Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
Have you heard the BIG news? Python is now included in the new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator! What does this mean for math class? Python on the handheld gives teachers a tool to teach algorithmic thinking, provide authentic opportunities for problem solving, and enhance mathematical re...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...nnovator™ Hub. Cryptography — Students create either a basic or advanced Caesar cipher to encode and decode messages using modular arithmetic. How Good Is Your Memory — A computer science project that uses the TI-Innovator™ Hub to create a sequence of colored lights ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...really would like to see coding become a third language for all students,” said Peter Balyta. “That type of thinking — computational thinking, algorithmic thinking, problem-solving — will help kids with whatever challenges they face in school and in life.” When a 20-day coding program was force...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
...o take it because he’s not big on crowds,” Tristan said. “But overall, I think it went really great, and he was really excited.” Tristan is now a freshman at The University of Texas at San Antonio, where he is majoring in business and biomedical engineering. Tristan took AP® Calculus with Meyer a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...s the minimum number of initial green squares needed for the entire grid to become green? Problem 3 | Cryptography Here’s a Valentine’s Day cryptoarithmetic puzzle. Is it possible to replace each unique letter in this equation with a unique digit (0 to 9) so that it holds? Note that once a letter...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
... Financial Education” from the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and the Council for Economic Education. These standards create benchmarks for financial concepts and skills organized around six topic areas: earning income, spending, saving, investing, managing credit and managin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
The Heartbeat of STEM
...ng the code and setting up the heart to show both the flow of blood (LEDs) and calculating the heart rate, I wanted them to do some research on arrhythmias or when the heart does not beat as expected. The students researched the different types and causes of arrhythmia, put together a presentatio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
...-time Algebra teacher shares anchor charts, foldables and math posters that are sure to keep you coming back fore more. 2. Ms. Stephanie Yi (@mathwithmsyi) This 5th grade math teacher who just moved from Boston to the Bay Area will make you wish she was the one who taught you how to multiply fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
Who knew math had moves?
...t it’s like to work with Rover “I didn’t know that you could program with a calculator, at all, so this was really interesting,” said Aurea Le, a freshman in Brown’s class. She and classmate, Bayaan Musa, worked together to program their Rover to dance to a Bruno Mars song. “We are trying to sync...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...from there, raising additional money in the months since to buy 4 TI-Innovator-Rovers, TI’s new programmable robotic car. About 10 students, from freshmen to seniors, meet every Tuesday afternoon after-school in what is now the club’s second year. In meetings, students generally focus on using th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...ed age group. I’m excited about the implications for my AP® Computer Science Principles class. They can practice vocabulary after using their algorithms and programming skills to create a virtual stack of flash cards. Have you ever tried to fit your laptop in your pocket? Well, the TI-84 Plus CE...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
Connor Johnson is the first person at Pope John Paul II High School in Lacey, Washington, to enter into precalculus as a freshman. Where does he get the confidence to pursue an advanced course at such a young age? From his mother, of course, who also happens to be his math teacher. Connor and hi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
You may be aware of the reference to the three R’s, which refers to the three basic skills taught in school: reading, writing and arithmetic (usually said as “reading, writing and ’rithmetic”). How about adding another “R” to that list? Robotics! Robots (and smart machines) are all around us. In ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
... imagined that today I would actually work as a software engineer for the company that created that very toy! Despite an early beginning using arithmetic for entertainment, I don’t remember ever thinking that “when I grow up, I’m going to be an engineer.” In fact, in school I never felt that ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
...setbacks. That early failure didn’t define me. It ultimately gave me strength and taught me perseverance. A quote from the CEO of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani, applies here. She said, “When we teach girls to be imperfect, and we help them leverage it … we will build a movement of young women w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
AP® Calculus Resources
...find the differences of the consecutive terms, plot a scatter plot of each sequence, and determine that sequences with common differences (called arithmetic sequences) have scatter plots whose points form a straight line. Arithmetic Sequences and Series Students will explor...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities
Applications and Interpretation
...find the differences of the consecutive terms, plot a scatter plot of each sequence, and determine that sequences with common differences (called arithmetic sequences) have scatter plots whose points form a straight line. Arithmetic Sequences and Series Students will explor...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation
Building a Band With Famous Mathematicians
...guitar. “So I imagine it as Pythagoras was the very first rock ’n’ roll guitar hero,” Sword said. Euclid lays down the band’s beat because his algorithm for distributing a certain number of objects over a certain number of spaces creates rhythmic patterns, as found in Elvis Presley’s American roc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/june/music-in-math
Analysis and Approaches
...find the differences of the consecutive terms, plot a scatter plot of each sequence, and determine that sequences with common differences (called arithmetic sequences) have scatter plots whose points form a straight line. Arithmetic Sequences and Series Students will explor...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches
Madness in March Underscores the “M” in STEM
...an to major in math or science education (“The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2017,” ACT®) 41% of students are meeting the ACT® math benchmark score of 22; 37% are meeting the ACT® science benchmark score of 23; and 21% are meeting the ACT® STEM benchmark score of 26 (“The Condition ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/mathmadness
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Lisa Goddard
...o implement this idea, I often come up with different ways of explaining concepts. Whether it’s by using different methods, applying different algorithms, or allowing students to routinely ask their peers if they have another way of learning a concept, there are so many ways to work a problem. Th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/march/teacherofthemonth
Gas Lab
Students determine the molecular weight of a pure gas in a balloon by using gas laws and trapping the gas in a glass bottle. Students watch the instructor demonstrate the lab on day one. On day two and three they practice the lab. On day four we discuss the lab and all the calculations. On da...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gas-lab
Digestive System
This StudyCards(tm) stack enables students to review the vocabulary encountered when studying the digestive system.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/digestive-system
Introduction to Electric Circuits
This activity will show how to properly connect wires to make a closed electric circuit. Included in this will be how to connect batteries in series and/or in parallel, and how to properly measure potential drops across a resistor and current for electron current and conventional current circui...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/introduction-to-electric-circuits
Vernier - The Magnetic Field in a Slinky
Students use a Magnetic Field Sensor to measure the magnetic field and the current in a solenoid. They explore factors that affect the magnetic field, study how the field varies in parts of the solenoid, and determine the permeability constant.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--the-magnetic-field-in-a-slinky