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"David Cox sent his students through Function Carnival where they tried to graph the motion of different carnival rides. (Try it!) Every student's initial graph was wrong. No one got it exactly right the first time. But Function Carnival doesn't display a percent score or hint tokens or some kind of Bayesian probability they'll get the next graph right. It just shows students what their graph means for that ride. Then it lets them revise."

"She says it gives her the opportunity to do more demonstrations and students are getting more attention than ever before." - Some of our DSF teachers are doing this and it is worth discussing strategies that work and activities that engage during class time.