5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
..., everything that uses computer commands uses microchips that are designed by electrical engineers. They are essential to connecting and powering our modern world. As you may imagine, there is a huge demand for more electrical engineers. In this activity, students combine the physics of vibration...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
... There are so many resources to explore, I could go on for pages. However, as a teacher, I know time is precious so I’ll stick to the highlights. More specifically, I’ll highlight the Python lessons by topic section. Many of these activities have already been a game changer in my classroom th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...p to NASA’s snuff, so expect what scientists and engineers call “noise” in the data you collect. It’s OK. In our tests, the washers we used exerted almost the same amount of force as the noise level on the force sensor. The noise will be accounted when you run the regression. That noise will show...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...code on your calculator. These lessons walk you through the programming editor on the calculator. Once you’ve nailed down the basics, we can help you move into the fundamentals that make up most programming languages. I’m talking about things like variables, conditional statements ( If/Then), Loo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
... Actions” and develop them further through the lens of specific mathematics content and scenarios at a certain grade band. You could read one (or more) of these books instead of “Principles to Actions,” especially if you are a classroom teacher, to better understand exactly what effective tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
If you are a teacher like me, you probably always have lots of ideas. I certainly do! Thank goodness I also have a circle of friends that share my passion and help me bring those ideas full circle. Many of my ideas seem to have a common theme: Provide fun, learning, engaging, real-world experien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
At Texas Instruments, we love a good contest or quiz that helps get students and teachers excited about math and science. And, the winner of our latest #GenSTEM contest, gets us even more excited about math and science than usual. I didn’t even know that was possible! Meet Alex Livingston, a so...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
Thanks for joining our Facebook Live office hours. If you missed it or want to watch it again, the video link is included below. Five of my favorite tips are highlighted below, but you can view more of my favorite tips and tricks for the TI-84 Plus graphing calculator in this PDF. Tip 1: Viewi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
In this post, we will go through a few introductory steps to help you get started writing simple TI-Basic programs on your TI-Nspire CX handheld. We will use a familiar mathematical procedure – computing the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few cod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...rence in the actual understanding of calculus by my students. My students were talking about mathematics and finally accepting that calculus is not memorization and imitative calculations. I am so excited to introduce you to the why and how of Mixed Six activities. I happened to be on Twitter ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
... minutes to complete them. The TI-84 Plus graphing calculator is allowed during the entire portion of the math section of the ACT.* The questions get more difficult as the problem number increases, so you should aim to do questions #1-20 in 30 seconds each, #20-40 in 60 seconds each, and #40- 60 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...plore the important, life-long benefit of knowing how to program. “I went to our activities person and said we want to start a coding club and I need money for equipment, so she gave us some ideas for fundraising,” said Kachur. “We ended up raising almost $1,000 in candy bar sales, so that we cou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
For teachers, the summer months can be a prime time for catching up on reading to get inspired and recharge your batteries for the upcoming school year. One of the most effective ways to keep your teaching skills sharp is the same thing we encourage our students to do over the summer: read. We p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
What do Chemistry Cat, toilet bowl cleaner and contact lens cleaning solution have in common? They’re all ways to take the abstract subject of chemistry and make it come alive and make sense for high school students. Throughout my career, I have strived to make this subject applicable to the rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...eywords in black and use blue placeholders to indicate where parameters belong. Python spacing can be frustrating and problematic — not anymore! Traditional Python can be tricky because it uses specific indentation for iteration and selection. Instead of squinting to see if the spacin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
#NCTMregionals Hartford 2018 Recap
...itor Workshops at #NCTMregionals Hartford 2018 Rate of Change: Algebra to Calculus What if you could help students see slope not as an equation to memorize, but as a representation of real events? Get out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collecti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/nctm-hartford
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
This is a back to school like no other; it is taking shape in living rooms, bedrooms and classrooms, and our already overworked and underappreciated teachers are being asked to do more than ever before. Whether finding ways to develop relationships with students they have never met, coming up ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
...in my biology classroom, I was able to tap into my students’ creativity and push them to excel in areas unfamiliar to them. The Inspiration In Baltimore’s Inner Harbor sits an adorable, googly-eyed invention that prevents trash from running off the Jones Falls Watershed and getting in the harbo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
...close to what they were looking for. I soon learned that this was a terrible idea, and saying, “I don’t know,” is an acceptable answer. What makes it more powerful for everyone involved is following it up with, “Let’s find out together!” Taking the Plunge This year, I took a major leap into the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
Calculus is the study of rates of change and of lengths, areas and volumes. Often, students have a hard time grasping the concepts of calculus, and even more, making connections among them. Dynamic visualization is a good tool for helping students to visualize and interact with the mathematics. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
The Math Behind 'Going Viral'
...r the star-studded selfie from the 2014 Academy Awards in which an Ellen Degeneres tweet nearly broke the Internet. Within hours it became one of the most-retweeted posts in Twitter’s history, garnering more than 3.3 million retweets. Which brings me to the question, what exactly does it mean to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/the-math-behind-going-viral
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...t as easy to identify right away. The time it takes before an infected person may show signs can be between two to 14 days. COVID-19 also seems to be more transmissible than past viruses and has spread across the globe quickly as a result. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Diseas...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
... Instruments (TI) graphing calculators — numeric, algebraic, graphical, geometric, statistical — allow me to push my students to approach problems in more than one “right way.” By connecting these environments and making student thinking visible when we dig into a mathematical situation, we suppo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...ents were pumped. No final exam — woo-hoo! To top it off, they thought that building a birdhouse would be pretty easy. I think it ended up being much more challenging than they first expected. It’s miter saw time! First, they designed a blueprint. Measuring had to be exact, showing all cal...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
Chemical equilibrium is one of the most difficult concepts for students to understand, and it’s even more difficult to find a model that will work every time. Like the late-night infomercials say, “I’ve tried everything.” I’ve used the popular method of moving water from one beaker to another ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever