Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...their exam. Make sure students know what day it is today and every day up to the day of the test. I have a few students that tell me that they forgot to do an assignment or attend an online class because they forgot what day it was or didn’t realize the time. Set a countdown reminder for ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...oo! Collaborating with the GSNETX council, we created easy-to-follow activities for Juniors, Cadettes, Seniors and Ambassadors to earn the Coding for Good, Coding Basics badge. Graphing calculators not only offer a simplified interface and approach to coding, but they are a tool that many already...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
... the next session. Sept. 14: Limits at Infinity and Infinite Limits Problem Set // Solution Set Sept. 28: Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. 12: Local Linearity and L’Hospital’s Rule Problem Set // Solution Set Oct. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
... every session that I could to learn more and to figure out how to bring this new tool back to my students. I attended a session, presented by my now good friend Jeff Lukens, on data collection, TI handhelds, and how they can be used with Vernier sensors. I was hooked! I attended every one of his...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...ence? Most math types are familiar with “the sequence.” And if you ask someone walking down the street if they know of the Fibonacci sequence, they might say that they have heard of it or him but aren’t quite sure. Once they are presented with the beginning of the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
... in music (or math for that matter). So let’s just cover a few of the basics of music by the numbers. It was Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras who discovered that you can make different sounds with different weights and vibrations. Ultimately, this led to his discovery that the pitch...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...ntest winner video. By leveraging their creativity, they learn some valuable marketing strategies as well. It is obvious that students will go the distance to differentiate their product and their team! You can see all 2022 finalists videos here. The students have spok...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...process. And, as an added bonus, the May flowers and learning that blossomed during this project lived long into the summer (figure 5), thanks to the good work of our EYW students. Fig. 5. Tomatoes and marigolds happily growing thanks to the automatic watering system. TI also off...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
5 Teachers You Should Be Following on Instagram Right Now
... whole numbers. 3. Esther Brunat (@estherbrunat) This hilarious millennial describes herself as a math teacher to hormonal high schoolers. Her life goal: fill up all the pages of her passport by the time it expires in 2021. Follow Esther for funny daily stories and math memes. 4. Kathleen(@mis...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/5-teachers-to-follow-on-instagram
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...is an art form, and all arts have their own “secret sauce.” What is the “secret sauce” it takes to effectively reach and inspire the student sitting right in front of you? “Insightful, intuitive, excellent and practical suggestions for teaching in the age of personalized education.” — Yong Z...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
BestofChemistry
...onic Compounds — Why Am I Charged? When you are ready to introduce charges and bonding with students, start with this simulation-based activity. It goes over the basics of anions/cations and how charges work. Students can test their abilities by choosing from many different ions. Screens...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers
...h. Below, you can download a problem set or two for upcoming sessions. We’ll continue to update these problems every week prior to the next session. Go here to join our upcoming session. Spring ’22 live sessions Jan. 10: Monday Night Calculus: Your Questions, Our Answers — Session ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mondaynightcalculus
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...al life, if it ever existed. In other words, its mission is to hunt directly for these “biosignatures.” But Perseverance carried another important cargo. Stowed away safely on the underside of the rover was a small helicopter named Ingenuity, initially designed as a proof-of-concept for flight on...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
Going Back to School With Stations
...Survey” station Learn about your students’ interests, hobbies, learning styles, etc. with the student survey. This survey is available in paper or digital format and serves as a great tool for relationship and community building, allowing teachers to refer to the information throughout the scho...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/backtoschool_stations
Professional basketball star donates TI calculators to his former high school
...lculators to help get the students test-day ready. “Riverside has always meant a lot to me. I started off my high school career here and it feels good to give back to the school and to this community that meant so much to me – I am happy to do it,” said Warren, who was joined by his parents a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/february/tj-warren-donates
Top 10 T³™ Webinars From 2021
...iversities and major companies. TI makes coding in Python available to students using TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculators to help prepare them for higher education and beyond. Math Activities for Students Who Hate Math Presented by Ellen Piekarski Have you had students think that “rise ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2021webinars
How To Use the TI-84 Plus Family of Graphing Calculators To Succeed on the ACT®
...prep coordinator) at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis. I enjoy the challenge of preparing students to tackle these demanding questions. In high school algebra, quadratics are studied extensively. Even so, this question is most likely one that students haven’t spent much time thinking ab...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/digital-act-84
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Lisa Goddard
...aces when they learn a difficult concept. Fast facts about Lisa: TEACHES WHAT: Algebra I and II, geometry and STEM TEACHES WHERE: Wilburton High School, southeastern Oklahoma TEACHING FOR HOW LONG: 10 years Lisa in her own words: Why did you become a teacher? Growing up, I always w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2019/march/teacherofthemonth
Investigating of pH and Conductivity during a titration of a diprotic acid
In this investigation sulfuric acid will be added to a solution of Ba(OH)2 using a pH probe and a conductivity probe. From this process the pH of first and second equivalence points will be determined along with mapping the conductivity during the titration process.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/investigating-of-ph-and-conductivity-during-a-titration-of-a-diprotic-acid
Gas Lab
Students determine the molecular weight of a pure gas in a balloon by using gas laws and trapping the gas in a glass bottle. Students watch the instructor demonstrate the lab on day one. On day two and three they practice the lab. On day four we discuss the lab and all the calculations. On da...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gas-lab
Titration Experiment
This activity is a fast and safe microscale experiment which allows students to quickly determine the molariy of three weak acids (vinegar, soda, and citric acid). Since the process involves a monoprotic, diprotic, and a triprotic acid, students recieve good exposure to the stoichiometry involve...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/titration-experiment
Groucho's Sign Shop
Students' use force sensors to investigate forces and learn about force as a vector. Similar concept to the common "spring scale" force vector lab, but with a real-world twist.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/grouchos-sign-shop
Discovering Ohm's Law
In this activity students use Vernier Voltage and Current Probes to investigate Ohm's Law. The students collect data and use their graphing calculators to perform data analysis and "discover" Ohm's Law.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discovering-ohms-law
What is Boiling?
We will investigate the effects of heat on matter by studying boiling waterhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/what-is-boiling
Silenced Songbirds
Students calculate the probable number of Golden-Cheeked Warblers present in a particular area. Students prepare a marked map, calculate the number of square miles in the marked area, and estimate the number of birds that live in the area.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/silenced-songbirds