Plan To Attend 2023 Virtual T3IC | Texas Instruments
...nology to engage your students. Instructors will cover topics like teaching strategies, test preparation, financial literacy and more, including strands on AP® Precalculus and AP® Calculus. You’re sure to find a lesson or activity that you can use right away with your students. This year, we’r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/plan-to-attend-2023-virtual-t3ic
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...o! Have you heard of the Buffon’s needle problem? This 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 stu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/happypiday
Get Energized With the T3™ Professional Learning | Texas Instruments
...mmer, there are a variety of ways to continue building on your teaching expertise through the T³™ professional learning organization. You’ll learn hands-on with TI technology and get new resources and lessons to engage students in the new school year. Let’s take a dive into what’s on the horiz...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/professional_learning
Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...men transformed rocket design, shaped lunar missions, and ushered in a new era of space with their pencils, papers and quick-thinking mathematical minds. “If you liked ‘Hidden Figures,’ then you need to read this! You will gain a better understanding of history, the role and the need for quic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
...o the Education Technology division with employees who also understand the importance of financial literacy. An interesting and unique story unfolds of Retired Air Force Major Harold Peters, the 90-year-old author of that letter. After speaking with him, we realized that his passion for finan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
Inverse Functions on the TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...ut most classes determine the line is y=x, and we graph the line of symmetry as a dashed line for visual confirmation (screenshot 4 below). This leads to a nice great discussion about why y=x makes sense. First, any points on either inverse function with the same x and y- values would not chang...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/investigating-inverse-functions-ti-84-plus-ce
6 Resources to Jump-Start the School Year | Texas Instruments
...alculator scavenger hunts? These can be a fun, great way to get your students to explore the functionality of their calculators, and refresh their minds on menu locations and how to do basic things on their calculators. Download versions for the TI-84 Plus and TI-Nspire™ CX families of graphing c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/tiresources
A New School Year, A New You(Tube) | Texas Instruments
...u can watch on demand, there’s a lot you can take back to the classroom to enhance student learning. Monday Night Calculus Hands down one of our most popular live stream events is Monday Night Calculus. Teachers and students alike are encouraged to tune in and follow along...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/new-school-year-new-youtube
5 Study Tips from a Student #StudyGrammer | Texas Instruments
...isuals. But when she started adding relatable, research-backed study tips to help improve her own study habits, she found she wasn’t alone. Thousands of students wanted to know more. Not only how to make the most of their time by studying more efficiently and effectively, but also how to balan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-study-tips-from-a-student-studygrammer
Middle School Math Meets Python Game Design | Texas Instruments
...yourself, “How can I provide enrichment for this student, remediation for that student and continue to grow everyone mathematically?” How many standards need to be covered this year? How many standards need filled in from last year? How can students practice mathematical fluency in a meaningful a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/middle-school-math-python-game-design
5 Teacher Tips for Classroom Management | Texas Instruments
...roaches, featuring a few unique styles and techniques, they shared for managing a math classroom. 1. Relationship building and engagement Hands down, the most popular approach our teacher community shared was relationship building. As a fun way of building relationships with s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-teacher-tips-classroom-management
Women Who Code: A TI Intern’s STEM Journey | Texas Instruments
...hree years, and now you’re a computer engineering major working as an intern for TI’s Education Technology group. That’s where Megi Shahollari now finds herself. But, her STEM journey began way before this. TI intern Megi Shahollari. Overcoming barriers As a third grader, Sh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/women-who-code-ti-intern-stem-journey
Solutions To Keep Your Students Learning All Summer | TI
“I’m bored.” “What are we going to do today?” Sound familiar? Summer days often leave students with more time on their hands and parents searching for productive activities that help prevent the “summer slide,” or the answer to “I’m bored; what can I do?” Check out these four suggestio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/keep-students-learning-all-summer
3 Coding Activities for July Fourth Fun | Texas Instruments
July 4 is upon us. To the rest of the world, it’s just another day. But, in the U.S., it’s Independence Day, when the nation recognizes the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Americans celebrate the day with family, friends, barbeques and parades, and end it with a bang...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/3-coding-activities-for-july-4-fun
Assessing Student Thinking | Texas Instruments
... the correct answer? Is the student’s thinking correct? Is he using an appropriate strategy, or is his thinking flawed in some way even though it yields the correct answer in certain situations? For example, let’s look at what happened in my classroom. Answer to a problem outlined by...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/assessing-student-thinking
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...cluding the ACT®, SAT® and AP® exams. Built to be distraction free. No Wi-Fi access means more security than other devices and helps young minds focus their attention on learning, not online. Complementary software. Students get the flexibility to practice and learn in ways that i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...— ones that not only expand the impact of the grant and bring relevancy to grant activities, but also extend grant dollars through matching which builds in project longevity and sustainability. Here are some key questions grant writers should ask: How many students will my project impact imm...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Earth Day Engineering | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...ls in engineering design. The task was to build their own trash interceptor while bringing awareness to the effects of single-use plastics on watersheds. To further tie in single-use plastics, the students had to build their model using only single-use plastics that they collected over several we...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/earthday_engineering
Fan’s Favorite Features on TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
...tions It’s common for students to feel anxious when it comes to fractions, but the MathPrint™ template helps alleviate a lot of that anxiety. "Kids have a fear of switching decimals to fractions and when I show them how to [do this on the] calculator, some thank me for getting rid of their a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/five-fan-favorite-features-ti84plus
Get Students Excited About Linear Equations | Texas Instruments
Brad Posnanski is a T³™ National Instructor and teaches algebra I, precalculus and computer science at Comsewogue High School in Port Jefferson Station, New York. He loves to create and do hands-on projects with his students. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/get-students-excited-about-linear-equations
Volume- IB
In this activity, students define right and oblique three dimensional figures and calculate the volume for prisms, pyramids, cylinders, and cones.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/volume_84_ib
Running Circles Around Quads
Students explore various properties of cyclic quadrilaterals.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/running-circles-around-quads_1
Forensics Case 9 - Killer Cup of Coffee: Using colorimetry to determine concentration of a poison
In this activity, students will use colorimetry to determine the concentration of a colored species in a solution and use a linear relationship to model Beer's law. They use Beer's law to determine the concentration of iron(III)thiocyanate (FeSCN2+) in an unknown solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-9--killer-cup-of-coffee-using-colorimetry-to-determine-concentration-of-a-poison
Forensics Case 11 - Ashes to Ashes: Using evaporation rate to identify an unknown liquid
In this activity, students understand that evaporation rate is a characteristic property of a liquid. Based on this fact, they identify the solution and the likely accelerant in a case of arson. They compare the evaporation rates of the accelerants found with the suspects with those near the crim...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-11--ashes-to-ashes-using-evaporation-rate-to-identify-an-unknown-liquid
Binomial Expansion- NS
In this activity, students will review their binomial expansion skills through hands on multiplication combined with the handheld to check their work.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/binomial-expansion@ns