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...al learning goals, enhance teachers’ expertise and support student success. Not sure which workshop is right for you? Ask us for recommendations Please select your criteria. Implementing Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice with T...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/onsite-workshops/listing
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...or literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). I’m not talking about the drills required to perform addition, subtraction and other computational types of math. While those are certainly important, today’s technology gives our children an opportunity to focus on mastering higher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Find the Frequen-Z!
Practical Ways for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse to Come Teachers are continuously told how important STEM and coding will be for their students’ future career options. But how is a teacher supposed to engage students in coding and STEM, while still getting through all of the academic standard...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
...idn’t happen overnight. For the past 30 years, we have worked with teachers to ensure that every product we develop is built for the sole purpose of improving the ways in which students engage with math and science. With this in mind, TI is focused on making improvements to classroom technology....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
... robotics, to help all kids see that coding and the basics of engineering can be easy to learn and fun," said Balyta. "After today, I’d say mission accomplished.” Click here to see Rover in action at Travis Vanguard Academy. To learn how to get your hands on Rover, and to check out some of the a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
This is a saga of a (nearly) career-long passion to promote computer programming in school. First, some history. ... I always found mathematics “easy” because it made sense and decided to become a mathematics teacher in high school because I could explain things to classmates better than the te...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...ents will investigate chemistry and life sciences principles, observe processes such as titration, and engage in designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing their hypotheses. Grab your TI-Nspire™ CX handheld and download the files for your students. Want to look like this guy? Download...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
NASA and TI are excited to announce the design challenge winning team. A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students fro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
roboticsweek2021
...ing them. In celebration of National Robotics Week, I wanted to introduce you to the Electronics Online Challenge that was part of the VEX Robotics competition season. This teardown contest was organized by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation (with Texas Instruments [TI] as a proud ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...f our favorite math educators, Perry High School teachers Ashley Meinke and David Olszewski, to introduce you to math yoga. So, grab a yoga mat, some comfortable clothes, a water bottle, and let’s celebrate International Day of Yoga by exploring yoga’s flexibility in math class. Why math yoga,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...Provide several different ways of explaining this mystery. Fig. 2 If you or your students have never seen this before, it surely will come as a surprise, especially if you cut out the pieces and see that they really form the square and rectangle. Well, actually they do not! This i...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
...or bright bulletin boards and a motivational quote, you create your classroom environment. Smile — a lot. Your energy is contagious, and while it is important to set and maintain clear rules and expectations, positive energy always wins. Feeling welcomed, valued and seen is the best way to get bu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
David Olszewski, better known as Mr. O on the grounds of Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, has been teaching math for the past five years. Ask any of his students, or fellow teachers, and it’s clear he has quickly become a campus favorite. “Mr. O is a really fun teacher to have because he alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
... sqrt(disc))/(2*a) elif disc == 0: r1 = -b/(2*a) r2 = r1 else r1 = complex(-b, sqrt(disc))/(2*a) r2 = complex(-b, -sqrt(disc))/(2*a) See? That was easy! You just integrated coding into math. A...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...r my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. From 2+2=4, graphing y=mx+b and solving complex integrals/derivatives, my TI graphing calculator and I have been through a lot together. (I even posed with it in my graduation photos!) Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...ncepts by exploring chemistry and life sciences principles and observing processes, such as titration, all while designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing hypotheses. Download all the files you need in an instant. Run this way. 2. Will creepy, crawly maggots lead you to the answ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
Cheltenham High School computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and the school’s marching band, pulled a fast one on senior drumline members Nate Norward and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbus, Ohio Nashville, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...cientists, engineers, innovators, and leaders, is truly remarkable. We’ve known for a while that gender diversity in STEM careers is lacking (women comprise half of the workforce, yet hold fewer than 25% of U.S. STEM jobs), and beyond a readiness deficit by gender, as evidenced in ACT’s 2017 STEM...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...in this series, “What Slope Means, and Four ‘Flavors’ of Slope.” Review 15 parent functions and their transformations There are also modules for 14 common parent functions as well as a module focused on applying transformations to a generic piecewise function included in this video resource. He...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...or Categorical Data (Units 6 and 8) Presentation March 1: Inference for Quantitative Data (Units 7 and 9) Presentation Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live and previously recorded Office Hours sessions on our YouTube channel here. Undoubtedly, this is going ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
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
... to finish coding a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors — or if they were up for it, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock. “I actually played against the computer several times during the weekend. It’s really entertaining,” said Bykovsky. Shad Victoria Sephton liked that she was able to combine her ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...but is certainly exacerbated by the pandemic: teaching students with unfinished learning from previous grades. Some key principles can help make this complicated situation more manageable. But before we think about teaching and learning math, some foundational ideas should come first. I’ll echo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips