Students learn in multiple ways. Using manipulatives and drawings to explain new or difficult maths concepts is a great way to help everyone in the class get to grips with maths concepts.

Help students demonstrate their understanding of a maths or STEM topic by using Shapes and Smart Shapes in Equatio mathspace. This is a great alternative for when students don’t have access to physical manipulatives. Geometric shapes often need to be turned, rotated, or flipped, and with Mathspace your students can explore many different shapes. With Smart Shapes, students can experiment with Fraction Wheels, a Protractor Tool, a Compass and more, helping students to draw and measure angles.

Multiple pages of mathspaces are helpful for students as well as teachers. With mathspace, you can add as many pages as you would like to explore and solve your maths problems. Some students can often be overwhelmed by having too many problems on one page. Having the opportunity to break it up into smaller digestible bites is critical for them.

Speed up the grading and feedback process with the Rapid Review feature in Equatio. Immediate, meaningful feedback has a big impact on student performance and engagement, that’s why the Rapid Review feature gives you the option to leave students feedback quickly. You can use the feature to quickly scroll through student submissions, taking a temperature check on kids to see how close they are to achieving the day’s learning outcome. Coupled with Rapid Reviewer, Equatio mathspace can be used as an effective formative assessment tool.

With the infinite cloner toggled on by you, your students will have an infinite amount of shapes or objects to use. For example, if you asked students to show 89 cents. You give the students a selection of coins. Each coin has the cloning mechanism turned to the on position. This way when a student needs multiple coins of a specific denomination, they can simply drag a coin off the top of the pile, and underneath will be a stack of other coins in the same denomination.

Many items in a mathspace can be distracting for some students, particularly younger kids. Equatio mathspace provides a lockdown feature on items in your space. Simply, select the item that you wish to lock down, and a small padlock will appear on the student side indicating that the item can not be clicked on, dragged, or moved about the space. This can come in handy when there are multiple items in a space, or if you have a built out table, with lots of items, and numbers inside your table.