Math Keyboard

Kiddom is rolling out a brand new tool for teachers to create custom equations and for students to show their math knowledge! The new math keyboard increases accessibility and functionality for teachers and students to communicate complex mathematical ideas digitally with greater ease and age-appropriate functionality.

What is the Math Keyboard?

For teachers, the Math Keyboard can be used when personalizing assignments to add custom equations into questions, directions, or other parts of an activity. Teachers will always have the complete keyboard available to them.

For students, the Math Keyboard is built into any math question that contains a written response. The keyboard allows students to write down equations and other mathematical formulas with an easy-to-use tool. The keyboard will be customized based on the level and needs of the course.

The keyboard contains multiple views with various commonly used math symbols.

Different Views for Different Levels

The Math Keyboard will look different for students at different age groups and based on the needs of the course. For example, K-2 students will only see very basic math functions.

Older elementary students will have more tools at their disposal in order to show more difficult mathematical formulas.

Middle and high school students will have the most tools available to them to account for the more complex math curricula.

How to Access the Math Keyboard

Teachers

Teachers can access the Math Keyboard by personalizing any math assignment. Once in a personalized version of an assignment, click on a text box to edit and select the Function button.

This will pop up a separate Plugin box to click into and bring up the keyboard. Teachers can navigate between the different views by selecting the view above the keyboard. Once the mathematical formula is complete, click on the Plugin again and click Save. This will insert the formula into the text box.

Students

Students can access the Math Keyboard by clicking on a Written Response box in an assignment and clicking on the Function button. From there, students can follow the same steps for creating a mathematical formula to enter into their answer.

Once submitted, teachers will be able to see the student's formula when grading the assignment.