Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
Middle school gifted and talented students at Travis Vanguard Academy in Dallas were among the first in the world to get their hands on Texas instruments’ first robot for the classroom, the TI-Innovator™ Rover. Engineers at TI designed the robotic car, best known as Rover, to help middle and hig...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Celebrate Jack Kilby Day
...dern electronics when he shared his invention of the integrated circuit (IC). Jack's world-changing creation began with one small spark of curiosity. We believe his story can inspire students everywhere that it only takes one small spark to change the world. Use these resources to introduce your ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/september/celebrate-jack-kilby-day
#T3Learns Slow-Chat Book Study: 5 Practices for Orchestrating …
#T3Learns blog returns with a new book for the slow-chat book study. Read the Blog #T3Learns blog returns with a new book for the slow-chat book study. #T3Learns Slow-Chat Book Study: 5 Practices for Orchestrating … Texas Instruments #T3Learns Slow-Chat Book Study: 5 Practices for Orche...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/april/5-practices-t3-learns-blog
Home run activity
This TI-84 Plus activity is sure to be a hit with your classroom as baseball fever grows. Play Ball This TI-84 Plus activity is sure to be a hit with your classroom as baseball fever grows. Home run activity Texas Instruments Home run activity website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/april/home-run
Game Plan for Educators
Put together a winning plan to kick off this school year. Start Today Put together a winning plan to kick off this school year. Game Plan for Educators Texas Instruments Game Plan for Educators websitehttps://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/game-plan-for-educators
Game Plan for Students and Parents
Find helpful tips and information to make back-to-school time a success. Get Started Find helpful tips and information to make back-to-school time a success. Game Plan for Students and Parents Texas Instruments Game Plan for Students and Parents website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/game-plan-for-students-and-parents
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
In 1958, technology as we knew it changed forever. On Sept. 12, 1958, Jack Kilby, a TI engineer and innovator, invented the integrated circuit. This “building block” of modern electronics transformed the face of technology, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives. While we can’t know for sure...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
John Urschel - From the Gridiron to the Classroom
NFL offensive lineman and published mathematician, John Urschel, took his love of mathematics to a Baltimore County high school to show students how he uses math on and off the field. NFL offensive lineman and published mathematician, John Urschel, took his love of mathematics to a Baltimore...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/august/john-urschel-love-of-math
Mission Imagination
...ional competition asked students from across the country to propose solutions to challenges astronauts would face on a journey to Mars. The questions were based on the challenges International Space Station (ISS) commander Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko encountered in the first year-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...sistors, capacitors, wire, LEDs and DIP package integrated circuits. The circuit for your sensor should be assembled on a breadboard. You are not allowed to use any preassembled integrated circuit PCB boards. There are also size restrictions, so refer to the rules to ensure your design is complia...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
DIY TI Codes Contest
...year, but the creativity and coding skills these students show with their projects always impress our judges. As the contest has grown in popularity, we’ve heard about several schools and STEM programs holding their own mini versions of the contest. We love that idea! So, we decided to put togeth...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
While the school year may be coming to an end, our new contest aimed at spreading the love of math is just getting started. Through September, we’re asking people across the country to recognize the parents, teachers and mentors who inspired their passion for numbers for a chance to grant them a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
As we settle into the new school year, we find ourselves in the perfect position to set the tone in our math classes. We’ve all experienced students who are hesitant learners — they come in with the mindset that they hate math or aren’t good enough to make it through the school year. If this att...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...variety of industries. You might be asking: Just how can coding be used to enhance math instruction? Let’s look at one possible example: quadratics. We all teach it. What are some of the key ideas students should understand about quadratics? Quadratics can cross the x-axis twice, once or no...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
In honor of National Engineers Week (Feb. 16–22), a week dedicated to increasing understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology careers, I wanted to share how my love for my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TICodesContestTips
...ticipate in the annual TI Codes Contest by building and coding working prototypes of devices to solve some kind of real-world problem (big or small). We’re talking everything from an automatic pizza slicer to a free-flying robot that uses ultraviolet light to sterilize the International Space Sta...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodescontesttips
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...tivities you can try with your students. 1. Code the Flag This year, there will be approximately 10,000 athletes competing from 205 countries (however there are only 195 countries; a great topic for discussion) in 31 sports. The flag for this worldwide event has five interlocking rings which...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...n and the “TI Prize Patrol” arranged for balloons spelling M-A-T-H and the marching band to shout “surprise” when the boys returned. Nate and Jeffery were surprised to learn they were selected from more than 1,000 entries as winners of our nationwide Spread the Math Love Contest, honoring math he...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
In honor of National STEM Day, we want to introduce you to the Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Squad, a team of former teachers, current teachers and TI employees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been tour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...cious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scientists, engineers, innovators, and leaders, is truly remarkable. We’ve known for a while that gender diversity in STEM careers is lacking (women comprise half of the workforce, yet hold fewer than 25% of U.S. STE...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...troducing graphs of linear relationships, here is a screenshot from the video “How to Graph y = mx +b” that has students discover the relationship between the slope, y-intercept and the equation of a line and how to graph the line. Students should recognize that the y-intercept is always...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
StatisticsOfficeHours
...ly recorded Office Hours sessions on our YouTube channel here. Undoubtedly, this is going to be a challenging school year for students and teachers. We are committed to helping you succeed! I believe our Office Hours are a valuable addition to any learning plan as we continue to navigate the eve...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...shops from Texas Instruments (TI) and saw results in real time. For three years, TI has challenged Shads with unique coding problems, but this time, we had new obstacles: figuring out how to take our hands-on, in-person workshops online. “It’s incredible to see how this partnership was able to o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
... Warren High School. “I was really nervous as to how he was going to take it because he’s not big on crowds,” Tristan said. “But overall, I think it went really great, and he was really excited.” Tristan is now a freshman at The University of Texas at San Antonio, where he is majoring in busines...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes