How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...lytical thinking that STEM engenders. The truth is that we should never label ourselves or anyone else as not a “math person.” We cannot let the math fundamentals be the hurdle limiting our potential. Our daily lives are too dependent on math to ignore. Math skills are survival skills. It’s time ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-Nspire™ CX Graphing Calculator
...athguy. The AP® Statistics exam requires a deep understanding of the concepts, but also an ability to carry out statistical computations. So what functionalities on your calculator are best to know and use when taking the exam? We highlight six features of the TI-Nspire™ CX family of graphing...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/apstatstipsfornspire
Find the Frequen-Z!
...g is an approach that has aided people with learning for thousands of years, and TI has an abundance of free activities that place your students into fun stories to help them learn the concepts they’re studying in context. One new activity, called “Frequen-Z,” takes students on a journey into the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
...mathguy. The AP® Statistics exam requires a deep understanding of the concepts, but also an ability to carry out statistical computations. So what functionalities on your calculator are best to know and use of when taking the exam? We highlight 6 features of the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/apstats2021
#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
...nstagram and Snapchat now! In this new summer series, we post a short Snapchat video each Tuesday across all channels that highlights quick tips and fun activities using TI technology. Because July 4th happens to fall on a Tuesday this year, we decided to feature some patriotic programs for a sp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
DIY TI Codes Contest
Have you heard about our TI Codes Contest? Each spring, Texas Instruments challenges teams of students from around the U.S. to come up with creative solutions to a proposed theme and submit their ideas. As the groups advance, they ultimately build a functioning model of their concept, which they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
roboticsweek2021
..., taking apart a Samsung POWERbot electronic vacuum. The students’ research was very thorough; they studied the components, learned about their functions and even tracked down data sheets when they could find them. The judges were impressed by the students’ level of detail and delighted by ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...anton, Ohio, math yoga has become increasingly more popular. Meinke and Olszewski currently use it as a math club activity; in the classroom to teach functions, transformations and end behavior; to describe geometry and calculus terminology; to build upon social and emotional learning; and to des...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...roduct is always one less or one more than the square. Try it! Readers are invited to find a formula for the height of the parallelogram as a function of terms of the Fibonacci sequence and then to show that the height tends to 0 as n tends to infinity. Awe moment number 2 Let a and b b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Score Big on the ACT® With These Tried-and-True Tips for the Math Section
...iliar with. Please don’t take the test with a calculator (online or handheld) that you have never or rarely used. You won’t be able to access all the functionality of the calculator because you certainly won’t have the time to learn how to use the calculator during the test. If you use a TI-84 Pl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-19-2021-act-tips
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...ntities of dice. Activity 2: Data Export and Functions When I taught algebra II, I used a hands-on probability activity to model exponential decay. At the beginning of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...ave some artistic students, they can use the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator or the new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator — it could be a fun challenge! Below is the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, coded with Python. The flag colors can be created using rectangles, and it ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... your calculator Code your calculator to draw ghosts like in the image below. Have your students draw the ghost and pumpkin using transformations of functions. Here’s a snippet of code to get you started with a ghost: 0→Xmin: 0→Ymin: 264→Xmax: 164→Ymax: For(N,0,20,1): Pt-On(132-N,120-(1/10...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...we have a common goal: ensuring our students learn and recover from the events of the last 20 months. We’ve got this! About the author: Joanie Funderburk taught high school math for 20 years and has supported math educators across the country since 2015 through her work at Student Achievem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
... say, “I hate math.” But, they really do love when they understand – and that you make the effort to help them get it! #2– Math teachers make math fun! Math teachers know how to ÷ and conquer their math class to make it the life of the party! #3 – Math Teachers get to know their students. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...lore how the Pythagorean (or, should it be “pi-thagorean”?) Theorem and the circumference of a circle can be related. It’s as easy as pi! Why Bigger Is Not Necessarily Better Did you know that the tiny little biological cells that make you are tiny for a reason? Explore this biology activit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...her. I want to foster collaboration, creativity and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects into the content is very easy and fun for students. Editable student and teacher documents are provided, and some even have videos to help teachers starting out. Student testi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...ss seven schools got to learn basic programming by working with the TI-Innovator Hub and the TI-Innovator Rover. Many of the kids were having so much fun, they didn’t even realize they were learning important math and science skills. And, the STEM Squad has several other visits up their sleeve. W...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...ics, geometry, etc. The center of the keypad has numerical keys and operation keys, as well as the very important enter key. Notice that trigonometry functions are all found in one key, trig. The bottom section of the keypad has alphabetical keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ternet, going to more conferences and looking at what others are doing in the classroom. I try to soak in every idea that comes my way! What are some fun or unique ways you help your students learn? I've always loved using technology in the classroom, because teaching is so much more than lectur...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...women to pursue careers in engineering. Recently, Marie was a panelist at an International Women’s Day event and “Girls and Code, Montreal Movement”. Fun fact: English is not her first language, it’s French! Estefannie of @estefanniegg Estefannie is an embedded apps software engineering lead (ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
..., you’re not working on hardware that will make it onto the final robot, but it’s still useful. (Brookwood BITES) Do it with friends and have fun with the building and coding. (NaviGator) PARTICIPATE. (NaviGator) I would say that it’s best to understand that the project do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
... that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (construction, syntax and functionality) through this project and by working hard to meet the customer’s needs. At the end of the project, students had a chance to present t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...n an ongoing learning experience, and one I’d like to share more about with you! As podcast fans ourselves, we thought it would be interesting and fun to put our discussions out into the world in the form of a podcast, providing anytime, anywhere access to ideas, questions and considerations f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
... To make a copy of a list use the special list method .copy(): a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] b = a.copy( ) Using the .copy() function creates two separate lists containing the same values. Here’s another Shell demo: Example: Make a list of prime numbers The follo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists