mathyoga
...anton, Ohio, math yoga has become increasingly more popular. Meinke and Olszewski currently use it as a math club activity; in the classroom to teach functions, transformations and end behavior; to describe geometry and calculus terminology; to build upon social and emotional learning; and to des...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...y, and take screenshots for pasting into other documents. Give us four minutes, and we’ll give you our best secrets for TI-SmartView™ CE software. 7. Python on TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator: A Versatile and Easy-to-Use Portable Programming Platform (62 minutes) Learn how to use Python ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...ls is “Solve.” The solve tool can solve almost any equation, for any variable in the equation, including a quadratic equation in general form (figure 7). Wow! While teachers might have reservations about putting CAS in the hands of students because of this feature (Note: CAS can be disa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...OS™ to connect their calculator and capture screenshots. Here is a quick sample activity. In the GIF below, students are asked to consider a rational function, and explore points of interest, and share back screenshots of what they found interesting. Example of a template that students w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...stronauts aboard the ISS must still guard against accidental bacterial water contamination. The concept: The Drank Tank — a water purifier that can function in zero-gravity conditions to ensure the supply of uncontaminated drinking water aboard the space station See their video. The puri...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...-solving, troubleshooting and teamwork. Coding and programming in a STEM classroom covers all of the skills students need to learn, and they can have fun doing it. Using TI’s 10 Minutes of Code is a time-saving, tried-and-true way to start this process in your classroom. Happy Computer Science W...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
...nd-true strategies to help you and your students succeed. The YouTube Live “AP® Statistics Office Hours With Daren Starnes” begin Monday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. Central time). You won’t want to miss it! Below is our schedule of topics: Nov. 2: Exploring One- and Two-Variabl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...or through the chat feature. In the first coding workshop, TI instructors challenged Shads to solve lines of code for a counting game. “It was really fun and kind of challenging at first, but we were all helping each other so it was easy to go through it,” said Shad Emili Bykovsky, who’s from Cor...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...principles for math learning this year. We will get through this, and will be better educators 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 leader...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
San Antonio calculus teacher Walter Meyer thought he was heading to a meeting about funding for a gardening project, but instead he was surprised with cheerleaders, a marching band and news that he was the latest winner in the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love Contest. Walter Meyer s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...we have a common goal: ensuring our students learn and recover from the events of the last 20 months. We’ve got this! About the author: Joanie Funderburk taught high school math for 20 years and has supported math educators across the country since 2015 through her work at Student Achievem...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
... say, “I hate math.” But, they really do love when they understand – and that you make the effort to help them get it! #2– Math teachers make math fun! Math teachers know how to ÷ and conquer their math class to make it the life of the party! #3 – Math Teachers get to know their students. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
To STEM and Beyond!
... again, and this year we are all back full time. Last year, I started this little adventure with only one section of 23 students. Word got out on the fun we were having, and this year I have two sections with a total of 53 students! Some students have coding experiences from middle school or on t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...her. I want to foster collaboration, creativity and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects into the content is very easy and fun for students. Editable student and teacher documents are provided, and some even have videos to help teachers starting out. Student testi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...cosystem to observe effects of temperature and pH changes on the diversity of fish. Screenshots from the Some Like It Hot activity. 7. Classification of Life: Needs of Living Things — Photosynthesis in Plants Students will explore the relationship between the visible light spec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...ent Justification.” *Steven C. Reinhart, “Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say,” Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Vol. 5, Issue 8 (2000): 478–481. About the author: After spending 34 years as a secondary math teacher in Oklahoma, Tim Collier now serves as the secondary academic d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...ics, geometry, etc. The center of the keypad has numerical keys and operation keys, as well as the very important enter key. Notice that trigonometry functions are all found in one key, trig. The bottom section of the keypad has alphabetical keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...nd molecules. Having students collect data on the chemical phenomena helps them to “see” how these particles interact and react while making learning fun and teaching them how to become scientists. In 2015, I attended the T³™ International Conference in Philadelphia. At this conference, I was...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...result will insert Ans so the previous answer is used in the next step and you don’t have to retype numbers. Example 1: If 26 + 3x is 11 less than 79, find x. Write the equation: 26 + 3x = 79 – 11 and solve using these algebraic steps: You can also copy and edit previous entries. In exampl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
The Heartbeat of STEM
... Four-Chambered Heart for the TI-Nspire™ CX II Graphing Calculator” activity, students need to complete three different challenges to demonstrate the function of a heart. In challenge 1, students set up a simple circuit using the breadboard on the TI-Innovator™ Hub and a red LED. They also ne...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...ad to developing the concept of rate of change. For example: How far away was the person at seconds? How far at seconds? At 2 seconds? At 2.75 seconds? So over which interval, 0.3 to 1.6 or 2 to 2.75 seconds, was the person moving at a faster average rate? How do you know? A conversa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...s you win by switching in each of the 10,000 Monty Hall simulations. Even though there is an outlier, most of the dots seem to be clustered around 6,670 wins (the mean number of wins out of 10,000 single Monty Hall simulations is 6,669.69 wins). In fact, the middle 50% of wins falls be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
..., you’re not working on hardware that will make it onto the final robot, but it’s still useful. (Brookwood BITES) Do it with friends and have fun with the building and coding. (NaviGator) PARTICIPATE. (NaviGator) I would say that it’s best to understand that the project do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...students and your sub. Check out these three featured video resources for your substitute teacher to use when you’re away 1. Families of Functions If your students are learning how to graph parent functions, TI’s Families of Functions is the go-to video resource for your s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...es that I use TI-Nspire CX activities to help my classes understand concepts more deeply. Other times, we use it to support what we’re learning about functions, allowing students to physically graph and visualize how the functions work. We also sign into the Navigator System every day, regardless...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month