The kids worked on the Desmos activity Function Carnival today. They loved/hated it. The comments I got at the end of the day were along the lines of, "It made my head hurt but it was fun kind of and frustrating," "My brain is about to go BOOM!" and "Yes, we should use this program again because it makes you think, but my brain started hurting."
I consider all of those comments wins. They were struggling through problems together and weren't satisfied with half done answers. Most of them want to do something like this again, but also told me their brains hurt. I'm ok with that.
I'll write more about how I structured it and which activities I used later...
Also, sometimes we play.
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