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. 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. Neighbours 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 neighbour.

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.
• 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

• Your term. First and last day, the days you meet, and the days off, which start from the district calendar. Review and assessment time sets how much room each unit gets.
• Weekly routine. Mark a test day and a reteach day. The guide flows topics around them and offers a check for understanding or a reteach page on those days.
• Suggestions are offers. A dotted suggestion on a day is what fits; click it to build the page. Save a lesson and the suggestion stands down.
• Move a lesson. The ‹ › arrows on a saved lesson walk it to the previous or next class day. Or drag it onto any day. Two lessons trade places.
• Say why, or don't. Every move asks for a note. No note is one key. Next August, when you plan the course again, this year's slips are waiting under Pacing notes.
• On your own calendar. Google Calendar saves a file with every lesson and reserved day. Add it to Google Calendar once and the term sits beside your meetings.

7 · Lesson plan

• Pick the concept and the day; the objective, standards and a timed agenda are filled in to edit, not to write from nothing.
• Tick the products you want: a student explainer, worked examples, a practice set. They print with the plan.
• A saved lesson appears on its calendar day, where the arrows can move it.

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 with the directions and the number of problems.
• Read the text over, change what you like, and post. The whole text is on your clipboard too, for the times Classroom shortens it.
• 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: the button sits at the bottom right and can be dragged anywhere.
• The keys are the handheld's. MATH, ZOOM, STAT and the rest open numbered menus: say "MATH, then 4" and it means the same thing. Arrow keys walk them; a digit picks a row.
• Y=, WINDOW, GRAPH, TRACE and 2nd TRACE for zeros, minimums and intersections. Answers turn into fractions with ▸Frac.
• ⛶ puts it full screen for the projector: keypad on the left, screen on the right. OFF puts it away; nothing typed is lost.
• It has its own page at /calc. On a Chromebook, Install Anvil under the calculator 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.

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.
• Themes live under the palette button. The paper stays black on white regardless.
• The sparkle in the header is what's new. It opens once per release and then waits.

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

If something looks wrong, reload once. A new version waits for you rather than swapping itself in mid-lesson, and a reload picks it up.