Sunday, August 21, 2016

Visualizing radians

Sam Shah shared a GeoGebra applet created by a colleage of his which does a beautiful job of demonstrating what a radian is. He wrote about it here. I made minor modifications, mostly so that the word radian doesn't actually appear. Here's that slightly modified version.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Exponential Models Card Sort

Thanks to the ever-innovative-and-tuned-in-to-what-teachers-would-love-to-have Desmos team, I've created an online version of a card sort that I originally developed in paper form to help precalculus students think carefully about the meaning of the parameters in various forms of exponential equations. See this blog post for more detail on the context in which I use this.

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Introduction to Point-Slope Form

I created this Desmos activity to help students understand point-slope form of a linear equation, both how it relates to the equation for calculating the slope between two points and why it might be useful even if you're already good at slope-intercept form. It also introduces the idea of calling the change in x by the name h.