It's often said in politics, "show me your budget and I'll show you your priorities." In education, curriculum plays much the same role -- show me that, and I'll show what you want students to understand.
I'm looking forward to exploring the vision and the substance of what you've shared.
It’s good stuff. Thanks for helping create this rudder. Fun to steer the ship into some complementary math seas also. We’re doing Calder mobiles at the start of the year to introduce equations inspired by the hanger diagrams to come, so we have some tangible creations to refer back to.
I need to be a little elliptical here but I'll say that a) every publisher has some kind of CMS for their curriculum, b) very few of them make that same CMS freely available to end users like we do. How to get the commercial and the free in a dialog together is an interesting challenge.
Congrats on the launch. Curious how'd you respond to these two pieces of feedback from reddit:
"Used this last year. Mostly games and little machines that do the math for you. A few really good animations and models. Almost no options for struggling students to practice key skills. I would say it’s less than a curriculum, not more."
"Too expensive. Lost the bid for my district to Accelerate."
Congrats on the launch of Amplify Desmos Math, Dan! I know you saw the journey of growing Desmos ground up, arming teachers and the rebel alliance, both its strengths and limitations -- With the context of being with Desmos since its beginnings through to acquisition by Amplify, I'm curious how you see the interplay of:
- the top-down approach needed to drive adoption of Amplify's Math Curriculum by systems (not to mention ongoing customer success/implementation/PD/support for doing it well, alongside tools like Clever, Kiddom, other SIS/data integrations) will play alongside
- the bottoms-up of Amplify Desmos, and what will cotinue to be available to teachers through Desmos (or school leaders where they have more autonomy, e.g., like NYC DoE) vs. needing purchase to access. (just signed up to poke around too)
Curriculum coupled with strong teacher training and support to help them understand the best ways to facilitate student exploration and learning.
This is the way.
It's often said in politics, "show me your budget and I'll show you your priorities." In education, curriculum plays much the same role -- show me that, and I'll show what you want students to understand.
I'm looking forward to exploring the vision and the substance of what you've shared.
It’s good stuff. Thanks for helping create this rudder. Fun to steer the ship into some complementary math seas also. We’re doing Calder mobiles at the start of the year to introduce equations inspired by the hanger diagrams to come, so we have some tangible creations to refer back to.
I need to be a little elliptical here but I'll say that a) every publisher has some kind of CMS for their curriculum, b) very few of them make that same CMS freely available to end users like we do. How to get the commercial and the free in a dialog together is an interesting challenge.
Congrats on the launch. Curious how'd you respond to these two pieces of feedback from reddit:
"Used this last year. Mostly games and little machines that do the math for you. A few really good animations and models. Almost no options for struggling students to practice key skills. I would say it’s less than a curriculum, not more."
"Too expensive. Lost the bid for my district to Accelerate."
So would you say something like Brilliant.org is in line with your thesis? In that students need to be able to do something that effect something?
Brilliant is great.
Congrats on the launch of Amplify Desmos Math, Dan! I know you saw the journey of growing Desmos ground up, arming teachers and the rebel alliance, both its strengths and limitations -- With the context of being with Desmos since its beginnings through to acquisition by Amplify, I'm curious how you see the interplay of:
- the top-down approach needed to drive adoption of Amplify's Math Curriculum by systems (not to mention ongoing customer success/implementation/PD/support for doing it well, alongside tools like Clever, Kiddom, other SIS/data integrations) will play alongside
- the bottoms-up of Amplify Desmos, and what will cotinue to be available to teachers through Desmos (or school leaders where they have more autonomy, e.g., like NYC DoE) vs. needing purchase to access. (just signed up to poke around too)