Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...HE WINNING TEACHER AND HIS STUDENT: HERE AP® is a trademark registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...learning experiences. Selecting high-quality tasks that promote reasoning, facilitating meaningful mathematical discourse, and supporting students’ productive struggle, teachers can increase the access to and learning of meaningful, grade-level mathematics content. Lessons that elicit and use evi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...dents to think about your question in silence is so important. Long silences can be awkward and sometimes seem like a distant dream. However, if you model what “think time” looks like, it will be the most important few seconds of your class. Set up think time by saying, “I want you to think about...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...at home or in school. Tips for teachers: Make sure students know when they are taking their exam. Make sure students know what day it is today and every day up to the day of the test. I have a few students that tell me that they forgot to do an assignment or attend an online class bec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
... has also allowed me to schedule dedicated time for self-care instead of just hoping it happens. Remember: Self-care might not always feel good in the moment. After a long day, I never want to work out, let alone spend an extra hour to get my annual medical checkup. I frequently thin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...ing landscape in the math classroom. AP® is a trademark registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. About the author: Curtis Brown currently works as the Math Segment manager at Te...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
How often do you hear students say things like, “I’m not good at math,” or “I don’t like math,” or “Why do I have to learn this?” In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Month, we visited Plano East Senior High School outside of Dallas to ask students how they really feel about their math teac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...s problem approximates pi by dropping needles. Well, wouldn’t it be safer and tastier to use breadsticks? Yum! Watch this how-to video: 3: Everybody loves Pi and coloring! These Pi themed coloring pages are a great activity for when students (or you) need a mental break or have some downt...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...ps for Surviving the First Week Back at School.” There are many things in there that are still accurate, but I have some new suggestions in light of today’s current situation. Here are five ways to make sure that this school year is better than before! 1. Build relationships with your student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ids return to school in the fall, about nine out of 10 teachers will spend as much as three weeks on review, because of summer learning loss. The good news – your friends at TI have come up with five ways to help keep students’ STEM skills sharp this summer, and we’re sharing them with you: #1...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...cted and analyzed data to explore the concept of meaningful results. TI-Nspire™ CX technology Link to presentation>> Making Math Relevant Through Modeling Modeling mathematics through applied problems that students can see and touch can develop their understanding of the concepts they are lear...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Alice Fisher, an AP computer science teacher from Houston, who collaborates with professors from Rice University to integrate art into coding. Fast Facts About Alice: TEACHES...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...are, six moves to reach the b4 square. How many different, six move routes could the king take? Problem 2 | Virality Suppose we have the following model for information (e.g. photo, video, post) transfer (i.e. spread) in a grid: each square is colored either green (if it knows a given piece of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...ried a variety of ways to put students into assigned seats the first week of school. Compared to how I assign seats after the first unit test, my methods for those first days when I don’t know students names are dramatically different. Over the past 23 years I have tried everything from the dread...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
Are you transitioning to TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculators from TI-84 Plus family models in your classroom? The TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator is a powerful tool with many features, yet it is easy to perform familiar operations like calculating and graphing. Here are some suggestions to get ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...that kids aren’t going to know the difference between a PowerPoint you spent four hours on, or one you spent thirty minutes on. That’s when I understood — you can’t push yourself to do everything. People often go into teaching believing that they’re going to save the world, but that’s just not re...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...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 technology for my chemistry classes as a data collection solution and interactive simulations for tough-to-teach concepts. I attended ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...uTuber and Instagrammer with over a million followers on her collective social media channels. Abby’s favorite quote: “Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can’t be what you can’t see.” – Sally ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...ools Bring a calculator that you are familiar with to the SAT® exam and use it as you prepare with practice questions. There are many TI calculator models allowed on the test; see the SAT® Calculator Policy webpage for the full list. The tips in this post focus on the TI-84 Plus CE model, but t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...the slope of a line was limited, at best. In my mathematical mind, the first thing I needed to do was “correct” that. I believed if they only understood how to compute it, they would “understand” slope. Boy, was I wrong. In order for the computation of slope to be understandable, students needed ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
Origins of the Monty Hall problems “Let’s Make a Deal” was a variety game show that started in 1963 and was co-created and co-produced by Monty Hall. The format of “Let’s Make a Deal” involves selected members of the studio audience making deals with the host. The audience member would ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...awn toward. In elementary school, I wanted to be an astronaut after watching Sally Ride and Christa McAuliffe. In high school, I learned about Jane Goodall and Rachel Carson and became interested in conservation and environmental education. In college, I took a class called “Deep Sea Sharks and S...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...th frequencies that are proportional to that note. For example, notes that are of a ratio of 2:3 such as a note of 440Hz and a note of 660Hz, sound good together. In music theory, that ratio is a “fifth.” Music theory relies on relationships like this to make music sound good to our ears. As you...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...ie in pure mathematics and the elegance and connections it brings. In the back of our minds, we both want to do the problem using the traditional methods followed with supporting methods to enhance understanding of the concept. But that mindset needs to be put aside when the focus is teaching stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 Recap
... Calculus What if you could help students see slope not as an equation to memorize, but as a representation of real events? Get out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection. Learn some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city