Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
... you think of (the idea for) your project? “We thought of the issue of feeding animals while their owners are away, something our classmates struggled with sometimes.” — NaviGator How we thought of our idea for the project was based off of a motive that we had to increase the amou...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
... provide an overview of several topics in a sequence, starting with transformations and followed by congruence, similarity, then distance, right triangles and circles. Check out Smart Space for your class 3. Math video lessons Are your students using TI-Nspire™ CX II graphin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
... increase participation and retention of historically underrepresented K–12 youth in STEM fields. Established as a joint venture in 1993 between NASA Glenn Research Center and Cuyahoga Community College, the project grew from a single mobile AEL to a national organization, now called NASA MUREP M...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...tions on the first page, which students turn in before using the calculator for the remainder of the test. On shorter quizzes, there may only be a single question for students to answer without technology, so I walk around and check each student’s paper in real time before they take out their cal...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
... n is an odd number between 5 and 11. The is the number of vertices on the polygon. To make a regular polygon we use 360/n for the turtle’s turning angle since the sum of the exterior angles of a polygon is 360 degrees. But ... r is the number of revolutions the turtle makes to complete a star ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Who knew math had moves?
...alongside them. MaKenzie Kennedy, who can be seen dancing along with her team’s Rover, said her math skills were a big help. “You have to know your angles, degrees, how far you want to move up, how far you want to move backward," she said. Students at Reagan High School in San Antonio face-off ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Decorate Your Classroom With TI | Texas Instruments
There’s nothing quite like a newly spruced up classroom to kick off another school year. And we know getting your classroom decorations organized and set up is simply a must for back to school! To help make your classroom glow up easy and FREE, we’ve rounded up a set of awesome resources to fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/classroom-decorations
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
... directly into the activity. These extensions also act as more exam style questions for teachers to use. Example: Further IB® extension (arcs and angles) A surveyor standing on the bank of the Reedy River measures the equal distance to the far left end and the far right end of the Liberty Brid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...balloons, sky writing, and more … but yes, even calculators are being used to make a fun — and unique — promposal to get a “yes”, and maybe even a giggle too. I mean, who can say no to a pretty little calculator screen? Let’s take a look at two examples that I wrote for the TI-Nspire™ CX II gra...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...ting solutions for people who have lost limbs to developing medical solutions, such as artificial organs. These problem-solvers are becoming increasingly important as technological breakthroughs continue to use machines to improve the lives of people with health issues. In this activity, students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
... knowing that help me display strings and integer variables in Python? The words string, integer, variable and concatenation do help me complete a Google search or an index search in a Python book. So, the adult version of me tries to instill in students the desire to know proper vocabulary and t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
... is full of things only you think are fun – protractors, compasses, and stacks of graph paper. Science teachers get all the good stuff: funny-looking glassware, vented goggles, lab coats. But what you want to keep an eye out for are sensors and data collecting devices. In the case of our project ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
Learn to Code with Your TI Graphing Calculator
...oller controlled by your graphing calculator. It has a built-in RGB LED and speaker so that you can write a program to play a song, like the Star Spangled Banner, using the speaker on the Hub, and then create a corresponding patriotic light show using the LEDs. What’s really cool about microcon...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/learntocode
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
It’s summertime — a perfect time to recharge and catch up on some reading. There’s nothing like a good book to expand your mind and inspire. Plus, snuggling into the couch to read is a great way to beat the heat. We’ve gathered a list of seven books that every math teacher can enjoy and maybe ev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...bably explain: I had no coding experience prior to working with TI and the TI STEM Team. Okay, I took a Fortran class in 1993 and don’t remember a single thing, except the sound of the dot matrix printer printing my program to turn into my teacher. I am a classroom chemistry teacher by trade and ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...ol Cadet Program, an auxiliary of the U.S Air Force. We’ve since learned Alex is one of the youngest members of his local flying club to solo pilot a glider and has logged nearly 25 hours of flight time in his young life. He’s kind of a big deal! High school student inspires “STEM on the Fly,” ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
... to automate. In this post, we’re going to write a program that calculates the slope of a line between two points. STEP 3: Break it down into plain English Using pseudocode is a good way to introduce students to the logic of a program without having to know the coding language. Pseudocode, while ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...ixed Six activities. I happened to be on Twitter one Saturday morning in early March and saw a post by Ben Gordon (@mathsmrgordon). He shared a Google drive full of middle school level Mixed Six activities. I was instantly intrigued by this concept. A Mixed Six is basically a mathematical ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
... can be a math person — and this book will help. Recommended by our @TICalculators social media team, it’s designed for kids (and their parents) struggling with math anxiety and looking for a new approach to homework, studying, tests and marks. The most common problem areas in the curriculum are ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...her said, “BURNING. My eye was bright red for pretty much the next 24 hours, to the point that I refused to do anything social that didn’t include sunglasses. I’m so paranoid about solution now.” The lesson of this experiment is that students use kinetic concepts to determine the actual amount of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...passion, and make a conscious effort to surround yourself with people who lift you up, not bring you down. Whether you’re teaching from home while juggling parental responsibilities or returning to new challenges in the classroom, realize that you may need an extra break or two in the day to mana...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
...p into my students’ creativity and push them to excel in areas unfamiliar to them. The Inspiration In Baltimore’s Inner Harbor sits an adorable, googly-eyed invention that prevents trash from running off the Jones Falls Watershed and getting in the harbor and, in turn, the Chesapeake Bay. Its n...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
...t they were ready for an original STEM project. They had to write their own programs to control DC motors and design a trash interceptor to remove single-use plastics out of waterways based on the concept of Mr. Trash Wheel. Since this was an original project, I could not directly fall back on th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
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
How Else Can We Show This?
...y connecting these environments and making student thinking visible when we dig into a mathematical situation, we support students in productive struggle and deepen their understanding.* Read on for two scenarios in which my students and I pursue multiple pathways to show and make sense of the ma...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this