Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
Math has an impact on just about every aspect of our lives including some that we don’t often think about. Math helped change the outcome of WWII, it also shows up in the way we drive our cars and the way we manage our finances. In celebration of Math Awareness Month, here are four TI-Nspire act...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
What do Chemistry Cat, toilet bowl cleaner and contact lens cleaning solution have in common? They’re all ways to take the abstract subject of chemistry and make it come alive and make sense for high school students. Throughout my career, I have strived to make this subject applicable to the rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
#NCTMregionals Hartford 2018 Recap
...dered the math that it takes for vehicles to drive on Mars? In this session, we will code robotic vehicles using mathematics to drive, make turns and complete a challenge. Best part: no coding experience needed! Technology: TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator; TI-Innovator™ Rover Link to presentati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/nctm-hartford
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
This is a back to school like no other; it is taking shape in living rooms, bedrooms and classrooms, and our already overworked and underappreciated teachers are being asked to do more than ever before. Whether finding ways to develop relationships with students they have never met, coming up ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
...lastics, we dove into the engineering design process. They started brainstorming ideas individually and then shared them in groups. The students also completed concept sketches of their designs and had discussions about what would and would not work. Collaboration was crucial in this project. E...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
...nce in Motion using the TI-Innovator™ Rover. It was very helpful to have so many resources I could use to begin this journey, but the real test would come with my final project. The Grand Finale By the end of the year, students had a basic understanding of how to write simple programs using ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
... college math professor turned classroom teacher — because she inspired his deep love of math. In his submission, Connor wrote, “Just as my mom has become a female pioneer of mathematics and technology, I have followed in her footsteps, and because of her, am interested in the same topics.” Conno...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...ible than past viruses and has spread across the globe quickly as a result. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control have recommended social distancing to “flatten the curve” — an effort to reduce the potential for transmitting the virus from one person to another and ho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
...udents tell me everything they see on a graph. They mention things like y-intercepts, x-intercepts, high points and low points. We use TRACE and the commands in the CALC menu to find these points if they aren’t apparent by visual inspection. I then ask students if they can find a place in the e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
...uld be doing math tasks in the classroom. We need to develop better problem-solvers. The birdhouse project had roadblocks that every group had to overcome. It wasn’t as easy as they thought it would be. Designing, planning, drawing scale drawings, figuring surface area of unusual shapes — there i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
... In this example, we reach equilibrium one round earlier than in the last case and find that there are different amounts of reactants and products compared to the first case. Here’s where it gets really good. We calculate the ratio of products to reactants in each round for each simulation, an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
TI 2021 Holiday Holiday Contest Rules | Texas Instruments
... Education Technology division (“TI”), with a place of business at 12500 TI Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75243, and with a website at http://education.ti.com. CONTEST PERIOD: The Contest will begin on November 22, 2021, at 9:01 am Central Time (“CT”) and will end at 11:59 am CT on December 13, 2021 ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/holiday-contest/rules
2022 TI Codes Contest Rules
...INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. CONTEST DESCRIPTIONS: The Contest is a series of STEM-focused design challenges held in four competitive elimination rounds. Each round of the Contest presents a new challenge for teams to advance. Challenges include the creation of a Proje...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2022-ti-codes-contest-rules
2023 TI Codes Contest Rules
...CREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. CONTEST DESCRIPTIONS: The Contest is a series of STEM-focused design challenges held in three competitive elimination rounds. Each round of the Contest presents a new challenge for teams to advance. Challenges include the creation of a Proje...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2023-ti-codes-contest-rules
Spread the Math Love Contest Rules
...gy division (“TI” or “Sponsor”), with a place of business at 13532 N. Central Expressway, Dallas, TX 75243, and with a website at http://education.ti.com. The Administrator of the Contest is Golin, with a place of business at 13155 Noel Road, Suite 750, Dallas, TX 75240 (“Administrator,” and tog...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/math-love-contest
2024 TI Codes Contest Rules
...NCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED CONTEST DESCRIPTIONS: The Contest is a series of STEM-focused design challenges held in three competitive elimination rounds. Each round of the Contest presents a new challenge for teams to advance. Challenges include the creation of a Proje...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2024-ti-codes-contest-rules
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
This is the breadboard. It functions as an output platform for students to read collected data with red, blue and green LEDs. Science Olympiad, a national science/STEM competition organization, just added a new high school event called Detector Building. In the 35-year history of Science Oly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like an Absolute Value Graph ❤ by @TICalculators
...alentine. Download a PDF of a blank valentine and one that’s ready to be shared. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/create-math-valentines
Designing Your Classroom With Purpose
...ance their learning? It depends. I challenge myself and other teachers to ask themselves this question when considering how to use that precious wall space in their classroom. However, how can we do this without being dull? How can we imprint our tools and lessons into our students’ brains in a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/classroomdesign
Glossary of Terms
... app Definition: Acceptable reference to a graphing calculator application. Per common usage, do not capitalize in running text. Example: TI’s graphing calculator apps are pieces of software. ...https://education.ti.com/en/branding/glossary-of-terms
Writing Style Gulde
...o preserve its brand. Here are rules based on Associated Press style, with modifications or exceptions noted, and with TI-specific examples. If you come across an issue not covered in TI Educational Technology Guide to Style and Usage, you can check the online edition of the AP Stylebook. TI ha...https://education.ti.com/en/branding/writing-style-guide
TI Trademarks and Brands
... by a generic noun or phrase that describes the products or services sold under the trademark. Use the ™ symbol on every reference to indicate that a company (like TI) claims exclusive trademark rights to a word, words or logo: TI-Nspire™ CX CAS graphing calculator TI-Nspire™ Navigator™ ...https://education.ti.com/en/branding/ti-trademarks-and-brands
Robotics for the 21st Century | Texas Instruments
...s and restaurants. The one place where we don’t have enough robots is the classroom. Robots can be a very valuable addition to all classrooms. They come in many shapes, sizes, and don’t always look like you would think a “robot” would. There’s a common misconception that only robotics or a tech...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/roboticsweek2022
Python Modules Have More Fun | Texas Instruments
...ble platforms, and discover why using modules can be more fun, or can certainly at least save you time. Modules give us a powerful way to reuse common code These custom “support” files are easily shared among my many Python programs and can be shared with others. When developing a Python ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-modules-have-more-fun
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...never have actually related the motion to the graph and equation that models the motion with distance as a function of time. In this lesson, students compare and contrast the motion of two trains and relate their motion to graphs of distance as a function of time. For more information, downloa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra