Flare

Online collection of mathematics teaching tools designed for use with interactive whiteboards, wireless tablets, data projectors, and computers. Covering the major content areas, Flare is a flexible, easy-to-use resource that delivers the optimal whole-class or small-group teaching and learning experience for Grades Pre K to 7. Each teaching tool includes a detailed operating guide and a teacher's guide of step-by-step activities for meaningful, interactive lessons.

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The Flare collection includes

Flare Number Board

Transforms the standard hundred board into a flexible tool for use with two-digit and three-digit whole numbers, and decimal fractions. Use to develop number sense and explore number concepts and relationships. Designed for teachers of Grades K to 7.

• Explore number patterns through skip counting and multiples
• Explore computation methods for addition and subtraction
• Investigate prime numbers

Special features

• Display 2–12 rows, 1–12 columns
• Show two-digit and three-digit whole numbers, and decimal fractions
• Flip tiles to hide the numbers
• Shade tiles to highlight number patterns
• Start numbers at the top left or bottom left of the board

Flare Number Track

Ideal model for developing early number concepts and operations with one-digit to three-digit whole numbers. Designed for teachers of Grades Pre K to 3.

• Explore fundamental concepts such as relative position, sequencing, and the commutative property of addition
• Investigate addition and subtraction strategies
• Explore combinations of numbers that make a given total
• Explore number patterns through skip counting and multiples

Special features

• Display number tracks 1–100 tiles long
• Show whole numbers up to 500
• Flip tiles to hide the numbers
• Shade tiles to highlight number patterns
• Easily draw arrows to show "steps" and "jumps"

Flare Number Line

Creating and using number lines is now faster and easier than ever before. Use to explore concepts and operations with a wide range of positive and negative numbers, from hundred-thousandths to millions. Designed for teachers of Grades 1 to 7.

• Work with relative position of numbers
• Explore computation methods for addition and subtraction
• Explore the connection between addition and subtraction
• Explore the linear models of multiplication and division

Special features

• Show decimal fractions (from hundred-thousandths) and whole numbers (to millions)
• Display empty number lines, or select an interval distance and interval-number distance
• Display up to 3 number lines together
• Easily draw arrows to show "steps" and "jumps"
• Choose how numbers ten thousand and greater are displayed (e.g. 10 000 or 10,000)

Flare Dominoes

Develops number concepts and sight recognition of numbers, and reinforces fundamental addition and subtraction strategies. Designed for teachers of Grades Pre K to 3.

• Explore the count-on, use-doubles, and bridge-to-ten addition strategies
• Explore combinations of numbers that make a given total
• Identify and sequence numbers up to 18

Special features

• Randomly generate and display combinations of dot dominoes up to double-nine
• Custom-make and display your own dot dominoes
• Change the size of the dominoes (small or large)
• Easily move and rotate dominoes to use them like standard domino tiles
• Shade dominoes to highlight patterns

Flare Pattern Maker

Develops algebraic thinking. Use to identify rules and stimulate discussion of relationships for growing and repeating patterns. Designed for teachers of Grades Pre K to 5.

• Create, extend, and translate patterns
• Work with patterns that have two attributes
• Explore figurate numbers such as square numbers

Special features

• Quickly display ready-made repeating and growing patterns
• Custom-make your own repeating and growing patterns
• Create different repeating and growing patterns by reflecting and rotating ready-made pattern templates

Flare Clocks

Teaching analog and digital time is now easier than ever before. Designed for teachers of Grades Pre K to 7.

• Explore 12-hour time and 24-hour time
• Explore fractions of a second
• Work with a.m. and p.m. times
• Reinforce the relationship between analog and digital displays
• Work with fractions of an hour and elapsed time

Special features

• Display an analog and/or a digital clock
• Easily change how time is displayed on the clocks (e.g. a.m./p.m., 12-hour or 24-hour)
• Show or hide hours, minutes, seconds, tenths of seconds,* and hundredths of seconds* (*digital clock only)
• Link the clocks so that a change made to the time shown on one produces the same change on the other
• Set the clocks to operate in real time, with the ability to pause
• Print out reproducible blackline masters of analog and digital clocks for class activities

Flare Spinner

Dynamic, whole-class approach to exploring probability. Create a spinner to generate random results in different formats. An exciting tool for developing the language of chance and associating fractions with probability values. Designed for teachers of Grades K to 7.

• Explore key concepts such as sample space and outcome
• Describe likelihood in relative and absolute terms
• Explore the relationship between predictions and actual results

Special features

• Display spinners with up to 100 sectors
• Display spinners with up to 8 different colors
• Display spinners with or without sector lines
• Set the spinner to spin 1–1000 times, with the ability to pause
• Show a tally chart and/or a bar graph, and easily record outcomes in them
• Set the tool to automatically record outcomes in a tally chart and/or bar graph

Flare Tangram

Brings a classic puzzle to life. Use to develop properties of two-dimensional shapes and strengthen visual thinking skills. Designed for teachers of Grades Pre K to 7.

• Investigate area and fractions
• Investigate compound, convex, and concave shapes
• Calculate angle sizes using reasoning
• Explore reflective symmetry

Special features

• Easily break apart the tangram puzzle pieces and randomly display them
• Display the tangram pieces in up to 8 different colors
• Display ready-made tangram puzzles for students to solve
• Print out reproducible blackline masters of the tangram pieces and the tangram puzzles for class activities