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Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Winner of the Desmos Liberty Bell Curve Challenge

Posted Fri, May 4 2012

by Desmos Team

We would like to thank all of you who visited the Desmos booth at the 2012 NCTM Conference in Philadelphia! This year was a great success, and we look forward to helping everyone make the most of our program in their classrooms. Click here to see who...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Desmos Calculator Launches with Google Drive

Posted Tue, Apr 24 2012

by Desmos Team

At Desmos, we’ve always looked to Google Docs (now Google Drive) for inspiration. With Docs (Drive), the Google Team figured out how to take a few ubiquitous and essential utilities and flip them on their head. Word processing and spreadsheets belong...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

A bug in our PI?

Posted Wed, Mar 28 2012

by Desmos Team

A couple days ago, we got a bug report that left us shaking our heads in collective confusion. The trouble? This graph: Notice that f(π) is returning “undefined.” Trace doesn’t fare any better. But tan(π) = 0, so √tan(π) should also equal 0. What gives...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

student highlight: Amy, high school senior

Posted Mon, Mar 26 2012

by Desmos Team

Occasionally, we see a graph that just blows us away with its beauty and ingenuity. Like this one: [click on the image to play around with the graph yourself] We reached out, and got the following response from its author, Amy: My precalculus class had...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Happy Valentine's Day from Desmos!

Posted Tue, Feb 14 2012

by Anonymous

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’ve dressed A Better Calculator in pink and white and tied it with a bow: Since we firmly believe that Math is Love, we’ve built in the ability for you to share Math-o-grams with the nerdy ones you love. What’s a Math-o...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

A Better Calculator is Here!

Posted Thu, Feb 2 2012

by Anonymous

At long last…introducing: A Better Calculator ! We’ve been working on this in secret for several months, driven by a burning desire to see our software work on the iPad (man, how we wanted to pinch-zoom on a graph!). Well, that itch has been scratched...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Graphing Fractional Powers

Posted Thu, Dec 29 2011

by Anonymous

We get a great question in on twitter today from @MathG8 regarding this graph: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/2b7b3c8df5 The question posed was: Find the Max and Min values of f(x)=x^(2/3) on the interval [-1,8] by considering the graph of f. And the...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

The Desmos Calculator: 15,000 Chrome Store Users

Posted Mon, Oct 31 2011

by Anonymous

On September 1st of this year, we wrote on this blog about passing 2,000 Chrome App store installs of our graphing calculator. Now, less than two months later, we’re adding that many new installs per day. Thanks to a beautiful redesign of the Chrome store...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Happy Halloween from Desmos! Is that the sound of fingers...

Posted Mon, Oct 31 2011

by Anonymous

Happy Halloween from Desmos! Is that the sound of fingers clicking on keyboards, or bones rattling in graveyards? Read More...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Graph of the Week: Tangentially Speaking

Posted Sun, Oct 23 2011

by Anonymous

This graph of the week features some creative linking of equations and variables. Except when a=0, the blue line will always lie tangent to the green parabola, no matter how a and b change. Find the original here . Read More...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

The New Desmos Graphing Calculator

Posted Fri, Sep 30 2011

by Ann McNamara
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Want to learn more about the new Desmos Graphing Calculator? Just watch the movie below.
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

This week’s Graph-O-The-Week was so cool that I had to...

Posted Fri, Sep 23 2011

by Anonymous

This week’s Graph-O-The-Week was so cool that I had to make a video about it. This is the sine function as you’ve never experienced it before - beautifully color coded and with slider bars for each of the parameters. Notice how the pink dot...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Graph of the Week: Waterfall

Posted Thu, Sep 15 2011

by Anonymous

You can go chasing them here . Read More...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Graph of the Week: Trigsplosion

Posted Thu, Sep 8 2011

by Anonymous

Click here to access the original. Read More...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Graph of the Week: Couch Potato

Posted Fri, Sep 2 2011

by Anonymous

The calculator in action on Smosh.com . Read More...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

The Desmos Calculator: Over 2,000 Chrome Web Store Downloads and Counting!

Posted Thu, Sep 1 2011

by Anonymous

We’re proud to announce that as of today, over 2,000 individual users have downloaded our browser based graphing calculator through the Chrome store ! That’s on top of the 26,000+ hits the calculator has gotten directly through our website . Thanks to...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Graph of the Week: Antennae

Posted Thu, Aug 25 2011

by Anonymous

Click here to access the original. Read More...
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Graph of the Week: The Braid

Posted Fri, Aug 19 2011

by Anonymous

Click here to find the original. Read More...
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Graph of the Week: Caped Crusader

Posted Thu, Aug 11 2011

by Anonymous

One of our favorites so far. Click here to find the original. Read More...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Onwards and Upwards with the Calculator

Posted Wed, Aug 10 2011

by Anonymous

When we unveiled our free graphing calculator a month ago, my mother said it was perfect! The other 10-something-thousand of you had slightly more constructive feedback. We love the kind words (“wow, I just found this link and am hooked;” “Incredible...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Trace

Posted Wed, Aug 10 2011

by Anonymous

[ Flash 10 is required to watch video.] renderVideo("video_player_8736059740",'http://blog.desmos.com/video_file/8736059740/tumblr_lppyteB4jA1qi708f',400,250,'poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_lppyteB4jA1qi708f_r1_frame1...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Slider Bars

Posted Wed, Aug 10 2011

by Anonymous

[ Flash 10 is required to watch video.] renderVideo("video_player_8734596328",'http://blog.desmos.com/video_file/8734596328/tumblr_lppw2l21gx1qi708f',400,250,'poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_lppw2l21gx1qi708f_r1_frame1...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Graph of the Week: Sunburst

Posted Thu, Aug 4 2011

by Anonymous

Click here to access it directly. Read More...
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Graph of the Week: The Subway Map

Posted Mon, Aug 1 2011

by Anonymous

Access the graph directly here Read More...
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Blog

Graph of the Week

Posted Thu, Jul 21 2011

by Anonymous

As the number of graphs shared through the Desmos graphing calculator grows, we’re going to start posting our favorites every week. Below is this week’s submission. We call it the bowtie: Click here to access it through the calculator - feel free to change...

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