Michael Fenton is the Lead Instructional Designer at Desmos. Check out learn.desmos.com.

• Activity Builder

• How Michael got connected with Desmos.

• How Desmos is different from a typical math site.

• Arguments are more fun when there are people in the room.

• Desmos Guide to Building Great (Digital) Math Activities (Dan Meyer’s Blog)

• It’s about generating interesting discussions in class.

• How long should activities in class be?

• What makes a good activity? Desmos Blog.

• WOSS (What Other Students Said), Pausing, & Anonymizing names to allow kids to focus on

• How to get the conversation out of the machine and into the room.

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