Computer Science Comes to Life With TI Technology | TI
...More specifically, I’ll highlight the Python lessons by topic section. Many of these activities have already been a game changer in my classroom this year. There are eight main topics. The topics are in no particular order. Meaning, you could teach Loops before Lists and Functions after Loops....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/computer-science-resources-with-ti-technology
Building Bridges with Math + Engineering
...and stacks of graph paper. Science teachers get all the good stuff: funny-looking glassware, vented goggles, lab coats. But what you want to keep an eye out for are sensors and data collecting devices. In the case of our project here, you will need: your very own TI graphing calculator, a Vernier...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/buildingbridgesmath
7 Books To Beat the Summer Heat | Texas Instruments
...ist of seven books that every math teacher can enjoy and maybe even gain new ideas for the classroom. Featured books from our 2022 T3IC keynotes (Yes,you can still register!) “Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics” by Peter Liljedahl This easy read includes easily applied an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/7-books-2022-summer-reading-list
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...o use TI technology — the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, the TI-Innovator™ Hub and coding — by going through the TI Codes website. I started that year using TI-Basic, and I have now switched to coding in Python on the TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. The TI Codes website walks you, a new...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
Set your Students up to Soar with “STEM on the Fly”
...that was possible! Meet Alex Livingston, a sophomore at Tech Valley High School in Albany, New York and an aspiring commercial airline pilot. The 15-year-old submitted a photo showing how he uses math and science regularly as a volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program, an auxiliary of the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/stemonthefly
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
...f explorations to do with coding on your calculator. Exploring calculation-type programs like the one above gives students an introduction to coding, yet retains the fidelity of your core math subject. There are many other examples you may want your students to try: determining the equation of a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
Have You Heard About a Mixed Six Task? | Texas Instruments
...merous thin-slicing tasks in random groups at our VNPSs (vertical nonpermanent surfaces — aka white boards on the wall) throughout the 2021–22 school year. I was convinced that these strategies were making a huge difference in the actual understanding of calculus by my students. My students were ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/mixed-six-task
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
Unfortunately, it’s clear the global pandemic will be with us well into the winter. This means continued limitations in test center capacity and inevitable cancellations throughout the remainder of the year. The ACT continues to add seats and sites as they work with local test centers to add ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...new programmable robotic car. About 10 students, from freshmen to seniors, meet every Tuesday afternoon after-school in what is now the club’s second year. In meetings, students generally focus on using the TI-Nspire CX calculators that the school’s math department has to explore programming. “A...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Top 10 Books for Every Teacher’s Summer Reading List
For teachers, the summer months can be a prime time for catching up on reading to get inspired and recharge your batteries for the upcoming school year. One of the most effective ways to keep your teaching skills sharp is the same thing we encourage our students to do over the summer: read. We p...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/summerreading
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...some labs I have students do to make that happen. First, there’s the toilet bowl cleaner lab. (“Really? You do a lab about toilet bowl cleaners?” Yep!) It reveals interesting things about branding and marketing of consumer products. To begin, you need several brands of toilet bowl cleaners th...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/real-world-app-chemistry
You Can Teach an Old Snake New Tricks: Computer Science on the TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
...d this, I wondered, “How is this different from programming Python on other platforms? How could this benefit my computer science students?” Menus? Yes! First, keywords can be menu driven or directly typed. The menus can help when introducing and reinforcing new topics. Students don’t have to...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...y learned a lot. Maybe it wasn’t everything that was in the curriculum but certainly lessons that matter in life. So, as 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...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
Innovation in Biology
...o my students’ creativity and push them to excel in areas unfamiliar to them. The Inspiration In Baltimore’s Inner Harbor sits an adorable, googly-eyed invention that prevents trash from running off the Jones Falls Watershed and getting in the harbor and, in turn, the Chesapeake Bay. Its name i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Learning With Your Students
... an acceptable answer. 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 experie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/learning-with-your-students
Which Texas Instruments (TI) Calculator for the ACT® and Why?
... went to take the ACT® with the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator and they were erroneously told that they couldn’t use that on the ACT®. After a few years, the ACT® policy made the directions clearer for the test administrators by putting the note you see above. The TI naming convention being so...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/which-ti-calculator-for-the-act-and-why
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...nd his sister, Lauryn, both attend the small private Catholic school outside of Olympia, Washington, where they were in the same math class this past year, with their mom, Kimberly Karaman, as their teacher. Rising senior Lauryn and rising sophomore Connor Johnson, waiting to surprise their mothe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Flattening the Curve: How You Can Learn to Stay Healthy With STEM
...e person to another and hopefully keep more people healthy. As a result, we’ve seen schools, organizations and businesses asking their students, employees and participants to work/study from home, if possible. To better understand what “flattening the curve” means, and to explore how epidemics/pa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/flattencurve
How Else Can We Show This?
...CTM’s “Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All” (2014). About the author: Karen Campe is a T3™ National Instructor with 15 years’ experience teaching secondary math and pre-service teachers. She is passionate about using all types of technology to enhance student unders...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/how-else-can-we-show-this
What to Do Instead of a Traditional Final Exam
Creative Assessments I teach at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee. A few years ago, our excellent junior English teacher, Ms. Goodman, started having the juniors do four-minute, TED-style talks instead of taking a final exam. Our awesome chemistry teacher, Ms. Dunlap, started a C...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/instead-of-a-traditional-final-exam
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...see that equilibrium means that there is a constant rate of change between two parts of a system and that, at equilibrium, you usually get different, yet constant, levels of water in both beakers. There have been other models, too, involving nuts and bolts, film cans with and without lids, and bl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...s’ excitement by incorporating these holiday-themed challenges into your lesson plans.--> As if it hasn’t been hard enough to keep kids focused this year with the many distractions brought on by 2022, now we can add the holidays to the list. And, let’s face it, it’s going to take more than an ex...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
This is the breadboard. It functions as an output platform for students to read collected data with red, blue and green LEDs. Science Olympiad, a national science/STEM competition organization, just added a new high school event called Detector Building. In the 35-year history of Science Oly...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like an Absolute Value Graph ❤ by @TICalculators
... About the author: Ellen Fishpaw is the Media Relations and Communications Manager for Texas Instruments Education Technology. Before joining 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...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
...on to my classroom. I am currently developing lessons so my students can gain more STEM content and use the TI-Innovator™ Hub for these lessons. Last year, I had two lessons where I used the TI-Innovator™ Hub. During our chemical reactions lessons, students use the double-replacement reaction ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/chemistryweek