2019 T³ International Conference Sweepstakes Rules
...chnology division (“TI” or “Sponsor”), with a place of business at 12500 TI Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75243, and with a website at http://education.ti.com. ENTERING AND WINNER SELECTION: The Sweepstakes entry period will begin on March 8, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. Central Standard Time (“CST”) and will en...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2019-t3-conference-sweepstakes
2020 Winter Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
...chnology division (“TI” or “Sponsor”), with a place of business at 12500 TI Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75243, and with a website at http://education.ti.com. SWEEPSTAKES PERIOD: The Sweepstakes entry period will begin on January 14, 2020 at 12:01 am Central Time (“CT”) and will end on February 25, 2...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2020-winter-webinar-sweepstakes
2023 TI Math Carol Contest | Texas Instruments
...estive jingle or tune of your own. Express your carol in a 30-second or less video. Recite lyrics, sing, dance or play music — whatever makes you comfortable. Don’t forget to incorporate a TI graphing calculator, software or app into your video. Post your video on a public Instagram o...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/mathcarolcontest
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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
Find the Frequen-Z!
...students on a journey into the post-apocalyptic world of a zombie pandemic. In it, a group of survivors must find ways to avoid zombies. And you may not know this, but zombies will retreat if you are able to find the “Z note”... a special sound that is terribly offensive to their kind. The task? ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
Celebrate Jack Kilby Day
...red in the era of modern electronics when he shared his invention of the integrated circuit (IC). Jack's world-changing creation began with one small spark of curiosity. We believe his story can inspire students everywhere that it only takes one small spark to change the world. Use these resource...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/september/celebrate-jack-kilby-day
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
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...s to create a working conductivity sensor. The rules state: “Teams will build a durable Conductivity Device that will accurately measure and display both voltage and concentrations of NaCl in parts per million (ppm) from 0 to 5000 ppm of different water samples.” What is conductivity? So what...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
... math problems,” said Perry High School senior Olivia Lane. “I like that he is very energetic,” said senior Toree Fogle. “We can walk into class and not really want to do anything, and he will find a way to make us want to do math, even though the problems are hard.” Mr. O returning to his Per...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...e in her IB®: Math 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 wi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
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
...ctively engaged in STEM, and they created the STEM Center of Excellence in Dallas to provide girls with a safe environment to try new things (like robotics), take risks and learn from failure, all while building confidence and self-assurance. Our team members are a huge part of the success of th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...students lack the mathematical understanding needed to solve problems and, as a result, make conceptual errors even with the help of a calculator for computations. I find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...about the question and what it means.” You can set a timer, or just feel the room as students think. By doing this, you allow your varied learners to come up with a response to your question on their own without the pressure of rushing to keep up with the typical blurters. But, what abou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...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 into this project to make it happen. It is such a joyful event when different aspects of m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...26 ... There’s more pi where that came from We have plenty of Pi Day activities using your TI graphing calculator. Here are two of our favorites: Comparing Pi and Roots In this middle school math activity, students explore how the Pythagorean (or, should it be “pi-thagorean”?) Theorem and the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...th that it takes for vehicles to drive on Mars? In this session, we programmed the new TI-Innovator™ Rover using mathematics to drive, make turns and complete a challenge. Best part: no coding experience needed and we used the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. Link to presentation>> The Mat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...igh School. Lillie’s lack of sight jeopardized her chance to use her gift for mathematics, especially in classes like AP Statistics, where graphs and other visual representations are required. In the past, this has been the end for students, like Lillie. She and others simply had to stop learning...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...bber hand” used for grabbing and moving objects on the Graphing or Geometry pages. The TI-Nspire CX calculator is “menu driven” which means that most commands are found by pressing the menu key. The menus will be different for each application found on the calculator because there are different c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...nomic success [1]. Three strategies that we can use to help our students build a foundation for financial literacy are further educating ourselves, becoming familiar with financial education standards, and integrating financial literacy concepts and skills into our current curricula. In honor of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...ollect data on the chemical phenomena helps them to “see” how these particles interact and react while making learning fun and teaching them how to become scientists. In 2015, I attended the T³™ International Conference in Philadelphia. At this conference, I was first introduced to TI technol...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...er does not meet these guidelines, you know it must be wrong and you will have to try again. Use the TI-84 Plus CE to help you work more efficiently, compute more accurately, and verify answers. Just like you would in your math class, do some scratch work on the test paper before using the calcu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...ope to be understandable, students needed to first tackle the concept of slope as rate of change. Slope as Rate of Change in Context In many, if not all, cases, we care about the interpretation of the slope of a line between two points far more than the actual value of it. Instead of offering...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...crificing content. Furthermore, it’s that randomness that catches the interest of the students and gives them an opportunity to be invested in the outcome. How can we accomplish this? By following the instructional arc of Intuition Confidence Simulation Calculation This inst...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...ave about the field. While male and female students perform typically the same in science and mathematics classes, females are underrepresented in computer science and engineering classes. As these students continue into the workforce, women make up 47 percent of the total workforce, but only...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective