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Our stories are important for shaping our identities. What kind of person am I? Where do I belong? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is my purpose? These are profound questions that we often use stories to answer.

Our mission at Desmos is to help all students love math and love learning math. We acknowledge the complexities of that mission, and we understand the responsibility inherent in building tools that play a role in shaping every student’s math story.

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It’s no secret. Team Desmos loves teachers and loves it when teachers use our tools to show their creativity. Inspired by your enthusiasm and your creative work, we make many of the activities on teacher.desmos.com publicly available to copy and edit. Want to have your students create virtual fields for virtual cows? Take Build a Bigger Field and make it your own! Want to add extension questions to Lego Prices? Go ahead and make a copy!

Have you tried it? Did you get the following message?

"To edit this activity, you need to enable Computation Layer"

We’ve heard a lot of confusion this past month about whether students can use Desmos during the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR).

After several weeks of late nights, and with input from many of you, we’re thrilled to announce that the STAAR version of our Test Mode apps now complies with the Texas graphing calculator policy. To celebrate, we’ve added Texas to the map on www.desmos.com/testing. There, you’ll find detailed information on the differences between STAAR mode and the regular graphing calculator.