![]() First is the straight up polar way, and the second is the parametric way. So there are two ways to graph polar in desmos. Especially since it only took 10 minutes of classtime!Īs an aside, I love that when I tweeted this out, a tweep said he was going to be doing this in his class after his kids learn about circles. It’s a slightly different way to appreciate the power of math, and I am good for that. I just wanted kids to play, like I played, and get excited, like I got excited. But it is a way to get kids to appreciate the power of polar when they are done working with polar, and what sorts of different kinds of graphs compared to the boring ol’ rectangular coordinate system. Now I want to be frank: there isn’t much “learning” that happens when kids are doing this assignment. I didn’t think too much about math while making my graphs, however I thought about math a lot in order to observe and think about patterns I found in my graphs. I felt that I learned a lot about polar through it.
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