AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
...of 6 of the most important statistics features to know for the TI-84 Plus CE. 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 yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/apstats2021
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
The Education Technology industry has changed over the years. Despite the changes, TI calculators have become standard tools for teaching math and science – and with good reason. This also didn’t happen overnight. For the past 30 years, we have worked with teachers to ensure that every product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
Middle school gifted and talented students at Travis Vanguard Academy in Dallas were among the first in the world to get their hands on Texas instruments’ first robot for the classroom, the TI-Innovator™ Rover. Engineers at TI designed the robotic car, best known as Rover, to help middle and hig...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Celebrate Jack Kilby Day
...ll 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 my students! What can I do? Watch this v...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/september/celebrate-jack-kilby-day
Game Plan for Educators
Put together a winning plan to kick off this school year. Start Today Put together a winning plan to kick off this school year. Game Plan for Educators Texas Instruments Game Plan for Educators websitehttps://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/game-plan-for-educators
Game Plan for Students and Parents
Find helpful tips and information to make back-to-school time a success. Get Started Find helpful tips and information to make back-to-school time a success. Game Plan for Students and Parents Texas Instruments Game Plan for Students and Parents website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/game-plan-for-students-and-parents
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...w for sure what next great invention will make history like the integrated circuit, what we do know is the students in your classrooms are the future scientists, engineers and mathematicians that will envision and create the solutions to our world’s greatest problems. In celebration of the 58th a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
NASA and TI are excited to announce the design challenge winning team. A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students fro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...ccasional moment of awe, going to their mathematics classes must be an awe-ful (awe-less?) experience for these students. I vividly remember a high school teacher who told us that the area of the region shown in figure 1 was equal to the natural logarithm of 2. We had not yet studied how to cal...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
While the school year may be coming to an end, our new contest aimed at spreading the love of math is just getting started. Through September, we’re asking people across the country to recognize the parents, teachers and mentors who inspired their passion for numbers for a chance to grant them a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
As we settle into the new school year, we find ourselves in the perfect position to set the tone in our math classes. We’ve all experienced students who are hesitant learners — they come in with the mindset that they hate math or aren’t good enough to make it through the school year. If this att...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
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
...atics? Quadratics can cross the x-axis twice, once or not at all. The quadratic formula is one way to calculate the x-intercepts. The discriminant can be used to determine if there are two distinct real x-intercepts, one double real x-intercept, or two imaginary x-intercepts. By ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...sions in exact form … like √12=2√3.” Thankfully, upon further investigation of the CAS “toolbox” on the TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator, I discovered methods for how CAS can actually enhance teaching mathematics. One of my favorite CAS algebra tools is “Factor.” While this tool can be us...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...hing calculators to their Chromebook™ notebook computers. Here are a few of the things that you can do once the calculator is connected: Take screenshots Download and transfer files Update the calculator operating system (OS) Following are some detailed ideas on how to get the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...groups of students have advantages either in their access to, or their likelihood to be successful in, math. In my professional experience as a high school math teacher, district math content specialist, state math teacher leader and professional learning provider, I have seen the many ways the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
In honor of National Engineers Week (Feb. 16–22), a week dedicated to increasing understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology careers, I wanted to share how my love for my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...ave to work with each other remotely. The stage was set for a true test of the abilities and perseverance of this new generation of future engineers, scientists and STEM initiates. We received dozens of entries, ranging from ways to make the ISS cleaner and safer for the astronauts, to making ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
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
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
Halloween is the first big holiday of the school year, and teachers would be ghoulish not to take advantage of students’ excitement and the Halloween spirit. Here are five of our favorite ways to tap into the Halloween spirits with Texas Instruments. No tricks, only treats! Write creepy code...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
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
... student Tristan Pepper who nominated him with a touching submission in the Spread the Math Love Contest. Nominated by his former Earl Warren High School student Tristan Pepper, Meyer learned in front of his principal, family, students and fellow teachers that has was among the winners of the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
This year’s AP® exams will be given in three separate administrations. Each administration will include an in-school option, and administrations 2 and three will also have an at-home option. As many schools begin to open in Spring of 2021, the AP® tests will have 3 distinct administratio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math