Unit 1: Benefits of Utilizing Desmos and Desmos Activity Builder In this activity, students build coordinate plane proficiency through a guess-the-location-style game. is for classrooms where students have plotted points in the coordinate plane, but have not yet mastered any of the various forms for linear equations. Application. Introduction To Desmos: Letter Graphs Students learn the basic of graphing lines, using sliders, and restricting domains. (updated version added 10/17/16), Card Sort: Real Numbersby Shena Wald. The 2-Hour Marathon Students build a model for world-record marathon times, then use this knowledge to critique a sports medicine news story, and to consider the process of mathematical modeling itself. Hit the PrtScn button/ or Print Scrn button, to take a screenshot of the entire screen: When using Windows, pressing the Print Screen button (located in the top right of the keyboard) will take a screenshot of your entire screen. (added 9/17/16), by Desmos. After the card sort, students discuss whether a given student has sorted two pairs of cards correctly, and in the process consider equivalence and commutativity. Here's an intro activity on solving one-step equations that includes opportunities for organizing work using "Sketch" and "Card Sort" and error analysis using "Sketch". I created this sample activity for my algebra students. LEGO Prices by Desmos. This activity follows up on Polygraph: Hexagons, using the discussions (and students' informal language) in that activity to develop academic vocabulary related to polygons. Students are forced to find common factors and greatest common factors to create adjacent rectangles with a common side. Company About Us Careers Equity Principles Guiding Principles Des-Blog Desmos Store. Winking Boy by Andrew Stadel. A silent video helps students visualize how a balanced scale can model solving an equation. This brief activity has students place 2/3 on the number line and describe their thinking. Students are lead through step-by-step on how to1) Create a desmos account2), A bundle of all materials needed for my Animated Graphs Project! by mathycathy. The activities can be as simple or detailed as you desire. Designed to spark vocabulary-rich conversations about fractions and part-to-whole relationships. (added 11/20/16), This activity helps students discover that perpendicular lines need opposite AND reciprocal slopes. Students will first write about that transformation verbally, developing their intuition about the transformation, before then writing it algebraically. by Glen Lewis. For a the more traditional "hands on" version, This Card Sort was adapted from the MAP Formative Assessment Lesson for Gr 8 ", by mathycathy. Polygraph: Scatter Plots Designed to spark vocabulary-rich conversations about scatter plots. Students use numbers from the calendar to write expressions with a given value. (added 4/18/17), by Andrew Stadel. Puzzlescreated by: Naoki Inaba. This series of Estimation 180 challenges focuses on the number of ketchup packets needed to fill paper containers with various sizes. 29 Desmos activities ideas | activities, math, high school math - Pinterest Inspired by a New York Times article May 15, 2016 (Includes an exponential model, but okay for gr 8.). Choose your own adventure from 8 Visual Patterns! How can I tell whos faster when time is on the vertical axis? Edited with love by mathycathy. A series of graphing challenges designed to build student understanding of linear functions. Parallelograms in the Coordinate Plane In this activity, students use (or develop) their understanding of rate of change to determine whether a set of four points in the coordinate plane will form a parallelogram.