Comments on: Here Are Ten New Desmos Activities

By: Friday Fave for February 10 – Desmos Blog

Friday Fave for February 10 – Desmos Blog — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:58:10 +0000

[…] Land the Plane is one of a suite of new activities we recently released. […]

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:56:35 +0000

In reply to Jane Taylor. Like that idea. We'll consider it for the next revision. Thanks, Jane.

By: Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 04:56:05 +0000

LOVE the conics activity, but could you add a screen to make a hyperbola that separates the red and blue dots?

By: [Desmos Design] Why We’re Suspicious of Immediate Feedback – dy/dan

[Desmos Design] Why We’re Suspicious of Immediate Feedback – dy/dan — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:35:47 +0000

[…] of our design principles at Desmos is to “delay feedback for reflection, especially during concept development […]

By: GMD Rewind / Global Math Department

GMD Rewind / Global Math Department — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:12:53 +0000

[…] graphing calculator, has released ten new activities over the past quarter. Dan Meyer has written a summary of each of the activities on his blog. Moreover, he is working on a series of posts to get under the hood at Desmos and […]

By: [Desmos Design] Algebra Is Power, Not Punishment – dy/dan

[Desmos Design] Algebra Is Power, Not Punishment – dy/dan — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:31:25 +0000

[…] is the first of several posts where I’ll use the activities Desmos created last quarter to illustrate our design […]

By: Melissa Lechleiter

Melissa Lechleiter — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 03:03:14 +0000

This is great. I was just on Desmos looking for a graphing polynomials for my students to get some more practice and have a little fun. They love when we have Desmos activities. They like the marble drop activates, I use it in all my classes Algebra 1 to PreCal, the more advance student “cheat” use non linear functions and non quadratic to get the stars. I can’t wait for them to see the new activities. Thank you to you and your team for working so hard to help us become better teachers.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 01:12:52 +0000

In reply to Martin Joyce. Love the anecdote from your support class, Martin. The more I use the conversation tools, the easier they become and the better I get at planning activities to take advantage of them. I build activities that have more pause-worthy moments, moments where students unloads lots of early thinking which I can help them formalize in a conversation.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 01:10:41 +0000

In reply to David Petro.

Sure you can search by topic but there has to be some better way to visually put all these great activities in the spotlight without having to sift blog posts and Twitter.

I definitely won't claim we've nailed discoverability. And we'd hate for our hard work to go unseen. Any suggestions for us, David?

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 01:08:49 +0000

In reply to Kristin. We are all eagerly awaiting Desman's return. For now we offer you Des-pet.