Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...ous learning experience for students. Armed with their graphing calculators, students will observe how humans are turning into mindless, walking corpses while studying the spread of the zombie virus. They’ll make real-world connections by understanding how infections can spread through populat...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...ed and materials limited, the idea for the 3D extruder stemmed from the Quaranteens own real-world need to efficient with available resources and repurpose existing materials into something new. The concept: A 3D printer extruder that helps astronauts make efficient use of limited resources...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
...Jasmine says, “We never needed anything.” Among her wishes was a green TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator to use in her IB®: Math Applications and Interpretation class and in future college courses. It’s a wish we were more than happy to grant, along with some other goodies to hopefully put a smil...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...trieve something he pretended to forget. Putterman and the “TI Prize Patrol” arranged for balloons spelling M-A-T-H and the marching band to shout “surprise” when the boys returned. Nate and Jeffery were surprised to learn they were selected from more than 1,000 entries as winners of our nationwi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...chool Graduates, According to ACT 2018 Report The Condition of STEM 2017 About The Author: Peter Balyta, Ph.D., leads academic engagement and corporate citizenship for Texas Instruments, and is the president of TI Education Technology. He serves on a variety of boards that support his desir...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
Computer Science Education Week is just around the corner … are you ready for some Python fun with your students? How do you plan to spend the week? Will you incorporate a little computer science every day? Will you teach a little computer science history? What types of activities do you like to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...d collaborative coding sessions using TI software and technology. But this year, instead of using a graphing calculator, Shads were equipped with a perpetual license of the TI-Nspire™ CX Student Software, which will be updated with Python this fall. TI also mailed out their TI-Innovator™ Hub with...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...’t be afraid to take the time for relationships, even if you feel that you might be sacrificing content. The returns on relationship-building are unsurpassed. Of course, the role of a math teacher is to ensure that students learn mathematics. So, once you’ve taken care of yourself and h...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
San Antonio calculus teacher Walter Meyer thought he was heading to a meeting about funding for a gardening project, but instead he was surprised with cheerleaders, a marching band and news that he was the latest winner in the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love Contest. Walter Meyer s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...With positive relationships and a viable scope and sequence in place, the last area of focus for teachers is what actually happens in classrooms. Incorporating NCTM’s mathematics teaching practices, educators set themselves and students up for successful learning experiences. Selecting high-quali...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
...y, I used a notebook to record my to-do list, but I’ve recently switched to one that I can easily update myself. I create my agenda in Microsoft® PowerPoint using tables. I like that I can personalize and add in events that happen weekly into my schedule, and I don't need to rewrite it. Recently,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...ion Month, we visited Plano East Senior High School outside of Dallas to ask students how they really feel about their math teachers. The truth may surprise you and warm your heart. It will definitely remind you why you work tirelessly day-in-and-day-out to get your students excited about math. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
... author: Ellen Fishpaw is the former Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Currently she works in Corporate Communications for TI. Follow her on Twitter @ellenfishpaw. --> Celebrate pi day using these fun math activities your students are sure to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...hopeful that this year we can complete STEM Projects together. I want to foster collaboration, creativity and critical thinking with my students. Incorporating STEM projects into the content is very easy and fun for students. Editable student and teacher documents are provided, and some even have...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...sentation of real events? We got out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection and learned some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebra through calculus. TI-Nspire™ CX technology and CBR2 Link to presentation>> Driving On M...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
"This calculator changed my life.”Lillie Pennington, Junior, Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE CHALLENGE Lillie Pennington, 17, can keep up with any high school student when it comes to academics. The Turpin High School junior took Advanced Placement history as a sophomore and scored a fi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...on any of the pages. Insert a new problem when you are ready. For example, I can enter lists of forearm length and height on page 1.2, graph a scatterplot and line of best fit on page 1.3, and calculate to make predictions with the linear equation on page 1.4. The linked multiple representations...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...ld you give to your first-year teaching self? Don't try to do it all. For example, I used to stay at school until five or six o’clock working on PowerPoint presentations, because I thought that everything had to be absolutely perfect. Eventually, a woman I worked with explained to me that kids a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...ou don’t have dots to connect? (My best artwork always involved books where you connect the dots.) We are going to graph our dots by graphing a scatterplot. First, we will type in two lists: xh = [3,5,7,0,4,6,3,5] yh = [0,0,0,-6,2,2,-3,-4] I chose xh to be the name for...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...son of Bonaccio). Now that we have that possible bit of mathematical trivia out of the way, let’s get on with our “Finding Fibo!” You may be pretty surprised where else he lurks. Photo courtesy of Fibonacci.com. What is the Fibonacci sequence? Most math types are familiar with...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...eded to first tackle the concept of slope as rate of change. Slope as Rate of Change in Context In many, if not all, cases, we care about the interpretation of the slope of a line between two points far more than the actual value of it. Instead of offering students points between which they m...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...witch to the unopened door, which must have the car behind it. This is the logic behind the IF statement on line 9 in the code below. if (car==playerPick and not switch) or (car != playerPick and switch): Based upon the results of this once-at-a-time simulation, do you want to revise your ini...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
...the pixelized screen to create scenes like these: Mountain pixel art courtesy of /u/LDR0213. Anime pixel art courtesy of derpibooru.org. With the advancement of technology, the advancement of emojis came along quickly. In doing a quick search on the internet...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
Sure, math probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of music. But, surprisingly, the creative art of music is intimately tied to the structure and logic of math. Some of these concepts are easy to explain, while others are probably better suited for someone professionally...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...), the contest format breaks up the challenge into attainable steps for the students and teacher (or sponsor). This structure encourages teams to incorporate an engineering design mindset and refine their design as they continue through the different phases of the contest. The design and build st...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda