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
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
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
This Valentine’s Day, we want to celebrate a straight-A student whose love of learning is inspiring everyone around her. Jasmine Calderon, 17, is an exceptional senior at Pahokee High School in Florida who continues to excel despite her entire household coming down with COVID-19 over the summer...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
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
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
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
Over the past month, students have seen games, light sequences, scales and even familiar songs come to life during ShadOnline. Hundreds of ShadOnline participants solved coding problems virtually during Texas Instruments’ innovative workshops. Whether it was running a program p...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
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...o, where he is majoring in business and biomedical engineering. Tristan took AP® Calculus with Meyer and scored a 5 on the exam. He then went on to become Meyer’s teaching assistant. Tristan said he learned about the contest from a geometry teacher at the high school, and he immediately knew he w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-discipline by participating in virtual lessons, completing assignments and managing their time in ways that “regular school” didn’t require. Some students learned that they could engage with cont...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
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
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
"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
...grid: each square is colored either green (if it knows a given piece of information) or red (if it does not). A red square learns this information (becomes green) if at least two of its neighbors (sharing an edge) already knows it. For example, in this situation the bottom middle square becomes g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
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
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
On Wednesday, September 19, Texas Instruments Education (@TICalculators) is hosting a Women in STEM Twitter Chat! Our goal is connect you to the awesome #WomenInSTEM community, both as a source of inspiration and a well of resources. Our panelists are female engineers, scientists, and mathematic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
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
The Heartbeat of STEM
..., transport and homeostasis, but it also allows students to build electrical circuits and write a simple program to control the model. Students become familiar with coding by using the easily accessible menu-based system within TI calculators. These activities are available using multiple pla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem