Accessible Math for All

With this guide, students will explore the transformations of functions with Desmos! They will be prompted to create and compare the parent function to transformations across the coordinate plane. Parents functions that are included are linear, quadratic, cubic, absolute value, rational, and square root.

This lesson introduces rational and irrational numbers as well as allows for discussion around combining rational and rational, rational and irrational, etc.

This lesson shows the flaws in using PEMDAS for order of operations. Start the lesson by having students solve viral math problems pulled from Facebook. Students will inevitably get different answers as they misapply/misremember order of operations. Discuss where PEMDAS breaks down (ie seeming that multiplication and division happen on different steps, parentheses is the only form of grouping, etc). Introduce GEMA (Grouping, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, Addition & Subtraction). Show