Virtual-Ice-Breakers
Icebreakers are important parts of any learning environment — they encourage students to participate from the start of class, allow students to get to know one another, and perhaps teach you a thing or two about your class. But with many schools across the country starting virtually, getting to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Daniel Wilkie
... High School in Greenville, South Carolina TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 23 years Daniel in his own words: Why did you become a teacher? I had a couple of good role models when I was going through high school math classes, especially when I was a sophomore. I had an excellent teacher who just made ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/teacherofthemonth
A first-of-its-kind STEM strategy charts path to help educators
In a first-ever undertaking of its kind, four of the nation’s key education leadership groups have partnered to define a strategy for improving and advancing STEM learning for all students. Over the past year, Advance CTE, the Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics (ASSM), the Council o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/a-first-of-its-kind-stem-strategy-charts-path-to-help-educators
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Jessica Kohout
...G FOR HOW LONG: 14 years Jessica in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I didn't realize that I wanted to be a teacher until my senior year of college, when I got an internship in the National Aquarium in Baltimore’s outreach program. My first job was in Informal Education at the Maryla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/teacher-of-the-month
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
...quid while applying a little downward pressure. Notice the polystyrene is dissolving into the acetone. How it works: Polystyrene is made up of monomers of styrene, an organic compound (C6H5CH=CH2). When polystyrene is being produced it exists in a liquid state (like a gooey, thick l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
You only get one “first day of school” – use it wisely
You know the old saying, you never get a second chance to make a good, first impression. The same holds true for the first day of school. At my school, classes are shortened on the first day from 55 minutes to 25 minutes. What to do? Here are a few of my favorite tips to help make your first im...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/firstday
Going Back to School With Stations
At the middle school and secondary levels, the first day of school typically consists of teachers introducing themselves, going over the syllabus and students completing get-to-know-you activities or ice breakers. I’ll admit, I have also used a similar format until I realized that this doesn’t sh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
7 Reasons Why Python on the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator Is a Must-Have for Your Classroom
This month marks the release of the latest update for the TI-Nspire™ CX II family. This update (version 5.2) includes support for Python, a significant feature that strengthens the use of TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators and software in math classes. Educators can now connect coding in ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/7-reasons-why-python-is-a-must
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
As we enter into this new frontier of virtual teaching and learning, I had the opportunity to connect with Richard Snow, an expert in distance learning and a T³™ National Instructor, for some guidance. Snow was the first educator to use TI graphing calculator emulator software while teaching stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
Standardized tests have a way of asking questions that go past number crunching, and dive into the concepts. Often, these questions reveal misconceptions that students may have or just introduce a topic that the students haven’t really had a chance to explore. The fascinating part is that usual...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
ICYMI: Top 10 Webinars of 2019
The start of a new year is the perfect time for setting new goals and prepping for the next few months of classes. Maybe your goals are huge, year-long goals or maybe it’s a small, daily habit that you’d like to implement. Either way, one of the best ways to keep yourself motivated is by having ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019webinars
Best of Biology
...gaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their own ideas. Take a look at some of the best biology activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Softwa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
Top 6 calculator functions to know for AP® Statistics | TI
The AP® Statistics exam is just around the corner, and there is a lot to learn for this rigorous test. We're here to help you prioritize your efforts. As you may know, some questions on the AP® Statistics exam will require the use of a calculator to perform a statistical test, compute...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/top-6-calculator-functions-ap-statistics
Bounded Areas | TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family | Calculus
This lesson involves comparing the Riemann Sum area estimates with the exact bounded area of a curve and the x-axis. Bounded Areas | TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus family | Calculus apcalculus website Mat...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-bounded-areas
Bounded Areas | TI-Nspire™ family | Calculus
This lesson involves comparing the Riemann Sum area estimates with the exact bounded area of a curve and the x-axis. Bounded Areas | TI-Nspire™ family | Calculus apcalculus website Mathematics lesson...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-bounded-areas
Give Me Five
In this activity, students will discuss and describe the center and spread of a univariate data set by way of a five number summary and visually by a box & whisker diagram. Students will then apply this knowledge to real life applications to enhance their ability to understand this math in stat...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-give-me-five
Tower of Hanoi
Tower of Hanoi apcalculus website Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Numbers and Algebra Tower of Hanoi Legend has it that the world will end when the p...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-tower-hanoi
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions
Investigating the Derivatives of Some Common Functions apcalculus website Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Calculus Activity Overview I...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-investigating-derivatives-common-functions
Fear of math
Fear of math global website How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world Peter Balyta, Ph.D., President of Texas Instruments Education Technology As a chi...https://education.ti.com/en/success-story/fear-of-math
Percentiles
The goal of this activity is for students to use the area to the left of a value in a normal distribution to find its percentile. The process will then be reversed to find the value for a given percentile. In doing so, students will learn how to use the Normal CDF and Inverse Normal commands on...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-percentiles
Sum of Infinite Geometric Series
Sum of Infinite Geometric Series apcalculus website Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme Applications and Interpretation | Numbers and Algebra Sum of Infinite Geometric Series This lesson ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-sum-infinite-geometric
Angles of Depression and Elevation
Angles of Depression and Elevation website In this activity, students will discuss the graphical and algebraic relationships between Angles of Depression and Elevation. Angles of Depression and El...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-angles-of-depression-and-elevation
Law of Sines and Cosines
Law of Sines and Cosines apcalculus website Students explore the proofs of the Laws of Sine and Cosine, investigate various cases where they are utilized, and apply them to solve problems. Law of Si...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-law-of-sin-cos
Properties of Logs
Properties of Logs apcalculus website Students use a combination of algebra and graphing to discover the properties of logarithms. Properties of Logs Mathematics lessons for IB...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-properties-of-logs
Percentiles
The goal of this activity is for students to use the area to the left of a value in a normal distribution to find its percentile. The process will then be reversed to find the value for a given percentile. In doing so, students will learn how to use the Normal CDF and Inverse Normal commands on...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-percentiles