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Update: Much to my surprise, this April Fools joke came true just a year after I wrote this with the release of the TI-Nspire iPad app. I’m getting word from a source at Texas Instruments that within the next 24 to 48 hours we can expect to hear an official announcement of a blockbuster alliance being formed with Texas Instruments and Apple. Both companies are going to get significant penetration into an area of the market they previously didn’t have access to.

Infographic: NCTM vs. NSTA

By Tech Powered Dad in fun stuff

March 29, 2012

In honor of the start of the NSTA convention in Indianapolis, I created an infographic of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Twitter account vs. the National Science Teachers Association Twitter account. Of course, math and science are peas from the same pod, not competitors, so it’s all in good fun. It’s actually interesting to see that there are a lot of similarities between the two accounts. If you’d like to add this infographic to your website or blog, please use the embed code at the bottom of this post.

March Contest: Win a TI-Nspire (CONTEST OVER)

By Tech Powered Dad in calculators

March 25, 2012

UPDATE: The contest has ended. The winner was John Carroz of Bellevue, WA. Congratulations, John! To enter, the TI-Nspire contest page on Tech Powered Math’s Facebook page. Back when I did the Math Blaster giveaway, I promised everyone I was going to make an effort to do more contest giveaways. Today, I’m continuing what I hope will become a monthly trend. For the next few weeks, I’ll be accepting entries for a TI-Nspire giveaway.

Leapfrog Easter Coupon Code

By Tech Powered Dad in gadgets

March 20, 2012

Leapfrog has announced their latest coupon code, and it’s a great deal. For the rest of March through April 4, 2012, you can get free shipping plus 10% off on all games and books when you order through the link below. Just follow the link and enter coupon code EASTER10. You can get a great deal and have a little something special from the Easter Bunny for your little one.

Flexbooks: Free Digital Textbooks

By Tech Powered Dad in Ebooks

March 19, 2012

With all of the buzz about iBooks vs. Amazon’s digital books, you may have missed the latest on Flexbooks. Flexbooks are free digital textbooks from CK-12, a non-profit organization that’s dedicated to bringing the ideals of the open source movement to education. Essentially, anyone can customize and download a Flexbook on a variety of topics. Schools have the option to use them as they are or supplement and edit them. They can be used in digital format for computers and almost any tablet, including the iPad and Kindle Fire, or they can be printed out.

TI-Nspire: No Repairs Needed

By Tech Powered Dad in TI-nspire

March 16, 2012

Is your TI-Nspire beyond repair? Click here to check prices on a new or used TI-Nspire on Ebay. A former student of mine missed school last Friday and came back with a pretty crazy picture. Apparently, she was in a pretty horrific car accident where her car flipped twice. As you can see in the picture, it wasn’t a pretty picture. Fortunately, she walked away as she had no major injuries, and she only missed a day of school.

Infographic: Visualizing Pi

By Tech Powered Dad in fun stuff

March 14, 2012

Happy Pi Day! This week’s infographic takes a look at visualizing the number pi from a variety of angles.

Lua Scripting Demo on TI-Nspire 3.2

By Tech Powered Dad in news

March 12, 2012

As I mentioned in my previous post, TI-Nspire 3.2 has Lua scripting support. While I’m no programming guru (pretty much limited to GW-Basic and Fortran), I know there are a lot of people who will be excited about the opportunity to program with Lua for the Nspire. There are also a lot of people like myself who will be interested in using what others develop. Video demo follows. The first 10 seconds or so are pretty shaky (sorry), but if you hang in there, it gets better fast.

Infographic: New GRE vs. Old GRE

By Tech Powered Dad in testing

March 8, 2012

Thinking of taking the GRE? Check out Kaplan test prep. They offer proven prep classes for the new GRE in both classroom and online formats for all levels of budgets. What is the Difference Between the New GRE and the Old GRE? This week’s infographic is about the changes made to the new GRE vs. the old GRE. If you are thinking of going to grad school, you need to be aware of these changes.

New iPad Announcement

By Tech Powered Dad in apps

March 7, 2012

The much awaited iPad 3 was announced today, but apparently it’s not called iPad 3 after all. Instead, it’s the ” new iPad.” Apple seems to want to break with the practice of incremental numbering of their iPads. I can understand the logic (do we really want to talk about the iPad 11 down the road?) but still hope there’ll be a simple way to keep the generations straight going forward.

Apple and Texas Instruments to Form Alliance

Infographic: NCTM vs. NSTA

March Contest: Win a TI-Nspire (CONTEST OVER)

Leapfrog Easter Coupon Code

Flexbooks: Free Digital Textbooks

TI-Nspire: No Repairs Needed

Infographic: Visualizing Pi

Lua Scripting Demo on TI-Nspire 3.2

Infographic: New GRE vs. Old GRE

New iPad Announcement

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