Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
...btraction and multiplication of vectors. Screenshots from the Tool — Vector activity. 2. Forces and Motion: Newton’s Second Law Although this lesson has been around for a long time, it does a really nice job in helping students see and understand Newton’s second law through th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...ordinators or council program managers can ask a TI expert to host a virtual event. The expert can send TI calculators to the site, the girls can use those calculators to follow along during the virtual event, then the calculators can be sent back for another group of Girl Scouts to earn their ba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ta & Statistics page to model this progression (figure 4). Ask students what they notice about the model and discuss. Fig. 3. Year saving without interest. Fig. 4. Graph saving without interest. Continue the scenario by explaining that in their class, the students le...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
The Heartbeat of STEM
...tivities are available using multiple platforms and languages: TI-Basic (TI-Nspire™ CX, TI-Nspire™ CX II or TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculators) and Python (TI-Nspire™ CX II and TI-84 Plus CE Python edition graphing calculators). The activities available at TISTEMProjects.com set up students for s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
... free to skip ahead! Image courtesy of Cepheus on Wikimedia. An instructional arc for teaching probability Probability is one of those content areas that seems to get pushed to the end of the year, right before state testing. With the time crunch, the focus for teaching proba...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...ign challenge for students, where they design prototypes of useful products using TI technology. Each year students are presented with a different themed challenge. They use coding and TI technology to build prototypes of their solutions and then pitch their idea to the world in a final video. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
... for an awesome extension project with a very practical purpose. Check out the project resources for the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator using Python, the TI-Nspire™ CX and TI-Nspire™ CX II, or the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculators. Pomfret School has an aquaponic greenhouse, a space tha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...t changed the color of the LED based on their temperature. The “Digital Mood Ring” STEM project. The students also wrote code in Python on their calculators as part of this project. There were several challenges — for the students as well as for the organizers — during this vir...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...s is and always has been a self-described “tech geek,” intrigued by inventive ways to use technology to explore and make sense of the world, and that comes out when we talk about teaching and learning math. As for me, well, I was born to be a teacher. At ten years old, I was playing school with ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...tate meaningful conversations among students that support the mathematics learning goals and advance the mathematical learning of all students — from those who are traditionally successful to those who may have a history of struggling in mathematics. “The Math Pact” by Barbara J....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...ool day, we as classroom teachers are often limited to somewhat canned activities that are part of our required curriculum or scope/sequence from our district. That’s where summer camps come into the picture. The flexibility of summer yields the perfect chance to continue and/or accelerate learni...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...Expressing a problem and a solution in a way that a computer, or human, can carry it out is computational thinking. Coding on the calculator is one method to give students an opportunity to solidify their understanding of a concept and explore computational thinking. It has a similar effect of as...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...ins two problems that are typically easy if the student remembers the power rule. The 2nd task, as in the 1st task, serves as a review of the topic without getting too difficult. The 5th task, though, should be somewhat of a challenge to the students. In the case of the Power Rule Mixed Six, many...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...getting it. It’s just great to watch.” Junior Jahnai Harley said, “I joined the Coding Club because I wanted to learn more about computer science and thought it'd be cool to learn things before I go to college – and it’s fun too. She is looking to pursue computer science in college and get a care...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
...nd and Matter: A Life in Math and Football” by John Urschel, former professional football player turned full-time mathematician, and his wife, Louisa Thomas. A New York Times bestseller, this book tells the story of Urschel’s life balanced between two passions: math and football. It explores the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
... state of change, what hasn’t changed is our commitment to ensuring that students continue to achieve in math, science and STEM. But we can’t do it without you. Despite the many risks and challenges you face, you continue to “show up,” providing comfort and consistency amid chaos. For that, we ar...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...such a young age? From his mother, of course, who also happens to be his math teacher. Connor and his sister, Lauryn, both attend the small private Catholic school outside of Olympia, Washington, where they were in the same math class this past year, with their mom, Kimberly Karaman, as their tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...hools with resources for Science Olympiad, TI can also help with all things STEM. Go to www.TIstemProjects.com to see what is available. About the author: Erick Archer is a product strategy manager at Texas Instruments in the education technology division. He is a former high school science teac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Designing Your Classroom With Purpose
...ther 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 way that sticks? I love to use educational visuals that c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/classroomdesign
Field Goal vs. Ice Cream: The Ultimate Game Day Matchup
... uprights. In this activity, students will build reasoning skills by visualizing the flight of a field goal, observing relationships of time, distance and elevation, and discussing why the kick was good … or fell short. Students can visualize the vertical and horizontal components of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/thebiggame
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...or the test using the same calculator you will use on test day The math test includes some questions where it’s better not to use a calculator, even though you’re allowed to You are only allowed to use calculators on the math portion of the test, so don’t pull out your calculator in the middle ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Leveraging CAS To Explore & Teach Mathematics, Part 2
...a I post, the Factor tool was employed as an approach to motivate students to recognize patterns between the prime factors of a number and how to use those factors to simplify a radical with the corresponding radicand. In algebra II, the Factor tool can support students in finding the least commo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas_pt2
Get Out and #SpreadMathLove
...t out on your own, and get geocaching! *Terms and conditions apply. See drawing rules on the promotion landing page for details. About the author: Alison Steele is the Senior Marketing Manager for TI Education Technology in North America. She has been helping #SpreadMathLove with Texas I...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/geocaching
Summer of STEM: Disappearing Cups
...ene actually forms a solid structure in the acetone since the air has been released; the styrene re-bonds to make a hard dense plastic. Polystyrene without air can be used to make plastic forks, spoons and knives! Below, see a video of this experiment and others in action: Use an organic solv...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/disappearing_cups
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...scattered, but writing everything down will totally help you realize that: a) there probably aren’t as many things stressing you out as you initially thought, and b) that some of the things on your list aren’t that big of a deal after all. Anxiety Tip #2: Take a Brain Vacay Getting worked up over...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week