Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
It’s that chilling time of the year again — no, not testing season — Halloween! Lift spirits in the classroom with these three spooky, fun math activities. Students will never know you tricked them into learning math concepts. Plus, we’ve included a costume template that will make you look boo-...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
For almost 20 years now, I have been an IB® teacher, moderator and examiner at three different schools along the east coast, and for seven years I have been an instructor for TI. A professional goal of mine was to somehow marry these two aspects of my life for the benefit of my students and fell...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
It’s prom season, and it can be hard to keep your students from daydreaming about prom night. How about an activity that will grab their attention while you sneak in some programming skills? Plus, be sure to encourage your students to participate in our TI Promposal Contest. It will provide extra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
Math is a subject that a lot of students look forward to in high school. Many students love to program their calculators to do fun things like display messages to friends, develop games or just for some extra help on their math homework. What many kids don’t know is that learning to code on the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...tudents both in and out of the classroom’s four walls. During the typical school day, we as classroom teachers are often limited to somewhat canned activities that are part of our required curriculum or scope/sequence from our district. That’s where summer camps come into the picture. The flexibi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
5+ Tips for Using the TI-84 Plus in Your Math Class
Thanks for joining our Facebook Live office hours. If you missed it or want to watch it again, the video link is included below. Five of my favorite tips are highlighted below, but you can view more of my favorite tips and tricks for the TI-84 Plus graphing calculator in this PDF. Tip 1: Viewi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/january/fiveti84tips
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
In this post, we will go through a few introductory steps to help you get started writing simple TI-Basic programs on your TI-Nspire CX handheld. We will use a familiar mathematical procedure – computing the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few cod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
In the spring of 2022, I was looking for some innovative ways to review my AP® Calculus students for the AP® exam. I read Peter Liljedahl’s book, “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics,” in the summer of 2021 and decided to implement some of the strategies from his book. My calculus classe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
Unfortunately, it’s clear the global pandemic will be with us well into the winter. This means continued limitations in test center capacity and inevitable cancellations throughout the remainder of the year. The ACT continues to add seats and sites as they work with local test centers to add ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
It’s the mathiest season of all! And we want to make sure you’re ready to celebrate in style. On social media, you may have seen our posts highlighting the picture-perfect Math Love gear that we are giving away this holiday season. Show us a sine of love by entering the sweepstakes, and it coul...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
Math has an impact on just about every aspect of our lives including some that we don’t often think about. Math helped change the outcome of WWII, it also shows up in the way we drive our cars and the way we manage our finances. In celebration of Math Awareness Month, here are four TI-Nspire act...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
I have found that there is some confusion about which calculators are allowed for use on the ACT® exam. First, let’s look at which TI calculators are prohibited according to the ACT® calculator policy. TI Calculators Prohibited on the ACT® Calculators with built-in or downloaded computer algeb...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/which-ti-calculator-for-the-act-and-why
The Math Behind 'Going Viral'
... more students as time goes on. Below are a few additional examples of exponential growth activities you can try with your students as we continue to connect math to every day concepts. Exponential Growth: In this algebra II activity, students explore the exponential function y=b^x for different ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/the-math-behind-going-viral
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
There probably aren’t too many people on the planet that haven’t heard of COVID-19. The viral contagion that caused a global pandemic has taught us a lot about the science and math behind viral transmission, exponential growth, and herd immunity. Unlike epidemics/pandemics in the past, COVID-1...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
Creative Assessments I teach at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee. A few years ago, our excellent junior English teacher, Ms. Goodman, started having the juniors do four-minute, TED-style talks instead of taking a final exam. Our awesome chemistry teacher, Ms. Dunlap, started a C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
Teaching during the holiday season can be a challenge. It takes more than an extra shot in your gingerbread latte to keep your students focused, as enthusiasm for the holidays grows with every passing day. Take advantage of your students’ excitement by incorporating these holiday-themed challeng...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
2019 Summer/Fall Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
...l Webinar Sweepstakes is a random drawing OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES 2019 Important: Please read these Official Sweepstakes Rules (“Rules”) before participating in the 2019 Summer/Fall Webinar Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes"). By participating in the Sweepstakes, you agree to be bound by these Rul...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2019-summer-fall-webinar-sweepstakes
2019 Spring Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
... Webinar Sweepstakes is a random drawing OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES 2019 Important: Please read these Official Sweepstakes Rules (“Rules”) before participating in the 2019 Spring Webinar Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes"). By participating in the Sweepstakes, you agree to be bound by these Rules an...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2019-spring-webinar-sweepstakes
2020 Winter Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
...ebinar Sweepstakes is a random drawing OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES 2021 Important: Please read these Official Sweepstakes Rules (“Rules”) before participating in the 2021 Winter Webinar Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes"). By participating in the Sweepstakes, you agree to be bound by these Rules an...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2021-winter-webinar-sweepstakes
2020 Spring Webinar Sweepstakes Rules
... Webinar Sweepstakes is a random drawing OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES 2020 Important: Please read these Official Sweepstakes Rules (“Rules”) before participating in the 2020 Spring Webinar Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes"). By participating in the Sweepstakes, you agree to be bound by these Rules an...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2020-spring-webinar-sweepstakes
2017 Email Campaign SWEEPSTAKES
... Campaign Sweepstakes is a random drawing OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES 2017 Important: Please read these Official Sweepstakes Rules (“Rules”) before participating in the Texas Instruments 2017 Email Campaign Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes"). By participating in the Sweepstakes, you agree to be boun...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/rules/2017-nuture-campaign
Finance Educator Support Program
...nal financial calculator to their classes. Our Finance Educator Support Program will send you a free BA II Plus™ Professional calculator and Emulator Software for use with your classroom PC and projection system. Your students can then follow along as you teach. They will be able to see the lesso...https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/support_borrowtitechnology_financeeducator
2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
Get ready for the 2025 TI Codes Contest. Assemble your own team to design, code and build innovative solutions — compete for the grand prize! Get details. 2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2025-2/p0-save-the-date
Sines of Spring Sweepstakes | Texas Instruments
Explore spring ideas and resources to spruce up the classroom. Enter today for a chance to win a new TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator in fun colors. Sines of Spring Sweepstakes | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/sinesofspringsweepstakes
TI 2021 Holiday Contest | Texas Instruments
Design your very own sweater and join in the holiday photo contest. Show off your cozy creation for a chance to win a bundle of prizes. Submit your design now. TI 2021 Holiday Contest | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/holiday-contest