Making Best Use of DESMOS to Strengthen Your MATH Instruction (Grades 6-12) Presented by Andy Malbouef Outstanding Mathematics Teacher and Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades 6-12 Mathematics Teachers: Teachers of General Math, Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Statistics, Math Curriculum Coordinators, Instructional Specialists, and Administrators

• Dozens of practical strategies for best utilizing FREE Desmos to strengthen your secondary math students' engagement and learning
• How to make best use of Desmos Calculator and Activities to greatly enhance your grades 6-12 math instruction
• Explore highly practical ways you can use Desmos on laptops, Chromebooks and iPads to increase your students' success
• Receive an extensive digital resource handbook and special online access so you can immediately link to the resources presented in this seminar

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This outstanding seminar is specifically designed for secondary mathematics educators who want to make best use of the FREE Desmos calculator and Desmos Activities to greatly enhance mathematics learning and instruction. Experienced secondary mathematics teacher Andy Malbouef will share practical, effective ways to use Desmos to build strong conceptual understanding and increase student success in math. Enable students to deepen learning by constructing their own mathematical understanding. Increase students' confidence in their mathematical abilities, especially when faced with new concepts or challenging questions. Discover how the Desmos online calculator is much more than just a replacement for a handheld device. Learn how to help students become mathematicians with Desmos – to conjecture, test ideas, notice and wonder, productively learn from mistakes, make connections between algebraic and graphical representations, and much more!

You will leave this seminar with numerous practical ideas you can immediately implement to greatly enhance your math instruction.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Strengthen Your Math Instruction With FREE Desmos
   What every grades 6-12 math teacher needs to know about fully tapping into free Desmos and Desmos Activities … The best, most useful aspects for strengthening your math instruction
2. Generate Excitement and Increase Student Motivation
   Explore high interest, practical Desmos activities that spark students' curiosity and strengthen their perseverance in problem solving
3. Quickly Adapt Premade Desmos Lessons or Create Your Own
   Save time and incorporate or quickly adapt premade Desmos lessons perfect for your math students … Learn the keys to building outstanding Desmos lessons and how to easily create your own
4. Utilize the Newest Features of Desmos Calculators and Activities
   Desmos is constantly improving and adding features in response to teacher feedback … Leverage the newest features of Desmos, perfect for your grades 6-12 math instruction
5. Differentiate Instruction and Help Students Move From Concrete to Abstract
   Incorporate activities that strengthen concept building by allowing students to advance when they are ready … Discover ways to challenge and engage highly capable students
6. Essential Desmos Features to Help Students to Explore Mathematical Ideas
   Discover and create dynamic tables, graphs and sliders students can use to make predictions, notice patterns, revise conjectures, construct understanding, and more!
7. Strengthen Students' Mathematical Vocabulary and Written Expression
   Explore multiple lessons that develop students' accuracy in their mathematical communication … Help your students refine their explanations based on feedback they see in a Desmos Activity lesson
8. The Best Desmos Tips and Shortcuts to Streamline Your Instruction
   Explore timesaving shortcuts to make your instruction more productive … Practical ways to make demonstrations faster and easily save your work from one class to the next
9. Receive Links to a Variety of Activities and Collections
   You will receive digital links to outstanding activities and collections that can be used immediately with your students
10. Receive an Extensive Desmos Digital Resource Handbook With Special Online Access to Additional Resources
    You will receive a digital resource handbook packed with ideas, suggestions and step-by-step instructions for using Desmos to enhance your math instruction

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Practical strategies for making best use of Desmos Calculator and Classroom Activities to enhance instruction and student engagement in your math classroom
• Pre-made Desmos Activities you can instantly incorporate or easily adapt to enhance your mathematics instruction
• How to help students test conjectures and investigate mathematical relationships
• Ways to find, curate and share collections of Desmos Activities with your colleagues
• Numerous ideas and lessons to fully engage your math students in productive, collaborative learning
• Classroom-tested Activities designed to increase your students' growth mindset for learning mathematics
• Ways to use Desmos in single and multi-device environments, including laptops, Chromebooks and iPads
• Strategies for maximizing student learning with the teacher dashboard, including pacing, anonymizing and pausing within a lesson
• Explore multiple calculator features, including tables, graphs, sliders, geometry, polar, parametric, lists, statistics, and more!
• Valuable tips, shortcuts and ideas for organizing and sequencing learning to maximize instructional time
• Activities that move students from concrete to algebraic thinking and encourage them to predict, test and analyze their thinking throughout the process
• Foundations for crafting instruction to help build conceptual understanding, promote investigative approaches, and make connections between multiple representations to solidify understanding

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As secondary math educators, getting our students authentically motivated and engaged in learning mathematics can be challenging! Are you tired of students asking "When are we going to use this?" or "Will this be on the test?" Do your students fear making mistakes or being viewed as "dumb" in front of their peers if their answers are not correct? Have you tried using handheld graphing calculators only to find students getting bogged down knowing which buttons to push or what syntax to use? What I find so exciting about the free Desmos platform is that it has the power to greatly enhance our math instruction and help us address these and so many other challenges we face.

I've specifically designed this live online seminar to focus on all aspects of the Desmos platform and based on my 32 years as a secondary math teacher. This won't be theoretical: I practice what I preach, and you'll experience Desmos from a math teacher's perspective. I'm excited to share how to make best use of free Desmos tasks and activities to greatly enhance your math instruction. You'll get the chance to engage in some build-along opportunities through the day. Plus, you will receive my Desmos digital handbook, which is packed with practical resources and instructions.

Join me for a highly practical day! Get students to take a more active role in their math learning. Explore Desmos activities from the student perspective and how to maximize student learning from the teacher dashboard. Easily build your own lessons and explore a host of pre-made activities you can immediately incorporate or quickly adapt. Learn how to engage your students in math discussions using the Polygraph feature. Harness the power of Desmos lessons to help your students make and test conjectures, link multiple representations, draw connections between different concepts, take intellectual risks, learn from errors, use informal understanding to build formal conceptual understanding, and much more! Watch as your students' confidence, interest and enthusiasm for learning math grows.

Whether you are brand new to Desmos, an experienced user or anywhere in between, this day is for you! If you have one or many laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, or computers, I want to show you how you can make the most of Desmos to strengthen your instruction and your students' learning in mathematics.

Sincerely,
Andy Malbouef

P.S. I have personally witnessed how Desmos can transform math learning. I can't wait to show you how!

Who Should Attend

Grades 6-12 Mathematics Teachers: Teachers of General Math, Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Statistics, Math Curriculum Coordinators, Instructional Specialists, and Administrators

About BER Live Online Events

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Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Desmos Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

• Step-by-step guides for using Desmos to build strong conceptual understanding with your students
• Screenshots to highlight various aspects of the teacher dashboard with practical suggestions for using them to maximize student learning
• Suggested ways to use Desmos to teach concepts ranging from pre-algebra through calculus and statistics
• A reference list for specific calculator syntax
• Links to collections of activities that span secondary grade levels and courses
• Tips, strategies, procedures, explanations, videos, and more for making best use of Desmos in the secondary mathematics classroom

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in making best use of Desmos to strengthen their grades 6-12 math instruction.

Consultation Available
Andy Malbouef will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own mathematics program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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