Desmos, a powerful math tool, plays a significant role in both teaching and learning. As a free teaching and learning platform, it empowers educators to create interactive and engaging lessons for their classes. Teachers can build custom activities or explore existing ones to enhance student understanding. Desmos allows students to graph equations, instantly visualizing mathematical concepts. Additionally, it supports modeling, data analysis, and real-world applications. Its live feedback feature enables teachers to monitor student progress in real time, fostering a dynamic and effective learning environment.

This is the link to the Desmos Website. Use your @student.dodea.edu account to log in. You will want to choose the "Teacher" option.

Here is a YouTube Video tutorial on getting started with Desmos (sign up with your @student.dodea.edu account & choose teacher option) - Here is the playlist of tutorials

How to build elementary, middle and high school learning activities with Desmos. This video has a glossary with links to speciic types of activities (e.g. creating a card sort)


Buidling Desmos Activities for Non Math Classes.

Links to Additional Resources:

Featured Lesson Activities for DESMOS - Ready to go lessons and activities for grades K-12

Digital SAT Prep:  Easy Desmos Hack for the Hardest Math Problems (YouTube video since the Desmos calculator is now authorized on the SAT)

Polypad is a companion tool for Desmos, here is a YouTube introduction on how to use Polypad for math modeling.

Creating an Assessment in Desmos Activity Builder - Step-by-step directions on creating an assessment from scratch using Desmos.