Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
Math has an impact on just about every aspect of our lives including some that we don’t often think about. Math helped change the outcome of WWII, it also shows up in the way we drive our cars and the way we manage our finances. In celebration of Math Awareness Month, here are four TI-Nspire act...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
When attending a conference, most participants hope to leave inspired, motivated and empowered with strategies and tools to make positive impacts in their classrooms, schools and educational communities. The 2021 T³™ International Conference was appropriately themed, Encourage. Engage. Empower....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
For teachers, the summer months can be a prime time for catching up on reading to get inspired and recharge your batteries for the upcoming school year. One of the most effective ways to keep your teaching skills sharp is the same thing we encourage our students to do over the summer: read. We p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
What do Chemistry Cat, toilet bowl cleaner and contact lens cleaning solution have in common? They’re all ways to take the abstract subject of chemistry and make it come alive and make sense for high school students. Throughout my career, I have strived to make this subject applicable to the rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
#NCTMregionals Hartford 2018 Recap
...dered the math that it takes for vehicles to drive on Mars? In this session, we will code robotic vehicles using mathematics to drive, make turns and complete a challenge. Best part: no coding experience needed! Technology: TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator; TI-Innovator™ Rover Link to presentati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/nctm-hartford
Innovation in Biology
...lastics, we dove into the engineering design process. They started brainstorming ideas individually and then shared them in groups. The students also completed concept sketches of their designs and had discussions about what would and would not work. Collaboration was crucial in this project. E...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
...nce in Motion using the TI-Innovator™ Rover. It was very helpful to have so many resources I could use to begin this journey, but the real test would come with my final project. The Grand Finale By the end of the year, students had a basic understanding of how to write simple programs using ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
...aphing calculators first came on the scene in 2011, there was some confusion about the ACT® calculator policy. At that time, I had multiple students who went to take the ACT® with the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator and they were erroneously told that they couldn’t use that on the ACT®. After a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/which-ti-calculator-for-the-act-and-why
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...uld be doing math tasks in the classroom. We need to develop better problem-solvers. The birdhouse project had roadblocks that every group had to overcome. It wasn’t as easy as they thought it would be. Designing, planning, drawing scale drawings, figuring surface area of unusual shapes — there i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
... In this example, we reach equilibrium one round earlier than in the last case and find that there are different amounts of reactants and products compared to the first case. Here’s where it gets really good. We calculate the ratio of products to reactants in each round for each simulation, an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
This is the breadboard. It functions as an output platform for students to read collected data with red, blue and green LEDs. Science Olympiad, a national science/STEM competition organization, just added a new high school event called Detector Building. In the 35-year history of Science Oly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like an Absolute Value Graph ❤ by @TICalculators
...alentine. Download a PDF of a blank valentine and one that’s ready to be shared. 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/create-math-valentines
Fall in Love with Polar Graphs: Top 4 Ways to Turn Heads with the TI-84 Plus
...n to ZoomFIT, either way works. Desire a bigger spiral? Try changing θmax to a bigger number. 2: Embrace those Butterflies Falling in love usually comes with butterflies? So, why not learn how to graph the butterfly curve: To do so, press the y= key. Then in r1, input the equation for the but...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/polargraphlove
Summer of STEM: Breaking Board Paradox
... setting it on the part of the stick that is still on the table. Karate chop it and notice the stick doesn’t break. When the paper is placed completely flat on top of the stick, it serves as a large surface area for the air above it to push down on the paper – and by extension, onto the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/breakingboard
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...never have actually related the motion to the graph and equation that models the motion with distance as a function of time. In this lesson, students compare and contrast the motion of two trains and relate their motion to graphs of distance as a function of time. For more information, downloa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
Summer of STEM: Egg in a Bottle
...rough the top of the bottle and past the egg. Because the fire burns up the oxygen inside the bottle quickly, and the egg is acting to stop any incoming air by acting as a seal, the air pressure inside the bottle quickly becomes less than the air pressure outside the bottle and above the egg....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/egginabottle
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
...es to know for the TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator. 1: Regression Analysis It is unlikely that you will be asked to draw a scatterplot on the exam; however, being familiar with creating and analyzing a scatterplot of bivariate data could prove crucial. Make sure that your regression diagnostics...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/apstats
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...g calculator TI-Nspire™ CX CAS graphing calculator TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator Notice that super-powerful CAS (which stands for Computer Algebra System) calculators are allowed. In addition to finding numeric answers, a CAS calculator provides algebraic answers in simplest f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Insider Tips for Winning the TI Codes Contest
...or create a fun adventure game. You can start programming your current graphing calculator now without any special equipment by visiting education.ti.com/ticodes . TI provides free lessons that go over programming on the calculator. With TI-Basic, you’ll be able to program your calculator to com...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/ticodescontest
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Daniel Wilkie
...ade TEACHES WHERE: Woodmont 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 e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/teacherofthemonth
Introducing the TI-Nspire CX II
... CX II and TI-Nspire CX II CAS give students more opportunities to visualize important, abstract concepts, not just in math class, but in science and computer programming courses. "Students and teachers asked us to make their graphing calculator more responsive as they are using it increasingly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/nspire
A first-of-its-kind STEM strategy charts path to help educators
...borated in order to lay out a framework that can help educators across disciplines equip all students for a world that’s increasingly demanding STEM competencies. "A project of this nature has never been done before – assembling disparate yet dependent education organizations to learn from eac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/a-first-of-its-kind-stem-strategy-charts-path-to-help-educators
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
...p to spread math love around the U.S. and, ultimately, the globe, through some supercute exclusive trackables. These trackables are small tokens that come in five different, fun “math buddy” designs: Acutie on Duty Buddies² Infinitely in Love Irrational Love of Pi Far Out Fractals, Man ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
...rd 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 liquid). As polystyrene is prod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...ool Careers,” a series of calculator activities that show kids how they will have to use math in any career, even ones they would least expect, from commercial airline pilot to fashion designer. I’ve witnessed the power of these efforts first hand. When a child can finally relate to a concept th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey