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
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...nd warm your heart. It will definitely remind you why you work tirelessly day-in-and-day-out to get your students excited about math. Here are our top 5 takeaways: #1 – Math teachers change students’ perceptions of math! You might hear your students say, “I hate math.” But, they really do love...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
To STEM and Beyond!
... such a great time learning together. After seeing the positive impact on these students after school, I approached my principal spring of 2020 and proposed a full-blown programming/robotics course. Here’s where it gets really good: A pandemic plus a new hands-on course? Was I absolutely crazy? ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...nts learn how to gather and input the data of circular objects. Students will plot the circumference versus diameter on a graph, then calculate the slope of the data points. What will they observe about the slope? The Ready-made Pi activity is great if class/prep time is short. Or, let students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
... our jobs and connecting with students. As we venture into the uncertainty of what another school year will bring in the age of COVID-19, I am still hopeful that I can connect with my students and provide numerous learning opportunities. A few of years ago, I wrote “Tips for Surviving the First...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
While school may be winding down, it’s not a time for students to stop learning, especially when it comes to STEM subjects. Turns out, the summer learning loss, often referred to as the summer brain drain, is a real thing. The National Summer Learning Association reports that students lose an eq...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
Thanks for stopping by the TI booth or joining a session at #NCTMannual. We loved meeting all of you! You can check out some of the resources we shared, and download the materials from your favorite exhibitor workshop below. TI Exhibitor Workshops at #NCTMannual 2018 Exploring What's Typical:...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
... Any other words of wisdom for other teachers? I think that you have to be excited about learning, yourself. It’s important to be humble and always open to learning how to do something even better. You should always be seeking out, improving your craft. Something I appreciate about the Teachers...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
"This calculator changed my life.”Lillie Pennington, Junior, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE CHALLENGE Lillie Pennington, 17, can keep up with any high school student when it comes to academics. The Turpin High School junior took Advanced Placement history as a sophomore and scored a fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...) Problem 6 | The Lottery There is a lottery where five balls are sequentially drawn (without replacement) from a bin of fifty balls containing five copies of the numbers 0 through 9. If you guess all five numbers correctly, your prize is the product of the multiplicities of the numbers drawn (fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...onalities. 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 they don’t know whom to sit next to. Following are some suggestions for ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... Justification anchor chart. We realized early on in teaching justification that student mindsets had to be addressed. Students needed to develop a level of comfort with the idea of justifying their work. To begin to shift those mindsets, we began to look for strategies. Having learned at ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems