12 Days of Holiday Math Activities | Texas Instruments
...ath learning. 12. Piecewise the Bow-Tie Penguin Before students slide into the holiday break, try out this piecewise activity featuring a penguin dressed in its seasonal best. This activity “chill-enge” workshee...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/12-holiday-math-activities
6 Tips for Navigating the First Week | Texas Instruments
...logy. She has taught all levels of biology, from on grade level to AP® and marine science at Reservoir High School in Howard County, Maryland. Previously a T³™ National Instructor, Kohout sees technology as a great way to help students make real-life connections with math and science. AP® is a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/6-great-tips-first-week-of-school
Transformation Graphing App for TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition
Transformation Graphing version 4.02 includes a fix for a slight re-drawing error when transforming functions with asymptotes.https://education.ti.com/en/software/details/en/A55219D6D6584BCBAFF8B84F596FE2ED/transformation-graphing-app
2021 TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...rnia FJRLHkVU66E Second runner-up:Pomfret SchoolPomfret, Connecticut SPwBelKD6AQ Finalist:Brookwood BITESLawrenceville, Georgia _n2HCNSkXc0 Finalist:Maret Bufo BufosBethesda, Maryland mKA-rwugvL0 Honorable mention...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2021
Find the Frequen-Z!
Practical Ways for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse to Come Teachers are continuously told how important STEM and coding will be for their students’ future career options. But how is a teacher supposed to engage students in coding and STEM, while still getting through all of the academic standard...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
... and studying Pl/1, and a bit of Assembly. TI Codes website screenshot. The dual presentation modes of the TI Codes materials (online slideshows and offline documents) are available thanks to TI’s web team. I wrote the lessons and TIers created the online UI. The format gives teac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...circuit and how they, too, can change the world. Step 3: Learn how engineers today use the integrated circuit in their day-to-day job. Download these slides to show your classroom how engineers use the integrated circuit today. E in STEM: Learning to code like engineers Engineers get to solve pr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...ility of sitting. Students could execute the code, reset the graph, then find an equation to model the situation. With a few slight modifications, the same code could model exponential growth. Another (and final) great use of Py...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...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 trick. Hooray for CAS! Another concept where I have found CAS beneficial is exploring algebr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
... the most from a Chromebook™ notebook computer plus calculator mix in your classroom. Using screenshots As you create and assign activities through your LMS — such as Canvas or Google Classroom — consider the depth of exploration students can have using their own, dedicated graphing calculat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
TICodesContestTips
...ng and coding working prototypes of devices to solve some kind of real-world problem (big or small). We’re talking everything from an automatic pizza slicer to a free-flying robot that uses ultraviolet light to sterilize the International Space Station. Get inspired by checking out some of the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodescontesttips
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
... against the velocity for the 10-meter interval. What might be surprising is that, even though the runner is moving extremely fast, they are actually slowing down. Image courtesy of WENN Ltd / Alamy, found at Quantamagazine. 4. So Who’s the Shark? Let’s take the speed exploration t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
... the importance of STEM in their programming, she said, “At Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland, girls are exposed to areas of STEM education that they might not experience in other places. When girls experience science and technology in a hands-on, minds-on way, they can build confidence in a field ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...ped classroom It is modular — you only use what you want or need! And students can work at their own pace. Explore linear relations and slope For introducing graphs of linear relationships, here is a screenshot from the video “How to Graph y = mx +b” that has students discover the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...ch 1: Inference for Quantitative Data (Units 7 and 9) Presentation Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live and previously recorded Office Hours sessions on our YouTube channel here. Undoubtedly, this is going to be a challenging school year for students and teache...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...nd black filament and 3D-print a spooky spare case for your TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. Here is the Pumpkin Pi edition of our Halloween-themed slide case that you can print from a link on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3901650. Up your Halloween game by printing a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...f code, but are not essential code elements to include.) #1 — Import both the ti_system and time library. Time contains the sleep function, ti_system includes the get_key() function. #2 — Create a list dice that has your values for ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...yer. “I have never met another teacher who is as dedicated to his job and who genuinely cares about their students more than Mr. Meyer. He sacrifices sleep, comfort and many of the pleasures of life in order to supply his students with a better education,” Tristan wrote in his contest submission....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...s supported math educators across the country since 2015 through her work at Student Achievement Partners and Illustrative Mathematics. Joanie previously chaired NCTM’s Membership and Affiliate Relations Committee and is the immediate Past-President of the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathemat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
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
Best_Of_Science
... (MS/HS). 3. Cells/Photosynthesis and Transpiration: Recipe for a Living World Simulations can help students see processes otherwise too slow or too fast to see. In this activity, students not only get a better understanding for the role that light plays in photosynthesis, but they c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/best_of_science
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...Calculus Resources are a great way to refresh teacher knowledge on a problem or how a problem should be graded. As an AP® reader, I reference the PDF slides often and appreciate the extensions that are provided for different problems. The Monday Night Calculus YouTube series by Texas Instrume...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
... daily. When I first started the school year, I would set everything up for my class only to realize I’d set it up in the wrong classroom! Previously, I used a notebook to record my to-do list, but I’ve recently switched to one that I can easily update myself. I create my agenda in Microsoft®...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...nts how they really feel about their math teachers. The truth may surprise you and warm your heart. It will definitely remind you why you work tirelessly day-in-and-day-out to get your students excited about math. Here are our top 5 takeaways: #1 – Math teachers change students’ perceptions of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...dents learn how to gather and input the data of circular objects. Students will plot the circumference versus diameter on a graph, then calculate the slope of the data points. What will they observe about the slope? The Ready-made Pi activity is great if class/prep time is short. Or, let studen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday