Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...game clock! John Urschel, MIT mathematics PhD student and former NFL player Problem 1 | Chess On a chessboard, it takes a king, on the h4 square, six moves to reach the b4 square. How many different, six move routes could the king take? Problem 2 | Virality Suppose we have the following mode...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
... All of these lingering questions came into focus when the teachers in my school began work with Oklahoma Excel, a statewide networked improvement community dedicated to using the principles of improvement science to study that very goal. Can our students increase their mathematical reasoning ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...onal Financial Literacy and the Council for Economic Education. These standards create benchmarks for financial concepts and skills organized around six topic areas: earning income, spending, saving, investing, managing credit and managing risk. While these standards are a great resource for fina...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
...he Month What advice would 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 e...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
...o rearrange the commands and run it again. What happens? What do they learn from the results? Have them play with the color. The color is based on a mixture of red, green and blue. Each of the colors can vary in value from 0 to 255. What colors can they make? Preparing for the picture (and some...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
...r a chart. In this chart, we can analyze all nine scenarios that could occur and when you win (or lose) by switching doors. You can see that you win six out of nine times. Ultimately, you only lose if you pick the car door to start (unknown to you) with and switch away from it (also unknown to yo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
World-Emoji-Day
...hing (TI-81, TI-83 and TI-84 graphing calculators), I can remember classmates and — once I started teaching — students using the draw command on the pixelized screen to create scenes like these: Mountain pixel art courtesy of /u/LDR0213. Anime pixel art courtesy of derp...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Students and Teachers Talk TI Codes Contest | Texas Instruments
...tter. (Stiles Middle School) The teachers have spoken too — TI Codes is an official win-win! Students and projects from six years of the TI Codes Contest. Over the years, we have heard from many teachers about the different things they have learned from their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/ti-codescontest-qanda
3 Math Resources To Give Your Substitute Teacher | TI
...opics with a series of full-length lessons for your students to watch, including: Dilations Translations Rotations Reflections One of six geometry lessons covering dilations. To make it even easier for your sub to fill in for you, there are links posted in the video desc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/sub-day-math-resources
TI STEM Camps Open Doors for Students | Texas Instruments
...pate. They could connect to the virtual camp through devices like smartphones. “My interest in STEM has increased because of this experience.” – Sixty-six percent of virtual TI STEM camp participants A few of the highlights from the student survey are: Sixty-six percent of the students...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/rural-ti-stem-camps-open-doors
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
...and was hired as a math teacher right after graduation. I taught high school math for just under 20 years, served as a district math coordinator for six years, then spent five years at two different national nonprofit organizations supporting math instruction and high-quality curriculum all over ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
... rectangles) and Turtle functions (to make the stars) in the same program. Here’s some Turtle code that makes some of the stars. Note that there are six rows with five stars each and four rows with five stars for the total of 50 stars. This section makes the five-star rows at the proper positions...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Promposal With Balloons and Buttons | Texas Instruments
...randint(0, 255), randint(0, 255),randint(0, 255),\ randint(10, W-25), randint(10, H-25), randint(20, 70)) The six arguments are all random integers (three for the color, two for the position on the screen and one for the radius of the balloon). The button cl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/promposals
STEM Solutions for Summer Camps | Texas Instruments – U.S.
...ator™ Hubs in my classroom and had used them with my STEM club after school. My district GEAR UP office asked me if I would host and lead a camp for sixth through ninth grade students. I reached out to the TI STEM Team and borrowed additional equipment to host a camp of 35 young and eager student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/stem-solutions-for-summer-camps
How to introduce your students to computational thinking in the math classroom
In this post, we will go through a few introductory steps to help you get started writing simple TI-Basic programs on your TI-Nspire CX handheld. We will use a familiar mathematical procedure – computing the slope of a line between two points – to demonstrate computational thinking and a few cod...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/june/codinginmath
How a math teacher started her school’s first coding club
...ity to look at something a little more than just as right or wrong,” said Kachur. “There really is no wrong in programing; it's finding an error and fixing it. That is the lasting impact that I hope students take with them and apply to their entire life.” By this time next year, Kachur hopes the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/codingclub
Real-World Applications of Chemistry
...r and oxygen gas. According to the manufacturer, contact lenses must be placed in a plastic case and soaked in the peroxide solution for a period of six hours. At that point, the concentration of peroxide is so low that if someone were to put the lenses back in their eyes without rinsing with a s...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
Python is now on the TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator. As a computer science teacher myself, what does this mean for my students? What are your first thoughts? When I first heard this, I wondered, “How is this different from programming Python on other platforms? How could this benefit my...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/pythoncomputerscience
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...esting in yourself in order to provide students with the best education possible. Nearly 75% of teachers we surveyed expect to offer some mix or remote and in–person instruction this school year whereas only 2% expect to deliver instruction entirely in-person. Be Flexible ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/peter_bts_2020
2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments
Get ready for the 2025 TI Codes Contest. Assemble your own team to design, code and build innovative solutions — compete for the grand prize! Get details. 2025 TI Codes Contest | #TICodes | Texas Instruments global website ...https://education.ti.com/en/promotion/codescontest/2025/p0-save-the-date
BestofChemistry
The ScienceNspired.com website is an excellent resource for any science teacher looking for lessons and content that can be used either in person or online. The colorful and engaging simulations help bring the concepts to life for students by enabling them to test variables and challenge their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofchemistry
Let TI Help You With the New Science Olympiad Detector Building Event
...he ENGINEERING aspect is the requirement to build the sensor using the aforementioned parts and pieces. In addition, they have to test their sensor, fix bugs, adjust design and test again … and again … and again until they get it working properly. They also must find a way to waterproof their sen...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/detectorbuilding
Glossary of Terms
... Example: algebra I, algebra II, geometry I, geometry II EXCEPTION: If the number is greater than five (six or higher), use Arabic numerals. Example: biology 209 Dash Robot ...https://education.ti.com/en/branding/glossary-of-terms
Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators to the Computer.
Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators to the Computer. Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators to the Computer. global Solution 11889: Permission for Copying ROM Code From Texas Instruments Calculators...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/data-collection-accessories/general-information/11889
Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Laboratory™ (CBL) and CBL 2™.
Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Laboratory™ (CBL) and CBL 2™. Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Laboratory™ (CBL) and CBL 2™. global Solution 11546: Compatibility Between Programs for the Calculator-Based Labora...https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/data-collection-accessories/general-information/11546