Building Great Math Actvities with Michael Fenton Transformative Principal 146

Last updated on October 29, 2024

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.