Building Great Math Actvities with Michael Fenton Transformative Principal 146
Sunday, October 23, 2016 by jethrojones
Michael Fenton is the Lead Instructional Designer at Desmos. Check out learn.desmos.com.
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Activity Builder
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How Michael got connected with Desmos.
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How Desmos is different from a typical math site.
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Arguments are more fun when there are people in the room.
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Desmos Guide to Building Great (Digital) Math Activities (Dan Meyer’s Blog)
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It’s about generating interesting discussions in class.
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How long should activities in class be?
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What makes a good activity? Desmos Blog.
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WOSS (What Other Students Said), Pausing, & Anonymizing names to allow kids to focus on
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How to get the conversation out of the machine and into the room.
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