#TIpTuesday: July 4th Edition
...a guide to customize the show on your own calculator. Click here to download a TI-84 Plus CE program for the TI-Innovator Hub that plays the Star Spangled Banner. You can find more information about learning to code with TI technology on our TI Codes website. Be sure to share your calculator fun ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/june/tip-tuesday-july-4th-edition
roboticsweek2021
...derful way to encourage curiosity and inspire students to think like engineers. The teams were very varied in their composition — from a couple of single-student teams to groups of students — and they ranged in age from fourth graders to high school seniors. Some of the devices that were taken ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
mathyoga
...class. 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 behav...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...d with, and does not endorse, TI products. Policies subject to change. Visit www.collegeboard.org. Chrome OS™ and Chromebook™ are trademarks of Google LLC. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Befo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...t for a chance to make someone’s math dreams come true. This week, Texas Instruments (TI) surprised the first winner of the contest, calculus teacher Glen Marr from Park Vista Community High School, just outside of Palm Beach, Florida. High school senior Faith Southwick, who is the first person i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...ver, it goes much deeper. Each year, we introduce new and complex concepts that will rock our students’ world. When they know what to expect every single day, they can focus more on the actual math and less on the processes behind it. The more predictable their day is, the more fearless they will...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...d, even when you are doing complex math problems,” said Perry High School senior Olivia Lane. “I like that he is very energetic,” said senior Toree Fogle. “We can walk into class and not really want to do anything, and he will find a way to make us want to do math, even though the problems are ha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
TI Calculators + Chromebook™ Computers = A Powerful Combo for Math Class
...ok computer plus calculator mix in your classroom. Using screenshots As you create and assign activities through your LMS — such as Canvas or Google Classroom — consider the depth of exploration students can have using their own, dedicated graphing calculator. Now students can easily share t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ti_calculators_and_chromebooks
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...e effects and view collected data in various graphs. Analyze a decomposing body using TI-Nspire™ CX technology. Of course, there’s an uglier and more horrific side to solving this case: The disgusting maggots and blowflies that can infest a decomposing body. By understanding the li...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...p herself and her family. She is currently the valedictorian of her class and student body president and continues to bring home A’s despite the struggles she and her family are facing. Calderon has been in the International Baccalaureate (IB®) program since middle school and is currently dually ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
TICodesContestTips
...s microcontroller device), sensors and actuators. TI will send you graphing calculators, TI-Innovator™ Hubs and project materials to borrow for up to 30 days (while supplies are available). The projects have lesson guides and sample code which makes trying this with your class a breeze. I suggest...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodescontesttips
Girl Scouts + Texas Instruments = A Winning Equation
As a proud Girl Scout troop leader in Columbus, Ohio, I spend many hours on my council’s (Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland) website, reading the MyGS magazine and searching Google and Pinterest for programming ideas I can bring back to my troop. In my day job, I consult with schools and district...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscoutsloanprogram
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...!" Ayesha Mayhugh, Texas Instruments engineer Education is critical to our future, our industry, and to the communities where we operate around the globe. Today’s world requires STEM aptitude, and like ACT and Girl Scouts, we’re hard at work to ensure all students are prepared. Barring cookies,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
Are your students struggling with graphing the parent functions or how to graph transformations of them? Texas Instruments is here to help teachers — and students — with a video resource that contains over 250 short colorful animated videos with over 460 examples that illustrate and explain these...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... Fig. 16 Want to kick it up a notch? I think single-bit encryption might be a bit easy to crack. Let’s take the same idea, but make ten different encryption values. Since the encryption will be m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
The start of a new school year has always been my favorite time of year. The freshness, anticipation and possibilities energize and excite me as I reconnect with colleagues and build relationships with new students and families. This year, though, educators are also facing the impact of a global ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Engage All Students With Questioning Strategies
...your students. Whether you are asking your students to explain the theory behind the Pythagorean Theorem, or what the product of 2 and 3 is, every single student should be given an equal opportunity to engage in the lesson. In turn, everyone is engaged. STAAR is a registered trademark of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/questioningstrategies
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...s and exercise every day.” To this day, that has never happened. Ever. In 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
...d! We followed the plan and started with the introductory TI Codes lessons. Within 10 minutes they had written their first program. Their sweet faces gleamed when they realized they had created something on the calculator. It was inspiring to see their creativity shine through and their minds pro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...ey tap into students’ interests to push them to do better. #4 – Math Teachers care! Math makes everything in the world work, but students can struggle to see that. Math teachers provide encouragement and support. #5 – Math Teachers go above and beyond their normal duties. Math teachers go...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
... discuss. I would also take screenshots of graphs and images and upload them along with questions into a quiz in our learning management system or Google Forms to check for understanding. Hybrid setup to demonstrate activity for students at home and in the classroom. Example of data an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...sh Water — The Water Cycle Students will explore all components of the water cycle in this straightforward simulation. In addition, they can change global temperatures to see the effect on ocean levels. Screenshots from The Water Cycle activity. 4. Space: Lunar Phases — It’s ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience