Exploring Number and Operations in Grades 3–5 with The Geometer's Sketchpad Many activities include sketches designed for use with a projector or interactive whiteboard, either for a teacher presentation or a whole-class activity, and Presenter Notes that help you lead a class discussion. Each module is accompanied by an access code that allows you to download a collection of Sketchpad sketches. McGraw-Hill Education publishes several curriculum modules that help teachers easily supplement course material with Sketchpad activities, or even use the book as the basis for guided learning. Exploring Calculus with The Geometer's Sketchpad.Exploring Precalculus with The Geometer's Sketchpad.Exploring Algebra 2 with The Geometer's Sketchpad.Exploring Geometry with The Geometer's Sketchpad.Exploring Algebra 1 with The Geometer's Sketchpad.Exploring Plane and Solid Geometry in Grades 6-8 with The Geometer's Sketchpad.Exploring Expressions and Equations in Grades 6-8 with The Geometer's Sketchpad.
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Exploring Ratio, Proportion, and Probability in Grades 6-8 with The Geometer's Sketchpad.Exploring Geometry and Measurement in Grades 3-5 with The Geometer's Sketchpad.Exploring Number and Operations in Grades 3–5 with The Geometer's Sketchpad.The project page has more details on how to access the course, book, and web resources. Chapter 5 – Exponential & Logarithmic Functions – Grades 11 & 12 (Coming soon!).Chapter 4 – Trigonometric Functions – Grades 11 & 12.Chapter 3 – Various Functions (function notation, cubic, square root, reciprocal, non-functions).Chapter 2 – Quadratic Functions – Grades 10 & 11 & 12.Chapter 1 – Linear Functions – grade 9 & 10.Students can crowd source different ways to solve the same problem.įinally, at the end of each chapter students are to create a working piece of art and share it on a Padlet gallery page! Students can see each others work and comment.Įach chapter covers different functions but many chapters can be done in the same course: Ontario curriculum suggested chapters: Again the teacher can choose to use the activities in the Multi-touch book or from the pre-made Desmos activity.Įvery so often in the challenges students are asked to show their thinking by uploading a picture of their work on a Padlet page. If you are in an one-to-one iPad room or have access to iPads the resources are in an iTunesU course and multi-touch book for iPad otherwise they are linked on this site for any device (see below).Įach chapter starts with linking patterns, tables, graphs and equations in pre-made Desmos graphs or in pre-made Desmos activities made using Activity Builder.įollowing that, activities ask students to match functions to specific criteria like Michael Fenton’s Match My Line or in my Match My Trig Function. This summer while at the Apple Distinguished Educator Institute in Miami I started a project that would create a digital resource that would link the Modelling Functions with Art Project with function challenges created by Michael Fenton, Dylan Kane, and myself. Each year learning new functions and creating art. The project has been so successful at engaging students to learn about various functions and their transformations I extended it to all grades! For the last few years the project spans grades 9 through 12. Before Desmos (B.D.) I use to send home copies of Geometer’s Sketchpad for students to generate a picture using only functions.Īfter Desmos showed up it was now super easy for students to generate art and access graphing software from any device. For many years now my classes have been completing a course wide project on Picture Modelling.