Highly customizable, visual and useful tool.

Submitted 1 year ago
My Rating
Pedagogy
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My Take

Desmos is a very good resource not just for the students but for teaching as well. Desmos makes it easy to graph various things while on the internet without having to use a physical graphing calculator. This could be used in a classroom setting as it is much easier to share a screen / present the screen you are using Desmos with, rather than trying to show students a graph from a small calculator. Furthermore, the online tools of Desmos are very easy to use, easy to customize and you can toggle on and off various graphs as needed. This only adds to the ease of use of this platform. The keyboard tool on the bottom left of the graphing calculator is also incredibly useful since students might not remember all the functions they need to use when graphing, and this pop-up tool can help students input the graphs they need without manually typing each part of the equation.
I think the one part of Desmos that I didn't like is the functions button. While this button is super useful since it expands into a large array of functions the students can use, it is sort of a hassle to scroll through all of the functions. Ultimately, I think the keyboard pop-up could be made bigger, to make more room for the functions to be placed out in the open, rather than sticking all of these functions into a separate interface the users have to scroll through.
For reference, these two buttons I am referring to are the keyboard icon in the bottom left which opens an interface with various buttons to use to form an equation. Within this interface is another button called "Functions" which opens another interface that has over 20 other buttons which aid in making graphing equations as well, however, these buttons are more condensed, smaller, and the user has to scroll up and down to get to their desired function.

How I Use It

Desmos is a very useful tool that makes it easy for students to visualize and graph whatever they need while on a device. It enables students to have the functionalities of graphing without needing a physical graphing calculator.