Post Pi-Day Reflection

I have been teaching Pre-algebra and Basic Math this semester, for my first time. It has been an overwhelmingly positive and eye-opening experience. Every week I think I should be blogging about my experiences, and every week I fail to prioritize it. So, tonight I start.

This week, Monday afternoon, I received a tweet from a former Key Curriculum Press colleague

@klockmath Can you recreate the famous pi-petaled rose for tomorrow using @Desmos ?

— Vishakha Parvate (@VishakhaParvate) March 13, 2017

so I did. This post is motivated partly by the fact that I shared the graph on Twitter, and I feel like the graph on its own feels empty. It's missing the conversation that we had around it, so it felt a bit like sharing my bullet-point notes for a story, rather than the story itself. So here's the story.