roboticsweek2021
Did you know that the best way to understand how something works is to take it apart and examine the insides? That’s why “teardown” videos are so popular — they show us what’s on the inside of everyday products without having to worry about reassembling them. In celebration of National Roboti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...ble clothes, a water bottle, and let’s celebrate International Day of Yoga by exploring yoga’s flexibility in math class. Why math yoga, you might be asking? While it started as a bit of a joke at Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, math yoga has become increasingly more popular. Meinke and Ols...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
Imagine a moment — let’s call it an awe moment — when something took your breath away, caught you off guard or surprised you. It might have been a song you heard, a play or movie you saw, a poem or book you read, a sunrise or sunset you saw, an encounter with nature, a spectacular meal you had o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
While the school year may be coming to an end, our new contest aimed at spreading the love of math is just getting started. Through September, we’re asking people across the country to recognize the parents, teachers and mentors who inspired their passion for numbers for a chance to grant them a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...us, and while it is important to set and maintain clear rules and expectations, positive energy always wins. Feeling welcomed, valued and seen is the best way to get buy-in, especially for our math-conscious students. With that initial smile at the door, you are already establishing that today, a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...hematical reasoning. Using coding to teach and explore mathematics uses all the math practice standards. Plus, when you teach students Python, you’ll be introducing them to one of the most widely used programming languages across a variety of industries. You might be asking: Just how can coding b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...d to launch an engineering career at TI. From 2+2=4, graphing y=mx+b and solving complex integrals/derivatives, my TI graphing calculator and I have been through a lot together. (I even posed with it in my graduation photos!) From using the TI-36X Pro scientific calculator and TI-84 Plus graphin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...chers and students can agree science and math are a lot more engaging when it’s all about the zombie apocalypse — and this popular activity is a sure bet to be a class favorite. With just a little planning, teachers can even take the ideas provided in this activity and expand on them across multi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...cking the winners out of so many forward-thinking and inventive solutions. We are excited to introduce you to the winners of the contest. Each member of the following teams will receive a TI graphing calculator and TI’s calculator-controlled robotic vehicle, the TI-Innovator™ Rover. Their adu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...n, and she wanted a TI-84 Plus CE to help with her math classes in high school and college. Calderon knows that getting a good education is the best way she can help herself and her family. She is currently the valedictorian of her class and student body president and continues to bring hom...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
Cheltenham High School computer science teacher Sarah Putterman, and the school’s marching band, pulled a fast one on senior drumline members Nate Norward and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
..., on a zip line adventure in Columbus, Ohio. Every other month we try and take a field trip together as a troop. I asked my manager if it would be possible for Educational Technology Consultants (ETC), like me, to lend calculators and other TI technology to Girl Scout troops and help inspir...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
In honor of National STEM Day, we want to introduce you to the Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Squad, a team of former teachers, current teachers and TI employees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been tour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
Many people know about Girl Scouts, especially when cookie season comes around and boxes of Thin Mints® and Samoas® line the break rooms of offices and accrue in the pantries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...ul animated videos with over 460 examples that illustrate and explain these essential graphs and their transformations. This easy-to-use resource can be utilized in several ways: As a teaching and learning tool inside and outside the classroom As independent study and review To augmen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
It’s Computer Science Education Week, an annual event for partners and educators to come together and encourage students to try computer science. In 2015, I was introduced to coding with students when I became part of an after-school organization with a team of teachers, students and professi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
Halloween is the first big holiday of the school year, and teachers would be ghoulish not to take advantage of students’ excitement and the Halloween spirit. Here are five of our favorite ways to tap into the Halloween spirits with Texas Instruments. No tricks, only treats! Write creepy code...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...e every day? Will you teach a little computer science history? What types of activities do you like to do? What would Computer Science Education Week be without CODE! I have tons of projects I like to use, and I’m ready to share some of those ideas with you. Do I share projects that are content s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...But this year, instead of using a graphing calculator, Shads were equipped with a perpetual license of the TI-Nspire™ CX Student Software, which will be updated with Python this fall. TI also mailed out their TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board, which allowed Shads to code lights in differ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...the winners of the contest and will receive a brand new TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator, along with a trip to Boston to visit MIT. “It’s all been kind of a blur. One minute I was making copies for a quiz and the next I’m going to Boston on a trip to MIT. So that’s a huge surprise and rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
How many times have you heard an administrator, professional development presenter or master teacher say, “100% engagement”? I have lost count. Would you believe me if I said there really is a way to engage all of your students, even the most distracted, most reluctant learner? 100% engagement i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...was frequently neglecting self-care. In 2020 — you are hearing it here first — I want to commit to some more realistic, more attainable goals to take better care of myself. So here we go with some much-needed reminders for me (and hopefully some of you) on how I plan to make self-care a priority....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
... to know their students. Math teachers relate to their students and find ways to motivate them. They tap into students’ interests to push them to do better. #4 – Math Teachers care! Math makes everything in the world work, but students can struggle to see that. Math teachers provide encourag...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
Any day is a better day with a little π (pi). Let’s celebrate Pi Day with some fun, meaningful activities that show students how the mathematical constant shows up in real life. 1: Happy Pi Day Activity Worksheets Choose from two quick-start activities; Ready-made Pi or Homemade Pi. In thes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday