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Hey ho! Friday Fave here with new activities and some activity updates!

Here’s what’s new.

First up, two activities that are inspired by and adapted from Illustrative Mathematics and OpenUp Resources. (You can view and download for free at openupresources.org.)

Shifting Shapes elicits informal language about how shapes move in the plane, and it includes a delightful Kaleidoscope Playground.

Animation of an activity screen on which you draw in a Kaleidoscope Playground and are asked to figure out how each of four different kaleidoscopes work, e.g. by translation, rotation, reflection, or dilation

Whether you’re looking to up your personal Desmos game or reaching out for your entire district - there is a form to let us know you’re interested in learning more!

We have a standard 6-hour in person workshop where you can learn about the graphing calculator and using Desmos activities in your classroom.
One-hour webinar with a focus on either the graphing calculator or the activities.
Conference sessions and preconferences. Keep an eye on learn.desmos.com/events and the Desmos Twitter account for details as these events become available.

There is so much data in the world. Recently getting that data into the Desmos graphing calculator has gotten a lot easier.

Formerly, if you had a bunch of data that you wanted to get into a table in order to analyze it in the graphing calculator, you had two choices:

Transcribe the data yourself, or
Copy and paste a maximum of 50 data pairs from a spreadsheet

Now, thanks to a couple off small tweaks, that 50-pair limit has been lifted*.