, to win the Sp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
Have you heard the BIG news? Python is now included in the new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator! What does this mean for math class? Python on the handheld gives teachers a tool to teach algorithmic thinking, provide authentic opportunities for problem solving, and enhance mathematical re...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...ply by pushing buttons. Thankfully over time, my vision for CAS and its utility has grown. CAS isn't only a way to find the answers. When used appropriately, it can support exploring and understanding the math behind the same answers it computes. I hope the following examples provide a glimpse...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...a few of the things that you can do once the calculator is connected: Take screenshots Download and transfer files Update the calculator operating system (OS) Following are some detailed ideas on how to get the most from a Chromebook™ notebook computer plus calculator mix in your ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...he TI-36X Pro scientific calculator and TI-84 Plus graphing calculator, to my favorite, the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, it is truly an amazing opportunity to work for the company providing this amazing technology that helps students across the world learn and visualize the complexity of ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...rove a process or product on the International Space Station (ISS) using TI technology. Each team was tasked with putting together a brief video synopsis to present their concept as well as their prototype. In addition, the pandemic added an extra layer of complexity as the teams would have to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
... Applications and Interpretation class and in future college courses. It’s a wish we were more than happy to grant, along with some other goodies to hopefully put a smile on Calderon’s face. Jasmine Calderon, a 17-year-old high school senior, contracted COVID-19 along with her entire fami...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...ons across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter @ellenfishpaw. Nate Norwood and Jeffery Gaskin, high school seniors and members of the drumline,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
.... Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been touring the country sharing activities that help make STEM concepts relevant to kids. With 10 stops to date, in cities from the east coast to the west coast, the STEM Squad has been showing students from elementary school through high school h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
Many people know about Girl Scouts, especially when cookie season comes around and boxes of Thin Mints® and Samoas® line the break rooms of offices and accrue in the pantries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...d classroom It is modular — you only use what you want or need! And students can work at their own pace. Explore linear relations and slope For introducing graphs of linear relationships, here is a screenshot from the video “How to Graph y = mx +b” that has students discover the re...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
... mentors. Along with Nanoracks and Valley Christian Schools, we sent an experiment up to the International Space Station. We learned how to use a microprocessor to run our experiment — I was intrigued. How could I utilize the skills learned in this elite group of students for all of my students? ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
...e Hours With Daren Starnes” begin Monday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. Central time). You won’t want to miss it! Below is our schedule of topics: Nov. 2: Exploring One- and Two-Variable Data (CED Units 1 and 2) Presentation Dec. 3: Collecting Data, Probability, Random Variables...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...students write a spooky program. Explore exponential growth with zombies Exponential growth and decay is often taught in the context of human populations, but what about zombie populations? This STEM Behind Hollywood activity explores the concept of exponential growth in the context of a z...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...ur fancy. Some projects I would use if I wanted to reinforce and practice math content; other projects engage and spark interest in computer science topics such as cryptography. Why limit computer science to only one week? You might find more than one of these projects fit into your classes at di...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
Sometime last March, our lives changed forever. Our specific start dates to the COVID-19 pandemic might be slightly different, but now, nearly eight months later, it’s clear that things will never be the same. Everyone’s lives and many people’s work have been impacted, but educators may be ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...brand new TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator, along with a trip to Boston to visit MIT. “It’s all been kind of a blur. One minute I was making copies for a quiz and the next I’m going to Boston on a trip to MIT. So that’s a huge surprise and really great,” said Meyer. He has been teaching m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...ds trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers and dividing decimals by decimals. For most students, middle school is their first opportunity to use a calculator, and everyone can likely remember how excited they were when they first got to use them. But you know as well as I ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
How many times have you heard an administrator, professional development presenter or master teacher say, “100% engagement”? I have lost count. Would you believe me if I said there really is a way to engage all of your students, even the most distracted, most reluctant learner? 100% engagement i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
...itational environments. Students will also observe the relationships between kinetic, potential and total energy. This activity was adapted from the popular Phet series of simulations. Screenshots from the Physics: Energy Skate Park activity. 5. Rotational Equilibrium and Simpl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
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
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...ightforward and fascinating to me. I want my daughters and other young girls to find the same interest and confidence in math and science, so when an opportunity to partner with Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas (GSNETX) came to my attention combining all of these things, I threw my heart and head i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge