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How do you teach?
Students who need a calculator or periodic table leave the lesson to find one, and come back distracted. Gadgets open a calculator, graphing calculator or periodic table only the person who opened it can see, right beside the lesson.
Your student reaches for a phone calculator and gets distracted by messages. They open a private calculator inside the Space instead, and stay with the lesson.
When students open other tabs to use a calculator, some never come back. A private calculator, graphing calculator or periodic table opens inside the Space.
Participants checking figures in a finance training switch to spreadsheets and lose the thread. A private calculator opens right beside the exercise.
Not every student has a graphing calculator in their bag. On their devices, each opens a private calculator or periodic table in the Space, while you teach at the front.
Participants working through numbers reach for their phones. A private calculator opens on their laptop inside the Space, beside the exercise.
Your child doesn’t need your phone to check a sum. A private calculator or periodic table opens right next to their lesson.
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What it solves
- Rushed, held back, or work erased
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Apps & content
The problem
Checking work means leaving the lesson
Students need tools like calculators and reference tables mid-lesson. Reaching for a phone or another tab invites distraction and breaks focus.
The usual way
Students use phones, open new tabs or share one calculator on screen that everyone can see.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Gadgets: periodic table, calculator and graphing calculator, visible only to the person who opens them, while the lesson goes on.
What changes
Students check their work without leaving the lesson.
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What it looks like
In practice
A student working a quadratics problem checks the roots on a graphing calculator, works out the discriminant on a calculator and keeps a periodic table open for chemistry, all private to him.
In a 1:1 lesson
Your student opens a private graphing calculator to check her answer. She spots her mistake herself while you watch the board.
In a group class
During a chemistry class, each student opens a private periodic table to look up atomic masses, without leaving the Space.
In a virtual training
Participants open a private calculator to work out discounts in a pricing exercise. Nobody leaves the training window.
In your classroom
Students open a private periodic table on their Chromebooks during a lab. You keep teaching from the display.
In the training room
Each participant uses a private calculator on their laptop to build a budget, then shares the totals on the big screen.
At home
Your son checks his long division with the private calculator after doing it by hand.
