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Did you know you can sign into the online desmos calculator? It is the same sign in code as teacher desmos.One tip – if you use the online Desmos Calculator for class presentations or screen shots – make sure you put the calculator in ‘projector mode’ (click the picture of the wrench in the upper right of the screen for this).I love that I can save things I create to use later and/or share with the other teachers I co-plan with. I use it all the time to make graphs for homework and tests (screen shots).

I use it all the time for class presentations in class.

The first thing people usually know about Desmos is the Online Desmos Calculator.

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Desmos is free – you can easily use it in conjunction with anything else you have. I am hoping I will never have to buy another TI graphing calculator for my classroom and I can phase them out. Yes – state tests use TI products usually and you can’t use Desmos on the ACT (yet) – but my gut says this will change drastically in the next 5-7 years. In my previous 2 schools I used both in a 1:1 environment and most of my students preferred Desmos. I have TI-84’s out on every table in my classroom AND I use Desmos. “The TI-84 is used on my state tests and what about the ACT’.” Using Desmos does not stop you from using other graphing calculators.Some students may not have their own phone, but their parents do….or a sibling…or they can use their friends. The number last year who have phones is far higher than the year before. Not all of my student do either….but the number who do is far higher than last year. “Not all my students have calculators”.I feel like I need to address a few common reasons teachers tell me that leads to them not using this amazing tool.What other company answers you that quickly (for free)? You often get an answer within an hour and I have found always within 24 hours from the most friendly people – sometimes the owner of the company, Eli, answers. Either click the ? button and ask or tag on Twitter.

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If you don’t know how to do something – just ask. No huge data plans necessary (except for the initial download)

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If you download the app, you can use it without having to be connected to wireless – again an equity issue.

Students who in the past were kept out of the technology loop except for the 50 minutes of my class are now able to join the party and have access to the same tool as every other student. My Minneapolis Public School students (urban/high poverty) now has a way for nearly EVERY student to have a FREE graphing calculator with them at all times on their phones. If a company is hiring the best of the best than the rest of us should pay attention.

In the spring of 2015, Desmos hired 3 of my favorite math bloggers Christopher Danielson (from my home state), Michael Fenton (his blog is pretty amazing) and Dan Meyer (duh!).

The resources and words below are a quick version of the training I did this last week at our state MCTM conference in Duluth, MN. my students stayed 10 minutes past class…” Desmos sells itself. Just this week a Math Education Professor at a local university emailed me to tell me his first experience using it with his students saying “It was so much fun…. Many people, after attending just one hour of training, have come back to me and said things like “I don’t know why I did not use this earlier” or “I used _, it was as easy as you said”. My experience training many teachers is that if you get your hands on it, you will start using it. The goal of this one hour training is to take away the fear of using a tech tool and see how incredibly useful and easy Desmos is. What is listed below is part of a 1 hour training I’ve done several times for various groups of teachers. Desmos is something you can learn quickly all by itself. There is no need to go to a 3 day workshop led by a TI expert. (well now you do, change this) or #2 You think that it will take a long time to learn how to use. If you are not using it yet, my guess is that is for one of 2 reasons.

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Desmos is the first tech tool that I could spend my time – for free – being an Evangelist for. If you are a secondary math teacher in 2016 and you are NOT using Desmos – something is seriously wrong with you. This post includes resources from training’s I did in April (1 hour – resources for this are in white) and June (3.5 hours-additional resources from this training are in orange.) Links and documents are colored in blue. I will improve these and add more by Sunday of this week. At the very bottom of this post are some links for today. Note: I will be adding resources/information to this post later this week from my June 15th training in Minneapolis.