How I overcame my fear of mathematics and finally understood the world
...or literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). I’m not talking about the drills required to perform addition, subtraction and other computational types of math. While those are certainly important, today’s technology gives our children an opportunity to focus on mastering higher...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/january/overcoming-fear-of-math
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Picking the perfect bracket! Each year, millions of people across the world gather to watch an incredible display of basketball skill and passion. During this annual tradition, many will attempt to predict the outcome of each game in the tournamen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
Find the Frequen-Z!
...he Z note and code a program to play it when a zombie trips a light beam that will be set up by the students. The students will use a TI graphing calculator, teamwork, creativity and a TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board – TI’s microcontroller that is used by companies around the world to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/july/survived-the-zombie-outbreak
You Asked – TI Answered: Enabling Student Career Success Through Products Developed With and for Teachers
The Education Technology industry has changed over the years. Despite the changes, TI calculators have become standard tools for teaching math and science – and with good reason. This also didn’t happen overnight. For the past 30 years, we have worked with teachers to ensure that every product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/products-with-a-purpose
Five Tips for High School STEM Camps
We all want students to dive into real projects that tie together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in ways that inspire them to innovate, create and problem-solve. Yet, the need to cover the required curriculum, and limits on time, resources and training, complicate the task of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/five-tips-for-high-school-stem-camps
Dallas Students Program Texas Instruments' First Educational Robot to Dance
... robotics, to help all kids see that coding and the basics of engineering can be easy to learn and fun," said Balyta. "After today, I’d say mission accomplished.” Click here to see Rover in action at Travis Vanguard Academy. To learn how to get your hands on Rover, and to check out some of the a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/october/rocking-with-rover
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...ents will investigate chemistry and life sciences principles, observe processes such as titration, and engage in designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing their hypotheses. Grab your TI-Nspire™ CX handheld and download the files for your students. Want to look like this guy? Download...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
...truments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students from across the country to propose solutions to challenges astronauts would face on a journey to Mars. The questions were based on the challenges International Space Station (ISS) commander Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mik...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
roboticsweek2021
...ing them. In celebration of National Robotics Week, I wanted to introduce you to the Electronics Online Challenge that was part of the VEX Robotics competition season. This teardown contest was organized by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation (with Texas Instruments [TI] as a proud ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...f our favorite math educators, Perry High School teachers Ashley Meinke and David Olszewski, to introduce you to math yoga. So, grab a yoga mat, some comfortable clothes, a water bottle, and let’s celebrate International Day of Yoga by exploring yoga’s flexibility in math class. Why math yoga,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...pecially the most reluctant. Here are five ways you can start the year on a math high. 1. Warm and inviting presence While I am a sucker for bright bulletin boards and a motivational quote, you create your classroom environment. Smile — a lot. Your energy is contagious, and while it is important...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...ath team that Mr. O coaches, along with who he calls his best awesome mathematical friend forever (BAMFF), Ashley Meinke. Ms. Meinke, who teaches calculus at the school, nominated Mr. O for the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love contest. The contest honors people who are helping spread a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
Texas Instruments (TI) teamed up with NASA earlier this year to host the TI Codes Contest, where students could compete in teams to put their programming, problem-solving and creativity into practice in a space-themed challenge. We asked students to think of ways to improve a process or product...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
... provider for their family, and until she lost him, Jasmine says, “We never needed anything.” Among her wishes was a green TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator to use in her IB®: Math Applications and Interpretation class and in future college courses. It’s a wish we were more than happy to grant, a...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
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbus, Ohio Nashville, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scientists, engineers, innovators, and leaders, is truly remarkable. We’ve known for a while that gender diversity in STEM careers is lacking (women comprise half of the workforce, yet hold fewer than...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Computational Thinking
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Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
...students lack the mathematical understanding needed to solve problems and, as a result, make conceptual errors even with the help of a calculator for computations. I find it helpful to let students explore their calculators without giving them any instructions on how to use it. Most students can...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...about the question and what it means.” You can set a timer, or just feel the room as students think. By doing this, you allow your varied learners to come up with a response to your question on their own without the pressure of rushing to keep up with the typical blurters. But, what abou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...n 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I 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 hopef...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...26 ... There’s more pi where that came from We have plenty of Pi Day activities using your TI graphing calculator. Here are two of our favorites: Comparing Pi and Roots In this middle school math activity, students explore how the Pythagorean (or, should it be “pi-thagorean”?) Theorem and the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...o program an alarm that alerts an owner if they forget their pet in a hot car. Or, kids can experiment with robotics as they learn to program our calculator-controlled robotic car, Rover, to navigate a volcano on Mars. Interested in learning more? Check out our STEM resources here. #3. Join us fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...th that it takes for vehicles to drive on Mars? In this session, we programmed the new TI-Innovator™ Rover using mathematics to drive, make turns and complete a challenge. Best part: no coding experience needed and we used the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator. Link to presentation>> The Mat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...grid: each square is colored either green (if it knows a given piece of information) or red (if it does not). A red square learns this information (becomes green) if at least two of its neighbors (sharing an edge) already knows it. For example, in this situation the bottom middle square becomes g...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge