#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
StatisticsOfficeHours
This school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up with author and master teacher, Daren Starnes, to provide live AP® Statistics sessions via YouTube geared toward teachers and students alike. These sessions will contain content, data and questions that are directly related to the Big Id...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...e and high school physics, the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve engages students in explorations of electromagnetism, the relationship of wavelength, and frequency and practical applications of electromagnetic principles with the TI‑Nspire™ CX or TI‑Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Unrav...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
Over the past month, students have seen games, light sequences, scales and even familiar songs come to life during ShadOnline. Hundreds of ShadOnline participants solved coding problems virtually during Texas Instruments’ innovative workshops. Whether it was running a program p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...ir calculators incorrectly and usually have no idea why their answer is wrong. Inevitably, they end up raising their hands during tests with profound questions. The answer the calculator gave them isn’t an answer choice. So much for being the secret weapon! The reality is that many students lack ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
As a child, every new year my dad would ask my sisters and me to write down our New Year’s resolutions. On top of my list was always, “get straight A’s and exercise every day.” To this day, that has never happened. Ever. In 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequentl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...culator and start following the activities themselves. Our website has an easy-to-follow path that coaches the girls through each of the five badge requirements. Troop workshops. Troop leaders can borrow TI graphing calculators from TI, or have the girls bring their calculators from home, an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...love when they understand – and that you make the effort to help them get it! #2– Math teachers make math fun! Math teachers know how to ÷ and conquer their math class to make it the life of the party! #3 – Math Teachers get to know their students. Math teachers relate to their students a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
Any day is a better day with a little π (pi). Let’s celebrate Pi Day with some fun, meaningful activities that show students how the mathematical constant shows up in real life. 1: Happy Pi Day Activity Worksheets Choose from two quick-start activities; Ready-made Pi or Homemade Pi. In thes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...bservations. TI-Nspire™ CX technology Link to presentation>> 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? We got out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...jeopardized her chance to use her gift for mathematics, especially in classes like AP Statistics, where graphs and other visual representations are required. In the past, this has been the end for students, like Lillie. She and others simply had to stop learning mathematics because no graphing ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion