When I first moved from teaching 6th grade math to 7th grade math, proportional relationships intimidated the heck out of me. Now I love the connection it makes for students later on as they move into linear equations. The past few years, I’ve taught proportional relationships with one day of each relationships–table, graph and equation.Read More
Resources for Teaching the Pythagorean Theorem
We are 4 days away from summer and working on our last topic for the school year! There are so many great digital resources to teach the Pythagorean Theorem and these were a few I used 🙂 1.) Desmos Investigation 2.) Meme Notice and Wonder Jamboard 3.) Khan Academy Assignment If you use them I’dRead More
Top 3 Resources for Teaching Square Roots
This week we are in the single digits of teaching days before summer! Before heading off, we learned square roots! Here are three activities I used this week to teach and practice this topic! 1.) Identifying Square Roots Flash Math 2.) Square Root Desmos 3.) Square Root Blooket Let me know if you end upRead More
How I’ve Used Desmos Polygraph With Students
Recently a friend on Instagram introduced me to Desmos Polygraph. I used it once in my class and have ideas of how I can use it in the future to build community as well as review skills in class. Watch below as I share how I used it with students to review our current topic. Read More
How to Customize Your Desmos Activity Part 2
If you haven’t already, check out Part 1 of this blog post. I’ve loved using Desmos to create my daily lessons. However it doesn’t need to be created from scratch daily! My favorite tricks in Desmos is duplicating slides from other lessons I find as well as using “copy and edit” to edit lessons to fit myRead More
How to Use Desmos Computation Layer for Card Sort
I love using Desmos Card Sort for quick matching activities. I’ve used it for integer operations as well as graph/equation/table matching. It’s super powerful when it includes feedback for students. Grab the code here!
How to Use Desmos Computation Layer for Table
I’ve used the table in Desmos as a way to provide practice problems to students, assess graphing points from my equation and so much more. When paired with student feedback the table is so powerful. Grab the code here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzq1BLKrygo&list=PLy6YNm9BHT1sF2Gr1PX2n1q5nWtYSvNCy&index=8
How to Use Desmos Computation Layer for Reveal Answer
This was the first “coding” I used in Desmos and it has since led me to a world of possibilities! Reveal answer unfortunately doesn’t provide you with feedback through the teacher dashboard but allows students to assess their own knowledge through the answer provided. Grab the code here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1AxkqEYCpg&list=PLy6YNm9BHT1sF2Gr1PX2n1q5nWtYSvNCy&index=7
How to Use Desmos Computation Layer for Multiple Choice
This function has been so helpful for me to provide students with quick feedback in class both through warmups and in practice. Grab the code here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSEtm-Ymxt0&list=PLy6YNm9BHT1sF2Gr1PX2n1q5nWtYSvNCy&index=6
How I Use Desmos With My Students
When I first started using Desmos earlier this year in virtual learning, I used it just for warm ups. I’d create a set with two questions, send the link to students and jumped into our activities for the day. Slowly I realized that my two question Desmos set could be expanded to a whole lesson.Read More