Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
On Wednesday, September 19, Texas Instruments Education (@TICalculators) is hosting a Women in STEM Twitter Chat! Our goal is connect you to the awesome #WomenInSTEM community, both as a source of inspiration and a well of resources. Our panelists are female engineers, scientists, and mathematic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...ave about the field. While male and female students perform typically the same in science and mathematics classes, females are underrepresented in computer science and engineering classes. As these students continue into the workforce, women make up 47 percent of the total workforce, but only...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 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-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator; TI-Innovator™ Rover Link to presentati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...to the customer’s design constraints. This easy on-ramp freed kids to explore questions about plant physiology and consider how dry the soil should become (and how quickly that might happen) between watering cycles. Through explorations, students came to understand the architecture of the code (c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
Instagram is quickly becoming one of the world’s most popular virtual teacher lounges. Not only is this social media site a hotbed of perfectly proportioned photos, but it also has great ideas, content and classroom inspiration for teachers. From funny facts about teachers’ daily routines to mo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...graphing calculator. You will find the fireworks activity in the "Turtle Graphics" section, and you will need the Turtle module on your calculator or computer software. The code that generates one star polygon is: n is an odd number between 5 and 11. The is the number of vertices on t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
...ty sheets, and choose the activity style right for your classroom. Students can determine functions that made an image or practice transformations to complete a picture, or challenge them to create their own cat or bat design. Special thanks to Sarah Hultman for helping create these worksheets...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...omeone who uses pi in the real world. Have students explain why they chose that person and how that person uses pi in their career. Some careers that come to mind include: astronaut, mechanical engineer and carpenter. .1415926…. There’s more Pi where that came from We also have many more pi day ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/waystocelebratepi
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
If you are a teacher like me, you probably always have lots of ideas. I certainly do! Thank goodness I also have a circle of friends that share my passion and help me bring those ideas full circle. Many of my ideas seem to have a common theme: Provide fun, learning, engaging, real-world experien...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...e than usual. I didn’t even know that was possible! Meet Alex Livingston, a sophomore at Tech Valley High School in Albany, New York and an aspiring commercial airline pilot. The 15-year-old submitted a photo showing how he uses math and science regularly as a volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
...the mode key and select FULL. Tip 2: Using the Fraction Template Press the alpha key then the y= key in order to get the fraction template. In the complex example below, I use the first template. Tip 3: Investigating Transformation Graphing Using Lists Press the stat key, then select the f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
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
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
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...s Play Dreidel Have some fun with Hanukkah by asking your students to write code on their TI graphing calculators that will spin the dreidel. See who comes out the winner. 4) Happy New Year Hook up to the TI-Innovator™ Hub and challenge your students to play “Auld Lang Syne.” Take it a step furt...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
2019 Summer/Fall Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related) of TI and its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies are not eligible to enter or win. By ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2019-summer-fall-webinar-sweepstakes
2019-2020 International Baccalaureate Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related) of TI and its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies are not eligible to enter or win. By ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2020-ib-webinar-sweepstakes
2019 Spring Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related) of TI and its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies are not eligible to enter or win. By ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2019-spring-webinar-sweepstakes
2020 Winter Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related) of TI and its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies are not eligible to enter or win. By ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2021-winter-webinar-sweepstakes
2020 Spring Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related) of TI and its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies are not eligible to enter or win. By ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2020-spring-webinar-sweepstakes
2017 Email Campaign SWEEPSTAKES
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related) of TI and its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies are not eligible to enter or win. By ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2017-nuture-campaign
TI 2021 Holiday Holiday Contest Rules | Texas Instruments
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households (whether or not related) or of TI’s affiliates, subsidiaries, franchisees, and their respective contractors (e.g., TI-T³™ instructors, advertising and...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/holiday-contest/rules
Math (X)pression Quiz | Question 3 | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...]; return a; }, {}); } function serialize(obj){ var str = []; for (var p in obj) if (obj.hasOwnProperty(p)) { str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(obj[p])); } return str.join("&"); } function NextUrlReplacerWithObj(score_obj, default_url){ let ne...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/math-xpression-quiz/question-3
2022 TI Codes Contest Rules
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households (whether or not related), and of TI’s affiliates, subsidiaries and their respective contractors (e.g., TI T³ instructors, advertising and promotion ag...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2022-ti-codes-contest-rules
2023 TI Codes Contest Rules
...amilies (parent, child, spouse or sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households (whether or not related), and of TI’s affiliates, subsidiaries and their respective contractors (e.g., TI T³ instructors, advertising and promotion a...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2023-ti-codes-contest-rules