Desmos

RATING:

5.0

(8)
Overview

About Desmos

Desmos is a web-based solution that provides learning activities for middle school math teachers and students. It is suitable for distance learning and blended learning classrooms. With Desmos, teachers can access featured collections of engaging activities and assign them to students. It also provides a set of free online tools for students, including a scientific calculator, graphing calculator, geometry tool, and others. This solution is accessible via Android and iOS mobile devices via the Desmos mobile app. Desmos’ collections of student activities are designed to increase student thinking. Using a teacher dashboard, teachers can access ideas being shared by students in real-time and promote productive learning. Additionally, with the Classroom Conversation Toolki...

Desmos Pricing

A free version of Desmos is available. Pricing information for The Desmos 6-8 Math Curriculum is provided on request by Desmos.

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Desmos teacher dashboard
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Desmos Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Desmos

8 Reviews

Catherine

Education Management, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2022

Incredibly Engaging Math Platform

I couldn't be happier with the product! I will tell anyone that listens what an incredible program it is and how it helped to enhance our positive math culture at our school.

PROS

I could go on for days about all the components that make Desmos the best platform out there, but really once you work through one sample lesson you will be totally hooked. The depth of understanding is so deep when students are seeing real life situations relate to the math - mixing paint, making pizzas, designing a city! It is grounded and challenging AND fun!

CONS

While this is not a complaint, one enhancement that could improve the lives of the teachers using the curriculum would be a scoring process for the wrap-up / lesson check slide. That said, as teachers we review the material anyways, so it might not be as important to some, it could just be a nice quick check before reviewing the answers in more depth.

Reason for choosing Desmos

Our school was ready to move away from a traditional math textbook, but we wanted the best online curriculum! That is what we found with Desmos.

Reasons for switching to Desmos

As previously mentioned, we were blown away with the quality of the lessons. They always have an interactive and memorable component helping to give visuals and support a deeper understanding. There is no rote memorization but rather really high level thinking happening in every lesson!

Elizabeth

Education Management, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed November 2021

Game Changer for High School Math Teachers

The BIGGEST benefit to using Desmos (besides its ease of use) is that it is the exact same calculator students will use on their NC Test. Having students use it on a daily basis helps them to become familiar with it and boosts confidence in their abilities to solve the problems necessary.

PROS

Desmos is a game changer for high school math teachers. As the lead teacher at my school, I am involved in all of our different classrooms and subject areas. Every one of our math teachers and many of our science teachers use desmos on a daily basis. Most teachers have transitioned from even using a handheld calculator to the desmos calculator. It is SO easy to use and SO user friendly (even for students)! It takes what are complex key strokes on a calculator and simplifies them into a single step. It allows for so much more than just "graphing" including statistical analysis and algebra.

CONS

There isn't anything I don't like about Desmos...but I do wish it integrated into Canvas - in particular Canvas Quizzes. Our school uses Canvas as our Learning Management System and the ability to embed directly into a Quiz would be very helpful for our students and staff.

Pam

E-Learning, 51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2022

Desmos has all you need for graphing

Desmos has been a game changer when we are graphing functions in the classroom or virtual. It allows my students graph multiple functions and to manipulate them easily. They are able to not just see and hear my explanation but to be hand on and interact with the graph also.

PROS

I love the interactive graphs that my students use to explore a function. They can graph a higher level function and zoom in and out to explore the graph. It will easily find the relative maximums and minimums, as well as their roots for the graph.

CONS

My one problem with this software is the scale on the graphs. I would love a feature to be able to type in exactly what I want on the screen.

Andrea

E-Learning, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2022

Excellent

Great

PROS

Easy to use for staff and students within virtual and in person learning

CONS

I don’t like that there are multiple state selections.

Megan

Education Management, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Desmos is a great tool for classrooms

PROS

It’s fairly easy to use and gives students a great way to interact with mathematical concepts.

CONS

There isn’t really anything I dislike about it

Cassie

E-Learning, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

Desmos in the Math Classroom

PROS

I love the ability to have an interactive math lesson that gets kids to be more engaged than the traditional lecture setting. I also liked the ability to see where my students were at throughout the lesson as they worked at their own pace.

CONS

At times, the activity dashboard seemed a bit finicky and hard to find student data after an activity, but this might have been user error and I just didn't find what I was looking for.

Lauren

E-Learning, 201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed October 2021

Desmos

PROS

Desmos helps me teach students virtually in a hands on environment. I am able to solve problems and help my students understand new concepts.

CONS

I am still learning all that this software can do. I would love to see more tutorials.

Anonymous

1 employee

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2024

Dealing with graphics and other math topics with Desmos

PROS

Desmos is one of the most complete software for functions and graphics. Adding functions to create graphics and do calculations is one of the most important and useful features.

CONS

Desmos is good but it's also kind of complex, contains all necessary features but sometimes finding a comon expression can be complicated.

8 Reviews