Our mission at Desmos is to help every student learn math and love learning math. But “every student” is a lot of students representing many different identities and lived experiences. Our team at Desmos is, by contrast, very small and very aware that our identities, experiences, and biases limit our ability to help every student.
In my own math education, fifth grade stands out as a pivotal time for me. Once a month, our teacher would hand out timed math tests where we had to complete something like 100 arithmetic problems in 3 minutes.
I failed. Repeatedly.
UPDATE: We are no longer in the pilot phase of our curriculum program, so some of the information below may be out of date. For current details regarding purchase options, please visit our help page on curriculum licensing.
At Desmos, we love doing math on paper and we have also seen the unique power of computers to provoke wonder, enable mathematical creation, and connect ideas together.
Thousands of teachers have experienced that power in our supplemental activities. This coming school year, we’re offering a small set of 7th and 8th grade teachers even more of that power through pilot access to …
… our complete middle school curriculum!
It’s part paper, part computer, and full of fantastic learning experiences for middle school math students from start to finish.
