2024 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
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...s: Expressions and Equations Building Concepts: Ratios and Proportional Relationships Building Concepts: Statistics and Probability Exploring Topics in Calculus with TI-Nspire™ Technology Exploring Common Core Topics in Algebra with TI-Nspire™ T...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/onsite-workshops/listing
T³™ Teacher Leader Cadre
...ses on technology integration, content knowledge, building a professional learning community and teaching adults. Successful TLC participants will be able to mentor others and support ongoing professional development plans. Participants will hone skills taken from training and classroom experien...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/teacher-leader-cadre
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
As a child growing up in Canada, my one true passion was ice hockey. I was maybe a bit too small for the game, but what I lacked in size I tried to make up for in speed and technical ability. When I wasn’t on the ice, I was engrossed in baseball and martial arts. As long as I was playing somethi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
...nt. But what are the odds of picking every game correctly? Spoiler alert: To date, no one in the history of the NCAA tournament has ever made a verifiably perfect bracket. Approximately 70 million people compete in basketball brackets during March Madness® every year, making them almost as p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
Get Ready for a Math-Packed School Year
...er’s choice of TI graphing calculator. Don’t delay — get ready for back to school and enter the contest today! Back-to-School Social Media Contest About the author: Courtney Ruggles is the Digital Content Marketing Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining Texas Instru...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschoolcontest
Find the Frequen-Z!
...I) has free resources that can help. The art of storytelling is an approach that has aided people with learning for thousands of years, and TI has an abundance of free activities that place your students into fun stories to help them learn the concepts they’re studying in context. One new activit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
...te the task of creating an in-school STEM program, to say the least. This year, a team from Texas Instruments set out to find ways to excite students about math and science by giving them a meaningful experience in solving a real-world STEM problem. We launched an after-school club in which stude...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
...alculator. Click here to download a TI-84 Plus CE program for the TI-Innovator Hub that plays the Star Spangled Banner. You can find more information about learning to code with TI technology on our TI Codes website. Be sure to share your calculator fun by tagging @TICalculators in posts online! ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
...ivided into pairs and given 30 minutes to program Rover to dance. Given the simple programming language on TI graphing calculators, the students were able to get started with Rover right away. “I learned how to code and program which I have never done before and it’s super exciting, as it may be ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Celebrate Jack Kilby Day
... students everywhere that it only takes one small spark to change the world. Use these resources to introduce your students to Jack Kilby, teach them about the integrated circuit and show them how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is all around them. I want to inspire innovation in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/september/celebrate-jack-kilby-day
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...esis for counter-attacking the zombie contagion. Download the lesson here. Ever wondered what you would do in a zombie apocalypse? Most of us would grab our family and survival kits and run to safety. However, would any of us think about using science to create a vaccine to stop the infection? In...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
... on the challenges International Space Station (ISS) commander Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko encountered in the first year-long mission aboard the ISS. The problems ranged from what to eat in space for optimal strength and nutrition to how to detect and prevent potential collisions ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
... thermometer, but this year’s competition will instead require teams 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
DIY TI Codes Contest
Have you heard about our TI Codes Contest? Each spring, Texas Instruments challenges teams of students from around the U.S. to come up with creative solutions to a proposed theme and submit their ideas. As the groups advance, they ultimately build a functioning model of their concept, which they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
roboticsweek2021
Did you know that the best way to understand how something works is to take it apart and examine the insides? That’s why “teardown” videos are so popular — they show us what’s on the inside of everyday products without having to worry about reassembling them. In celebration of National Roboti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
It was a stressful school year to say the least! To help you and your students exhale, while learning (or teaching) a thing or two, we’ve partnered with two of our favorite math educators, Perry High School teachers Ashley Meinke and David Olszewski, to introduce you to math yoga. So, grab a yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
..., humbler and more connected to the people around you. Now imagine an encounter with mathematics that left you awestruck. For teachers, this is probably not a hard thing to do. After all, many of us are in love with mathematics and we love to teach the subject. But how would students respond to...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
...arr for inspiring her love of math and helping to facilitate her military career. “I can honestly say that I may have never chosen this path, or been able to succeed, without the mentorship of Mr. Marr. His mathematical abilities, which are remarkable on their own, are far outweighed by his passi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
... success. Fortunately, there are several ways to gently help students of all types ensure they approach math with a positive mindset and feel comfortable and confident. It is crucial to establish a positive, engaging and welcoming environment for all learners, especially the most reluctant. Here...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...s and coach the math team together. They refer to one another as BAMFFs, best awesome mathematical friends forever. Ms. Meinke teaches AP Calculus AB, and Mr. O teaches AP Calculus BC. They have the chance to collaborate often, practice vertical alignment and disagree on notation. “We need m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...enhance math instruction? Let’s look at one possible example: quadratics. We all teach it. What are some of the key ideas students should understand about quadratics? Quadratics can cross the x-axis twice, once or not at all. The quadratic formula is one way to calculate the x-intercept...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...hematical reasoning involved in simplifying √300. Need more quick examples? One of my favorite features of the TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS handheld is its ability to display a variety of examples dynamically and fast. A Notes page construction using a slider and a couple of math boxes does just the tr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...You can share these activities with your students through your LMS. There are many (literally hundreds) activities meant for dynamic exploration available for the TI‑Nspire™ CX II and TI‑84 Plus CE graphing calculators. Choosing one and loading the .tns file or .8xp file (and any associated PDF f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...spire™ CX graphing calculator at the high school I attended in Sugarland, Texas. I was instantly captivated by the LED backlit screen and graphing capabilities. To simply type in an equation and have the visual in seconds, it made pre-calculus and calculus so much easier to understand. From conic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek