THE BOARD

A table without edges

Every lesson gets an infinite canvas: sticky notes, rich cards, links, videos, worksheets — scattered, connected, and rearranged the way your brain actually plans.

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board · aimed at Math, week 3

Working on: Math · Week 3 · Comparing fractions

ties into science

Kids keep mixing up numerator & denominator — start with pie day?

Comparing fractions

Big idea: same whole, different slices.

Fraction strips, printablemathisfun.com

coloring page

Fraction practice

PDF

Adding fraction practice — near Math, below.

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EVERYTHING ON THE TABLE

If it helps the lesson, it goes on the board

Planning doesn't start as a list. It starts as a pile — a half idea, a link somebody texted you, a page from last year's packet. The board is built for the pile.

Drop anything on, connect what belongs together, and label the threads. Cross-subject connections get their own glue lines — the moment fractions and pie-baking day become one plan.

Sticky noteshalf-thoughts, reminders, the thing you'd scribble on a napkin

Rich cardsfull documents with headings and real tables — not markdown soup

Linkspaste a URL, get the title and picture back automatically

Videosthe documentary clip, playable in place

PicturesAI-drawn illustrations, labeled diagrams — even coloring pages

Worksheetsgenerated as real, printable PDFs, right onto the board

SCRATCH SPACE, BY DESIGN

Boards are messy on purpose. The calendar stays clean.

Aim a board at a real lesson — "Math · week 3 · comparing fractions" — and Cotie reads that lesson before it makes anything, so nothing duplicates what's already written. Nothing on the board touches your schedule until you place it: one click moves a worksheet or a research card off the board and onto the week it belongs to. The board even keeps count of what's still unplaced.

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ON THE BOARD

Fraction practice

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WEEK 3 · MATH

Comparing fractions

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THE DETAILS

Small things that make it feel right

CONNECTIONS

Linking ideas is forgiving

Four connect dots on every card and a generous snap radius — joining two thoughts doesn't require pixel accuracy. Label the line if the link needs words.

UNDO

A hundred steps of courage

Undo and redo reach back a hundred steps, and a burst of typing counts as one. Rearrange the whole board and walk it back if the old way was better.

AUTOSAVE

Never hits a save button

The board saves itself as you think. Close the laptop mid-thought on Tuesday; Wednesday it's exactly where you left it.

SOUND

Quiet, satisfying cues

A soft bloom when a card lands, a tick when things connect. Every sound has a mute toggle right on the rail — planning at 11pm stays silent.

DROP FILES

Drag a PDF straight on

That scanned activity packet? Drop the file anywhere on the board and it becomes a card. Images too.

MEMBERS

Read-only, not locked out

Member families see the board exactly as it is — they just can't rearrange it. The rail politely collapses to "Ask Cotie."