5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...d you to listen to me: put on your fave jam real loud, turn out the lights, and have the craziest, sweatiest dance party of your life. When your body moves, your anxiety has an outlet to move through. Plus, how can you not feel better after dancing your face off to your fave tune? That’s basicall...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
Let’s Get Back to the Basics
...solving strategies, as well as some challenging problems that will allow for high-level thinking in the classroom. The lesson will create discussion among students while they explore mathematical concepts with the TI-84 Plus family of graphing calculators. Download the calculator printout and ans...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtothebasicsactivity
Going Back to School With Stations
...school sets the tone for the school year. It shows your students that your classroom will be filled with student voice, collaboration, engagement and movement. Stations are also a great way for students to get to know one another in a smaller and more comfortable setting and for teachers to learn...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
Professional basketball star donates TI calculators to his former high school
...t is our hope at TI that this donation helps to fuel these students’ interest in STEM subjects, which can set them up for success today, in college tomorrow and in future careers,” said TI Media Relations Manager, Ellen Fishpaw. With the ACT around the corner, the school’s Math Department Chair,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/february/tj-warren-donates
How a TI Calculator and a Few Special Teachers Added up to an Engineering Career at TI
One of my earliest memories is of me in the car, at the age of four, playing electronic math drill games on my Little Professor. For many years, my primary car entertainment was seeing how many answers I could get right in a row. I could have never imagined that today I would actually work as a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/eweek2021
The Long Road to My STEM Career
I took the long way around in my career path. Literally. I was born in Hong Kong, about 7,500 miles from Iowa City. Growing up, I didn’t have much encouragement to follow a STEM career path. My first assignment in junior high trigonometry class was to memorize a three-by-three grid of the relati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/adawoo
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
How many straws are used in the U.S. every day? If they were connected, would they wrap around the Earth at the equator? If so, how many times? In one year, would the length of straws reach the moon? What is the volume of this plastic for one year? How deep would it be on a football field? The a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
7 Reasons Why Python on the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator Is a Must-Have for Your Classroom
This month marks the release of the latest update for the TI-Nspire™ CX II family. This update (version 5.2) includes support for Python, a significant feature that strengthens the use of TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators and software in math classes. Educators can now connect coding in ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/7-reasons-why-python-is-a-must
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
...some helpful tips for classroom teachers now tasked with figuring out how to teach online. Richard Snow has been teaching with TI technology for more than 20 years and is a T³™ National Instructor. For the past 15 years, he has been teaching remotely and is sharing his top tips for successfu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
Customize your TI calculator with a 3-D printed case
...ble designs and he’s excited to add calculator cases to his current portfolio of pencil holders, drawer organizers and multipurpose tools. What’s his motivation for creating the cases? Galu said he often finds himself using the case of his graphing calculator as a straight edge when he’s drafting...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/3d-slide-case
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
... have or just introduce a topic that the students haven’t really had a chance to explore. The fascinating part is that usually the questions cover common topics, but the tests take an uncommon approach to asking the question. I am going to share two ACT® questions that do precisely that. They...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
ICYMI: Top 10 Webinars of 2019
The start of a new year is the perfect time for setting new goals and prepping for the next few months of classes. Maybe your goals are huge, year-long goals or maybe it’s a small, daily habit that you’d like to implement. Either way, one of the best ways to keep yourself motivated is by having ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019webinars
A case for handheld graphing calculators
...’s also about them taking pictures of test questions or sharing answers via text. Studies show teachers aren’t comfortable letting students use their mobile devices on an exam, citing test security as their number one concern. Internet access on personal devices that school districts have no way ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/may/why-graphing-calculators-add-up
Engineers who code
TIers who code: TI engineers share how they learned to code on their TI calculator Did you know in just 10 minutes, you can learn to code? Coding is more than just a computer language; it requires the same problem solving and curiosity needed for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/april/engineers-who-code
Prime Summer Reading for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...mmendations to add to your summer reading list: Books for math and science teachers: “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics” and “Modifying Your Thinking Classroom for Different Settings” “Routines for Reasoning” and “Teaching for Thinking” “Beyond the Bake Sal...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Best of Biology
...al dogma, that is, DNA to RNA to Protein, through the use of multiple interactive simulations. Students start with “DNA Structure” and break down the molecules that are used to create DNA. Next, they’ll explore “DNA Replication” to see the process of how DNA can make copies of itself and how that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofbiology
How to Recycle Calculators | Texas Instruments
...ed to say goodbye to your calculator. That’s why we make it easy for customers to recycle calculators in an eco-friendly way and reduce waste. Learn more about TI's commitment to operate in a socially thoughtful and environmentally responsible manner at ti.com/community. Recycling calculators ...https://education.ti.com/en/about/calculator-recycling
TJ Warren Donates TI Calculators
...ce Fermentum Vulputate Adipiscing Dapibus Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Maecenas faucibus mollis interdum. Pharetra Ornare Mattis Magna Commodo Professional basketball star donates TI calculators to his former high school Jun...https://education.ti.com/en/success-story/tj-warren-donates
AP® Calculus Resources
... In this activity, students will discuss and use multiple ways to answer financial questions involving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets. Amortization In this activity, students will d...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities
Applications and Interpretation
... In this activity, students will discuss and use multiple ways to answer financial questions involving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets. Amortization In this activity, students will di...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation
Graphing Calculators Are Now Approved for the AP® Biology Exam, but What Else Can I Do With Them?
... a bigger part of the AP® biology curriculum, it makes sense to enable students to take advantage of the learning that a graphing calculator permits. Most biology teachers may be wondering what can be done with graphing calculators other than graphing and calculating. To answer this question, let...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/april/graphingcalculatorsapproved
Analysis and Approaches
... In this activity, students will discuss and use multiple ways to answer financial questions involving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets. Amortization In this activity, students will d...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/analysis-approaches
Free Resources for AP® Calculus by @TICalculators
...h of the video types in order to help you make better use of this valuable set of resources. The videos are based on free-response questions from the most recent AP® Calculus exams. The resources are sorted by year and question number, as well as by topics. Scoring and Common Errors As the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/january/free-resources-for-ap-calculus
Madness in March Underscores the “M” in STEM
April may be the official month for mathematics awareness, but I marked it in March through five conferences on two continents and hundreds of discussions with educators who all agree on one thing: We are in a STEM education crisis. Many of my Texas Instruments (TI) colleagues and I experienced ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/mathmadness
Landing-Page
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