Custom Desmos Activities @pejorgens

Custom Desmos Activities - Paul Jorgens (@pejorgens)

Please make sure to do the activity yourself first. While these have been used by students and edited in my PLC, they are not polished or vetted like those offered at Desmos. I tweeted about some of the activities in #teach180. Those tweets are linked.

The teacher’s role is important here. I tried to note where I paced and paused in the notes. I often use pairs in an activity.

Let me know if an activity works particularly well and I can highlight. Also let me know when they did not work so well. Some activities are somewhat specific to many school or district (the learning target activities for example)

Functions/Activities prior to formalizing linear functions Desmos Bundle(Look here first)

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Polygraph: Coordinate Plane Emojis		d66	Coordinate Plane
Plotting Points		x	Coordinate Plane
Interpreting Points	x	d69	Coordinate Plane
Drawing Graphs		x	Lines
Bags of Sugar		x	Coordinate Plane
Points to Equations		d80	Lines
Graphs to Equations		x	Lines
Equations, Points, Graphs (2016-17 needs revision)		x	Lines
Identifying Qualitative Graphs	d4	x	Functions
Traveling to School	d9	d74	Interpreting Lines
Graphing Stories: Big Slide	d10	x	Functions
Graphing Stories: Tree Swing		x	Functions
Roller Coaster	x	x	Functions
Polygraph: Functions (in combo with Words to Graphs)	x	x	Functions
Words to Graphs	x	x	Functions
Which Sport?	d7	d75	Functions
Hoisting the Flag		x	Functions

Linear Functions: Desmos Bundle (Look here first)

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Lines in Standard Form		x	Standard Form
Intercepts and Lines		x	Standard Form
Marbleslides Lines 1		x	Standard Form
Lines, Slopes, Intercepts		x	Slope-intercept
Linear Equations and Tables		x	Lines
Bivariate Data: Closing the Gap (100M swim)	d44	d105	Trend Line (point-slope)
Triangle Challenges	x		Graph lines (point-slope)
Crickets Keep Me Up All Night	x	d106	Modeling
How Much Will Pumpkins Weigh When You Are My Age?	d47	x	Trend line Point-Slope
My Wedding Dance Dilemma: Shout	d50	x	Modeling
Marbleslides	x		Point-slope form
Pumpkins (slope-intercept)	(x)	x	Modeling Slope-intercept
Height v Shoe Size	d155	x	Bivariate Data (NBA)
Linear Form Sort (2016-17 needs revision)	x		All Forms
Points Graphs Equations	d26	x	Tables
Lines Standard Form	x		Standard Form
Transforming Linear Functions	x		Function notation
Transforming Absolute Value Functions	x		Absolute Value
Linear Transformations	x		Function notation
Graphing Linear Functions	x		Learning Target Review
Linear Potluck	d42		Lines: Desmos Lists
Triangle Challenges	x		Lines
Math Rocks	d41		Perpendicular
Parallelograms	x	x	Parallel/slope
What’s the point(-slope)	d42		point-slope
Polygon Challenges	d43		Parallel perpendicular
Writing Equations of Line	d47		Learning Target Review
Linear Functions M8 Review		d101	Learning Target Review

Equations/Inequalities Desmos Inequalities Bundle(Look here first)

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Learning Target Review	d20		Terman Review
Learning Target Review Math 8		x	Terman Review

Systems of Equations Desmos Bundle (Look here first)

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Boundaries and Shaded Regions	d50		Inequalities
Systems of Linear Inequalities	x
Graphing Systems of Equations		d110	Solution by graph
Selecting Systems of Equations	d60		Which Method?
Systems of Equations Learning Target Review	x		Terman Review

Exponent Properties

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Exponent Rules	x	d134	Properties
Open Middle 1: Exponents and Large Numbers	x	x	Scientific Notation, Properties
Open Middle 1: Exponents and Small Numbers	x	x	Scientific Notation, Properties
Open Middle 2: Scientific Notation Products	x	x	Scientific Notation, Properties
Open Middle 3: Negative Exponents Largest	x	x	Exponent Properties
Open Middle 3: Negative Exponents Smallest	x	x	Exponent Properties
Open Middle 4: Rational Exponents	x	x	Exponent Properties
Open Middle 5: Scientific Notation Sums	x	x	Exponent Properties
Folding Paper In Half		d128	Exponential Growth
Exponential Expressions Practice	x		Properties
Exponential Expression Card Sort	d92		Properties
Rational Exponent Card Sort and Practice	x		Properties
Exponent and Scientific Notation Learning Target		x	Review

