Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
...ccording to a study conducted by students at the University of Hawaii. If you pick up every grain of sand on the Earth, colored one purple, and then mixed them up and picked one, you would be more likely to pick the purple grain of sand than you would a perfect NCAA tournament bracket (if choosin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
...s in which students engage with math and science. With this in mind, TI is focused on making improvements to classroom technology. In just the last six years, TI has introduced several new products to the market. And we continue to update our products to meet the needs of the classroom by adding...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
...n using the new TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board. Working with faculty and students from the University of Texas at Dallas, we developed a six-week after-school STEM program for students at Webb Middle School and Sachse High School in Garland (Texas) ISD. Admittedly, we had a lot to lea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
...s, students had Rover moving and grooving to the music, and so were they. “If I were a teacher I would give Rover a 100 and some bonus points,” said sixth-grader, Emma Blackburn. “It was really interactive and I had a lot of fun.” That’s music to the ears of Peter Balyta, president of TI Educat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
roboticsweek2021
...hrough their parts research. The teams discovered that over the years there were numerous mergers and acquisitions. Among the 26 manufacturers, only six U.S. companies have not been acquired by other or foreign companies and, fun fact, finding their data sheets was easier. There were also some...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
... About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI six years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
... When I taught algebra II, I used a hands-on probability activity to model exponential decay. At the beginning of class, I gave each student a six-sided dice and instructed them to stand. We’d play a game to see whose luck would hold the longest. Each round, students would roll the dice. If...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...he calculator operating system (OS) Following are some detailed ideas on how to get the most from a Chromebook™ notebook computer plus calculator mix in your classroom. Using screenshots As you create and assign activities through your LMS — such as Canvas or Google Classroom — consider t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
... About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI six years ago, Fishpaw was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
...re. About the author: Michelle Grooms is an Educational Technology Consultant for Texas Instruments. She has been a Girl Scout troop leader for six years in Dublin, Ohio, where she leads a troop of Cadettes which includes her daughter. She is married with two children and enjoys spending tim...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...recognizing patterns, spanning pre-algebra through calculus. Share this video series with your students to help them learn and discover slope with six short videos on topics as seen in this screenshot from the website. Check out the first video in this series, “What Slope Means, and Fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...s dive into each of the projects in more detail: 1. Rolling Along Imagine a game where each player has fair six-sided dice. After each player rolls the dice, the sum is calculated. If the sum is even you win; otherwise you lose. With the current parameters...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...erful of a tool it really is. I give a few simple questions on the board and have my students use their calculators to find the answers. It helps to mix it up, so I try to include questions that use decimal operations, fraction operations, exponents and order of operations. Students then share th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...roduct. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. About the author: Kim Thomas is a math teacher at Moon Valley High School in Phoenix. She is also a Title I Coordinator, a T³™ National instructor and National Board Certified Teacher. She teaches BC calculus and geometry and is ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...out, let alone spend an extra hour to get my annual medical checkup. I frequently think of self-care as something that feels good, like watching Netflix in bed or having dessert after dinner. However, it’s important to remember that self-care isn’t always about treating yourself in the moment, bu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...hings, I threw my heart and head into this project to make it happen. It is such a joyful event when different aspects of my life somewhat magically mix together. My eyes lit up when Michelle Grooms, one of our TI Educational Technology Consultants (and also a fellow Girl Scout leader), shared he...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
... of generations who find value in professional development. People are seeking out professional development not just in their twenties, but in their sixties and beyond. And I think that's amazing. We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...game clock! John Urschel, MIT mathematics PhD student and former NFL player Problem 1 | Chess On a chessboard, it takes a king, on the h4 square, six moves to reach the b4 square. How many different, six move routes could the king take? Problem 2 | Virality Suppose we have the following mode...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...onal Financial Literacy and the Council for Economic Education. These standards create benchmarks for financial concepts and skills organized around six topic areas: earning income, spending, saving, investing, managing credit and managing risk. While these standards are a great resource for fina...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...he Month What advice would you give to your first-year teaching self? Don't try to do it all. For example, I used to stay at school until five or six o’clock working on PowerPoint presentations, because I thought that everything had to be absolutely perfect. Eventually, a woman I worked with e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...o rearrange the commands and run it again. What happens? What do they learn from the results? Have them play with the color. The color is based on a mixture of red, green and blue. Each of the colors can vary in value from 0 to 255. What colors can they make? Preparing for the picture (and some...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...r a chart. In this chart, we can analyze all nine scenarios that could occur and when you win (or lose) by switching doors. You can see that you win six out of nine times. Ultimately, you only lose if you pick the car door to start (unknown to you) with and switch away from it (also unknown to yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
...hing (TI-81, TI-83 and TI-84 graphing calculators), I can remember classmates and — once I started teaching — students using the draw command on the pixelized screen to create scenes like these: Mountain pixel art courtesy of /u/LDR0213. Anime pixel art courtesy of derp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...tter. (Stiles Middle School) The teachers have spoken too — TI Codes is an official win-win! Students and projects from six years of the TI Codes Contest. Over the years, we have heard from many teachers about the different things they have learned from their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...opics with a series of full-length lessons for your students to watch, including: Dilations Translations Rotations Reflections One of six geometry lessons covering dilations. To make it even easier for your sub to fill in for you, there are links posted in the video desc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources