Please see guidance below about the online calculator for state testing. Desmos is an excellent resource and something that students should be getting exposure to in class.

Desmos Calculators

Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, Ohio’s State Tests will use Desmos as the online calculator. The Ohio version of the Desmos calculators are available in the test portal through the practice tests and as a direct link. These are the same calculators students will have available to them during online testing.

The calculators available for testing were modified with certain features disabled or removed. The modifications were made either because removed functions a) concerned content above the grade level of the test; or b) could have affected the tests’ ability to measure a student’s understanding of grade-level content in some areas of the standards.

Districts can still choose to allow students to use handheld calculators on state tests in addition to the calculator provided in the test platform. Find information about the recommended and allowable calculators for the mathematics tests at the links below.

• Ohio Version of Desmos Graphing Calculator
• Guidance on Desmos Calculator for High School
• Handheld Calculator Guidance for High School