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Desmos is a free online graphing calculator that is well-suited for use in classrooms. It has many features that allow students to explore functions and graphs in an interactive way. Students can see how graphs transform as they manipulate parameters and use sliders to change values. Desmos also allows students to save, print, and share their work. The article suggests that teachers can use Desmos to make learning about functions more engaging as students explore transformations and complete creative design projects involving different types of graphs.

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Desmosactivity

Desmos is a free online graphing calculator that is well-suited for use in classrooms. It has many features that allow students to explore functions and graphs in an interactive way. Students can see how graphs transform as they manipulate parameters and use sliders to change values. Desmos also allows students to save, print, and share their work. The article suggests that teachers can use Desmos to make learning about functions more engaging as students explore transformations and complete creative design projects involving different types of graphs.

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Michaela Nobles

Michaela Nobles
2. This article is about desmos and how it is a very suitable choice to use in the classroom. Desmos has
many great features to use in the classroom. Whether it is beginner mathematics or advanced
mathematics. It can be used for any of those. Desmos is easily accessible. It is free and you do not have
to download it. You can go straight to the website to use it. Also, you can save your work, print it, and
share it. Desmos allows students to look at functions and how they can be manipulated. You can see
what happens to different graphs by changing a single number. Students can see transformations of
functions and graphs. It allows students to use sliders, restrictions, parameters, as well as many other
features.
3. The most interesting thing that I learned from the article is how you can use desmos to make learning
about functions interesting and an exploration. I think that the idea of making a design is creative.
Students are learning what happens to functions when it is manipulated. They are forced to see the
changes in the functions and graphs when doing a project like this. They can identify what makes a
graph move up, down, sideways, upside down, and many other things. I think that desmos is useful in
being creative, allowing students to make explorations, for review, and for teaching new topics.
4. I could use this in the classroom by allowing students to use desmos to make explorations about
different functions and their correlating graph. They can see what makes a graph of a function stretch,
shrink, move up or down, as well as many other things. They will be able to come up with general
formulas of functions themselves. I could use it in instruction when teaching how a parabola can be
manipulated. You can show what happens when you change a number from positive to negative or
when you change a number from a whole number to a fraction. When working in desmos, this allows all
the students to come up with many different ways to represent functions. This gives the students a
chance to discuss and communicate why they have the same graph, different graphs, similar graphs, as
well as many other things. They can reason why a graph is turned a certain way or how they could
manipulate a function to look a certain way. I could use this by giving real world problems dealing with
functions. For example, they could have to find real world examples of parabolas and then come up with
a function to match it.

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