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Well, and that has me thinking of this whole paradox with... digital, print can both work together best.

And I mean, and coming from the man who works, you know, you're the, I call you the amplified Desmos math guy.

So I do want you to talk a little bit more about Amplify Desmos math for those listeners who may not be as familiar with it or are interested in learning more about it.

Dan, how does Amplify math help educators achieve this ideal integration that you have mentioned? And you've mentioned our platform in our conversation, but I want to hone in a little bit more on it now if we could.

Yeah, I think it's a couple of things.

And as it should be, and it allows those access points for all students to be able to participate.

One of our other colleagues, Dr. Kelly Serpa, talked a lot about that, like that first five minutes, super critical to get all learners engaged.

And the fact that they amplify Desmos math.

But as you go on, the rules get more complicated, like the rule at the bottom of the screen.

But how do you feed all these diagrams into a computer? Well, the naive way to do it would be to plot everything on Desmos using explicit equations.

But I think we can both agree that that's far too clunky.

Another alternative is using a language that's specifically designed for theorem proving.

I just finished the first chapter of Essence of Calculus, and I'm working on the second one right now, and Patreon supporters are getting early access to these videos before I publish the full series in a few months.

This video and the next one are also supported in part by Desmos.

And before the next video, I just want to take a moment and share with you guys a little about who they are and the fact that they're hiring.

So Desmos is actually really cool.

They make a lot of these interactive math activities for classrooms and tools for teachers.

The real meat of their offering is in their classroom activities.

Like I mentioned in the last video, I've started working on an Essence of Calculus series, and so far I'm really appreciating the feedback the patrons are giving.

This pair of videos was also supported by Desmos.

Like I said at the end of part 1, Desmos creates these really meaningful interactive math activities for classrooms, and pretty great tools for teachers.

And importantly, they're hiring, so anyone out there interested should definitely check out the careers page that I've linked in the description, and by all means reach out to them if you're interested.

There are a lot of edtech companies out there that make some flashy tools in the hope of bringing modern technology to math curricula, but often there's not actual pedagogical substance underlying the tech.

I really do think though that Desmos is going about things the right way.

I was surprised by the amount of collective teaching experience that they have among their team, and even the non-teachers that I met there are really thoughtful and really well-versed when it comes to educational research.

The result is that their activities actually address what's lacking and needed in a student's education.

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Making a drawing application on the Desmos graphing calculator drawing Bowser from Super Mario Brothers in the Desmos graphing calculator.

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Making a drawing application on the Desmos graphing calculator.

Drawing Bowser from Super Mario Bros. in the Desmos graphing calculator.

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A hyper-connected world.

I mean, at some point towards the end of school, we had some assignments.

I mean, assignments like a homework task where we had to draw a picture on this website, Desmos.

Like, it's when we were learning about parabolas and polynomial equations.

Yeah, we had to pick a picture and try kind of trace it out on Desmos by matching these polynomials and things like that.

And that I had a lot of fun with.

That's great.

I mean, I enjoyed it a lot.

I also played a lot around with Desmos, actually.