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New AP Stats Teacher Moves Using Desmos
Last spring, the awesome folks at Desmos released a slew of slick (but easy-to-use) statistics features. Here is a brief video I made which walks through a few of the new features. With a new academic...
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Do you have an awesome math lesson? Do you like handsome cash prizes? The Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching offers a top prize of $25,000…and the 2019 winners have just...
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Let’s Explore the Activity Builder Space
Today our friends at Desmos released an update of their Activity Builder editor. You can head to teacher.desmos.com now and explore the changes – edit a previous activity, create a new one OR copy...
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Adapting to Remote Learning – Egg Roulette
This is the first in what will likely be a series of posts about classroom moves which I have adapted for remote learning. I hope you enjoy them! In my freshman-year Prob/Stat course, students...
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Chessboards for Jack
“Mr. Lochel – we have a check to send to you. Please provide us an address.” What a fantastic e-mail I received this past year. It combines two wonderful things – money, and people wanting to send...
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Power and Virtual Coins
This activity was inspired by the article “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”, by Catherine Case and Doug Whitaker. NCTM Mathematics Teacher, Volume 109, Issue 9 (May 2016) Around February each year, the...
View ArticlePCTM 2022 Resources
ENCOURAGE INVESTIGATION AND CONVERSATION WITH THE DESMOS CALCULATOR Visual Patterns (thanks Fawn Nguyen!): https://www.visualpatterns.org/ Investigating T-Shirt Offers Desmos Activity:...
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My talk for the NCTM Annual Conference in Los Angeles this year centered on using stories from the media which feature probability claims to use as hooks in high school classrooms. Thanks to all who...
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Animations Using Parametric Curves
This past semester I added a fresh coat of paint to a unit on parametric equations by challenging students to develop their own animations on Desmos. For many years I have used a Desmos activity to...
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PCTM 2023 SUMMER CONFERENCE – RESOURCES The 35 Game: “The 35 Game” for Compound Inequalities Shared Work: Cocoa Puffs and Shared Work The Number Game: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/zqth9dmmr2...
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