How To Write Letters In Desmos

How To Write Letters In Desmos – I’m addicted to Amazon Prime Day. Every summer I get giddy thinking about stocking up on all my favorite back to school items for August in anticipation of Prime Day! This year, I went a little more nuts than usual since I had a little more money in my teacher account than when I was a student teacher a few years ago. Let the games begin…

I bought tons of things, but my favorite new addition to my classroom is these dry erase pockets. I don’t understand how I got through 8 years of teaching without this! I have used it about 5 times in the last 2 weeks of school. A game changer.

How To Write Letters In Desmos

And now I finally solved two of my biggest problems with stations/problem loops/scavenger hunts/etc. At first, they were sometimes very hard to see in a crowded classroom but now they are much bigger and the colored borders really stand out! Secondly, students always write on it and give hints or answers to the next group. I wish they would mark them (hello… problem solving!!), but erasing them with a pen or even a pencil is sometimes too difficult. Now they can mark all they want and erase them before they leave.

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I always try to mix it up for review day so the kids are never bored and excited about the material. Reviewing can get boring, very fast so I’m constantly searching the depths of the internet for novel and engaging ways to practice.

I have a hard time with reviewing games that always reward the “smartest” kid. Yes, getting the right answer should be worth something, but I’ve noticed that game after game only rewards the students who get the correct answers in the fastest time. Being fast in maths does not mean that a student is good at maths. In addition to finding engaging games and activities, I try to find ways to reward those who don’t always get it right. Here are two of my favorites from this past year!

Each group starts with a set of different colored flags. For this example, students started with 2 green, 2 yellow, and 2 orange. Each flag color has a mystical number of points. The teacher poses questions to the class and students work in groups to solve them. I usually assign a white board to each group that is the “official” answer. If a group gets it right, they steal another group’s flag and add it to their flags. At the end of the period the teacher reveals the point values ​​for each color and the group with the most points wins.

I love this game because getting the answer right is the value of the flag and no one “checks out” because they don’t know if they won until the end. Stealing flags among high school students was great, but I would definitely go over the guidelines and expectations ahead of time so no one gets upset if their flag is stolen! There was a certain class period this year where we had to set up a rotation for who steals the first flag because they always wanted to be the last group to steal. For the most part, there were no problems!

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Try to spread out the point values ​​enough where some flags are worth significantly more points than others so that the end result is a big surprise! It’s always interesting to see what strange strategies the kids come up with to try to win. I also change the winning colors for each period so the morning kids can’t tell the afternoon kids how to win!

The game is similar to Capture the Flag but in this variation the factions do not initiate anything. Once a group gets a question right, they come and pick a colorful flower from a large pile of colorful flowers and add it to their group’s garden. There is no stealth in this variation so it might be better for younger kids or kids who can’t handle the stealth aspect.

Similar to Capture the Flag, the point value of each color is revealed at the very end. Some students try to change the colors in their garden and others choose a color and play the whole game. Either way, it’s a fun surprise that keeps students engaged until the end!

The idea of ​​a flower garden can easily be adapted for the season. For example, October can be a ghost in a cemetery and December can visit under a tree. Easy to change symbols to keep fresh!

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Planning engaging lessons and activities in May has always felt a bit lost. May is a battle. Every day in May I was ready to fight depression, burn out, frustration and “IDC” syndrome from my students. They don’t care about anything but the summer countdown. To make matters worse, May is usually filled with final chapter tests, followed by a mind-numbing semester review week where I mostly act as a glorified babysitter, and then final exams. This year I decided to mix it up and do a final chapter project instead of a chapter test. We have just completed our unit on parent functions and students should now graph linear, quadratic and absolute value functions as well as circles. Instead of testing them on these topics, I challenged them to create “something” that showed they could graph all the parent functions they knew in a creative way using the Desmos online graphing calculator. Shout out to Desmos, my teaching BFF.

The requirements were simple. Draw a word, phrase or picture that includes at least one of each type of function we work with. That was it. Grading is easy, you either do or you don’t meet the requirements. If you don’t, I don’t grade it and give you feedback on what is needed to meet the requirements. Once you meet the requirements you are good to go. I think a lot of why these projects turned out to be so fantastic is that grading wasn’t really an issue. As long as you graph the functions, you get 100%. Without a complicated grading rubric, creativity became the focus.

I’m not artistic. Trying to be creative is a real pain for me, but this project made me feel the sparks on the right side of my brain and I graphed this cute little bumble bee.

Students loved this project. And everyone who turned up did a phenomenal job. They had 2 full class periods to work on the laptop and then emailed me a link to their graph. Check out some of my favorites below!

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Many students also chose to graph their names, which was interesting to see all the ways they worked to fit each function. The letter “s” can be one of the most challenging letters, and students found incredibly creative ways to achieve it. “s” to work.

We did a little work on graphing quadratic inequalities, and I was really impressed with the students who wanted to shade parts of their graphs and how desperate they were to figure out how to incorporate inequalities into their graphs to be able to do so. So many connections are being made!

It turned out to be one of the highlights of the year and the students (with all the doldrums and summer laziness) expressed how much fun they had creating their projects. Looking forward to May next year when we do it again. Looking forward to May… I can’t believe I said that!

I love card sorting days. I love days where students do math without writing anything, except what they want or need to write. I love the days when you can be wrong and not have to erase, grab more paper or start over. I love the days when my laziest son ends up doing as much work as me overhours… and he doesn’t even know it! Be fooled!

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I know I’m not the only person who feels that students need practice to solidify a new skill or concept. There is a whole world of research (some good, some not, some contradictory) that discusses how often and for how long and how often students need to revisit skills to retain that information. But handing out worksheet after worksheet seems like a boring and socially isolating option. This is my first way to disguise a worksheet and create an activity that is not only more engaging, but also allows for more connection, more communication, and more organized chaos!

SWBAT: Students will be able to measure interior angles,