How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...ed as a formative assessment during or after the completion of the activity. pH sensor — In this activity, using the sensor, pH of household liquids can be used to predict properties of acids and bases. Students can investigate acids and bases with this simulation as well. Swimming...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
..., you and your students can create a Fibonacci heart by reflecting one of the curves and filling in the arcs. Check out the activity and programming behind it. Little did I know that Texas Instruments was way ahead of me. Just the other day I saw that they had created their “Spread Math Love” sti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...ath specialist for Texas Instruments (TI). Since starting at TI in 2015, he has led many content development projects, including several of the STEM Behind series. Not a computer programmer by training, he has found a love for coding in TI-Basic, particularly for the purpose of teaching mathemati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...d after its original host, Monty Hall. The puzzle is presented like this: You are given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door which has a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
... multiple subjects — not just science and math, either. STEM has a role in sports, theater, music, social studies and language arts. Check out STEM Behind Cool Careers for ideas to get your students to think about STEM’s role, including high fashion and art. Many women may not choose STEM ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 Recap
...ts’ Curiosity and Creativity Into Understanding Have your students wondered how driverless cars work? Have you considered 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...'s more than one way to do things. It’s not just about showing kids how to do one problem but about making sure that they understand the mathematics behind each problem. As a teacher, it’s important to show kids this concept in many different ways. We need to look at problems visually, concretely...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
... end of list a. The square brackets around x are required: you are adding a list (containing one or more elements) to the end of a list. List comprehension Another exciting feature of Python, list comprehension is useful for initializing a list containing different values. A traditional way of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
...lesson with zombies! Exponential growth and decay are often taught in the context of human populations, but what about zombie populations? This STEM Behind Hollywood “Zombie Apocalypse” activity explores the concept of exponential growth in the context of a zombie apocalypse. Trigg...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
For almost 20 years now, I have been an IB® teacher, moderator and examiner at three different schools along the east coast, and for seven years I have been an instructor for TI. A professional goal of mine was to somehow marry these two aspects of my life for the benefit of my students and fell...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...position with a random radius (x, y, r) somewhere on the screen. These circles continue to appear on the screen until the user presses [esc]. Simple, eh? But, then what? More on that shortly. Example 2: Yes! Or No? As you can see, this is a fun take on the old circle “YES” or “NO.” ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...cal breakthroughs continue to use machines to improve the lives of people with health issues. In this activity, students run a program for a robotic vehicle that emulates a living organism. As students observe the behaviors of the unknown “species”, they start thinking about the interactions betw...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
... links to 10 Minutes of Code (for TI‑Nspire™ CX II and TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculators), a collection of smart systems activities, robotic vehicle activities, and organized professional learning opportunities such as on-demand webinars. There are so many resources to explore, I coul...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...midating to a lot of students. Want to dip your toe in robotics before joining your school’s team? Try programming the TI-Innovator Rover, a robotic vehicle controlled by your graphing calculator. It provides an easy-on-ramp to robotics using the TI-Basic programming language. TI also provides f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...scientists at TI, sat in the cockpit of a flight simulator at Dallas’ Love Field and filmed his starring role in a special, aviation edition of STEM Behind Cool Careers -- STEM on the Fly. “My trip to Dallas was an amazing way to see the different sides of flying and opened my eyes to the many ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
... Record and I presented, if you want to learn more about these Mixed Six activities. In the on-demand version of the webinar, we discuss the concept behind a Mixed Six and talk about how to write one. We also go over a few samples from various math courses in the high school curriculum. If you wa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
... 9am CT and end on Dec. 16 at 11:59pm CT. Don’t delay — enter the sweepstakes today! Holiday Social Media Contest About the author: Kareya Saleh is the Social Media Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. It’s the mathiest season of all! And we want to make sure you’re ready...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...very thought-provoking topics that left attendees wanting to make moves. They each shared personal stories that resonated with attendees. Michelle Rinehart gave us action items, like publicly celebrating women’s successes and encouraging women to pursue new leadership roles. These action items hi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...ol® and The Works®. Not only do these cleaners vary in cost per mL, but they also vary in effectiveness, as students soon discover. The main concept behind this lab is for students to perform several microscaled titrations and determine the acid concentration in each cleaner. I have students use ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...hey only need to recognize which one to select. It also avoids keyword typos. Notice, the templates below have the keywords in black and use blue placeholders to indicate where parameters belong. Python spacing can be frustrating and problematic — not anymore! Traditional Python can b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
#NCTMregionals Hartford 2018 Recap
...resentation Driving On Mars: A Coding Problem Have your students wondered how driverless cars work? Have you considered 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/nctm-hartford
Summer of STEM: Loop to Loop Cups
... that uses a ball. Tennis and baseball are prime examples. Below, see a video of this experiment and others in action: Defy gravity by using household items to create a launcher that soars through the air. Summer of STEM: Loop to Loop Cups Erick Archer Summer of STEM: Loop to Loop C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/cups
How Else Can We Show This?
..., the X-value is 0. At a relative maximum, the Y-values increase then decrease; at a minimum, the opposite is true. In order to make this numerical behavior apparent, use a smaller Table increment DTBL to “zoom in” on the table. This video shows the process for Y = x3 – 2x2 – x + 3. For this ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
... with a ratio of 1.5 product pennies for every one reactant penny at equilibrium. That’s pretty powerful and is directly applicable to the chemistry behind systems in equilibrium. What I like is that we have a concrete and reliable physical model that students can actually see, manipulate and ana...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
NASA Events Calendar
...m. Pharetra Ornare Mattis Magna Commodo As part of NASA and Texas Instruments’ The Search for STEMnauts contest, NASA is providing live, behind-the-scenes access and a chance to interact live with various experts. Each week, a new “virtual field trip” will take place at a different NA...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/nasa-event-calendar