How do I write math equations and notation on an online whiteboard? (Or: how to stop stopping the lesson to look up an alt-code)

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Writing real math online means typing symbols a standard keyboard doesn't ship — a rendered fraction slash, a square-root sign, a plus-or-minus, an angle marker, a superscript squared. A student who fires up a Google Doc and types "1/2" doesn't see a fraction; they see "one over two", which does the opposite of what notation is supposed to do. The move that closes the gap is a math symbols palette on the shared whiteboard — a click-to-insert set of the symbols you'd write on a piece of paper, sitting one click away from whichever text box or sticky note you're already typing in, so building "3 + 4 = 7", "x² + 3x − 4 = 0", or "∠ABC = 90°" doesn't require you to stop the lesson and Google alt-codes. On Koala Go the palette ships in two places (a Whiteboard Library folder and a ∑ button that appears next to any selected text or sticky), across two tiers (Pro covers everything an elementary-and-middle-school lesson needs; Platinum adds the algebra and geometry set that secondary work leans on). The rest of this page walks through what's in the palette, how the two entry points work, the six notation moves that carry most math tutoring, and where the honest limit sits — which pairs with a cobrowser tab into Desmos or GeoGebra when a lesson genuinely needs a live graph or a stacked LaTeX-style fraction.

Why writing real math on a video call is a specific kind of hard

Every math tutor has run into it: a keyboard was built for prose, not equations. A comma is one keystroke; a square-root sign is a trip to a Unicode chart. The problem shows up in three specific ways when the lesson is on video and the shared surface is either a Google Doc, a screen-share, or a whiteboard tool that ships a pen and nothing else.

Symbols the keyboard doesn't have. The list is longer than it feels — even without going into calculus. Square root (√), degrees (°), plus-or-minus (±), pi (π), the not-equal (≠) that shows up in an inequality answer, the less-than-or-equal (≤) that shows up the moment you introduce interval notation, the angle mark (∠), the parallel-lines mark (∥), the exponent that's supposed to sit above the line rather than after a caret. Any workflow that requires the tutor to break attention and look up an alt-code every three lines is a workflow that stalls the lesson.
Symbols that look like something else when typed. "1/2" typed in a plain-text line is not a fraction; it's three characters. "x2" is not "x squared" but a variable next to a two. "3-2" is not "3 minus 2" but "3 hyphen 2", and typographically the hyphen is narrower than a minus and does not centre against digits. Notation is meant to trigger pattern-recognition — the tutor points at "x² + 3x − 4 = 0" and the student's brain reads "quadratic". Break the notation and the pattern-recognition breaks with it.
Handwritten notation on a webcam is unreliable. A tutor at a desk with a pen and paper on the webcam works for a couple of lines, but the writing is small, upside-down from the tutor's perspective, and doesn't stay on the shared surface between lessons. A stylus on the whiteboard is better but assumes the tutor has a tablet or drawing tablet — most don't, and the students definitely don't. The scalable answer is typed notation that reads as the notation it represents.

What a math tutor actually needs is a keyboard-adjacent palette: a small grid of the symbols you write on a piece of paper, one click each, inserting into whichever text box or sticky the lesson is already using. That is the design of Koala Go's Math Symbols palette. What it doesn't do — render a stacked LaTeX-style fraction, put a radicand under a bar, plot a function — we say plainly further down, along with the pairing pattern most working online math tutors converge on for those cases.

Where the palette lives — two entry points, same insert

The Math Symbols palette on Koala Go shows up in two places on the same shared whiteboard, so whichever workflow you're in, the symbols are one click away.

1. The Math Symbols folder in the Whiteboard Library

Open the Whiteboard Library from the classroom sidebar, and one of the folders in the Math Tools panel is labelled Math Symbols (with a small "+ π √" icon). Click into it and you see the full palette: symbols grouped into seven small grids — Operations, Compare, Fraction · Ratio · Percent, Powers, Algebra, Geometry, and Brackets — with a lock badge on any symbol your current tier doesn't include. Clicking a symbol does one of four things, in order:

If you have a text box selected — or are mid-typing in one — the symbol appends at the end of whatever's already in it. Note this is end-of-text, not at your cursor: the folder always adds to the end. (The ∑ popup below is the one that inserts at the cursor.)
If you have a sticky selected but not being edited, clicking a symbol drives it into edit mode and appends there.
If a non-text object is selected, or nothing is selected, clicking a symbol drops a new text box at the canvas centre containing that one symbol, and selects it — so the next symbol click stacks straight into the same box. Because every click appends to the end, you build a line left to right: type "3", click "+", type "4", click "=", type "7" — the symbols come from the folder, the digits from the keyboard. Numbers aren't on the palette; it handles the notation, not the arithmetic.
Clicking on empty canvas (which deselects the new text box) ends that stack — the next symbol click starts a new box.

