How to Keep Kids’ STEM Skills Sharp This Summer
...s, often referred to as the summer brain drain, is a real thing. The National Summer Learning Association reports that students lose an equivalent of two months of their grade-level math computational skills over the summer.* And, when kids return to school in the fall, about nine out of 10 teach...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/keepthesteminsummer
Best of Middle Grades Science Activities
...est middle grades science activities below. These are just a few of the many activities available for free with your TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software or TI-Nspire™ CX or TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator. Don’t have the software? Click here to get started. 1. Skills of Science: Buil...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/bestofmgscience
#NCTMannual 2018 Recap
...uld help students see slope not as an equation to memorize, but as a representation of real events? We got out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection and learned some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebra through calcul...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/nctm2018
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Alice Fisher
...is a wide representation of generations who find value in professional development. People are seeking out professional development not just in their twenties, but in their sixties and beyond. And I think that's amazing. We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/may/teacherofthemonth
3 Fun Ways to Create Seating Charts
...ront of each card, write students’ names alongside the hour each will be in class. It works best if you color code the names. (I also leave a space between each hour for those times when I need to correct spellings or change to preferred names.) By the time you are done you have note cards you ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/seating_charts
How To Celebrate National Chemistry Week With Students | TI
...ee different liquids — water, acetone and alcohol — and the temperature sensor to determine the strength of the intermolecular forces of attraction between the molecules. The rate of cooling, and thus evaporation, allows students to see the data, experience the phenomenon, and use the NGSS SEP of...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/celebrate-chemistry-week-with-students
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...slope as rate of change. Slope as Rate of Change in Context In many, if not all, cases, we care about the interpretation of the slope of a line between two points far more than the actual value of it. Instead of offering students points between which they might find the slope, start by offeri...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
World-Emoji-Day
...l 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. Can you guess what the most tweeted emoji is? Yup it is … crying laughing face. Not too much of a surprise, but is that your...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/world-emoji-day
Hit a high note exploring the math behind music
... proportional relationships, to guide the way they plan and play note sequences. Relationships are fundamental to math and create a compelling link between music and math that will help you hit a high note in class. Try these lessons below to help explore the math and science behind music: Char...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/math-behind-music
#NCTMregionals Kansas City 2018 Recap
... could help students see slope not as an equation to memorize, but as a representation of real events? Get out of your seats to model relationships between position and time using hands-on data collection. Learn some surprising things about teaching rate of change from algebra through calculus. T...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/nctm-kansas-city
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Ellen Browne
...y I can because it keeps the kids engaged and it helps them see math in real life. Recently I did a classroom activity with the TI-Innovator Rover, “Two Rovers Leave the Station…” as an introduction to my math class for systems of equations. Instead of teaching them the basics and then going to ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/march/teacherofthemonth
Carving Out Some Halloween Math Fun | Texas Instruments
...h three lesson types. Download the Calculating Cats and Bats worksheet bundles » I want to teach your BRAAIINS! Add a creepy twist to an exponential growth lesson with zombies! Exponential growth and decay are often taught in the context of human populations, but what abo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/carving-out-halloween-math-fun
5 Engineering Projects You Can Do in Your Science Class
...tic vehicle that emulates a living organism. As students observe the behaviors of the unknown “species”, they start thinking about the interactions between machines and living systems. Link to Activity 4. Electrical Engineering – Build a Speaker! Physics Electrical engineers develop solutions fo...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/february/engineerscience
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
TI-84 Plus | Top 10 Features for ACT® | Texas Instruments
... might be helpful to see the graph before starting to solve the problem. Students sometimes start solving algebraically and might miss that there are two possible solutions. For example, there might be a problem like this: Solve: |2x-5|=7 In this problem, you can graph |2x-5| in Y₁ and 7 in Y₂. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/actips
It's the Most Math-Magical Time of the Year!
...o enter, including simply using the links below to follow @TICalculators on social media. The more entries you earn, the better your chances to win. Two winners will be randomly selected to receive a fun holiday gift package featuring items like our cozy blanket, and more. At the end of the swee...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/tiholidaysweepstakes
Celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month
...e full TI-Nspire activity on our website. 3: Exploring Domain and Range In this activity, your students will develop the fundamental relationship between a function and its domain and range. This activity is an opportunity to focus on functions and establishing the concept of domain and range o...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/april/mathawarenessmonth
Innovation in Biology
...ing only single-use plastics that they collected over several weeks. A 60-second public service announcement (PSA) would also be developed during the two-week long project. Students developed a full understanding of the problem by participating in a campus-wide cleanup and by tracking their ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/october/innovation-in-biology
Meet the Mom and Math Teacher Who Is Spreading Major Math Love
...a to New Mexico. She most recently worked for NBC 5 in Dallas as a crime reporter before hanging up the microphone for a TI-84 Plus CE. Follow her on Twitter @ellenfishpaw. Kimberly Karaman, a math teacher from Lacey, Washington, is the July winner of TI’s Spread the Math Love Contest. Read how ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/mathlovemom
Five Free Activities For Teaching Calculus
...alizing the solids of revolution and how the volume and the integral are related. This interactive demonstration can help students make connections between the solid generated by revolving the function graph about the x-axis and disks centered on the x-axis, the radius of which correspond to the ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/july/calcactivities
The Best Equilibrium Simulation Ever
...ry time. Like the late-night infomercials say, “I’ve tried everything.” I’ve used the popular method of moving water from one beaker to another using two straws of different widths. This approach can result in always-changing water levels due to spillage. Students don’t get to see that equilibriu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/the-best-equilibrium-simulation-ever
12 Days of Holiday Math Challenges
...84 Plus CE. 5) Happy Holidays Ask your students to manipulate this equation. The answer is certain to make them smile this holiday season. ; 6) Tree Twister We’ve got a holiday challenge for you: If our Christmas tree was 15 rows taller, what numbers would be on the two center pieces? 7) Tacky ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/december/12-days-of-holiday-math-challenges
Math (X)pression Quiz | Question 3 | Texas Instruments – U.S.
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Math (X)pression Quiz | Question 1 | Texas Instruments – U.S.
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Math (X)pression Quiz | Question 4 | Texas Instruments – U.S.
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