10-12 Math Teacher Professional Learning
10-12 Math Teacher Professional Learning
Desmos is a both a free online graphing calculator (https://www.desmos.com/) and classroom Activity Builder (https://teacher.desmos.com/)
Using Desmos Activities in your classroom
Getting Started with Classroom Activities - This website contains a variety of resources to help you learn more about the getting started with Desmos Classroom Activities. *added Jan2023* The following link is a recording of a webinar that walks though how to use Desmos activities in your classroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfUXf1OVx4 .
EECD Summer Learning Session Teaching Math with Desmos Activities - Some tips for using Desmos activities both synchronously (live and virtual) as well as asynchronously. There is an accompanying Google document with notes and resources.
Introducing Students to Desmos - Here is the link to a Desmos activity introduction for grade 10-12 students who are new to Desmos. Lesson 0.1 is another introduction to Desmos activities aimed towards grade 7-9 students.
Check out this collection of Nova Scotia Math Desmos Collections for courses in grades 7 through 12.
Looking for Desmos activities in French? Check out http://desmosfr.ca/ for a searchable website of French activities.
Creating your own Desmos Activities
Learn about creating your own Desmos Activities:
Starter Screens in Desmos: Activity Building 101 - An hour long video describing the basics
Desmos DIY: Building Your Own Activities - A one hour video webinar
Desmos Design Principles - The Desmos Guide to Building Great (Digital) Math Activities
Desmos Self-Checking Slides Template - A collection of slides shared by Karen Service with different types of questions that include self-checking and instant feedback to students.
You can build and edit activities with your colleagues! To add collaborators, find the dropdown menu in your activity and select Collaborate. Note that only one person can edit at a time.
Quizizz is an online formative assessment tool. The Quizizz math editor lets you add mathematical equations into questions with ease.
The Quizizz Guide to Distance Learning - A list of tips for getting the most out of Quizizz.
Getting Started with Quizizz - A video describing the basics of creating and starting a Quizizz.
How to Use Quizizz for Remote Learning and Teaching - A short video on how to use Quizizz in your classroom and share it through Google Classroom for remote learning and teaching.
A few example Quizizz
Math 10 Trig Ratios (M04)
Precal 11 Sequences and Series Quizizz
Math Essentials 12 Accuracy and Precision Quiz (1.1)
Calculus 12 Limits and Continuity (B2 and C1)
EquatIO allows teachers to quickly and easily format mathematics in Google docs, slides and forms. EquatIO premium is free for teachers.
Getting Started with EquatIO - This site will step you through installing the EquatIO Chrome extension. You can follow this up with tutorials from the EquatIO YouTube tutorials playlist.
EECD Summer Learning Session Using EquatIO in Gsuite for Mathematics from Peter Day - Peter describes using EquatIO in Mathematics class.
EquatIO Features Overview - This fifteen minute video will step you through the basics of EquatIO.
Using EquatIO with Google Forms for Formative Assessments video
Polypad is a set of virtual manipulatives found at the Mathigon.org website. Students can use virtual Polypad manipulatives to solve problems or teachers can create and share a Polypad canvas with a specific set of questions and manipulatives.
Polypad PD – Middle School Workshop video from David Poras
Polypad - Fraction & Decimal Relationships video from Tina Friesen
GraphFree is an easy to use free online tool to create graphs of a variety of functions. Quickly create graphs to use on worksheets, Quizizz assessments, Google Forms or Google Slides. It has recently been updated to include additional features and make it easier to use.
An example Quizizz for Precal 12 using graphs created in GraphFree
Self-checking activities can be used to give students immediate feedback on how they are doing. Many of these activities can be used either virtually or in person.
EECD Summer Learning Session Creating Digital Self-Checking Activities for the Math Classroom from Souad El-Achkar and Erika Swinemer - Souad and Erika describe self-checking activities and show/share several examples that could be used in mathematics.
Self-Checking Activities - A post describing a variety of self-checking activities for mathematics. Below are a few examples of self-checking activities:
Math 10 Unit 1 Volume and Surface Area Row Game - Two columns of problems, A and B. Each row has the same answer. Students work in pairs to each do one column of questions and compare answers.
Math 10 Unit 2 Tangent Ratio Secret Message - Students use the tangent ratio to solve 6 problems. The solutions let students create a keyword that can be used to decode a message made with a Vigenère cipher.
Math 10 Unit 7 Systems of Equations Odd One Out - Students are given 8 questions and 9 possible answers. Which solution is the "odd one out"? A post describing odd one out activities.
Tarsia Puzzles - Tarsia puzzles are jigsaw puzzles that students cut out and assemble by joining sides with corresponding questions and answers. Tarsia puzzles can be created on a Windows computer using the Tarsia Formulator program (a free download).
Craig Barton has a web page where he has shared tips and examples of Tarsia puzzles that he has created.
NCTM Principles to Action - Principles to Actions explores Teaching and Learning and and describes and illustrates eight Mathematics Teaching Practices that research indicates need to be consistent components of every mathematics lesson.
Understanding Math Development - Video
Understanding Math Development - PDF of Slides