Comments on: Orchestrate More Productive Mathematics Discussions with Desmos Snapshots

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 23:50:48 +0000

In reply to Angela. Taking "early" and "later" snapshots of evolving student work. Love it!

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:49:06 +0000

I really dig the idea of “snapshot.” The idea that this is what a student is thinking *right now* versus where the student might go or be thinking later. If you did the exact same activity 2 weeks later it would probably be a different snapshot!

By: Karen Prigodich

Karen Prigodich — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:02:40 +0000

Fantastic addition! Thank you for persevering around the challenging question of how to use Ed tech in a meaningful way. I like the answers you’re coming up with!

By: Hedy Lim

Hedy Lim — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 01:56:55 +0000

This is great. Will be used to facilitate my class discussion.

By: Karim

Karim — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 18:29:11 +0000

This is great. You and your team are absolutely wonderful.

By: Ethan Smith

Ethan Smith — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:02:04 +0000

This is a phenomenal addition to the Desmos platform, and I can’t wait to try it out myself and with my teachers. The process of select/sequence/connect, while being critical to ensuring that students can construct and make sense of a coherent mathematical story, but is a real challenge to successfully orchestrate. I find I am often left saying “ok let’s look at just this one area of the student’s poster” or worse yet asking students to replicate their work in a more centralized location (a huge waste of time!). This tool can amplify the coherence, precision, and brevity of math discussions, which is critical in a classroom full of diverse student conceptions and limited in length.

By: Cathy Yenca

Cathy Yenca — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:44:46 +0000

Thank you for valuing the most valuable asset in our classrooms – student thinking! Thank you for also valuing streamlining the process of sharing interesting student work to facilitate discussions. As you mention, this workflow has been historically clunky! http://www.mathycathy.com/blog/2016/09/5-practices-in-a-11-classroom/ Looking forward to using Desmos Snapshots with my new crew of students in a few short weeks!