{"id":13777,"date":"2016-01-22T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=13777"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:58:31","slug":"desmos-support-for-practitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2016\/01\/22\/desmos-support-for-practitioners\/","title":{"rendered":"DESMOS Support for Practitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desmos is a graphing calculator which millions of students around the world use for free.\u00a0\u00a0 Desmos also create <a href=\"https:\/\/teacher.desmos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">activities <\/a>on <em>top<\/em> of that calculator, helping students use a powerful tool to experience all the curiosity, beauty, and sense that math has to offer. Those activities were used so often by so many teachers around the world they created an Activity<a href=\"https:\/\/teacher.desmos.com\/activitybuilder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <em>Builder<\/em>, <\/a>helping every teacher create digital math activities that equal and exceed the activities they create themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Using this activity builder the National Mathematics Development Group has created online support for the SQA National Qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>Please log on to GLOW and visit our blog which has handy hints and tips for practitioners alongside activities linked to the SQA Assessment Standards for National 5 , Higher and Advanced Higher Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/desmosresources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/desmosresources\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desmos is a graphing calculator which millions of students around the world use for free.\u00a0\u00a0 Desmos also create activities on top of that calculator, helping students use a powerful tool to experience all the curiosity, beauty, and sense that math has to offer. Those activities were used so often by so many teachers around the world they created an Activity Builder, helping every teacher create digital math activities that equal<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2016\/01\/22\/desmos-support-for-practitioners\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,24,102,40,88,42,21,82,39,44,47],"tags":[219,339,340,29,53],"class_list":["post-13777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attainment","category-cfe","category-ndlc","category-mathematics","category-national-qualifications","category-numeracy","category-sciences","category-senior-phase","category-skills","category-technologies","category-young-people-children-families","tag-nationalqualifications","tag-mathematics","tag-numeracy","tag-stem","tag-technologies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}