Friday Five for July 29
The Friday Five is most definitely NOT in a summer slumber. Nor is it just chilling by the pool with an ice cold lemonade. Nope. The Friday Five has been busy this summer and brings you not five activities but five features! So find a lawn chair, make yourself comfortable, and read on.
Give the teachers the tools they need to make their work better, easier, and more awesome. If that isn’t an official, written-in-stone principle here at Desmos, it’s certainly a theme that underlies all of our work.
Today we are pleased to announce a collection of tools and design decisions that reflect some of our recent, exciting work on this theme.
Friday Five for July 22
The Friday Five smells Back to School sales and events on the horizon. It
hopes to get your creative juices flowing for the coming school year by
offering up a diverse collection of resources. Enjoy.
Friday Five for July 15
After a well-earned week off, the Friday Five is back.
With bundles!
What are bundles? You ask.
The Friday Five is here to explain. A bundle is a collection of activities chosen and sequenced (with love) by the Desmos Teaching Faculty. Let’s say you start your unit on linear functions with a rousing round of Marbleslides. Then you type “linear” in the search box at teacher.desmos.com and you maybe get a bit overwhelmed.
No longer.
Now you’ll see that Marbleslides: Lines is part of the Linear Bundle. You’ll click through to see the other activities we’ve curated, collected, and annotated. You’ll have our best advice for how to proceed for the next week or two. You’ll see what we hope students will learn through engaging with these activities. You’ll fill in the gaps, as teachers always do.
Mostly, you and your students will experience a more powerful, more Desmofied, unit.
And now here are five bundles. Hot off the presses for this week’s Friday Five.