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Every day, our users fill our homepage with incredible graphs. Today, we’d like to highlight a few creations that have truly inspired us.

First up is Andrea, a high school student from a bilingual school in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her graph is a hoot!

See Andrea’s equations here: www.desmos.com/calculator/90f6jzjqiu

Mr. Seaberg, her math teacher, uses Desmos to help his students understand function transformations, function applications, domain/range, and a host of other concepts with our calculator. When asked about his experience using Desmos with his bilingual students, he said:

Many high school mathematics courses in Mexico are taught in a very traditional, everything-by-hand kind of way, and it has been wonderful and very refreshing to bring more technology into my classroom. It’s also exciting to see that the calculator is constantly being improved and updated!

Next is Jasmine, a high school junior in California. She hit a homerun on her math project! When we asked her about the process, she highlighted one of our most important values:

From making this graph, I learned how fun it is to actually do math. I enjoyed finding the limits and putting the equations together to make this picture. I chose Desmos because it looked like a very good website to graph and it very easy to use.

Thanks Jasmine!
See her equations here: www.desmos.com/calculator/dbxpnzfn47

Another of our recent favorites is from user K. Reka, who made this beautiful spiral graph.

See the equations here: www.desmos.com/calculator/llr1xhuiki

Lastly, Yvette from Jalisco, Mexico created a lovely ballerina graph and became a hit on Facebook!

See Yvette’s equations here: www.desmos.com/calculator/shhoaghu8n

Want us to showcase your #desmazing graph? Share it with us via Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest!

Hey mathosphere! Team Desmos is back home from the 2012 ISTE Conference in San Diego. Not only did we meet some awesome new superstars – educators, bloggers, and edtech peers – we also got to catch up with familiar faces. Considering how digital our industry is, ISTE is a great venue to get together as a whole community and meet people face to face.

Our first stop was SocialEdCon, the major event of ISTE “unplugged.” The attendees were some of the most passionate personalities in EdTech, and it was awesome to get a glimpse of the different perspectives on issues ranging from the use of social media in creating school communities to creating your own “unconference.” One of our favorite conversations was with Dan Rezac of EdReach, who led a discussion on how to elevate education stories in the media. Later, at the SocialEdCon after-party, we got to further mingle with fellow conference-goers. Our “I Heart Math” shirts were a hit. At ISTE, nerdiness is always the new black:

After we set up our booth, Sunday was quiet for us. Until, of course, we launched our redesign and new features! We thought: what better time to start Operation #Desmazing than during ISTE?

The next few days at the conference were awesome. As always, the most rewarding part was the ability to sit down with teachers face-to-face and receive feedback. (Check out the rest of the pictures and tag yourself!) We’re on a continual journey to make our calculator as beautiful and intuitive as possible!

We also gave a presentation with Edmodo about the use of our calculator on their platform, but more details on that in an upcoming blog post specifically about Desmos & Edmodo (Desmodo?). Special shout out to Jimbo Lamb from Pennsylvania for co-presenting and giving a teacher’s insight!

Lastly, Team Desmos would like to thank Schoology for their uber-delicious Wine Tasting & Pairing event, and to our friends at ClassDojo, Remind101, and EduCreations for a fun time at the ISTE Startup Party.

We came, we graphed, we conquered. Ta-ta San Diego! ISTE, see you next year in San Antonio!

Operation #Desmazing

Since our calculator was released last year, we’ve received a ton of feedback from users worldwide on features they’d like to see us develop. Well, we listened, and we’re happy to announce that many exciting new features are now live at desmos.com/calculator.

Your des-mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find new calculator updates and share them with us by:

• • Sending @DesmosInc a tweet with the hashtag #Desmazing
• • Posting a message on our Facebook wall, facebook.com/desmosinc
• • Snapping a screenshot of the feature and sharing it on Instagram or Pinterest with the same hashtag, #Desmazing

Share your #Desmazing discoveries with us and we’ll send you an awesome Desmos t-shirt of your choice:

Good luck and happy graphing!

Team Desmos

Screenshot of our new calculator interface - check it out at desmos.com/calculator