Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...v/news/fact-sheets/2017/11/women-stem-2017-update. About the author: Jessica Kohout has taught all levels of biology, from on grade level to AP®, at Reservoir High School in Howard County, Md. She became a T3™ Regional Instructor in 2015 and sees technology as a great way to help student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
... we had. (NaviGator) I really enjoyed the critical thinking put into the project’s programming and building portions. I took a more intricate approach to solving potential problems with our model: working backward. I found potential problems and worked backward to prevent them from occurr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
... years. This summer (like many other summers), we organized and led a two-day face-to-face (yay!) T³™ Summer Workshop “Leveraging the TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator for ACT® Test Success” which took place in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Presenter, Corey Boby, engaging with participants duri...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
End-of-Marking Period Feedback Is a Two-Way Street
...k and participation. If I stopped after reporting grades to my students, our communication would be a one-way, dead-end street. Instead, I want to capitalize on the opportunity to have an ongoing dialogue about how the students interpret their results and how they view their learning and my tea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/end-of-marking-period-feedback
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...a math educator. We keep each episode to about 30-minutes long, knowing that educators’ time is precious and knowing that concise, succinct ideas are appreciated. Why is it “Room To Grow”? We chose the title “Room To Grow” because we appreciate the double meaning: We want the podcast to feel lik...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
IB® Exam Resources, Tips and Tricks | Texas Instruments
... for TI. A professional goal of mine was to somehow marry these two aspects of my life for the benefit of my students and fellow teachers. When I was approached by TI in the summer of 2019 to assist in the development of an IB® resource website to do just that, I had no idea where that initial co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ibresources
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...IC keynotes (Yes,you can still register!) “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics” by Peter Liljedahl This easy read includes easily applied and practical recommendations. It also includes relevant research on what actually matters in helping all students learn mathematics. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...EM projects and the support that TI can offer when I hosted my own STEM camp through a GEAR UP grant in the summer of 2018. I had the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculators and TI-Innovator™ Hubs in my classroom and had used them with my STEM club after school. My district GEAR UP office asked me if ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Innovation in Biology
...oups and were actively engaged during the entire four days of building, designing and refining their projects. On the last day, a few groups were not quite ready to showcase their project. They had a little more tinkering to do and begged me to shorten their review for their final exam in favor o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
...What makes it more powerful for everyone involved is following it up with, “Let’s find out together!” Taking the Plunge This year, I took a major leap into the unknown by introducing coding into my biology classroom. I have never taken a coding class, and the only experience I had with coding w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Designing Your Classroom With Purpose
... vacation mode, it’s time to start thinking about another new school year. I don’t know about you, but this is an exciting time for me because I can tap back into my creative brain after it’s been sitting on standby for a couple of months. Add educational visuals to complement your curric...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/classroomdesign
Science Activities for Heart Health Month | Texas Instruments
...vascular health with your students? Here are several science lessons that will get your heart pumping! The first activity uses the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator, while the others use the TI-Nspire™ CX or CX II graphing calculator. If you do not have emulator software for the TI-84 Plus CE ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/science-heart-activities
Virtual-Ice-Breakers
...s’ facial expressions, and it limits the conversation that naturally happens in a traditional classroom. But, have no fear! We’ve created a list of quick and easy icebreakers that can be done virtually to help build human connection and a sense of community among your classes. Try one, or try a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/virtual-ice-breakers
Survey Says: Kids Like Math!
...esentations and reasoning to solve real-world problems. Many kids today are not just “math people,” they are math lovers. They understand how math shapes their world, and they crave math knowledge they can relate to. A new TI Education Technology survey of 1,000 students found that 46 percent of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/august/studentsurvey
Using TI-Nspire™ Technology To Creatively Solve ACT® Math Problems
...werful method of solving ACT® problems is to work backward. In other words, take the answers and use those to solve the problem. If you are using a graphing calculator, you can graph each answer choice until you find the correct answer. Using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, you can graph e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/actmathproblems
Engage Students With This Real-World Earth Day Activity
...u! In the Earth Day activity below, we’ll use math to help students answer important questions about societal issues like plastic pollution and the environment. You’ll investigate these real-world questions using applied mathematics, unit conversion, geometry and problem-solving. And, by the wa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/earthday
Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Virtual Teaching
...ents is to have patience. You’re going to find that some things don’t translate well into the new online setting. Teaching in a virtual environment requires a different skill set, and students will react differently. His advice: “Try not to be so hard on yourself, and show yourself some grace. It...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/distance-education
Can You Hear the Ball Bounce?
...would (theoretically) bounce? To get started, you’ll need the following equipment and materials (Figure 2): TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator or a computer with TI-Nspire™ software TI-Nspire™ Lab Cradle Vernier microphone A handful of small balls (pingpong, golf, la...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ball-bounce-activity
AP® Calculus Resources
... Title In this activity, students will differentiate between 2D and 3D polygons and shapes. 2D or Not 2D, That is the Question In this activity, students will be finding both the Surface Area and Volume of several 3D objects. 3D Surface Area ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities
Amortization
In this activity, students will discuss and use multiple ways to answer financial questions involving loans, compound interest, amortization tables, saving money using annuities, and depreciation of assets. Amortization apcalculus website ...https://education.ti.com/en/ib/activities/applications-interpretation/nspire-amortization
Solution 12660: Equations Used to Calculate Linear Regressions on TI Graphing Calculators.
... being used in the classroom. They found that mapping from the a+bx form to the ax+b form was a burden on their students, especially the introductory level students. NOTE: The TI-Nspire family offers linear regressions using either the mx+b or a+bx equation. Please see the appropriate calculator...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/12660
Solution 12185: Algorithm Used by TI Graphing Calculators for Computing Quartiles.
...some statistical software packages.Various methods can be used to compute quartiles. TI calculators use a method taught most often at the high school level.For any further additional questions please contact TI at the TI-Cares Customer Assistance form. Solution 12185: Algorithm Used by TI Graphi...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/ti-83-84-plus-family/product-usage/12185
Solution 15464: Definition of Time, Web, and Custom Settings for Axes When Graphing Sequences on the TI-89 Titanium and Voyage™ 200.
...he points (n, u(n)) for each sequence.• WEB: The web format produces a cobweb plot for a sequence U(n). It is better to use to display the graph as converging to an equilibrium point or veering off into space.• CUSTOM: The custom format is used to create phase plots to see how one sequence affect...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/other-graphing/product-usage/15464
Picturing Probabilities of Number Cube Sums
Students use ideas of ratio and proportion to investigate various ways to make a circle graph. Students create graphs to display the probabilities of the different sums that can be generated with two number cubes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/picturing-probabilities-of-number-cube-sums
Forensics Case 4 - Flipping Coins: Density as a characteristic property
In this activity, students identify counterfeit coins based on the characteristic property of density. They model data using a linear equation, interpret the slope and intercept values from a linear model, and identify a characteristic property of a substance.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-case-4brflipping-coins-density-as-a-characteristic-property