Using Python to Squeeze the Fun Back Into Math
...ical reasoning. Using coding to teach and explore mathematics uses all the math practice standards. Plus, when you teach students Python, you’ll be introducing them to one of the most widely used programming languages across a variety of industries. You might be asking: Just how can coding be use...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/usingpython-84plusce
Leveling the Math Playing Field
...now falling 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 acade...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
Senior Drummers Hit a High Note as Winners of Spread the Math Love Contest
...and Jeffery Gaskin before band practice on the football field. At the start of practice, the band director sent the boys back to the band room to retrieve something he pretended to forget. Putterman and the “TI Prize Patrol” arranged for balloons spelling M-A-T-H and the marching band to shout ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/studentsspreadmathlove
Meet TI’s STEM Squad and Request a Visit for Your School
In honor of National STEM Day, we want to introduce you to the Texas Instruments (TI) STEM Squad, a team of former teachers, current teachers and TI employees that’s on a mission to get more kids interested and excited about STEM subjects. Since the summer of 2018, TI’s STEM Squad has been tour...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemsquad
Celebrating Girl Scouts Day: Seeing Herself in STEM
Many people know about Girl Scouts, especially when cookie season comes around and boxes of Thin Mints® and Samoas® line the break rooms of offices and accrue in the pantries of homes. Yes, the cookies are delicious, but what Girl Scouts is doing to shape girls to be the next generation of scie...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/girl-scouts-day
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
Choose Your Own Adventure: 5 Projects To Get Students Coding With Python!
... the questions above was, “Yes!” Why make it one size fits all? Therefore, this is a “choose your own adventure” in coding blog. Find something that strikes your fancy. Some projects I would use if I wanted to reinforce and practice math content; other projects engage and spark interest in comput...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/csedweek
Shifting From Learning Loss to Recovering Learning in the New School Year
.... In this unprecedented year, students will benefit if their teachers pare back the standard scope and sequence document to allow for more focused instruction around fewer topics, flexibility for students to make meaning of new content, and space for just-in-time support with prerequisite topics ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/recoverlearning
Why It’s Good to Make Mistakes in Math Class
If you’re a math teacher, you’re familiar with students anxiously asking to use their calculators. For them, it may feel like a secret weapon that will help them be more successful in math class. Throughout elementary school, kids trudge through adding fractions, multiplying five-digit numbers ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/commoncalculatormistakes
Best of Physics Activities for the Fall Semester
...t to vectors, have them use this TI-Nspire™ tool. It allows students to explore the mathematics of vectors such as magnitude, direction, addition, subtraction and multiplication of vectors. Screenshots from the Tool — Vector activity. 2. Forces and Motion: Newton’s Second Law ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofphysics
Top Tips From a Math Teacher for Taking the Online AP® Exam
This year’s AP® exams will be given in three separate administrations. Each administration will include an in-school option, and administrations 2 and three will also have an at-home option. As many schools begin to open in Spring of 2021, the AP® tests will have 3 distinct administratio...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/onlineapexam-math
A Teacher’s Take on Prioritizing Self-Care for a New Year, New You
As a child, every new year my dad would ask my sisters and me to write down our New Year’s resolutions. On top of my list was always, “get straight A’s and exercise every day.” To this day, that has never happened. Ever. In 2019, after a lot of life transitions, I discovered that I was frequentl...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/newyearselfcare
Monday Night Calculus With Steve Kokoska and Tom Dick
Calculus connoisseurs Tom Dick and Steve Kokoska are ready to call the Monday night action! This school year, Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up with former AP® Calculus Chief Reader Steve Kokoska and former Test Development committee member Tom Dick to provide live, content sess...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/monday_night_calculus
Five Ways Math Teachers are Superheroes
...er Appreciation Month, we visited Plano East Senior High School outside of Dallas to ask students how they really feel about their math teachers. The truth may surprise you and warm your heart. It will definitely remind you why you work tirelessly day-in-and-day-out to get your students excited a...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/mathteacherschangetheworld
To STEM and Beyond!
As a chemistry teacher, I have always been intrigued on how to do what the engineering design and computer science teachers do in their classes. “Why,” do you ask? We are educating the future workforce. Our students are being trained and taught for jobs that haven’t even been created yet. The ev...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/stemday
3.1415… Ways to Celebrate Pi Day
... slope? The Ready-made Pi activity is great if class/prep time is short. Or, let students experiment with the Homemade Pi activity with objects (or treats!) brought from home. Either way, the included calculator keypress quick tips sheet will keep students moving forward! Download the workshe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/happypiday
Tips for Surviving the School Year, Whatever It May Look Like!
...y to show that you care about them. I have started using ed tech tools that allow students to record themselves saying their name and to give me an introduction to their interests. This allows me to go back and listen to learn their names and a little more about them. 2. Build skills for the fu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/5_backtoschool_tips
How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...is summer, and we’re sharing them with you: #1. Meet the “STEM Squad” Starting now through September, TI’s STEM Squad will visit kids across the country sharing some of our favorite project-based learning activities that engage kids with math, science and basic engineering. The STEM Squad made i...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...r workshop below. TI Exhibitor 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 ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...e to your first-year teaching self? Don't be so hard on yourself. Even if you make mistakes, which I still do, be forgiving of yourself and then be transparent with your students so that you are a role model for them. "The other thing I would say is, don’t give meaningless homework – give me...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
Success Stories: TI's Talking Graphing Calculator is Changing Lives
... Turpin High School, Cincinnati, Ohio THE SOLUTION The Orion TI-84 Plus Talking Graphing Calculator, created through a collaboration between Texas Instruments, the American Printing House for the Blind and Orbit Research, represents a breakthrough in math and science education for students who ar...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/march/orion
Albuquerque schools using high-tech devices to teach math
TI technology is changing the way Albuquerque Public School students learn math. Read the Story TI technology is changing the way Albuquerque Public School students learn math. Albuquerque schools using high-tech devices to teach math Texas Instruments Albuquerque schools using high-tec...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2015/october/ti-tech-in-use
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...d establishes classroom routines. In my world, the first day of class is only 25 minutes―not much time to take roll and get to know students. I have tried a variety of ways to put students into assigned seats the first week of school. Compared to how I assign seats after the first unit test, my ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts