The One-Page Guide

1 · Build a page in a minute

1. Topics. Pick the course, then a topic. The search box finds one by name or standard code. Each topic you add becomes a section of problems.
2. Page. The paper on screen is exactly what prints. Change the number of problems in Sections; every number you type is a fresh set.
3. Save. Saved pages live in Library. Signed in, they follow you to any computer. Unsaved work is picked up where you left it, on this device, for a week.
4. Print. Fit to a page count first if it matters: it squeezes writing space and columns, never the number of problems, and offers to drop some only if that is the only way. The answer key is its own tab and its own printout.

2 · Make it yours

Details

Title, course line, page type, and the header fields: Name, Period, Date, standards, page numbers. Columns and writing space set the room to work; ruled lines if the class needs them.

Sections

Each set can be free response, multiple choice, or error analysis (a worked wrong answer to find and fix). Set every problem set to… changes them all at once. Hover a problem for ↻, which swaps just that one. Regenerate redraws the page; Undo (Ctrl or Cmd+Z) takes any of it back.

Versions A B C

Three different pages from the same recipe, with three keys. Neighbors get different numbers.

Number choices

Real answers only, whole-number systems, and the axis intervals on graphs: easier or harder without changing the topic.

Ideas for this page

Spiral review from earlier topics, a vocabulary refresher, a reasoning prompt, a partner protocol, a self-check before handing in. Each is one tick and prints as part of the page.

Skills & tools

Which tools students may use, printed on the page. Ticking Calculator also puts one on the student's screen (see the back).

3 · Every student

Accessibility

A typeface for dyslexia is one switch. Dyscalculia supports are separate switches, because they solve a different problem: aligned digits, bold operators, one problem per row, banded rows, a number line reference. Set them once and they stay with the page.

Spanish directions

Under Language. The Spanish sits under the English on the same page, so an EL student works the same sheet as a neighbor.

Standards

Tagged on every topic and printed on the page when Print standards is on. Choose the framework in Details; state codes print when the state's wording is installed, and the page says so honestly when it is not.

4 · Print without surprises

• Problems read across in rows, 1 2 over 3 4, and a row never splits across pages.
• Every sheet prints Page 1 of 2 in the corner with the title opposite. Untick Page numbers in Details if you do not want it.
• No web address or date in the margins: on Chrome the page prints none. In Safari, untick Print headers and footers in the print dialog; the first Print asks whether you have, and fills the whole sheet once you say so.
• The page count under the tabs is live. Fit to squeezes the writing space to reach the count, and says what it did.
• The paper is always black on white, whatever theme you use on screen, so it photocopies.
• PDF is Download › PDF, which opens the print dialog: choose Save as PDF.

5 · The answer key

• The Answer key tab prints separately. Show worked solutions adds the steps.
• Multiple-choice keys explain each wrong option: which mistake produces it. That list is a five-minute reteach plan.
• A page shared to a class keeps its key with it, so you can grade from the same numbers three weeks later.

Habit that pays: save before you print or share. A saved page can be regenerated, versioned and reposted; a printed one cannot.

6 · Calendar and pacing

• Classes and term. Up to six classes, each its own course. Set the first and last day, the days you meet, and the days off, which start from your district's calendar; a weekly test or reteach day gets its own page.
• Suggestions are offers. A dotted topic on a day is what fits. Click it to build the student page; drag it, or use its arrows, and it becomes your planned lesson on that day and the topics after it reflow around it.
• Your lessons stay put. A saved lesson moves only when you move it: the ‹ › arrows (∧ ∨ on the agenda), a drag, or the push that moves everything after a snow day. Every move asks for a note; next August the slips wait under Pacing notes.
• Week, Agenda, Pace check. Week is the plan book, a row per class; Agenda is the term as a list with each day's standards down the right. Both show what is due for review, a week and a month back, and a page built from a day spirals to it. Pace check says whether what is left still fits: a guaranteed curriculum is only viable with the time to teach it.
• Export. The share icon saves a file with every lesson and reserved day for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.

7 · Lesson plan

• From a concept and a day the objective, standards, bell ringer and timed agenda are filled in to edit, not to write from nothing. Create Student Page builds the page with the practices built in. Saved, the lesson sits on its calendar day.
• A substitute can teach from it. Three review questions with a key open every plan, and For a substitute scripts the period segment by segment with the materials and what to collect.
• Every subject. English, Biology, American History and the sciences have their units and standards; their plans carry a student activity with the research behind it, and Units lays a unit out day by day.
• Ask Gemini. On the rail of the plan and the page: real-world uses, videos worth showing, a first explanation. Your district's key does the asking; add an answer to the plan or the page, or leave it.
• Evidence and open resources. Each plan ends with the research behind its shape and the OpenStax and CK-12 sections for the concept; a student page never carries the links.

8 · Google Classroom

• Post to Classroom publishes the student page at a link that needs no account, and fills in the assignment: each standard in full, the vocabulary, and the sections as a to-do list. Read it over, change what you like, and post; the text is on your clipboard too.
• Students never see the answer key. It stays with your saved page.

9 · Anvil, the calculator

• Tick Calculator under Skills & tools and every student page gets a TI-84-style calculator: graphs, tables, matrices, statistics and the CALC menu. The button sits at the bottom right and can be dragged anywhere.
• The keys are the handheld's: MATH, ZOOM, STAT open numbered menus, so "MATH, then 4" means the same thing. Arrow keys walk them; a digit picks a row. ▸Frac turns answers into fractions; 2nd TRACE finds zeros and intersections.
• ⛶ puts it full screen for the projector. OFF puts it away; nothing typed is lost.
• It has its own page at /calc, edge to edge on a phone. On a Chromebook the install button in its title bar makes it an app; on an iPhone, Share, then Add to Home Screen. Ohio's state tests supply their own calculator; this one is for practice on the same keys.

10 · Habits that make pages better

• Use error analysis for the mistake you saw yesterday. A wrong answer to find is a better warm-up than ten right ones.
• Spiral review keeps last month's topic alive at no cost to today's. Versions A, B and C for quizzes: one recipe, one key each.
• The reasoning prompt and partner protocol are how a worksheet becomes a conversation.
• Everything works offline once loaded. The sparkle in the header is what's new, once per release.

Shortcuts

Ctrl / Cmd + Z	Undo the last change to the page
Ctrl / Cmd + P	Print what is on screen
Escape	Put the calculator away
Digits, arrows, Enter	Work a calculator menu from the keyboard

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