Celebrate Jack Kilby Day
Use these fun, free resources to teach students how STEM can change the world Fifty-nine years ago on September 12, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby ushered in the era of modern electronics when he shared his invention of the integrated circuit (IC). Jack's world-changing creation began wit...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2017/september/celebrate-jack-kilby-day
Behind the Scenes of TI Codes
...nsibility of running our school’s educational computer system, an HP2000 minicomputer with 32 CRT terminals in the early 1980s. The district quickly jumped on the personal computer bandwagon with Radio Shack TRS-80s and then IBM PC Juniors. I bought my own computer in 1984 — an Atari 800 — and us...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/behindthescenes
#T3Learns Slow-Chat Book Study: 5 Practices for Orchestrating …
#T3Learns blog returns with a new book for the slow-chat book study. Read the Blog #T3Learns blog returns with a new book for the slow-chat book study. #T3Learns Slow-Chat Book Study: 5 Practices for Orchestrating … Texas Instruments #T3Learns Slow-Chat Book Study: 5 Practices for Orche...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/april/5-practices-t3-learns-blog
Home run activity
This TI-84 Plus activity is sure to be a hit with your classroom as baseball fever grows. Play Ball This TI-84 Plus activity is sure to be a hit with your classroom as baseball fever grows. Home run activity Texas Instruments Home run activity website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/april/home-run
Game Plan for Educators
Put together a winning plan to kick off this school year. Start Today Put together a winning plan to kick off this school year. Game Plan for Educators Texas Instruments Game Plan for Educators websitehttps://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/game-plan-for-educators
Game Plan for Students and Parents
Find helpful tips and information to make back-to-school time a success. Get Started Find helpful tips and information to make back-to-school time a success. Game Plan for Students and Parents Texas Instruments Game Plan for Students and Parents website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/game-plan-for-students-and-parents
Hands-on STEM activities in honor of Jack Kilby
...e. Step 1: Start by watching this video: Step 2: Download and make copies of the activity, “Engineering the Integrated Circuit.” Read through the document with your students. They will be asked to imagine life without the integrated circuit and how they, too, can change the world. Step 3: Learn ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/september/kilby-day
John Urschel - From the Gridiron to the Classroom
... a Baltimore County high school to show students how he uses math on and off the field. John Urschel - From the Gridiron to the Classroom Texas Instruments John Urschel - From the Gridiron to the Classroom website ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/august/john-urschel-love-of-math
Mission Imagination
NASA and TI are excited to announce the design challenge winning team. A team of five seventh graders from Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has won the mISSion imaginaTIon design challenge from Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) (TI) and NASA. The national competition asked students fro...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2016/may/mission-imagination-winners
DIY TI Codes Contest
Have you heard about our TI Codes Contest? Each spring, Texas Instruments challenges teams of students from around the U.S. to come up with creative solutions to a proposed theme and submit their ideas. As the groups advance, they ultimately build a functioning model of their concept, which they ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/diy-ti-codes-contest
mathyoga
... class, or you can simply take the class. Namaste! About the author: Curtis Brown currently works as the Math Segment manager at Texas Instruments (TI). He taught mathematics and AP® Statistics for several years. Since starting at TI in 2015, he has led many content development projects...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathyoga
How to Start the Year on a Math High
...beneficial for all,” and this is so true in all areas of our life, including our classroom routines. I learned very early on in my career to never assume anything. When setting up my classroom, preparing for a lesson or creating an activity, I pretend that common sense does not exist. For exampl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathhigh
Meet the BAMFFs, Best Awesome Mathematical Friends Forever, Who are Spreading Math Love
...s best awesome mathematical friend forever (BAMFF), Ashley Meinke. Ms. Meinke, who teaches calculus at the school, nominated Mr. O for the Texas Instruments (TI) Spread the Math Love contest. The contest honors people who are helping spread a love of math. Ashley Meinke nominated her best awes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathbesties
Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...multimodal learning opportunities. Why would we not add coding to our multiple representation toolbox of physical, analytical, graphical, verbal and numerical representation? Another excellent use of Python in the math classroom is simulations. In Python, lists are easily created, manipulated and...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...g even further behind. In this era of accountability, long-standing inequities are being exposed, and they demand our attention — now. Arbitrary circumstances into which kids are born — such as their race, ethnicity, ZIP code and socioeconomic status — should not be predictors of academic succes...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/levelplayingfield
How a TI Calculator Helped Launch an Engineering Career at TI
In honor of National Engineers Week (Feb. 16–22), a week dedicated to increasing understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology careers, I wanted to share how my love for my Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator in high school helped to launch an engineering career at TI. Fr...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiengineersweek
Top 3 Halloween-Themed Classroom Activities
...ey want. It’s a fun way to create a continuous 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 understandin...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/halloween
Straight-A Student Won’t Allow COVID-19 To Take Her Dreams
This Valentine’s Day, we want to celebrate a straight-A student whose love of learning is inspiring everyone around her. Jasmine Calderon, 17, is an exceptional senior at Pahokee High School in Florida who continues to excel despite her entire household coming down with COVID-19 over the summer...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spreadmathlove
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
...s that starts early on in their educational journeys. Simply put, girls can’t be what they can’t see. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and Texas Instruments (TI) and the TI Foundation are partnering to change that. As a company comprised largely of engineers, Texas Instruments is highly invested...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
Transformation Graphing — the Families of Functions Modular Video Series to the Rescue!
Are your students struggling with graphing the parent functions or how to graph transformations of them? Texas Instruments is here to help teachers — and students — with a video resource that contains over 250 short colorful animated videos with over 460 examples that illustrate and explain these...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/families_of_functions
Celebrate #CSEdWeek Teaching Students to Code With TI
...s intrigued. How could I utilize the skills learned in this elite group of students for all of my students? I was then introduced to the Texas Instruments TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board. My students were already using the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator in our science classrooms f...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweekwithti
StatisticsOfficeHours
This school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up with author and master teacher, Daren Starnes, to provide live AP® Statistics sessions via YouTube geared toward teachers and students alike. These sessions will contain content, data and questions that are directly related to the Big Id...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/statisticsofficehours
5 Spook-tacular Ways to Bring the Halloween “Spirits” Into Your Classroom
Halloween is the first big holiday of the school year, and teachers would be ghoulish not to take advantage of students’ excitement and the Halloween spirit. Here are five of our favorite ways to tap into the Halloween spirits with Texas Instruments. No tricks, only treats! Write creepy code...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/spookymath
Tips for Teachers in the time of COVID-19
...s can be challenging to overcome, but now is the time to work on that. As a classroom teacher, I often didn’t even consider my own needs as I was consumed with the needs of my children, my students and their families, but this ultimately leads to frustration, burnout and even resentment. When we ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/covidteachertips