Electron Configurations
In this lesson, students will explore an interactive periodic table, using sliders to move around the table. The electron configuration of the element is displayed graphically. The electron configuration is also displayed in the standard textual form.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electron-configurations
T³™ Workshops
...enhancing the classroom Explore popular topics focused on motivating student learning “It was a very hands-on e...https://education.ti.com/en/educators/district-school-leader-resources/onsite-workshops
Mission Impossible: A Perfect March Madness® Bracket
...d passion. During this annual tradition, many will attempt to predict the outcome of each game in the tournament. But what are the odds of picking every game correctly? Spoiler alert: To date, no one in the history of the NCAA tournament has ever made a verifiably perfect bracket. Approximat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/basketball
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-Nspire™ CX Graphing Calculator
...s in every year, several features of the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator will be useful for you. In this post, I have compiled a list of six of the most important statistics features to know for the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator. 1. Regression Analysis It is unlikely that you will be ask...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/apstatstipsfornspire
AP® Statistics: 6 Math Functions You Must Know for the TI-84 Plus
...probability computation on the AP® Statistics exam. The normalcdf( command takes inputs of the mean, standard deviation, and an lower and upper boundary. This is helpful because it means you do not need to standardize (turn to z-scores) the values before using the command. Since you are allowed b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/apstats2021
mathyoga
...s. 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 Olszewski currently use it as a math club activity; in the classroom to teach functions, transformations and end behavior;...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...still feel the magic in this result. Maybe there is a lesson here for teachers. Why not expose students to results that are full of intrigue and mystery before they have the mathematical background to understand the result? For some students, this will motivate them to want to learn more mathemat...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
... to recognize the parents, teachers and mentors who inspired their passion for numbers for a chance to grant them a math wish. So far, we’ve received more than 600 entries in the Spread the Math Love Contest for a chance to make someone’s math dreams come true. This week, Texas Instruments (TI) s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...(figure 3). Being the enthused math student, I'm sure I took great delight in breaking down a number into its prime factors, then finding pairs of common factors to help simplify a radical. However, I wonder how much of the process of simplifying a radical, the end goal, was lost in the construct...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...’s father, David Calderon-Vital, was the only financial 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 c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
...levisions watching the “best of the best” do their thing and experiencing the excitement and drama of it all from our couches. Educators will be among those mesmerized with the stories they see but may find their own minds racing on all the rich opportunities for sports-related ideas to engag...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...llustrated and explained in depth. For each parent function, the videos give specific examples of graphing the transformed function using every type of transformation, and several combinations of these transformations are also included. Below is an animated GIF of screenshots from the vi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...n Spring of 2021, the AP® tests will have 3 distinct administrations. This is in response to the broad range of situations at schools across the country. Each school will choose the testing options to offer for their students, which means students will not be able to choose exam dates on their ow...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...ble to answer your questions. The YouTube Live “Monday Night Calculus” sessions begin Monday, Sept. 14 at 7 pm Eastern time, and will continue every other Monday through the end of November. Score! Below, you can download a problem set or two for the upcoming session. We’ll continue to upda...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...ojects together. 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. S...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...reative. For example, I’ve been working with educators at Rice University on a project that integrates culturally relevant art into python in a Geometry class, which is such a neat way to integrate art with coding and math. What is your primary goal for your students this year? The obvious one...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning and justification skills? In the fall of 2019, the teachers in my department be...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...er Software. How You Can Help Your Students Become More Financially Literate 1. Educate yourself I will be the first to admit that I don’t know everything there is to know about finances. However, I am a strong believer in educating myself. Start by taking this short financial literacy quiz to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Fatemia Fuson, a graphic designer turned math and computer science teacher. Fast Facts About Fatemia: TEACHES WHAT: AP Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry, AP Computer Scienc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
As a chemistry teacher, I have grown to love the inclusion of real-world data collection and analysis in my classroom instruction. Chemistry is a difficult subject for most students to grasp because of the invisible nature of atoms and molecules. Having students collect data on the chemical phen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...out giving kids a chance to stake a claim as to how likely or unlikely a random outcome is. It is all about what your gut tells you! Is it certain? Very likely? Somewhat likely? Somewhat unlikely? Very unlikely? Will not happen? For the Monty Hall problem, it is what you think is the answer to th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
...I looked to see how many preloaded emojis are on my current phone, and it said almost 4,000 emojis! Wait … what? Just think: You can use a new one every day for just under 11 years. And by the time you finish using all 4,000, who knows how many more new ones there will be! There is even a webs...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
... can simply pick out one or more relevant topics for your students to watch and let the learning begin. Families of Functions features a full library of learning modules for each function family, first starting with linear relations then ranging from quadratics to exponentials and more. From l...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
... math. Fast Facts About Katie: TEACHES WHAT: High School Mathematics Content Specialist TEACHES WHERE: Washington County Public Schools in Maryland TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 19 years Katie in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? I think it was an ingrained trait in me. I had ot...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...g additional pressure on agricultural systems, pressure that is tapping a rapidly dwindling groundwater supply. With this in mind, and eager to learn more about the operation of our school’s aquaponic greenhouse, we leveraged the “Smart Water with TI-Innovator™” project to extend our students’ en...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater