How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
When math teacher Jessica Kachur joined the faculty of Kenosha Unified School District’s Indian Trail High School, she embarked on a mission to start an after-school coding club. Her goal was to ensure that math students had an opportunity to get together and explore the important, life-long ben...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
When attending a conference, most participants hope to leave inspired, motivated and empowered with strategies and tools to make positive impacts in their classrooms, schools and educational communities. The 2021 T³™ International Conference was appropriately themed, Encourage. Engage. Empower....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
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
...Cleaners that use organic surfactants won’t work here.) I use three main brands: Lysol®, Sno Bol® and The Works®. Not only do these cleaners vary in cost per mL, but they also vary in effectiveness, as students soon discover. The main concept behind this lab is for students to perform several mic...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
... reinforcing new topics. Students don’t have to remember the exact syntax; they only need to recognize which one to select. It also avoids keyword typos. Notice, the templates below have the keywords in black and use blue placeholders to indicate where parameters belong. Python spacing can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
... like having a flexible mindset, growing and leveraging your network, and investing in yourself in order to provide students with the best education possible. Nearly 75% of teachers we surveyed expect to offer some mix or remote and in–person instruction this school year whereas only 2...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
... wheel. When upper-level ninth-grade students ask you to do something like this, you know they are engaged in learning. This project was by far the most rewarding and engaging activity I have ever participated in during my career as a teacher. I was able to see students get excited about the eng...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
Teachers are supposed to know it all, right? When I first started teaching, I was terrified by the idea of a student asking me questions to which I did not know the answer. I would imagine myself freezing on the spot, turning beet red, and jabbering about something close to what they were lookin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...raman, the July winner of TI’s Spread the Math Love Contest. Connor said he was up late one night scrolling Instagram (don’t tell his mom) and saw a post about Texas Instruments’ (TI) Spread the Math Love Contest. He knew immediately that he had to nominate her — a former college math professor t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
The Math Behind 'Going Viral'
... 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
How Else Can We Show This?
...visible when we dig into a mathematical situation, we support students in productive struggle and deepen their understanding.* Read on for two scenarios in which my students and I pursue multiple pathways to show and make sense of the mathematics at hand. 1. Riding the Curves and Turning the Tabl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...ce in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 2009. Follow him on Twitter. Follow him on Twitter @jmccalla1. You aren’t giving a final exam? Have you lost your mind? Are there other ways to assess student progress in your classes? What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam Jeff McCalla, math ...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
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
... Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the micropho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
TI 2021 Holiday Holiday Contest Rules | Texas Instruments
...e registered user of the social media account used to post the Entry. If you do not have a public Instagram or Twitter account, you can create one by downloading the free app onto your mobile device or visiting the websites for Twitter and/or Instagram and following the on-screen instructions to ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/holiday-contest/rules
Spread the Math Love Contest Rules
...on of how the content within the photo helps to spread math love. If you do not have a public Instagram or Twitter account, you can create one by downloading the free app onto your mobile device or visiting the websites for Twitter and/or Instagram and following the on-screen instructions to ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/math-love-contest
BestofChemistry
...s, start with this simulation-based activity. It goes over the basics of anions/cations and how charges work. Students can test their abilities by choosing from many different ions. Screenshots from the Why Am I Charged? activity. 7. Chemical Formula: Writing Chemical Formulas ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...table computer availability and a lack of training resources for teachers and students. In the last few years, Texas Instruments (TI) has helped to close the gap. Most schools in the country have TI graphing calculators with coding capability. TI also developed the popular TI Codes program which ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...lab experiences and learning, as well as provide an opportunity for reflective thinking and learning in the science classroom. And, it has assisted those apprehensive learners by giving them a chance to become vocal learners each day. Simulations of tough-to-see concepts In chemistry, in ord...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
Fall in Love with Polar Graphs: Top 4 Ways to Turn Heads with the TI-84 Plus
... will want to either press 0 or arrow down to ZoomFIT, either way works. Desire a bigger spiral? Try changing θmax to a bigger number. 2: Embrace those Butterflies Falling in love usually comes with butterflies? So, why not learn how to graph the butterfly curve: To do so, press the y= key. T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/polargraphlove
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...ow about adding another “R” to that list? Robotics! Robots (and smart machines) are all around us. In our homes (robot vacuum cleaners and smart thermostats), on the roads (cars with lane assist and smart backup cameras), in warehouses and factories, and even in hospitals and restaurants. The o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
Summer of STEM: Breaking Board Paradox
Put a paint stick on the edge of a table with a little less than half the length hanging off the table‘s edge. Now, karate chop it. Did it break? Of course not. It just flew off the table, still intact. Now, do the same set up – this time laying a large piece of newspaper across the part of the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/breakingboard
Adding “Class” to Your Python Code | Texas Instruments
...has attributes (variables) and methods (functions) that determine its properties and behaviors. In one of my previous blogs on creating your own promposal, I included two demo projects that use classes to define balloons and buttons in the two separate sample programs. Here’s a partial sample...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-coding-classes
Summer of STEM: Egg in a Bottle
...oil Matches or a lighter 3” x 3” piece of paper What to do: Coat the opening of the bottle with cooking oil to decrease friction. Loosely roll the piece of paper and light it with the match or lighter, being careful not to burn yourself. Drop the lit paper into the bottle an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/egginabottle
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
As you take the AP® Statistics exam, some questions will require the use of a calculator to perform a statistical test, compute a probability, or display a graph. In this post, I have compiled a list of 6 of the most important statistics features to know for the TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/apstats