Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...ology™ International Conference (T³IC), March 13–15, 2020. Jeffery Gaskin, a senior at Cheltenham High School, is being interviewed by a local news station about winning the Spread the Math Love Contest from TI. “I’m excited; overwhelmed with joy,” said Jeffery Gaskin, a senior at Cheltenh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
...n a world where there’s a lot of opportunities for this and it’s really fun to kind of explore,” said Baltimore seventh-grader Zachary Dusza. Who knows? TI’s STEM Squad may pop up at a school or summer camp near you. Tweet at us, @TICalculators, and tell us why the STEM Squad should visit your s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Meet the Texas Calculus Teacher Who Won the Spread the Math Love Contest and a Trip to MIT
...o, where he is majoring in business and biomedical engineering. Tristan took AP® Calculus with Meyer and scored a 5 on the exam. He then went on to become Meyer’s teaching assistant. Tristan said he learned about the contest from a geometry teacher at the high school, and he immediately knew he w...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/sanantoniosurprise
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
...eren’t learning math as they would have without the pandemic. Shifting our perspective to focus on the positive experiences students had, though, allows us to understand that learning did occur. It may not have looked the same as in previous years, but if you look carefully, it was there. For ins...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...26 ... There’s more pi where that came from We have plenty of Pi Day activities using your TI graphing calculator. Here are two of our favorites: Comparing Pi and Roots In this middle school math activity, students explore how the Pythagorean (or, should it be “pi-thagorean”?) Theorem and the...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...eturn to school in the fall, about nine out of 10 teachers will spend as much as three weeks on review, because of summer learning loss. The good news – your friends at TI have come up with five ways to help keep students’ STEM skills sharp this summer, and we’re sharing them with you: #1. Mee...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...or Workshops at #NCTMannual 2018 Exploring What's Typical: Understanding the World Through Data How do you know you can trust the data you see in a news article? Is “statistically significant” practically relevant? In this session we will collected and analyzed data to explore the concept of mean...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Test your math strength against former pro-football player, John Urschel
...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 its neighbors (sh...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/challenge
Tips for Transitioning to the TI-Nspire CX from the TI-84 Plus
...ke a “swiper” pad similar to the touch screen on a tablet or laptop. You can swipe in any direction, press the edges for up, down, left and right arrows, or “click” in the center. The blue ctrl key acts together with other keys. Look around for the blue icons above those keys. You don’t need to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/transitioning_to_the_ti-nspire
Expanding Knowledge With Financial Literacy | Texas Instruments
...nomic success [1]. Three strategies that we can use to help our students build a foundation for financial literacy are further educating ourselves, becoming familiar with financial education standards, and integrating financial literacy concepts and skills into our current curricula. In honor of ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/financial_literacy
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
...nd creative learning through making while simultaneously challenging communities through the lens of digital equity and diversity. Marie of @girlknowstech Marie-Philippe Gill is a fourth-year software engineering student at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal. She also holds a de...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
The Heartbeat of STEM
...s as possible. “The Heart Project” is a favorite of mine to go more in depth about the circulatory system, transport and homeostasis, but it also allows students to build electrical circuits and write a simple program to control the model. Students become familiar with coding by using the eas...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartstem
Finding Fibonacci — Six Examples | Texas Instruments
...e say that we could refer to him now as Φbonacci. Or possibly just Φ, and he could have been the inspiration for Prince changing his name to . Who knows, Φ could have represented the mathematician formerly known as Fibonacci! “Finding Fibo!” 3. Now, the art! This spiral is wonderful, an...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/finding-fibonacci-six-examples
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...r students what they notice and what they wonder about the temperature of water over time from two different data collections. As the conversation grows, guide the conversation toward the concept of rate of change. Try to get students talking about which collection they believe was done outside i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
MonTI Hall Problem and Python on a TI Graphing Calculator | TI
... You are given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door which has a goat. He then says to you, “Do you want to switch your pick to the unopened door?” Is...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/montihall-problem-python-ti-graphing-calculator
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...e Project. “Statistics.” https://ngcproject.org/statistics. 2 U.S. Department of Commerce. “Women in STEM: 2017 Update.” https://www.commerce.gov/news/fact-sheets/2017/11/women-stem-2017-update. About the author: Jessica Kohout has taught all levels of biology, from on grade level to A...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective
World-Emoji-Day
...st 4,000 emojis! Wait … what? Just think: You can use a new one every day for just under 11 years. And by the time you finish using all 4,000, who knows how many more new ones there will be! There is even a website (emojitracker.com) that tracks in real time what emojis are being tweeted out. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Katie England
...hings is giving students an open-ended question, then asking them to work together in order to create a linear function. Using the Navigator tool allows the students to check the answer visually, while allowing me to determine who hasn’t graphed the function and what I can do to help them. How do...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/teacher-of-the-month
Automatic Showers Bring May Flowers | Texas Instruments
...on, the TI-Nspire™ CX and TI-Nspire™ CX II, or the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculators. Pomfret School has an aquaponic greenhouse, a space that grows in capacity through student innovations and solutions. Our customer, Annie O’Sullivan, is an environmental science teacher and the coordinator o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/smartwater
Testing Tips: Using Calculators on Class Assessments
...cal thinking on all test questions so that someone reading their work is able to follow their steps. Applying this rule to the calculator section allows me to distinguish between a student who knows the math concept and a student who is just “trying things out” until something looks like a good a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/calculators-on-class-assessments
Fireworks, Flags and the Fourth of July
...angles) 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 in t...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/julyfourth
Jingle Bells, Falling Snow and Python Lists | Texas Instruments
... with 0. Initializing a list As seen in the above example, a list can be initialized by stating its elements inside the brackets and separated by commas. We can use the list( ) method to create a list: myListA = list( range(10) ) produces the list [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] cha...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/python-lists
Who knew math had moves?
...ings like draw, dance or even crash. Students at Regan High School were having some much fun with Rover that it captured the attention of the local news. Local news photographer interviewing one of the students about what it’s like to work with Rover “I didn’t know that you could program with a ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/rockinwithrover
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
... family graphing calculator. Middle school students can use the Draw features to “carve” the pumpkin. For TI-84 Plus CE users, use a program that “draws” the pumpkin, and then use equations or the Draw features to create a jack-o’-lantern. Or have your students create a boo-tiful ghost using equa...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
...omeone who uses pi in the real world. Have students explain why they chose that person and how that person uses pi in their career. Some careers that come to mind include: astronaut, mechanical engineer and carpenter. .1415926…. There’s more Pi where that came from We also have many more pi day ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/waystocelebratepi