Desmos2OneNote (Version 4)
calarmstrongOkay, remember a few days ago when I said that Microsoft does continual improvement? I guess, kinda, so do I. You can download the file here: (and I updated it…
Desmos2OneNote (Version 2)
So the great thing about modern programming is that Microsoft products are under continual improvement -- in the "olden days" you would have to wait years between upgrades. Today, every…
Desmos2OneNote
The Lede: This is an app that will screenshot all pages of a student's Desmos Activities into a OneNote Page. Desmos Activities have been a great way to have students…
Desmos Test Mode in Windows
Cal ArmstrongDesmos, the popular online graphing calculator, has a Test Mode that locks the device into just the graphing calculator (Link: https://www.desmos.com/test-mode) . The challenge is that it's only for Chromebooks…
Teacher as Student in Anonymous Desmos
I thought that everybody did this! But apparently, not. So this was my XKCD 10,000 moment this week. I happened to tweet the following -- and I think it's my popular…
How do you know you’re right?
So I'm only on the 2nd class of the year in my Grade 10 Math course so far. We start late, and we only see them for 3 hours a…
Desmos, OneNote & Replay
So using Desmos activities are a great way to encourage exploration and discussion in math class -- if you haven't tried them, I encourage it. They're collected at https://teacher.desmos.com/ But ... Desmos…
Teach Math Online with OneNote & Skype (& Teams) (part 2)
The first part of the story is here: Part 1.The course I'm teaching runs every day in August, and Sept 1st. The students return to school after Labour Day and…
Teaching Math Online with OneNote & Skype (part 1)
So, although I tried to avoid it, I ended up helping design and am now delivering an online course in mathematics this summer, specifically the Ontario Ministry course MPM2D (Grade…