Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...kids. With 10 stops to date, in cities from the east coast to the west coast, the STEM Squad has been showing students from elementary school through high school how to get started with coding and inspire innovation. The STEM Squad from Texas Instruments is bringing fun, interactive and hand...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...as and Texas Instruments (TI) and the TI Foundation are partnering to change that. As a company comprised largely of engineers, Texas Instruments is highly invested in increasing students’ STEM competencies, especially as we look to hire within our local talent pool. We provided funding to Girl ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...ready know and understand. All students can learn at their own individual pace. About the author: Tom Reardon taught every math course at Fitch High School (Ohio) during his 35-year career, where he received the Presidential Award and attained National Board Certification. He was an adjunct...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...ing their designs and perfecting them. The last two days were spent with a basic shell of code that they modified for their design. Frustrations were high, and lots of challenges were met and overcome with a little patience (mostly me, 28 students in this class, lots of troubleshooting) and perse...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
...TEM and the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve. Ask students to analyze the science to decide if there’s even a ghost of a chance that a ghost is haunting the highway. Designed to complement middle school physical science and high school physics, the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve engages students in explorati...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...y) — Students create “unfair” dice using a list, weighting the dice in their favor to win the game. Puzzling Number Sense (algebra and higher) — Students create a game to practice number sense used in factoring quadratics. This activity can be used with the TI-Innovator™ Hub. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
... for it on the other end. About the author: Joanie Funderburk has over 30 years of experience as a math educator, including nearly 20 years as a high school math teacher and ten years in math leadership and professional learning positions at the district, state and national level. She lives ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...ormer student Tristan Pepper who nominated him with a touching submission in the Spread the Math Love Contest. Nominated by his former Earl Warren High School student Tristan Pepper, Meyer learned in front of his principal, family, students and fellow teachers that has was among the winners of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...ionships, a focus on content is key to learning. Many math teachers plan each day, week, month and school year from a scope and sequence, providing a high-level view of the important mathematics for their grade or course. In the best of scenarios, these scope and sequence documents can feel overw...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...flow of a lesson, but you have to be a stickler — don’t allow it! 100% engagement is impossible with blurters. Try using question sticks to promote higher-order thinking. The cycle of questioning consists of think time, turn-and-talk and randomizing how you call on students. Think ti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
...s a Market Strategy Manager at Texas Instruments and works with science and STEM teachers in the implementation of TI technology. He is also a former high school science teacher, father of two sons, married to his high school sweetheart and LOVES baseball. These are some of the best physics act...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
... not endorse, this product. 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 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
How often do you hear students say things like, “I’m not good at math,” or “I don’t like math,” or “Why do I have to learn this?” In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Month, we visited Plano East Senior High School outside of Dallas to ask students how they really feel about their math teac...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
To STEM and Beyond!
...in biology and chemistry and a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is currently at Southside High School in Youngsville, Louisiana, where she teaches all levels of chemistry I and II. She uses TI technology in her Introduction to Robotics c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
... be better than before! About the author: Jessica Kohout has taught all levels of biology, including AP® Biology and marine science, at Reservoir High School in Howard County, Maryland. She is a T³™ National Instructor and sees technology as a great way to help students make real-life connect...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
... with TI’s STEM activities We’re currently having fun experimenting with a selection of activities that introduce students from middle school through high school to STEM and basic engineering. For example, students can learn how to program an alarm that alerts an owner if they forget their pet in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...s a Market Strategy Manager at Texas Instruments and works with science and STEM teachers in the implementation of TI technology. He is also a former high school science teacher, father of two sons, married to his high school sweetheart and LOVES baseball. These are some of the best middle grad...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...coding. Fast Facts About Alice: TEACHES WHAT: AP Computer Science and AP Computer Science Principles, 9th-12th grade TEACHES WHERE: Bellaire High School, Houston, Texas TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 13 years Alice in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I’ve always liked the idea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
"This calculator changed my life.”Lillie Pennington, Junior, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE CHALLENGE Lillie Pennington, 17, can keep up with any high school student when it comes to academics. The Turpin High School junior took Advanced Placement history as a sophomore and scored a fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...a try. The solution is unique. Problem 4 Solution: Because A1 is the lowest piano note with an integer frequency, it suffices to consider only notes higher than A1. If a note is k keys higher than A1, then its frequency is given by 55 X 2k/12. If the note is not an A note, then k can not be a mu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
... challenge, and the process of writing them out on visual aids helps me remember without having to look at the seating chart. I also continuously ask high school students to write their names on their papers. The note cards enable me to see their names while they write them―starting on day one―wh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... we learned that the Puzzle Problem format could be used to elicit exploration from our students. Puzzle Problem by Tracy Matthews, McAlester High School. Working individually or in small groups, the focus of the problem is the exploration and subsequent justification of the mathem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ey are averaging around 40 hours a month at $15 an hour. Before any mathematics questions are posed, talk about the situation. Is it reasonable for a high school student to work 40 hours in a month? Is it reasonable to make $15 an hour? One extremely important aspect of financial education is dis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...a: TEACHES WHAT: AP Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry, AP Computer Science Principles, and Java Programming I & II TEACHES WHERE: Knox Central High School in Kentucky TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 4 years Fatemia in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I was originally in the field of gr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...in biology and chemistry and a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is currently at Southside High School in Youngsville, Louisiana, where she teaches all levels of chemistry I and II. She uses TI technology in her Introduction to Robotics c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students