Secret Tips + Artwork: Advanced Techniques

Lists & Other Data Types

Lists are an advanced feature in Desmos that allow for calculations, functions, and expressions that invlove multiple numbers at once. They can be extremely useful when doing problems that involve large patterns of numbers, like graphing 100 circles at once. Instead of using 100 equations, you can use one list to do it all!

Examples of lists can be seen on the left. You can define a list with brackets and a list of numbers, like \(L = [1, 1, 2, 2]\).

If \(L\) is a list, you can refer to individual elements or subsets of elements by choosing the index of that element:

• Access the first element of \(L\) with \(L[1]\)
• Create a new list of the first, third, and fifth elements of \(L\) with \(L[1, 3, 5]\)
• \(L[1 ... 5]\) accesses the first \(5\) elements
• Generate a list of elements of \(L\) from the third to the last with \(L[3...]\)
• Pull out the positive elements of \(L\) with \(L[L > 0]\)

Animation Techniques in Desmos

You can use sliders to animate your graphs in Desmos! See the graph on the right for a walkthrough on how to animate a bouncing ball.

Polygons & Geometry

Coming soon... (polygon, distance, midpoint)

Accessibility features

Coming soon... (Audio trace & screen reader)

Advanced Labels

Coming soon...

Tables & Regressions

Coming soon...