Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
... terminology for analyzing a sinusoidal function after a combination of transformations has been applied: period, phase shift, point of inflection, maximum, minimum. This is encouraged throughout the video series. Get started: Download the Quick Reference Guide In order to access all the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...t of a STEM classroom. My response is always the same: My students — our students today — are in competition for jobs in the marketplace that don’t exist yet! We are not just content deliverers. We must look to the future and plan the context of our classrooms for what will benefit our students ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
...e to the correct variable. #6 — If the user’s numbers are incorrect, display the sum and product of the user’s numbers and exit the while loop. #7 — Print the number of correct problems. Fig. 6 ...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
...ing TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...dents will benefit if their teachers pare back the standard scope and sequence document to allow for more focused instruction around fewer topics, flexibility for students to make meaning of new content, and space for just-in-time support with prerequisite topics that may be unfinished learning f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
... 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 access to the technology her c...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...(the mean number of wins out of 10,000 single Monty Hall simulations is 6,669.69 wins). In fact, the middle 50% of wins falls between approximately 6,640 wins and 6,700 wins. Calculation This is the last step in the instructional arc of teaching probability, and I think it...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...fish. We also thought that many ideas related to helping turtles and fish would mean combining electronics with water, which would increase the complexity of whatever we decided to build, and given the rapid prototyping nature of this contest, that might be an issue. (Brookwood BITES) Q: Wha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...es and marigolds happily growing thanks to the automatic watering system. TI also offers a range of water-related activities, of varying complexities. Check out some of these water-related activities on the Science Nspired page. Remember, World Water Day is coming, so get those lessons rea...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...nned activities that are part of our required curriculum or scope/sequence from our district. That’s where summer camps come into the picture. The flexibility of summer yields the perfect chance to continue and/or accelerate learning for our students. If you, your school or your district, are con...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...y AP® Calculus students during the review. In reflecting about these activities, I feel that they could also be used as warm-ups to start the day or exit tickets. I hope you will check out the webinar Tony Record and I presented, if you want to learn more about these Mixed Six activities. In ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
My Top Takeaways From T3IC to Encourage, Engage and Empower
...eadership roles. These action items highlight how we need to lead and can elevate equity in our field. A tweet from T³IC attendee Krista Hoxie captured Rinehart’s action items in her 7 for 7 talk. The 33rd annual T³IC was an epic event with so many applicable and timely takeaways...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/t3ictakeaways
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
...son — 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 broken down and ex...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...you head into the new school year, with countless variables out of your control, I recommend focusing on the things you can control, like having a flexible mindset, growing and leveraging your network, and investing in yourself in order to provide students with the best education possible. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...ing TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
... is one interpretation of the definite integral f(x)dx from a to b, the area of the region R, bounded above by the graph of y = f(x), below by the x-axis, and by the lines x = a and x = b. This is perhaps one of the quickest ways to visualize Riemann sums and students can look at the left hand, r...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...models have made considerable advances in the sciences. Theoretical models can predict a phenomenon before it is ever observed. Examples include the existence of Neptune, anti-mater, the cosmic microwave background, and the Higgs boson, to name just a few. Some phenomena have a random component,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like an Absolute Value Graph ❤ by @TICalculators
...ing TI five years ago, Ellen was a broadcast journalist for 13 years, working at television stations across the country, from North Carolina to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter ...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
...jected, and meaningful lesson-enriched conversations can be conducted. This may lead to student-generated data for whole class analysis and possible exit tickets for conclusion of a daily lesson. STEM in your room TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board is a new addition to my classr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek
TI’s Path to STEM Projects Are Now Available in Python
...gram. Unit 3: Setting Analog Output — “Make a Mood Light.” Students will control the color output of a red-green-blue LED light by coding the mixing of the primary colors to create an output color of their choice. Unit 3: Mood lamp circuit diagram. Unit 4: Getting Analog Inpu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/pathtostem
Making Math Connections Visually: Five Free Activities to Use in Your Algebra Class
...ositions work. For more information, download the Teacher Notes (PDF). You can view and download the full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 5. Maximizing the Area of a Garden In this classic exploration of a quadratic relationship, students explore and optimize the relationship between the a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/visualizingalgebra
Which TI Calculator for the SAT® and Why?
...at on about one-third of the math portion of the SAT®, a calculator of any kind is prohibited. I think this is why they allow CAS calculators on approximately two-thirds of the test. The College Board® knows that students need to be able to do mathematics with and without a calculator if they wan...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/which-ti-calc-sat
Ingenuity-takes-flight
...nded on the surface of Mars. Perseverance carried an arsenal of scientific instruments designed to hunt for signs of past microbial life, if it ever existed. In other words, its mission is to hunt directly for these “biosignatures.” But Perseverance carried another important cargo. Stowed away sa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ingenuity-takes-flight
5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Exam Week | Texas Instruments
...hrough some tips and habits you can practice to keep your brain healthy and happy during exam week. Watch her full takeover on our Instagram Story. Anxiety Tip #1: Start a Freak-Out Journal It’s so easy to feel like there are a million reasons to feel stressed and scattered, but writing everythin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/5-tips-for-a-healthy-happy-exam-week
AP® Precalculus Resources Teachers Love | Texas Instruments
...raphs. Generate a table of values for a function. Find real zeros of functions. Find points of intersection of graphs of functions. Find minima/maxima of functions. Find numerical solutions to equations in one variable. Find regressions equations to model data (linear, quadratic, cubic, qua...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2024/ap-precalculus-resources-teachers-will-love