Exponential Functions Desmos Bundle (Look here first)

Graphs of Exponential Functions	x		Graphs
Exponential Function Slalom	d76		Graphs
Sierpinski’s Triangle and Carpet	x		patterns
The King’s Chessboard		d156	Model
King’s Chessboard + Follow Up	d89		Model
Rabbits, Rabbits and More Rabbits		x	Model
Exponential Learning Target Review	x		Terman Learning Target Review
Homework Reward (16-17)	x	x	Model
Sharing Popcorn (15-16)	x	x	Model
Exponential Functions and Tables(16-17)	x	x	Table-Equation
Exponential Tables HW(16-17)		x	Table-Equation

Polynomial Operations

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Polynomials	d97		Addition, Subtraction
Multiplying Polynomials	d99		Multiplication
Algebra Tile Challenges	x		Not tested with students yet
Open Middle: Factors of Polynomials	d108		Factoring
Terms of a Polynomial: Notice and Wonder	x
Degree of a Polynomial: Notice and Wonder	x
Polynomial Learning Target Review	x		Terman Review

Quadratics Desmos Bundle (Look here first)

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Find My Parabola	x
Match My Vertex	d115		Exploring standard form
Match My Roots	x
Roots of Parabolas	x		Solution by graph
Cubics and Quartics	x		Roots extension
Parabola Potluck	d120		Lists and equations of graphs
Parabola Transformations	x		Transforming f(x)=x2
Parabola Card Sort	x
Solutions to Quadratic Equations	d129		Open Middle
Tossing a Ball	d127		Vertical Motion
Three Divers (Vertical Motion)	d130		Vertical Motion
The Rocket Show	d123		Parabola Equation Models
Modeling a Pendulum	d131		Collect/Model data(string/washer)
The Discriminant of the Quadratic Equation	d137		Discriminant
Quadratic Learning Targets Review	d149

Radicals

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
A Single Quadrant	x		Square root graphs
Transforming Radical Functions	d159		Square root graphs
Radical Potluck	d162		Lists and square root graphs
Radical Warm Up	d163		Square root graphs
Radical Slalom	x
Solutions to Radical Equations	d165		Solution by graph
Radical Graph Card Sort	x

Pythagorean Theorem and Irrational Numbers

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Seeking Right Triangles		d53	Pythagorean theorem
Pythagorean Theorem Exploration Follow Up		x
Area of Polygons		d46	Geoboard Area
Squares in a geoboard		d48	area
Lines in a geoboard		d49	Irrational lengths
Distance in the coordinate plane		d54
Geoboard Polygraph		x
Learning Target Review		x	Terman LT Review

Volume (I use these in a volume “menu”)

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Meatball 3 Act from Dan Meyer	x	d66
Filling the food drive bin	x	d63
Lifting the Rainbow	x	x
Gumball Jar from Jon Orr	x	x
Gumballs.com	x	x

Angles

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Angles in a Triangle		x	Equation rule
Angles in a Polygon		d17	Equation rule
Congruent Figures		d24	In geoboard

Categorical Data

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Survey at the Bus Stop	d142	d142	Launch for categorical data
Categorical Data: Frequency and Relative Frequency	d143	d143	Titanic
Categorical Data: Before and After	d144	d144	Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voter Participation 2016	d145	d145	Follow Up to Voting Rights Act
Categorical Data: Make the Case	d146	d146	Kristen Gilbert Case
Interpreting Graphs: Misleading graphs		d147	I did first half
Interpreting Graphs Day 2: Misleading graphs			Follow up to 1st half
TastiSnak vs. Nature’s Best			Box and Whisker Warm Up

Other Tasks (Desmos Modeling Bundle)

Activity	Alg	M8	Topic
Visual Pattern 1	x		Linear, exponential
Visual Pattern 2	x		Linear, exponential
Building a Cube	x	d167	Painted cube remake-Needs Edit
Vroom Vroom	x	x	Model Data
Polygraph: Paper Pool		x	Use prior to paper pool
Triangle Segments	x		Revisit Lines with triangles
Transforming Ellipses	x		Ellipse/Circle
Find the SOAP	d168		SOAP=Set of all points
Varignon’s Conjecture	x		Parallelograms
Relationships	x	x	Correlation
Super Mario 3 Act	d158	d158	Linear or Exponential?