LEARNING TOOLS
Student Guide
We have intentionally minimized the text on the screens of our interactive content. However, every assignment is accompanied by a text description. For the Examples, the text defines and describes the mathematical process required to solve the problem type, supporting the student in working through the steps on the screen. The Visual guides are designed to help the student to visualize the mathematical concept and to play with the interactive visualization by posing "What if..." questions for the student to explore. These Guides are designed to be just that, guides to the online interactive content.

Audio
Some students, especially those whose learning style is auditory, benefit from listening to the presentation of written material. To support these students we narrate the Student Guide for every Example and Visual in the Enablemath content library. We also provide narration to every step in the Examples. Students can listen repeatedly to these narrations as they work with the interactive Examples of how to solve the problem types.

Flex
FLEX stands for Fluency Exercises. Every student needs to build fluency in the basic math facts, like the times tables, because fluency makes practice an efficient and productive process. Enablemath builds math fluency in the same way that typing or keyboarding programs build fluency. Students can either be assigned FLEX Exercises by the teacher or they can "Create Your Own FLEX". Students can practice with patterned sets before moving on to more difficult random sets. The goal is to answer as many problems correctly as possible in a minute. Students can do an exercise as many times as they want and the program retains the highest score so the student always knows the score they are trying to beat.

Messages
Enablemath includes a complete internal messaging system to allow students and teachers to exchange messages and even the screens they are working on. A teacher can send a message to an individual student or to the class as a whole. The Enablemath Message Center works like most standard messaging systems do except that it enables students and teachers to exchange live dynamic images so that each can see and interact with the content. This powerful tool can make students and teachers more productive and makes distance learning much easier to manage.

Live Capture
Enablemath is designed for communication in the digital age. Students and teachers can capture any screen they are working on and save that screen with all of its dynamic components. They can then incorporate that screen into their individual Portfolio or build content with that screen with our Math Wiki, Everyday Math. Simply by clicking on the Camera Icon the screen is automatically saved and can be seen Portfolio or Everyday Math.

Glossary
Every important mathematical term has been included in the Enablemath Glossary. The Glossary includes a short definition of the term and an example of the form of equation or mathematical context for which the term is relavent. Most important, a sample screen shot has been included from the interactive content to allow the student to enter the program and actually visualize and work with the term.

Draw Tools
Enablemath lets students draw or write on the Example or Concept screens, highlight or add to the content, change that content, or create their content. Choose a shape and draw it on the screen. Put an image on the screen. Change colors. Put text or text with equations on the screen. Write an equation with the equation button. Or, put a graph on the anywhere on the screen (see graphing for more details). The screen is saved with a click of the Camera Icon. To make any of the objects dynamic, the student can right-click on the object to bring up its edit window.

Math Objects
Enablemath lets students put a wide variety of dynamic mathematical objects on the screen like graphs of functions, number lines, number bars, fraction bars, or variable bars. Think of these objects as tools for playing with or presenting math. Each of these objects includes variables that can be changed. These are the very objects that we use to create the Enablemath content! To place an object on the screen, choose a topic and then an object and click on Place. Once any variable conflicts have been resolved the object can be manipulated just like any Enablemath Example or Concept.

Everyday Math
We believe that it is very important for students to make math connections to people, places and things in the real world. These connections are always growing and changing, because the world is always changing. New issues arise, new problems need solving, new buildings and art are created, new science is discovered and invented, and new math is imagined. Everyday Math experiences can be developed and published on the Enablemath site by teachers and others. This open source, Wiki-like technology enables Everyday Math to remain current, relevant, and exciting for students while tapping the creativity of teachers.

Testing
Enablemath comes with a powerful Test Builder that allows teachers and mentors to create quizzes, pre-tests or post-tests covering any domain of content in the program. Within minutes assignments can be selected, the problems identified and the test is created. Tests can cover small areas of content or largesuch as an entire module. The problems that students see can either be randomly selected from the identified domain or a fixed set of problems can be created so that every student receives the same problems. And, Enablemath content can be linked to external evaluative measures such as state standards for K-12 students or college entry tests.

Portfolio
Enablemath gives students and teacher a place to save and comment on their work. The Portfolio is designed as a blog that can be written into and added to every day. It enables teachers and students to share work with each other and with others in the class. Teachers can use the Portfolio to enable students to write about math and to do creative things with math, to save their work and share it, even with their parents. The Portfolio allows students to add screens and to make those screens live so that others may play with their creations. We believe that this is a very exciting advance for math students and for the math community and look forward to seeing it used.