A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...d love to hear what your favorite practices are to help make self-care a priority. Microsoft is a registered trademark of its owner. About the author: Stephanie Yi, a California native, is currently in her sixth year of teaching middle school math. This year she is teaching seventh grade m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Coding Like a Girl (Scout), and Loving It!
Like many of you, I wear a variety hats in a day — daughter, sister, wife, mom, marketing professional, runner, math education advocate, PTA member, college football fan and, last but not least, a Girl Scout leader! I started my career in engineering because I loved math and science. Both subject...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girlscouts_codingbadge
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...ermometer records the amount of heat energy absorbed by the plate color. Screenshots from the Color and Heat activity. About the author: Erick Archer is a Market Strategy Manager at Texas Instruments and works with science and STEM teachers in the implementation of TI techno...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
...representations are required. In the past, this has been the end for students, like Lillie. She and others simply had to stop learning mathematics because no graphing calculator existed that they could easily use. "This is the one tool that can do everything mathematically. Lillie now has equal a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...s makes all the difference. We began to see students debate, stating evidence by using mathematics. Here is a sample of student work from the restaurant problem. Justification of the restaurant question. Every group in this class presented their arguments with multiple represent...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...esh batteries for test day. And keep in mind that the calculator is not needed for every question; it is sometimes better not to use a calculator because it will slow you down. 2. Know the Test The Math-Calculator section of the SAT® exam is 55 minutes long and contains 38 questions. There are ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
Understanding Slope Is More Than Computing It When I first started teaching, I taught algebra I to ninth-graders. My students were similar to most — highly energetic kids that, quite honestly, had more important things on their mind than mathematics. Let’s face it: their understanding of the sl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
Origins of the Monty Hall problems “Let’s Make a Deal” was a variety game show that started in 1963 and was co-created and co-produced by Monty Hall. The format of “Let’s Make a Deal” involves selected members of the studio audience making deals with the host. The audience member would ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...he topic. Representation People need to see themselves reflected in careers they are drawn toward. In elementary school, I wanted to be an astronaut after watching Sally Ride and Christa McAuliffe. In high school, I learned about Jane Goodall and Rachel Carson and became interested in conser...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...me to reflect and write, and the ground rules are that they can’t say “nothing” and can’t propose major changes like “stop giving homework/tests.” Because I require them to be specific, they have to find some details about their learning and my teaching to discuss. Most of the time, students writ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...playing field by deleting the program for that test. There are several other ways to set up the handhelds for testing and security. You can reset defaults, RAM or the entire memory, or use “Press-to-Test” to disable programs, certain commands and apps, and block access to user data and files. Fu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
Science Sims Can Be Phenomenal!
The expression “seeing is believing” is usually true. But in science education, many of the concepts can be quite difficult for students to observe because they can be very small, very large, very fast or very slow. So how can we provide students with an experience of science phenomena in the co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/sciencesims
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...ance to write your first program and become familiar with how the commands work within TI-Basic. Now it’s time to identity a math process you want 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 Eng...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
... applicable and timely takeaways. After reviewing these, I hope you are encouraged, engaged and empowered to advance STEM education! About the author: Ariel J. Taylor, Ed.D., is the Director of UTeach Accelerate, a secondary STEM teacher preparation program for degree holders and career ch...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...act lens solutions and put full strength CLEAR CARE® straight into their eyes. On misusing this product, one consumer said, “I jammed my 24-year-old daughter’s eye under the faucet. Her eyes were burning for a couple of days.” Another said, “BURNING. My eye was bright red for pretty much the next...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...cramped classrooms, or risking their own health and safety to educate our children, the demands being placed on our teachers this back to school are daunting. But while it can feel overwhelming, remember that we’re all in this together — parents, teachers and administrators united by a common goa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
...esign process and realize that coding is not so intimidating. Engineering is pretty cool when you have a problem in which students can see themselves authentically as part of the solution. About the author: Jessica Kohout has taught all levels of biology, from on grade level to AP®, a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
The Math Behind 'Going Viral'
...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 values of b. Students then use a line tangent to the curve at a point to explore the relationship between the slope of...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
... traditional final exam, please let us know on Twitter @TICalculators. Google Slides is the property of its respective owner. About the author: Jeff McCalla, author of “TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculator for Dummies,” 2nd ed. (Wiley, 2013) and “TI-Nspire for Dummies,” 2nd ed. (Wiley, 2...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...ple. Students establish a system in equilibrium using case #1 and then stress it by adding 20, 30 or 40 more pennies to the system. The results are beautiful. In all three cases, we reach a new equilibrium with different amounts of products compared to reactants, yet the ratio is always 1.5. That...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
...ance to show your stuff.Get ready to use TI technology — combined with your coding, design and building skills — to create a model of a solution that automates or optimizes a process or product.--> Gear up, innovators! Prepare to put your creative and coding skills to the test for the 8th annual...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2025-2/p0-save-the-date
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like an Absolute Value Graph ❤ by @TICalculators
...ebra teachers in action as she creates her math valentine. Download a PDF of a blank valentine and one that’s ready to be shared. About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining TI five years ag...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/create-math-valentines
In Honor of National Chemistry Week, 5 “Organic” Ways to Incorporate TI Technology Into Chemistry Class
...e activity/lab experience. Having the TI-Nspire™ CX Navigator™ System has allowed for richer, more meaningful conversations within the whole class because of the visualization of the data, thus the ability for the whole class to experience each group’s analysis. This has empowered more of my stud...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
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