Both you and the student can use the folder — the whiteboard is shared, and the newly-dropped text boxes are shared canvas objects, so a student who has picked up "type the answer" as their move can click "=" from the folder and type their answer after it, just as you can. The folder is the discovery surface: it's the place a tutor scans when they don't remember which glyph a symbol lives under, and the place a student learns "there are more symbols than my keyboard".

2. The ∑ sidebar popup next to a selected text or sticky

Select any text box or sticky note that's already on the whiteboard, and a small toolbar of quick-actions appears next to it in the sidebar. One of the buttons is a ∑ (capital sigma) — the Math symbols shortcut. Click it and a popup opens right next to the selected box, with the same seven categories arranged as small grids. Click a symbol and it inserts at your caret; the popup stays open and the caret stays in the box, so you can build a whole line — "π × r² = A" — without closing the popup between symbols. This is the workflow shortcut for tutors who already have a text box on the canvas and are actively writing math in it, and it's the fastest way to build a longer expression once the container is in place. The popup only appears when a text or sticky is selected (it's a context-menu shortcut, not a global toolbar), which keeps the sidebar quiet when the selection is a rod, a number line, a shape, an image, or an uploaded PDF.

Both entry points draw on the same symbol set, the same tier gating, and the same shared-canvas sync. They differ in one detail worth knowing: the folder always appends to the end of the box, while the popup inserts at your cursor — so if you need to drop a symbol into the middle of an expression you've already written, use the popup. Otherwise the choice is workflow preference: the folder is discovery, the popup is speed. Working online math tutors typically start a lesson from the folder ("here's where the symbols live"), demonstrate a couple of moves so the student can find them too, and shift to the popup once the lesson is deep in a specific expression.

What's in the palette by tier

The palette on Koala Go is the same seven categories in either entry point. What differs is which symbols in each category your current tier includes:

Operations (Pro): + − × ÷ =. The four operations plus equals. The minus is the proper mathematical minus sign (U+2212), which lines up centred against a digit — not a keyboard hyphen. This is the core K-6 set and every symbol here is on Pro (any working paid tutor has them).
Compare (Pro base, Platinum extras): < > on Pro; ≤ ≥ ≠ ≈ on Platinum. Less-than and greater-than land at Pro because they're the elementary-and-middle-school comparison symbols. Less-than-or-equal, greater-than-or-equal, not-equal, and approximately-equal are the interval / inequality / limit / rounded-answer notations that come in with secondary maths.
Fraction · Ratio · Percent (Pro): / : %. All three on Pro. The "/" is a slash between the numerator and denominator (typed as "3/4"), not a stacked-fraction renderer — see the honest-limit section below.
Powers (Platinum): ² ³ ⁿ. Superscript-two, superscript-three, and superscript-n. Platinum-only because these are the exponents that come in with area formulas, volume formulas, and early algebra. Note the practical limit: these three are the entire set — anything higher than a cube or lower than "the power of n" (say, "⁴", "⁵", "x-to-the-seven") can't be entered from the palette, and the workaround is a caret-and-digit notation (like "x^4") that's fine in-lesson but reads as a compromise.
Algebra (Platinum): π ± ∞. Pi, plus-or-minus, and infinity. Platinum-only. Pi shows up the moment a lesson touches circles; ± shows up in the quadratic-formula answer; infinity shows up in interval notation and limit descriptions.
Geometry (Pro base, Platinum extras): ° √ on Pro; ∠ △ ⊥ ∥ on Platinum. Degrees and square-root are Pro because they show up in elementary and middle-school work (angle sums in triangles, "find the square root of 25"). The angle marker (∠), triangle glyph (△), perpendicular (⊥), and parallel (∥) are the secondary-geometry set and are Platinum-only.
Brackets (Pro base, Platinum extras): ( ) on Pro; [ ] { } on Platinum. Round brackets are Pro (order-of-operations in elementary and middle-school). Square and curly brackets are Platinum (interval notation, set notation, and grouping in secondary maths).

Two tier facts worth flagging plainly. Free-tier tutors see the folder in the Library and the ∑ button when a text is selected, but every symbol shows as locked — the palette is not part of the free tier. Enterprise and B2B tutors are provisioned at Pro feature level and every Platinum symbol is hidden (not shown locked) so an enterprise teacher never sees an upsell prompt in the middle of a lesson. The practical effect: on an enterprise plan the palette is the Pro set, and the algebra and geometry symbols aren't in it.

