I love Desmos, so when I discovered how to use HTML code to add a desmos practice graph on my blog, I was ecstatic. If you are not familiar with Desmos and you are a math teacher, you need to visit the desmos.com site!
I use my class blog for many things:
- Lesson Plans
- Syllabus
- Math Links
- Class Announcements
- Videos
- Quizzes and Tests
- Classwork
- Homework
- Anything else I can think of!
I love having a blog because it saves me paper, but the best part is when I have a sub. I put the plans on the blog and the kids know to go to it and find their work! It’s so nice not to rely on somebody to give the students the work. No excuses!
Recently, I was trying to figure out how to do something else with Desmos and discovered how to put a graph right on my blog. You can view it here if you’d like.
So if you are ready, let’s add a graph to your site!
As a teacher, if you haven’t created a Desmos account, that would be the first thing you should do. Next, create a graph that you would like to use or for the purposes of practice, use a blank graph. Go to the share button in the top right corner of the Desmos page.
Click the share button. Copy the link (don’t click embed). Now you need to add some code to the beginning and the end of it, so it will work.
Type this: 
In place of the red sentence above, put the link that you copied from Desmos. You can play around with the dimensions of the height and width to fit you blog.
Now you need to know where to put this code. In the blog or website you use, find where you normally go to create a new post. There is usually a place to put HTML code. Here are two examples:
This one is from Blogspot: 
This one is from WordPress.com: 
Paste your code and save your changes. Go look at the post to see if it worked!
I hope you are as excited about this as I am. I love learning new things and I love finding things that will help my students. Please let me know how it worked for you! Best of luck!
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