Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...raffic light using the TI-Innovator™ Hub with built-in RGB LEDs and a speaker. They also used the speaker to make music and learned how to read basic sheet music to have the TI-Innovator™ Hub play the songs. The next project, where engineering design was introduced, was an automatic dispenser. T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... of activities do you like to do? What would Computer Science Education Week be without CODE! I have tons of projects I like to use, and I’m ready to share some of those ideas with you. Do I share projects that are content specific, math intensive, light on coding or coding intensive? How many li...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...but is certainly exacerbated by the pandemic: teaching students with unfinished learning from previous grades. Some key principles can help make this complicated situation more manageable. But before we think about teaching and learning math, some foundational ideas should come first. I’ll echo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-discipline by participating in virtual lessons, completing assignments and managing their time in ways that “regular school” didn’t require. Some students learned that they could engage with cont...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
...allows students to explore the mathematics of vectors such as magnitude, direction, addition, subtraction and multiplication of vectors. Screenshots from the Tool — Vector activity. 2. Forces and Motion: Newton’s Second Law Although this lesson has been around for a long time,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
To STEM and Beyond!
... where it gets really good: A pandemic plus a new hands-on course? Was I absolutely crazy? Figure 1: Students learn how to code music from sheet music. This music is played on the TI-Innovator™ Hub using Python programming and the code sound.note(“note”, time). After a crazy spr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...earning about linear and quadratic functions. This activity can be done either on a TI-Nspire™ CX II or TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator. The commands are the same, but the menus are arranged differently. Note that in this blog, I have used the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator to demo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...to the customer’s design constraints. This easy on-ramp freed kids to explore questions about plant physiology and consider how dry the soil should become (and how quickly that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
... of the configuration where students wrote code on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator was that they didn’t need to switch applications on their computers between listening to the instruction and writing their programs. They also did not need to install any applications on their home PCs. An...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
... new computer science resources from Texas Instruments? Now is the perfect time to check it out! As one of the contributing authors, I’d love to help show you around. Let’s take a look at the highlights. The main page contains Python lessons by topics, links to 10 Minutes of Code (for TI‑Nspir...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
... still register!) “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics” by Peter Liljedahl This easy read includes easily applied and practical recommendations. It also includes relevant research on what actually matters in helping all students learn mathematics. “This is definitely one ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...uilder will lead you and your students through writing code to display to the screen. These are free lessons you can display from the web or print to share with your students. STEP 2: Identify what you want to program You’ve had a chance to write your first program and become familiar with how th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...nspire,” and everything in between, #T3IC2021 did not disappoint! Finkel opened the conference by encouraging educators to create a culture of ownership, rigor and joy in their classes. He suggested that we invite students to take ownership by rightly framing their work. Frames that are too thi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...® 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 Python fits in your pocket for on-the-go practice. Student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
...nd coding skills to the test for the 8th annual TI Codes Contest. Whether you’re a seasoned participant or new to the contest, this is your chance to show your stuff.Get ready to use TI technology — combined with your coding, design and building skills — to create a model of a solution that autom...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2025-2/p0-save-the-date
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
...all through the uprights. In this activity, students will build reasoning skills by visualizing the flight of a field goal, observing relationships of time, distance and elevation, and discussing why the kick was good … or fell short. Students can visualize the vertical and horizonta...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...oom. In this follow-up post (part 2), I intend to present ideas for how CAS can be utilized to benefit the algebra II classroom. Finding a lowest common denominator In my algebra I post, the Factor tool was employed as an approach to motivate students to recognize patterns between the prime ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
A Teacher’s 5 Words That Changed My Life
...s: Choose to Challenge. This International Women’s Day, Texas Instruments (TI) engineer, Tracy Hamilton, has her hand up high to show she is committed to “choosing to challenge.” We choose our inner circle. We choose our lifestyle. We choose our beliefs. We choose our careers. I’d ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/intlwomensday
The Long Road to My STEM Career
...earning activity was the opposite of fun; it wasn’t accessible, and it penalized risk-taking. I still remember how helpless I felt because I couldn’t commit that little table to memory. I didn’t do well in that class. I failed miserably with a low F! Eventually, I recovered, and in high school I ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Prime Summer Reading for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...can lead students to independent thinking. Authors Kelemanik and Lucenta also appear as guests on two episodes of the Room to Grow podcast. They share how the power of routines is helping teachers “hand over agency to students” and go on to explain that, “Teachers are no longer the sole auth...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...ounce? To get started, you’ll need the following equipment and materials (Figure 2): TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator or a computer with TI-Nspire™ software TI-Nspire™ Lab Cradle Vernier microphone A handful of small balls (pingpong, golf, lacrosse — we’re not pick...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
Trigonometric Patterns
... prior to the start of the activity. They will move the triangle of the unit circle to find the angle measures listed in the table on the student worksheet. Students will record the values and then answer questions about the patterns in the results. Downloads ZIP ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-trig-patterns
Trigonometric Patterns
... prior to the start of the activity. They will move the triangle of the unit circle to find the angle measures listed in the table on the student worksheet. Students will record the values and then answer questions about the patterns in the results. Downloads ZIP ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches/nspire-trig-patterns
Trigonometric Patterns
... prior to the start of the activity. They will move the triangle of the unit circle to find the angle measures listed in the table on the student worksheet. Students will record the values and then answer questions about the patterns in the results. Downloads ZIP ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/84-trig-patterns
Trig Patterns
... prior to the start of the activity. They will move the triangle of the unit circle to find the angle measures listed in the table on the student worksheet. Students will record the values and then answer questions about the patterns in the results. Downloads ZIP ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches/84-trig-patterns