Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
This is a saga of a (nearly) career-long passion to promote computer programming in school. First, some history. ... I always found mathematics “easy” because it made sense and decided to become a mathematics teacher in high school because I could explain things to classmates better than the te...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
... to our world’s greatest problems. In celebration of the 58th anniversary of Jack Kilby’s integrated circuit, we invite you and your students to join us on Jack Kilby Day, Sept. 12, 2016, in envisioning what’s next through four hands-on STEM activities that can be easily integrated into your grad...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Mission Imagination
...they won,” said Hill, science teacher at Hyde Park Middle School. “I feel like the luckiest teacher in the world to get to work with such smart, curious and driven students every day.” As a prize, winning team members, Subhan Wade, Caitlyn Coloma, Jaiden Reddy, Isha Shah and Nicholas Ho receive a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...nductivity sensor When designing your sensor, think about the materials you’ll need. You’ll need a TI handheld such as a TI-Nspire™ CX II or TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator or a computer. A microcontroller device, such as a TI-Innovator™ Hub, micro:bit, Arduino or Raspberry Pi, is also ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
mathyoga
...le it started as a bit of a joke at Perry High School in Canton, 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 terminolog...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...imagine what life would be like without having awe moments? In fact, researchers have explored the benefits of awe and have found that it is good for us! Eight reasons why awe makes your life better In this article by Summer Allen, research suggests that awe can make you happier, healthier, hum...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...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 to set and maintain clear rules and expectations, positive energy always wins. Feeling welcomed, valued and seen is t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
David Olszewski, better known as Mr. O on the grounds of Perry High School in Canton, Ohio, has been teaching math for the past five years. Ask any of his students, or fellow teachers, and it’s clear he has quickly become a campus favorite. “Mr. O is a really fun teacher to have because he alway...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...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 graphing calculator, to my favorite, the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, it is truly a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...ncepts by exploring chemistry and life sciences principles and observing processes, such as titration, all while designing experiments, predicting outcomes and testing hypotheses. Download all the files you need in an instant. Run this way. 2. Will creepy, crawly maggots lead you to the answ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
... to nominate these two boys when I heard about the contest,” said Putterman. In her submission, she wrote, “My motivation is exponentially better because of their energy and curiosity, and they inspire me to bring my best game to teaching every day.” As part of their prize, the boys received a T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...ities, students have programmed their TI-Innovator™ Rovers to do choreographed dances. We’ve seen students program their Rovers to floss, wobble and just about everything in between. Who knew Rover, or middle school students, had such moves? Students at Falcon Elementary in Colorado Springs,...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!
...in this series, “What Slope Means, and Four ‘Flavors’ of Slope.” Review 15 parent functions and their transformations There are also modules for 14 common parent functions as well as a module focused on applying transformations to a generic piecewise function included in this video resource. He...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
... Write creepy code on your calculator Code your calculator to draw ghosts like in the image below. Have your students draw the ghost and pumpkin using transformations of functions. Here’s a snippet of code to get you started with a ghost: 0→Xmin: 0→Ymin: 264→Xmax: 164→Ymax: For(N,0,20,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...o experience coding and help students see how STEM comes to life,” said Peter Balyta, president, Texas Instruments Education Technology. Like previous years, TI instructors led collaborative coding sessions using TI software and technology. But this year, instead of using a graphing calculator,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...ar, math teachers face a challenge that isn’t new but is certainly exacerbated by the pandemic: teaching students with unfinished learning from previous grades. Some key principles can help make this complicated situation more manageable. But before we think about teaching and learning math, some...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
TI’s Response to COVID-19: We Are Here for You
... have been thrust into a new reality: virtual learning. For many teachers, it has been a crash course in preparing and delivering online instruction. Complicating matters, schools and districts vary wildly in their ability to deliver educational services. Now that we have a better understanding ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/coronavirusresponse
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
...t out their answers may help the 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 cal...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best_Of_Science
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either for in-person or virtual instruction. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring important science concepts to life for students by enabling them to test...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/best_of_science
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...ed reminders for me (and hopefully some of you) on how I plan to make self-care a priority. 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 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...i or Homemade Pi. In these activities, students learn how to gather and input the data of circular objects. Students will plot the circumference versus diameter on a graph, then calculate the slope of the data points. What will they observe about the slope? The Ready-made Pi activity is great ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
... skills over the summer.* And, when kids return to school in the fall, about nine out of 10 teachers will spend as much as three weeks on review, because of summer learning loss. The good news – your friends at TI have come up with five ways to help keep students’ STEM skills sharp this summer,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...workshop below. TI Exhibitor Workshops at #NCTMannual 2018 Exploring What's Typical: Understanding the World Through Data How do you know you can trust the data you see in a news article? Is “statistically significant” practically relevant? In this session we will collected and analyzed data to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018