ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...gebra and calculus teacher from Pennsylvania. Learn Mike’s tips and tricks for using the app with your students to help make tough-to-teach concepts accessible to all students. 3. TI Office Hours: AP® Statistics (Part 2) (66 minutes) We teamed up with author and master teacher, Daren Starnes,...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
...spiring her love of math and helping to facilitate her military career. “I can honestly say that I may have never chosen this path, or been able to succeed, without the mentorship of Mr. Marr. His mathematical abilities, which are remarkable on their own, are far outweighed by his passion for tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...d-winning math team. For his prize, TI is donating $1,500 to help with expenses for the math team. “That’s huge. At most we have about $100 in our account at any given time, and we’ve been spending a lot of our own money over the years, so this is going to be awesome,” said Ms. Meinke. Ms. Mein...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
...ing a radical, the end goal, was lost in the construction of my pleasing factor tree? That's the power of CAS! On a TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS handheld, access the Factor tool from the algebra menu and type factor(300) like in figure 4, then press enter. There's my factor tree (and it’s better organi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...ctions and more Understanding the function of various parts of the human brain Investigating and discussing factors dealing with immunity and vaccines Examine the four parts of the brain impacted by the zombie virus. If you want to keep the zombie fun going for a ful...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
... 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 enrolled at Palm Beach State College, where she is already working toward her...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Going for Gold: 5 Sports-Themed Activities to Engage Your Students
... With this data, students could plot and investigate many different ideas such as: Plot time versus distance Calculate velocity Calculate acceleration Plot distance versus velocity Calculate how fast they are running in miles per hour In the screenshots above, the distance ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/goingforgold
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
.... It’s really easy to control and navigate,” said Baltimore seventh-grader Khudaijah Amin. After a bit of trial and error, just about everyone has success, but more importantly, they have fun. “It’s especially cool because we live in a world where there’s a lot of opportunities for this and it’s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...port his desire to engage students in STEM subjects. This includes serving on the Board of Directors of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas. Follow him on Twitter@pbalyta. Girls can’t be what they can’t see. On Girl Scouts Day, Peter Balyta challenges us all to #ThinkOutsidetheCookieBox to inspire a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...f inflection, maximum, minimum. This is encouraged throughout the video series. Get started: Download the Quick Reference Guide In order to access all the content, visit the Families of Functions modular course website, download the Quick Reference Guide and share it with your students. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...novator™ Hub. My students rose to the challenge with very little coding experience, as well as my limited knowledge, and we learned together. Their successful smiles and “yahoos” when they determined their errors, solved their problems and designed their own projects were contagious. As a result,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
...en student and teacher content knowledge. Starnes, a former reader for the exam, will offer tried-and-true strategies to help you and your students succeed. The YouTube Live “AP® Statistics Office Hours With Daren Starnes” begin Monday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. Central time). You w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...r than Z or 90 to go back to 65. Otherwise, you’ll end up with symbols such as the “]” as seen in the shell. For example, 3 past Z, should be C. To accomplish this, use %ord(‘Z’) to determine how far past 90 the letter was shifted. Add this amount to one less than the value of A. If we move 7 pa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...perwork, or angry parents or lunch duty, it’s to help kids realize that the highest levels of math aren’t out of reach; it is something they can be successful at,” Meyer said. He concluded: “I joke with my students that you can’t win championships in practice, but you can’t win championships with...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
... without the pandemic. Shifting our perspective to focus on the positive experiences students had, though, allows us to understand that learning did occur. It may not have looked the same as in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For instance, many students learned self-disci...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
... nice job in helping students see and understand Newton’s second law through the use of a simple simulation meant to collect data on mass, force and acceleration. Screenshots from the Newton’s Second Law activity. 3. Forces and Motion: Free Body Diagrams This activity has sev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
...nd parents to prepare for this new format. The digital test includes important changes that students and teachers should become familiar with to be successful on test day. Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam Kim Thomas, AP® test reader As AP® tests move online this s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
... dinner. However, it’s important to remember that self-care isn’t always about treating yourself in the moment, but setting your future self up for success. That may include taking the stairs instead of the elevator, eating healthy instead of snacking, drinking water instead of soda, and sleeping...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
...m Set // Solution Set April 26: Reviewing for the AP exam Click here to join our upcoming session. And, access all of our live sessions on our YouTube channel here. Can’t get enough of calculus? Check out our resources reviewing previous free-response...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...rning opportunities. A few of years ago, I wrote “Tips for Surviving the First Week Back at School.” There are many things in there that are still accurate, but I have some new suggestions in light of today’s current situation. Here are five ways to make sure that this school year is better t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
... conversion rate is under 50%, otherwise why are we having this conversation?) and then have a 50% chance of winning in overtime. Suppose your team succeeds in a two point conversion 100 X p% of the time. If they succeed, then on the next touchdown, they can simply kick the extra point and win. B...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...s what was needed. Along with the other teachers in Oklahoma Excel, we began to test and perfect Puzzle Problems. These are short, five to 15 minute accessible problems that allow students to practice justifying their answers first collaboratively, then individually with problem stems like “Which...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...y important enter key. Notice that trigonometry functions are all found in one key, trig. The bottom section of the keypad has alphabetical keys and access for symbols on the buttons marked π and ?!. Use the Scratchpad The Scratchpad is where you can perform calculations and create graphs quickly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...es along with ideas on how we can incorporate financial education using the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator and TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software. How You Can Help Your Students Become More Financially Literate 1. Educate yourself I will be the first to admit that I don’t know everyt...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...viduality to the table. What is your primary goal for the students you are teaching? I want them to leave school with skills that will help them be successful in life – whether in the workforce or just real life. Knowing how to persevere and be confident in overcoming challenges is important, esp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month