TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...ke screenshots Download and transfer files Update the calculator operating system (OS) Following are some detailed ideas on how to get the most from a Chromebook™ notebook computer plus calculator mix in your classroom. Using screenshots As you create and assign activities through...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...sistently underperform is an indication that our system is broken. Opportunities Don’t Add Up As dialogue around the “achievement gap” shifts to the more appropriate term “opportunity gap,” which places responsibility on an inequitable system that is not providing opportunities for all kids to a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
Teachers are always keeping an eye out for stimulating activities that can get students more involved in their lessons. With Halloween just around the corner, these crowd-pleasing activities offer great opportunities to turn class time into good, ghoulish fun — while still delivering instruction...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...ir concept as well as their prototype. In addition, the pandemic added an extra layer of complexity as the teams would have 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 initiat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...’s father, David Calderon-Vital, was the only financial provider for their family, and until she lost him, Jasmine says, “We never needed anything.” Among her wishes was a green TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator to use in her IB®: Math Applications and Interpretation class and in future college c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...levisions watching the “best of the best” do their thing and experiencing the excitement and drama of it all from our couches. Educators will be among those mesmerized with the stories they see but may find their own minds racing on all the rich opportunities for sports-related ideas to engag...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...s spelling M-A-T-H and the marching band to shout “surprise” when the boys returned. Nate and Jeffery were surprised to learn they were selected from more than 1,000 entries as winners of our nationwide Spread the Math Love Contest, honoring math heroes. Cheltenham High School senior Jeffery...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
As a proud Girl Scout troop leader in Columbus, Ohio, I spend many hours on my council’s (Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland) website, reading the MyGS magazine and searching Google and Pinterest for programming ideas I can bring back to my troop. In my day job, I consult with schools and district...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
In honor of National STEM Day, we want to introduce you to the Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Squad, a team of former teachers, current teachers and TI employees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been tour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
Many people know about Girl Scouts, especially when cookie season comes around and boxes of Thin Mints® and Samoas® line the break rooms of offices and accrue in the pantries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
... Robotics course only use TI technology for their projects. We started the year with the 10 Minutes of Code units. They mastered those units and have moved on to other projects. One project was to create a traffic light using the TI-Innovator™ Hub with built-in RGB LEDs and a speaker. They also u...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...e years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter @ellenfish...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...other projects engage and spark interest in computer science topics such as cryptography. Why limit computer science to only one week? You might find more than one of these projects fit into your classes at different times of the year. Why not integrate computer science throughout the year? Try o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
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
...is 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 contest and will receive a brand new TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator, along with a trip to Boston to visit MIT. “I...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
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
How many times have you heard an administrator, professional development presenter or master teacher say, “100% engagement”? I have lost count. Would you believe me if I said there really is a way to engage all of your students, even the most distracted, most reluctant learner? 100% engagement i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
... lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequently neglecting self-care. In 2020 — you are hearing it here first — I want to commit to some more realistic, more attainable goals to take better care of myself. So here we go with some much-needed reminders for me (and hopefully some of yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
Like many of you, I wear a variety hats in a day — daughter, sister, wife, mom, marketing professional, runner, math education advocate, PTA member, college football fan and, last but not least, a Girl Scout leader! I started my career in engineering because I loved math and science. Both subject...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
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
To STEM and Beyond!
... automatic dispenser and even a jukebox! The automatic dispenser used the built-in brightness sensor to turn a light on as well and turned a servo motor to dispense beans. The jukebox housed the TI-Innovator™ Hub, played songs and had a light show! Students used their geometry skills to code t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...e Homemade Pi activity with objects (or treats!) brought from home. Either way, the included calculator keypress quick tips sheet will keep students moving forward! Download the worksheets When the lesson is done, you and your students can wolf down your sweet treats for a Pi Day of fun! -...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ften referred to as the summer brain drain, is a real thing. The National Summer Learning Association reports that students lose an equivalent of two months of their grade-level math computational skills over the summer.* And, when kids return to school in the fall, about nine out of 10 teachers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...ected 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 lea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
"This calculator changed my life.”Lillie Pennington, Junior, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE CHALLENGE Lillie Pennington, 17, can keep up with any high school student when it comes to academics. The Turpin High School junior took Advanced Placement history as a sophomore and scored a fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion