9 Ideas for Fun Math Class Activities with BenQ Boards

Whatever you create via EZWrite can be shared and saved to PDF or image file. You can pick up where you left off in another room or continue the next day. PDFs can be uploaded to your Google Drive or Google Classroom accounts and shared with students so they don’t need to take fuzzy picture with their phones anymore. 

EZWrite also has a recording function. Everything you do on the board can be recorded and sound is also saved in high quality thanks to the eight microphone array*. You can use the recording function to help students who missed class or to simply allow students to review materials at home. You can also create short instructional videos and upload them to YouTube to help out. Think of it as your shot at becoming an ed influencer!

* 8 microphone array only available on RP02 models

EZWrite also features an array of math tools. Open the EZWrite widgets window to find what’s available.

Calculations are easy with the calculator tool. Simply draw the equation you wish to have solved followed by and equal sign (e.g. “65X84=")  to get instant solution. 

Geometry is also made simple. With the geometry widget, you can hand draw the shape you wish to portray and EZWrite will clean it up, straighten lines, and export it to the whiteboard without clunky rulers. You can draw virtually any shape, from simple lines to ellipses and irregular polygons. 

Do your students respond better to more graphical representations of mathematical equations or simply struggle to grasp solving equations based on an unknown? We have a solution for that. 

You can find suitable pictures of fruits, toys, pieces of cake or slices of pizza on the internet and demonstrate equations in a more attractive way that’s also clearer. Simply download the pictures to the display’s internal storage or your cloud drive and pull them up on the whiteboard. You can resize, move, and rearrange pictures according to your needs.

For various reasons, perhaps due to social distancing rules, you may choose to remain at your desk. Or you still prefer to work with paper and pencil. If that’s the case, you can still show what you’re doing to your students. You can also demonstrate how to use geometric tools like a compass to your students. 

To do so, you can “live stream” to the board from your mobile device via InstaShare software.

Connect your device to the BenQ interactive board via InstaShare and cast the screen, then turn on your phone’s camera and point at what you wish to show. Your students can do the same! 

If you wish your students to show the rest of the class how they solve a problem or an equation without getting up from their seat, they can do the same thing. If they are using a tablet, it’s even simpler, just cast the screen while working and the content will show on the big screen, letting everyone see what they’re doing. 

Note that in order to wirelessly cast content to the BenQ display via InstaShare your device must be connected to the same network as the BenQ interactive display. 

A plethora of online tools can also help you during the class. Among teachers using our boards who wish to demonstrate function graphs, tools like GeoGebra or Desmos prove popular. These tools work through a browser, so you can use Firefox on your display to use them. 

To do so, in Firefox tap the address bar at the top of the screen and type the web address of the website you would like to use via the onscreen keyboard. This works the same as with any other browser you use.