Six notation moves that carry most math tutoring

These are the notations working online math tutors reach for the most, and how to type each on Koala Go. All examples assume the reader has a Pro or Platinum plan; the tier of the required symbols is called out inline.

An operations line: "3 + 4 = 7". All-Pro. Drop a text box (or click into an existing one) and build the line left to right: type "3", click "+", type "4", click "=", type "7". Symbols come from the palette, digits from the keyboard. This is the K-2 baseline that shows up alongside a rod or number-line composition — see the number-sense spoke for the picture-first / sentence-second workflow that puts this notation next to the manipulative.
A fraction as a symbol pair: "3/4" or "1/2 + 1/4 = 3/4". All-Pro. The "/" from the Fraction · Ratio · Percent group, with digits either side. Reads as a fraction inline — perfectly fine for elementary and middle-school arithmetic, where "3/4" is the notation students see in their textbook. If the lesson needs a rendered stacked fraction (a bar with numerator above and denominator below, in the shape that a student will see in a secondary-maths exam), the palette can't render it — you'd either pair a fraction manipulative on the same canvas (Fraction Bars or Fraction Circles, described in the fractions spoke) or reach for a cobrowser tab into a graphing tool, described in the honest-limit section below.
An inequality: "x < 8" or "3 ≤ n ≤ 10". Pro for the base "<" and ">"; Platinum for "≤" and "≥". A middle-school interval line uses the simple pair; a secondary interval or a limit-notation line uses the Platinum extras. When a student is graphing an inequality on a paired cobrowser tab into Desmos, having the same symbols on the whiteboard side means the notation on the two surfaces matches — no "on the whiteboard it says less-than, on Desmos it says less-than-or-equal" confusion.
A percent, a ratio, or a rate: "60 : 100 = 3 : 5" or "60%". All-Pro. The ":" from the same Fraction · Ratio · Percent group as the fraction slash, and the "%" glyph one click over. Middle-school ratio and proportion work leans heavily on both. Percent problems often pair with a number line — see the number-sense spoke for the 0-to-100 line that hosts the percent picture.
An algebraic expression with an exponent: "x² + 3x − 4 = 0" or "A = πr²". Platinum for "²" and "π"; Pro for the operations, the minus, and the equals. This is the shape that shows up the moment a lesson touches area formulas or the quadratic. Type the coefficient and variable, click "²", click "+", type the next term, and so on. If the exponent you need is above ³ (say, "x⁵"), the palette doesn't include it; the workaround most tutors use is "x^5" as a caret-and-digit notation — fine for the lesson but worth calling out to the student that the exam version will use a rendered superscript.
A geometry line: "∠ABC = 90°" or "AB ⊥ CD". Platinum for the angle mark "∠", perpendicular "⊥", parallel "∥", and triangle "△"; Pro for the degree symbol "°" and the equals. A secondary-geometry lesson leans on all of these. On a lesson focused on angle-sum-of-a-triangle or parallel-lines-with-a-transversal, the geometry glyphs let you annotate a diagram (drawn with the shape tools, or uploaded as a PDF and annotated on top) with the correct notation, so what's on the whiteboard reads as what will be on the exam.

The pattern in all six: the palette gets you 90% of the notation an in-lesson math conversation actually uses. Where it stops — stacked fractions, higher exponents, radicals with a radicand under a bar, live graphs, LaTeX-style equation layout — is where the pairing pattern below earns its keep.

The honest limit: it's a symbols set, not an equation editor

Koala Go's Math Symbols palette is a click-to-insert set of individual glyphs. It is not an equation editor of the kind LaTeX, MathType, EquatIO, or a dedicated STEM whiteboard (compared honestly on our best-online-whiteboards page) will render. Specifically, four things the palette does not do, called out plainly so you know before you sign up:

No stacked fractions. The "/" in "3/4" is a horizontal slash, not a bar with a numerator above and a denominator below. For arithmetic and pre-algebra lessons this is fine; for a secondary-exam page where every fraction is stacked with a horizontal bar, the palette produces the notation students read in their textbook rather than the notation they'd see rendered by an exam board's typesetting.
No radicand under a bar. The "√" is a symbol you type before a number ("√25") — it does not draw a horizontal bar over the digits that follow. So "√(x + 3)" is written as-typed, with parentheses making the radicand explicit, rather than as a rendered radical with the bar continuing over x+3. Again, fine for in-lesson notation; not a substitute for a rendered radical if a lesson genuinely needs one.
Superscripts stop at ⁿ. The Powers category gives you ², ³, and ⁿ as three individual glyphs. There is no general "superscript mode" — anything above ³ needs a caret-and-digit workaround ("x^4", "x^5") or a paired external tool. For elementary and lower-secondary lessons this rarely bites; for late-secondary polynomial or exponential-function work it does.
No live graphs. The palette is text; the whiteboard has pen, shape, and drawing tools but not a function-plotter. A lesson that needs to plot y = x² − 3x + 2 and let the student drag a slider on the coefficients belongs on a live graphing tool — Desmos, GeoGebra, or a subject-specific site — inside the classroom via the cobrowser.

The pairing pattern most working online math tutors converge on: the Math Symbols palette on the whiteboard for the notation (equations, inequalities, angles, radicals, powers up to ³), plus a cobrowser tab into Desmos when the lesson needs a live-plotted function or a rendered LaTeX expression. A cobrowser is a shared browser window inside the classroom — you open a Desmos graph, and both you and the student can drag sliders, type new expressions, and adjust the domain live, without the student switching windows or losing the lesson thread. That combination — notation on the whiteboard, graphing on the cobrowser — carries most secondary-maths tutoring cleanly. Cobrowser is capped at 10 minutes per session with a 20-minute cool-down on Koala Free; unlimited on Pro and up.

When to reach for a symbol and when to reach for a manipulative

A math tutor writing "3 + 4 = 7" for a K-2 student who hasn't yet built the composition physically is teaching the abstraction before the intuition — the sentence sticks less well and generalises less. A tutor building the composition with number rods for a middle-school student who's already fluent with the arithmetic is spending manipulative time where notation practice would move faster. Getting the balance right is one of the underrated skills of online math teaching.

A short rule of thumb, matching what most tutors converge on:

Manipulative first, notation second (K-2, and any student meeting a concept for the first time). Build 3 + 4 with a Three-rod and a Four-rod against a Seven-rod (see the number-sense spoke). Then write "3 + 4 = 7" in a text box next to the picture using the palette. The sentence formalises the intuition the picture built.
Notation next to picture (grades 3-5, and any student consolidating an operation). Build the fraction addition 1/4 + 1/2 with the Fraction Bars (see the fractions spoke). Write "1/4 + 1/2 = 3/4" next to the picture with the palette. Both are visible; the eye moves between them.
Notation-first, manipulative as verification (middle school through secondary, and any student fluent with the operation). Write the expression first ("x² + 3x − 4 = 0"), let the student work it, then optionally build a check with a manipulative or a Desmos graph. The palette is the primary surface at this stage; the manipulative is the sanity-check for a stalled answer, not the teaching move.
Notation-only (late-secondary and exam-prep). The palette plus uploaded past-paper PDFs on the whiteboard plus a cobrowser tab into Desmos or GeoGebra for the graphing beats. This is the workflow described in the exam-prep answer for SAT / ACT / A-level / IB maths.

A student with dyscalculia or number-processing difficulties usually benefits from the "manipulative first, notation second" pattern held longer than the age band above suggests — the dyscalculia answer walks through the concrete-first workflow with specifics.

By age band: what tutors actually use

Which parts of the palette get the most airtime depends on the age you teach. Grades are typical US placements, not standards claims — adapt to the student and curriculum in front of you.

K-2 (ages 5-7): operations only, next to manipulatives. The Pro operations set (+ − × ÷ =) is enough — most lessons at this age write no notation more complex than "3 + 4 = 7" or "10 − 2 = 8", and the notation sits next to a rod or number-line composition. The comparison symbols < > come in around grade 1 with "more than" / "less than" activities.
Grades 3-5 (ages 8-10): fractions, percents, ratios, radicals, degrees. The Pro Fraction · Ratio · Percent set (/ : %) plus √ for the introduction to square roots and ° for angles in shape work. Fractions written as "3/4" pair with the Fraction Bars or Circles from the fractions spoke. Multiplication and division with the proper × and ÷ glyphs (not "*" and "/" borrowed from a keyboard) start reading as the notation a student sees in their textbook.
Middle school (ages 11-13): the algebra and geometry starter set. Platinum symbols come in — π for circle formulas, ≤ ≥ ≠ for inequality work, ² for area and volume, ∠ for angle notation, [ ] for interval notation, △ for triangle geometry, ⊥ ∥ for parallel-and-perpendicular geometry. This is the tier at which the palette earns its Platinum upgrade for a middle-school-focused tutor.
Secondary (ages 14-17) and adult learners: the full palette plus a paired graphing cobrowser. All Platinum symbols in play — π ² ³ ⁿ ± ∞ ≈ ≤ ≥ ≠ ∠ △ ⊥ ∥ [ ] { } — plus the honest-limit pairing with Desmos or GeoGebra for stacked fractions, higher exponents, radicand-under-a-bar radicals, and live-graph work. Uploaded past-paper PDFs on the whiteboard become the primary surface, with palette symbols dropped into text boxes to annotate the working.

Practice, homework, and notation drills between lessons

Notation is a skill like any other — the student who has typed "π × r²" on the whiteboard three lessons in a row types it faster than the student who saw the tutor do it once. Two moves that turn notation practice into between-lesson consolidation:

Notation on the shared canvas as an in-lesson move, not just a demonstration. Every notation the tutor writes on the whiteboard should be followed within a couple of minutes by the student writing the same notation — either from the folder or from the ∑ popup. This is the difference between the student seeing "√25 = 5" and the student typing "√25 = 5" themselves. The whiteboard is shared; both you and the student can use both entry points. If your student's tempted to type "sqrt(25)" as a workaround, redirect: the folder is one click.
Between-lesson notation practice on annotated PDFs. On Koala Pro, upload the student's homework worksheet as a PDF and both of you annotate on top of it in the next lesson. The palette works over the PDF the same as over a blank canvas — a text box with palette symbols in it sits on the same layer as the ink. The workflow is covered in how do I give homework to online tutoring students?

Common failure modes and honest limits

Things that go wrong in real online-math-notation workflows, and the fix:

Typing "1/2" and hoping it reads as a fraction. In a plain text line without the palette, "1/2" reads as "one over two" — three characters, not a fraction. Insert the "/" from the palette (Fraction · Ratio · Percent group) between the digits so the surrounding context is clearly a fraction, and pair with a Fraction Bar for the picture side when the lesson is teaching the concept rather than practising the arithmetic.
Using the keyboard hyphen where you meant a minus sign. The palette's "−" (U+2212 MINUS SIGN) is a proper mathematical minus that centres against digits and reads as an operation. The keyboard hyphen "-" is narrower and reads as a break-mark. For a demo line the student won't linger over, either works; for an equation the student will copy into their own notes, the palette minus is the one you want.
Trying to write a stacked fraction on the whiteboard. The palette does not render a stacked fraction with a numerator above and a denominator below a horizontal bar. If a lesson genuinely needs a rendered stacked fraction, pair with a Fraction Bar manipulative (Platinum, see the fractions spoke) for the picture side, or open Desmos in the cobrowser for the rendered version.
Reaching for an exponent above ³. The palette's Powers category gives you ², ³, and ⁿ — three specific glyphs, not a general superscript mode. For "x⁵" the workaround is "x^5" as a caret-and-digit notation and a spoken "x to the fifth"; for a lesson that lives in exponents-of-arbitrary-powers, this is one of the cases where a Desmos or GeoGebra cobrowser tab does more of the work.
Free-tier tutors seeing every symbol locked. The palette is not available on the free tier — the folder and the ∑ button appear in the UI but every symbol shows as locked behind an upgrade. If you're trialling Koala Go for math tutoring, the palette is a Pro-and-up feature, so a real-shape math lesson needs at least the trial or Pro to evaluate.
iPad-only notation workflow. Koala Go works on iPad, but the narrow symbol grid in the folder and the popup is fiddlier on a finger than on a mouse, especially for the Compare and Powers categories where symbols like ≤ and ² occupy a small tap target. If a student uses an iPad exclusively, the ∑ popup (which sits next to the selected box rather than in the Whiteboard Library sidebar) is a slightly easier click; consider preparing more of the notation in advance on your side and letting the student focus on the manipulatives and answers.

Two limits worth naming plainly rather than papering over:

Anything requiring a full equation-layout renderer belongs on a paired tool. Stacked fractions with a bar, radicand-under-a-bar radicals, higher exponents, integral signs, sigma-notation sums, matrix layouts, LaTeX-shaped display equations — none of those are in the palette, and none are a planned addition to it in its current shape. A dedicated equation editor (in the whiteboard-tool comparison at our best-online-whiteboards page) or a paired cobrowser tab into Desmos / GeoGebra / an online LaTeX renderer is where those live in the working workflow.
The algebra and geometry set is Platinum-only. A tutor working exclusively through K-5 (operations, comparisons, basic fractions, degrees, square root, round brackets) has everything they need on Koala Pro. A tutor teaching middle school or secondary maths regularly wants the Platinum symbols (π, ±, ