Desmos is proud to announce the beta release of our geometry tool. You can find it at http://www.desmos.com/geometry. “Beta” means this product will continue to change in ways small and large. “Beta” means we’re in the process of creating helpful documentation, tutorials, and examples. “Beta” means we don’t warranty this product for your classrooms or… Continue reading The Desmos Geometry Tool
This week we asked the Desmos Fellows to find the errors in this five-screen Pythagorean theorem practice activity, where the errors were violations of the Desmos activity building code. The fellows had much to say about each screen in general, and even more to say about the activity as a whole. Check out their analysis below.… Continue reading Activity Building Violations
We’ve heard you loud and clear. The Desmos colors are good but not great. They just don’t pop.Over the last few months, our textures team has been sampling textiles from Brooklyn boutiques, haberdasheries, and lumberjacks around the world.We’re proud to introduce the fruits of their labor: our new plaid color palette. To take your graphing… Continue reading Spring Makeover for the Desmos Graphing Calculator
Until every student is walking around looking like this… …the graph-colored glasses we want our students to develop will have to remain metaphorical. Let the Friday Fave and the opticians at Dr. Desmos help you adjust your students’ prescriptions with Graphing Stories. Students watch a short video. What do they notice? What variables can they… Continue reading Friday Fave for March 31
The Desmos fellows have been brainstorming possible sessions for upcoming state and national conferences. This past week we considered the following questions to help us get ready to write our proposals: What is your big idea for the session? If that idea is aspirin, then what is the teacher’s headache? Under what circumstances, would your… Continue reading Fellows’ Lounge: Conference Proposals
Sometimes the Friday Fave just wants to have fun. There are few things more diverting than a good round of minigolf. Desmos Fellow Jenn Vadnais put together a Marbleslides/minigolf mashup, Desmos applied a small amount of Activity Polish ™, and now it is offered up to you as this week’s Friday Fave: Minigolf Marbleslides You… Continue reading Friday Fave for March 24
Two weeks ago the Desmos Fellows had a Desmos Potluck. This week we’re continuing to learn from and enjoy the graphs that were contributed. Check out the latest round of Desmos Potluck graphs to level up your calculator skills, and expand your knowledge of what is possible with the Desmos Calculator. In this week’s offerings… Continue reading Patterns and Animations
The Friday Fave is in a spring-cleaning sort of way these days. Window washing, dusting, organizing, and on and on. While one is dusting the pictures on the wall, one tends to notice the dust behind the pictures, so one really ought to take the pictures off the walls. And while the pictures are off… Continue reading Friday Fave for March 17
From time to time the Desmos Fellows have a Desmos Potluck, where each of us brings a dish so that we may connect, level up our calculator skills, and expand our knowledge of what is possible with the Desmos Calculator.The Desmos Fellows and team have spent the last week preparing dishes for the latest Desmos… Continue reading Desmos Potluck: Bring a Dish
When Megan Hayes-Golding shared this photograph on Twitter and Instagram, we knew pretty quickly that we wanted to build a Desmo-fied version. It took us some time, but now it’s live, free, and ready for you and your students to try your hands and minds at visualizing and specifying angles. You’ll start simply: One mirror… Continue reading Friday Fave for March 10
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