Phoenix Chase
In this activity, students will design their own track and investigate the expected speeds and g-forces for the design.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/phoenix-chase
It's Just a Lunar Phase
In this lesson, students will study the cycle of lunar phases.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/its-just-a-lunar-phase
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...or literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). I’m not talking about the drills required to perform addition, subtraction and other computational types of math. While those are certainly important, today’s technology gives our children an opportunity to focus on mastering higher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Picking the perfect bracket! Each year, millions of people across the world gather to watch an incredible display of basketball skill and passion. During this annual tradition, many will attempt to predict the outcome of each game in the tournamen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...culators in class, so that they can last all day on a single charge, and will not break if they fall from a desk. And, we don’t make changes unless many teachers and students tell us that it would solve a problem for them. Our product development team has a list of hundreds of features that have ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
... robotics, to help all kids see that coding and the basics of engineering can be easy to learn and fun," said Balyta. "After today, I’d say mission accomplished.” Click here to see Rover in action at Travis Vanguard Academy. To learn how to get your hands on Rover, and to check out some of the a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
... Juniors. I bought my own computer in 1984 — an Atari 800 — and used a cassette recorder for storing programs, and the passion kept me up very late many nights. The disc drive cost as much as the computer, and each 5¼" floppy disk held about 88 KB. Life was good. In the beginning I was coaxed...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
roboticsweek2021
...ing them. In celebration of National Robotics Week, I wanted to introduce you to the Electronics Online Challenge that was part of the VEX Robotics competition season. This teardown contest was organized by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation (with Texas Instruments [TI] as a proud ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...f our favorite math educators, Perry High School teachers Ashley Meinke and David Olszewski, to introduce you to math yoga. So, grab a yoga mat, some comfortable clothes, a water bottle, and let’s celebrate International Day of Yoga by exploring yoga’s flexibility in math class. Why math yoga,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...Provide several different ways of explaining this mystery. Fig. 2 If you or your students have never seen this before, it surely will come as a surprise, especially if you cut out the pieces and see that they really form the square and rectangle. Well, actually they do not! This i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...he station. The innovation and ingenuity the teams demonstrated was outstanding. Our judges had the difficult task of picking the winners out of so many forward-thinking and inventive solutions. We are excited to introduce you to the winners of the contest. Each member of the following teams ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Computational Thinking
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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
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...nomic success [1]. Three strategies that we can use to help our students build a foundation for financial literacy are further educating ourselves, becoming familiar with financial education standards, and integrating financial literacy concepts and skills into our current curricula. In honor of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...ollect data on the chemical phenomena helps them to “see” how these particles interact and react while making learning fun and teaching them how to become scientists. In 2015, I attended the T³™ International Conference in Philadelphia. At this conference, I was first introduced to TI technol...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
The Heartbeat of STEM
..., transport and homeostasis, but it also allows students to build electrical circuits and write a simple program to control the model. Students become familiar with coding by using the easily accessible menu-based system within TI calculators. These activities are available using multiple pla...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...ative artistic abilities. Two images that I found were the Fibonacci elephant and the Fibonacci parrot. Makes you think that these are the first of many Fibo-mojis! (I do love emojis. Check out a previous blog I wrote on this topic.) “Finding Fibo!”… even in art! 4. The number play Peop...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...ave about the field. While male and female students perform typically the same in science and mathematics classes, females are underrepresented in computer science and engineering classes. As these students continue into the workforce, women make up 47 percent of the total workforce, but only...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...include a video consultation with a team of TI experts who answer questions and provide valuable feedback to the teams about their design. Students become immersed in a complete product design experience — an incredibly valuable experience from a real-world perspective. The engineering ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...and can save time or get extra problems right by using it. As the two days moved along, we had several teachers make many discoveries. It wasn’t uncommon to hear the occasional “No way!” or “Cool” accidentally escape from a teacher’s lips. (We love this!) Jacqueline summarized her feelings aft...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
... just activities, and that teachers would also need training resources to implement the changes that would soon be upon them. The new website would become a place where teachers could find IB® aligned activities and also sign up for upcoming monthly webinars. Past webinars that discuss the change...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
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
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
... Founder and Director of Operations at Math for Love, delivered the opening keynote address at T³IC on Feb. 21, 2021. The conference included many dynamic sessions led by thought-leaders in math, science and STEM education. These sessions provided participants with new strategies and resour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...uld be doing math tasks in the classroom. We need to develop better problem-solvers. The birdhouse project had roadblocks that every group had to overcome. It wasn’t as easy as they thought it would be. Designing, planning, drawing scale drawings, figuring surface area of unusual shapes — there i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
...and get_mouse() functions as seen in the right image. If the key pressed is the “center” key (that’s the center of the touchpad or a mouse-click on a computer), then x, y = get_mouse() is used to get the current mouse position on the screen (in default coordinates regardless of any window settin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes