GLOSSARY

Flare

An 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 Years 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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Designed to make teaching maths easier, with Flare you can

prepare and save activity files ahead of time
save and print a record of students' work
print copies of blackline masters for students
quickly prepare number lines and spinners
write, draw, and colour with the built-in drawing functions

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 Years K to 7.

Explore number patterns through counting in steps 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 Years 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 counting in steps 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 Years 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 Years 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 Years 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 analogue and digital time is now easier than ever before. Designed for teachers of Years 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 analogue and digital displays
Work with fractions of an hour and elapsed time

Special features

Display an analogue 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, and tenths 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 analogue 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 Years 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 colours
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 Years 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 colours
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

Flare Place Value

Visual models like base-10 blocks have traditionally been used to introduce place value concepts. This tool shows ones, tens, hundreds and thousands and assists students in developing a mental picture for tenths, hundredths and even thousandths. An understanding of place value is further strengthened with the use of place value charts and number expanders. Designed for teachers of Years 1 to 6.

Explore place value from thousands to thousandths
Explore relationships between places
Investigate place value with pictorial and symbolic models

Special features

Display numbers using pictures of base-10 blocks from thousands to thousandths
Position block number models in a place-value chart
Automatic regrouping of blocks across places
Show numbers on number expanders from thousands to thousandths

Flare Pan Balance

The pan balance is a powerful pictorial model for developing the algebraic idea of equivalence. This model helps students see equations as balance situations where they remain true if consistent change occurs to each side. When students use common conventions with this balance strategy they can also find unknown values within equations. Designed for teachers of Years 1 to 6.

Explore equivalence through a realistic pan balance model
Use different objects and weights to explore equivalence

Special features

Functioning pan balance that reacts according to values given to different shapes placed on either side
A range of shape and number weights to which different values can be given
Use multiple pan balances to create multi-step problem solving tasks

Flare Fractions (Length)

Creating and using number lines is now faster and easier than ever before. Use this version to explore fractions. A length model of fractions makes it easy to develop understanding of equivalence and the addition and subtraction of fractions. Designed for teachers of Years 2 to 6.

Explore decimal, common and improper fractions using a length model of number
Ideal for counting fractions beyond one whole
Investigate equivalent fractions

Special features

Show common fractions, decimal fractions or whole numbers on the number line
Display empty number lines, or select from a range of ready-made lines
Adjustable fraction walls to show a variety of fractions that go beyond one whole

Flare Fractions (Area)

One useful way to show that fractions are equal parts of a whole amount is to use an area model where 2D shapes are divided into equal parts. Multiple shapes can be shown at the same time, making this a very versatile teaching aid, particularly for demonstrating amounts greater than one whole and equivalent fractions. Designed for teachers of Years 1 to 6.

Show fractions as part of a whole through the area model
Easily demonstrate equivalent fractions

Special features

Multiple shapes to choose from
Split shapes into different amounts from halves up to tenths
Display more than one identical shape to model improper fractions and mixed numerals