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Use Command F5 for the voice option, and Option + T for the audio trace.

The weather wasn’t the best, but we had a fabulous time exploring the falls and walking to the confluence of the Mississippi River and Minnehaha Creek.įavorite New Desmos Calculator Feature: Desmos now has audio capabilities for visually impaired and blind students. I hope they become some of your favorites too! Grab a drink, there are a lot 🙂įavorite Pre-TMC Outing: After arrival, I adventured to the Minnehaha Falls with a small group. I can’t possibly recap everything I took away from TMC16, but here are some of my favorite takeaways. The people and sessions at TMC invigorate my passions and spirit and convince me that I can conquer anything in the upcoming school year. But I also NEED to spend four days in person with my MTBoS family. I like to spend time in the summer with my family and friends go to the beach read a book for fun nap go to the drive-in, etc. Having just returned from my 4th Twitter Math Camp (TMC) experience in Minneapolis, I feel the need even more to book my entire summer plans around this camp. Get out your calendars and mark them now! Twitter Math Camp 2017 is being held from July 27th-30th at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Atlanta, Georgia.

Desmos activity unit circle free#

Please feel free to use this structure if it works for you, but make sure to adapt for your own personality/time constraints, and most importantly, find out what your learners want/need to know! One hour or afternoon is simply not enough to learn all of Desmos, but it’s definitely a start! Unfortunately, this is usually the phase that gets cut out due to time constraints. When there’s time, I walk participants through the basics of building an activity, and hopefully provide time for them to try making one with a partner.

Desmos activity unit circle how to#

I show teachers how to bookmark activities they find using the search engine, and then how to copy/edit them so they have a starting point. Every single teacher has always found something they could potentially use that week. It’s also during this phase that I finally show them the search engine on the teacher site and ask them to look up a topic they are teaching within the next day or two and see what they can find. I bring up past activities from my Desmos history and show participants some student work. We talk about teacher moves that I made, implementation strategies, possible implementation challenges, and really analyze the teacher dashboard. After playing one activity, we stop and analyze the activity with our teacher hats on. This phase goes hand in hand with “Let’s Play,” and often, they overlap during my PD sessions. It’s always a struggle to make them stop playing so we can learn something else. These activities are obviously super fun, but also a middle ground for a range of middle and high school teachers in the same room. Some of my favorite activities to choose are Polygraph: Parabolas and Marbleslides: Lines. I stop at selective checkpoints to showcase various graphs or student answers from the teacher dashboard, talk about key vocab that I see being used, or to address any misconceptions I see, etc. I briefly explain the activity directions, give out the class code, and let them go to town. I choose a couple activities appropriate for the grade level of the participants, and we play! I tell participants to put on their student hats and imagine I am their teacher. Depending on time, you can also share the Desmos Scavenger Hunts and let participants work through them.

But mostly, during this phase, I direct participants to Learn Desmos by finding a tutorial they are interested in and trying it out. I demonstrate basic calculator moves such as sliders, tables and regressions. In the intro, I share some Desmos logistics and explain/show the difference between the calculator and activities (briefly touch upon polygraph vs activity builder vs card sorts (future PD, yay!), etc). Several people have asked me for my PD plan, so here it is:

Desmos activity unit circle professional#

This past year, I was given a few opportunities to run Desmos professional development for the teachers in my district, and in a few surrounding Massachusetts towns. It’s no surprise that I’m completely obsessed with Desmos and want to share it with teachers everywhere.