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Building Great Math Actvities with Michael Fenton Transformative Principal 146

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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. Take the Fall Listener Survey Loading… Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Sponsor: Sanebox Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey  

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.

Take the Fall Listener Survey

Loading…

Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher. 

Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show.

Buy Communication Cards

Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com

Download Paperless Principal.  

Sponsor: Sanebox

Web Site

Transformative Principal on Stitcher

Refer A Principal

Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey

 


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