Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
..." floppy disk held about 88 KB. Life was good. In the beginning I was coaxed into attending a summer workshop in June 1991. CalcNet was hosted by Greg Foley, Ph.D., at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, with about 40 other teachers from all around the U.S. It was my first expo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...g block” of modern electronics transformed the face of technology, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives. While we can’t know for sure what next great invention will make history like the integrated circuit, what we do know is the students in your classrooms are the future scientists, engine...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
Build It With TI: Science Olympiad
...ogy you have access to (Python or TI-Basic). The TI Codes program will walk you through the foundations of coding. TI can help you get started! A great resource is TIdetectorBuilding.com which has helpful videos, a design sample, links to resources, and a form to request a free Detector Build...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/scienceolympiadresource
roboticsweek2021
... their prose. A couple of examples that stood out to me: “And thus, the old VEX controller would soon meet its fateful demise, carried out by its greatest mortal enemies: the screwdriver and my own two hands.” “I discovered how essential patience, perseverance and problem-solving are in the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/roboticsweek2021
Have an AWEsum Fibonacci Day!
...umbers listed within the brackets. For example, lcm(8, 12, 30) = 120 and product(8, 12, 30) = 2,880. Is this fraction less than, equal to, or greater than 1? Does the answer depend on which base you use for the logarithm? Why or why not? Use a TI-84 Plus CE or TI-Nspire™ CX family graph...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/fibonacciday
ICYMI: TI’s Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2020
...ware (4 minutes) If you are a first-time user of TI-SmartView™ CE emulator software for the TI-84 Plus graphing family, this video will provide some great tips to help you get started. You will learn how to show multiple representations, view key press history, and take screenshots for pasting i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/1-5-2021-top-videos
Meet the First Winner of the Spread the Math Love Contest Who Is Making Military Dreams Come True
...ching calculus,” wrote Southwick. Having dreamed of serving her country since she was 11 years old, Southwick plans to pursue a nuclear engineering degree at the academy. “For the next 20 years of my life, I will be using the momentum created by my two years in Mr. Marr’s class, and my passion fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlove
Leveraging CAS to Explore and Teach Mathematics
..., I was taken back to my middle grade math class where I remember drawing “factor trees” (figure 3). Being the enthused math student, I'm sure I took great delight in breaking down a number into its prime factors, then finding pairs of common factors to help simplify a radical. However, I wonder ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/leveragecas
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
...calculus so much easier to understand. From conics to quadratics, the options were endless. Shreya Mandal graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2018. She is now a full-time engineer at TI. Starting my career in electrical enginee...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
TI Codes Contest Winners Revealed
...es and UV light to produce potable water. Once again, congratulations to the winners and to all those who submitted entries to the contest. We greatly appreciate the intelligence and creativity displayed here. We hope that everyone who participated will come back next year for the TI Codes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/ticodeswinners
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
...pplying transformations to a generic piecewise function included in this video resource. Here is a list of the parent functions that are explained in great detail and also as a quick review. In each function module, you will see the various transformations and combinations of the follow...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Texas Instruments Brings Its Hands-On Coding Workshops to ShadOnline
...tion to one of the most in-demand skills for the future. “It’s so useful. Even if it’s just basic, starting out with Texas Instruments, it’s a really great way for people to find their interests,” said Sephton. “If you don’t try, then you’ll never know.” With the government of Ontario’s announc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/shadonline
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...ontent. Lessons that elicit and use evidence of student thinking and use and connect mathematical representations help to ensure that all students progress in their learning, and make connections between the mathematics they know and the new mathematics of the grade or course. Texas Instruments’ ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
To STEM and Beyond!
...ek for the entire school year. They even learned how to code music and play it on the TI-Innovator™ Hub (Figure 1). We learned so much and had such a great time learning together. After seeing the positive impact on these students after school, I approached my principal spring of 2020 and propose...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
..., botany, chemistry and more. Other field trips will follow. #4. Leverage learning from vacations Everyone wants to have fun over the summer, and the great outdoors, amusement parks and beaches can help provide that. But challenging your students to find out a few facts about the physics behind t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...rality Suppose we have the following model for information (e.g. photo, video, post) transfer (i.e. spread) in a grid: each square is colored either green (if it knows a given piece of information) or red (if it does not). A red square learns this information (becomes green) if at least two of i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
... skills organized around six topic areas: earning income, spending, saving, investing, managing credit and managing risk. While these standards are a great resource for financial education expectations, check your individual state for implemented standards requirements. For more information about...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...knowstech Marie-Philippe Gill is a fourth-year software engineering student at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal. She also holds a degree (DEC) in Computer Science. As a female in tech, she is passionate about sharing her experiences on her “Girl Knows Tech” blog and social chann...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...om a formula first. (My apologies to the students I had in my early years of teaching.) About the author: Curtis Brown has a bachelor’s degree in laser optical engineering and worked as an AP® Statistics and algebra II teacher for seven years before becoming a math specialist for Texa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
... would typically be offered something of value and given a choice of whether to keep it or exchange it for a different item that may or may not be of greater value. The Monty Hall problem is presented as a probability puzzle loosely based on this show and named after its original host, Monty ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...ogy, 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 students make real-life connections with science. Follow her on Twitter @MrsKohout. STEM skills are important for all students....https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
...ction that they will be able to locate on the screen based upon coordinates. Some have added an additional scaling parameter to their function! It is great to hear students say, “How can we create a function for this?” Here’s a basic program to create the happy face emoji on the TI-Nspire™ CX...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
...suited for someone professionally trained in music (or math for that matter). So let’s just cover a few of the basics of music by the numbers. It was Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras who discovered that you can make different sounds with different weights and vibrations. Ultimately,...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
Behind the Scenes of TI Summer Workshops | Texas Instruments
...ath teaching and learning in the classroom. This workshop is different in that it focuses on test-taking strategies. We both have Master of Science degrees from Ohio University (we eventually fell in love in graduate school, but that is a story for another blog post). So, our hearts really lie in...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/summer-pd-behind-scenes
“Room To Grow” Podcast — Behind the Scenes | Texas Instruments
... the format that we craved for our own personal learning. Curtis and I have often talked about how and when we learned to be better teachers, and we agree that the best professional learning we experienced was when we had the opportunity to share ideas, discuss and learn with other educators expe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/room-to-grow-podcast