A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
.... Here’s to a new year and a better me! Plan out time just for you. I like to keep one weekday and one weekend day free every week to do things I enjoy outside of work. For example, during the week I like to make Wednesday my day of rest. On Wednesdays, I try my best to leave school righ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...ther young girls to find the same interest and confidence in math and science, so when an opportunity to partner with Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas (GSNETX) came to my attention combining all of these things, I threw my heart and head into this project to make it happen. It is such a joyful even...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
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
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...nts and provide numerous learning opportunities. A few of years ago, I wrote “Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School.” There are many things in there that are still accurate, but I have some new suggestions in light of today’s current situation. Here are five ways to make sure that ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...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 spectrum and photosynthesis in this illuminating le...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...real events? We got out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection and learned some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebra through calculus. TI-Nspire™ CX technology and CBR2 Link to presentation>> Driving On Mars: A Coding...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...lem. To me, what’s most important is being flexible in your thinking. How do you help your students learn difficult concepts? One of the best things I’ve heard is that if you're teaching something hard that you let it go a little bit, but then you come back to it. From there, you start adding...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...anks to her Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphic Calculator. She is one of more than 2,200 students nationwide who can now continue to learn and grow alongside her peers throughout high school, college and beyond. The Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator is changing the lives of students who...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
Do you have what it takes to go head-to-head with former pro-football player turned professional mathematician, John Urschel? Now is your chance to flex your mental muscles and find out. Each problem tackles a subject from chess to cryptography -- things students are naturally interested in – an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
... move around the palette, then press enter to select the function. Angles are in radian mode by default; this can be changed in the Home Screen Settings menu or overridden with the degree° symbol found on the pi π key. The TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator can verify if mathematical statements a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...ct of financial education is discussion. Students need to think deeply about these authentic examples and make connections between real-world happenings and mathematics. Then, ask your students about how much money each friend would make in a month? In a year? Pause for a moment to explain that...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...attraction between the molecules. The rate of cooling, and thus evaporation, allows students to see the data, experience the phenomenon, and use the NGSS SEP of Arguing with Evidence on which of the liquids had the strongest intermolecular force of attraction. Snapshot of the classroom us...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
The Heartbeat of STEM
...rate. To help the students that may be new to programming, comments are embedded in the Python editor page to provide support. Challenge 2 brings in modeling of the flow of blood through the heart by writing a program to blink four LED lights in a sequence to show the flow of blood through...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
Understanding Slope Is More Than Computing It When I first started teaching, I taught algebra I to ninth-graders. My students were similar to most — highly energetic kids that, quite honestly, had more important things on their mind than mathematics. Let’s face it: their understanding of the sl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...ltimately, this led to his discovery that the pitch of a vibrating string is proportional to and can be controlled by the length of the string. Strings that are halved in length are one octave higher than the original (the shorter the string, the higher the pitch). That’s why a guitar players ha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...e result. (Stiles Middle School) Based on the pet theme for this year, we first created a list of various pets that our group members had — dogs, turtles and fish. We also thought that many ideas related to helping turtles and fish would mean combining electronics with water, which would ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 Recap
...tion of real events? Get out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection. Learn some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebra through calculus. Technology: TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator Link to presentation Teachers at th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...ning key math concepts while you’re away. Bookmark this webpage for when the time comes, and take advantage of these video resources to help make things easier on you and your sub. About the author: Mark Watson is the Senior Copywriter for Texas Instruments with years of experience in the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...d, TI Teacher of the Month What advice would you give to your first-year teaching self? It’s important to know there's more than one way to do things. It’s not just about showing kids how to do one problem but about making sure that they understand the mathematics behind each problem. As a tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
... for students to check their progress, I would print out grade slips so students could clearly see each test, quiz and project grade, along with ratings for homework and participation. If I stopped after reporting grades to my students, our communication would be a one-way, dead-end street. Ins...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
...land over the summer and is back in Texas guiding students through algebra and geometry. Prepare for major classroom envy --- hers looks like it belongs in the pages of a lifestyle magazine. 5. Rachael(@rise.over.run) This teacher means business. She shares what we all love most: practical reso...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...hnology. They could perform standard functions like adding, subtracting, dividing, etc. Still, it also allowed them to chart their experiments’ findings and then overlay them to visualize the differences for comparisons. This opportunity deepened their understanding of the initial concept, like w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...lying this rule to the calculator section allows me to distinguish between a student who knows the math concept and a student who is just “trying things out” until something looks like a good answer. Exploration with technology is a worthy exercise during learning activities, but by assessment ti...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...ent way until they understand it. What are fun or unique ways you teach your students? By nature I’m a designer, I love designing lesson plans or things. I love anything that has open-ended answers because it changes students’ view that there is not always just one way to solve the problem. How d...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
...f a list. Use the .copy( ) method rather than a simple assignment statement. Lists can store other complex data structures, not just numbers or strings. Check out the other list methods found in the Python documentation. Happy winter! About the author: John Hanna is a retired teacher sp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists