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
Puzzling Students to Push Their Understanding
...ressed. Students needed to develop a level of comfort with the idea of justifying their work. To begin to shift those mindsets, we began to look for strategies. Having learned at T³IC of Peter Liljedahl’s, Ph.D., “Building Thinking Classrooms,” we tried his Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces structu...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/puzzleproblems
Meet TI Teacher of the Month: Fatemia Fuson
We’re celebrating teachers, like you, who make a difference in the classroom. This month, join us in getting to know Fatemia Fuson, a graphic designer turned math and computer science teacher. Fast Facts About Fatemia: TEACHES WHAT: AP Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry, AP Computer Scienc...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/teacher-of-the-month
Meet our Women in STEM Twitter Chat Panelists
On Wednesday, September 19, Texas Instruments Education (@TICalculators) is hosting a Women in STEM Twitter Chat! Our goal is connect you to the awesome #WomenInSTEM community, both as a source of inspiration and a well of resources. Our panelists are female engineers, scientists, and mathematic...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/twitterchat
Top Tips for Tackling the SAT® with the TI-84 Plus CE
...ere is also a set of reference formulas and diagrams provided for your use; so don’t memorize what is already given. For more information about the structure and content of the test , go to the SAT® Math Test webpage. For the grid-in questions, answers will be 1, 2, 3, or 4 digits long, includi...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/september/sat_tips_ti84
Math and Python: A Great Valentine’s Day Couple
Python + Math = true love! This Valentine’s Day activity had a simple beginning. My good friend, Julie Riggins, and I were asked the question, “Will you do a Valentine's Day themed webinar?” Did we have a large bank of activities to draw from? Did we have a single idea? Nope. So, of course we s...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2022/heartpython
Slope: It Shouldn’t Just Be a Formula
...ature 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 in South Dakota in January, and which was performed inside a confe...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/slope_brown_gc
Girls in STEM: A Personal Perspective
...on the topic. Representation People need to see themselves reflected in careers they are drawn toward. In elementary school, I wanted to be an astronaut after watching Sally Ride and Christa McAuliffe. In high school, I learned about Jane Goodall and Rachel Carson and became interested in co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2018/november/girls-in-stem-a-personal-perspective