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... Pre-service teachers can receive discounts of 30% or more (from MSRP) on purchases of TI technology. Discounts Try before you buy. Request to borrow TI technology at no cost for events like teacher workshops, conferences and training to get hands-on experience before purchasing. ...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/special-offers
2019 TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...des Contest top-rated projects Aurora, Illinois Grand prize winner: Clever Composters Winning Team Youtube Block khybJjC9QyA Meet the finalists First runner-up:E5San Diego hpqQ7sxlFkw Second runner-up:Wasted PotentialDelaware, Ohio tp...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2019
2020 TI Codes Contest and Sweepstakes Official Rules
... of reference the "Contest"). By participating in the Contest, you agree to be bound by these Rules and represent that you satisfy the eligibility requirements below. IMPORTANT COVID-19 NOTICE: THE CONTEST, THESE RULES AND ALL DATES INDICATED BY AN ASTRISK (*) HAVE CHANGED AND ARE SUBJECT TO FU...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2020-ti-codes-contest-rules
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... Implementing Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice with TI-Nspire™ Technology Building Concepts: Expressions and Equations Building Concepts: Ratios and Proportional Relationships Building Concepts: Statistics and Probability ...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/onsite-workshops/listing
How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...I was playing something, I was happy. Throughout high school, athletics was far and away my No. 1 purpose in life. On the other end of the spectrum – quite possibly the farthest thing away from my interests – was mathematics. The mere thought of math made me anxious. What was the point of memoriz...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
...ut a miss. Talk about a lucky guy! But we’re not finished yet. If we jump all the way to guessing all 63 games correctly, assuming each team has an equal chance in every game, the probability of a perfect bracket is . That’s 1 in 9.22 quintillion. As a reminder, one quintillion is one billion bi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
Get Ready for a Math-Packed School Year
You could win this Math Love pack by entering our back-to-school contest. As the new school year quickly approaches, we want to make sure you love the supplies packed in your bag. On Instagram, you may have seen a picture-perfect pack of Math Love gear that we are giving away for this back-to-sc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschoolcontest
Find the Frequen-Z!
...eer options. But how is a teacher supposed to engage students in coding and STEM, while still getting through all of the academic standards they’re required to help students meet? There is no simple answer to this question; however, Texas Instruments (TI) has free resources that can help. The art...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...to update our products to meet the needs of the classroom by adding features that support learning under new standards. Each new product or feature requires extensive research and feedback from teachers. We have to be certain that we think of everything when designing technology for the classroom...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
We all want students to dive into real projects that tie together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in ways that inspire them to innovate, create and problem-solve. Yet, the need to cover the required curriculum, and limits on time, resources and training, complicate the task of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
--> If you follow us on social media, you’ve likely seen our new #TIpTuesday video series, but if you don’t – go follow @TICalculators on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat now! In this new summer series, we post a short Snapchat video each Tuesday across all channels that highlights q...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...the responsibility of running our school’s educational computer system, an HP2000 minicomputer with 32 CRT terminals in the early 1980s. The district quickly jumped on the personal computer bandwagon with Radio Shack TRS-80s and then IBM PC Juniors. I bought my own computer in 1984 — an Atari 800...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...y? What if we asked you to go a day without your phone, a week without lights, a month without a car or public transportation? All of these systems require technology that has evolved over time to bring convenience, safety, functionality and efficiency to our lives. Learn about a technology key t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
NASA and TI are excited to announce the design challenge winning team. A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students fro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
DIY TI Codes Contest
...o give your students some practice before the real TI Codes Contest in the spring, or you’re just looking for a fun STEM activity, here are some high-level steps for holding a DIY TI Codes Contest. Choose a challenge theme This is the prompt that guides the projects. When choosing a them...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
... (awe-less?) experience for these students. I vividly remember a high school teacher who told us that the area of the region shown in figure 1 was equal to the natural logarithm of 2. We had not yet studied how to calculate the area between two curves, and I was blown away by this result. I cou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...fits and highlight TI resources that are available for teachers, students and enthusiasts to get you programming with Python today. 6. Visualizing Quadratics | Teaching Tips (7 minutes) This video offers tips for teachers on how to use the TI-Nspire™ CX Visualizing Quadratic Expressions file ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...nce to help them win a math wish at https://education.ti.com/mathlove. Watch local news coverage of the surprise: WPBF-TV: Student's contest entry equals big win for Palm Beach County math teacher WPTV-TV: Park Vista High School math teacher honored About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Medi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
You can't spell Calculus without the letters C, A, and S, but a Computer Algebra System has unforeseen potential in any math class that requires algebraic thinking. (Try to find one that doesn't!) I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't sure I was a “CAS fan” when first introduced to it. I didn...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...the high school I attended in Sugarland, Texas. I was instantly captivated by the LED backlit screen and graphing capabilities. To simply type in an equation and have the visual in seconds, it made pre-calculus and calculus so much easier to understand. From conics to quadratics, the options were...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...of the brain impacted by the zombie virus. If you want to keep the zombie fun going for a full week of Halloween-themed lessons, download the sequel activity (available for TI-Nspire™ CX technology). Students will dive deeper into science concepts by exploring chemistry and life sciences pr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...eived dozens of entries, ranging from ways to make the ISS cleaner and safer for the astronauts, to making processes more efficient, to improving the quality of life aboard the station. The innovation and ingenuity the teams demonstrated was outstanding. Our judges had the difficult task of picki...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...s Instruments engineer Education is critical to our future, our industry, and to the communities where we operate around the globe. Today’s world requires STEM aptitude, and like ACT and Girl Scouts, we’re hard at work to ensure all students are prepared. Barring cookies, nothing could be sweet...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...ips, 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 the constant being added (or subtrac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...p from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is currently a teacher at Southside High School in Youngsville, Louisiana, where she teaches all levels of chemistry I and II, as well as a newly created Introduction to Robotics course. Thibodeaux uses TI technology to assist her teaching, rob...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti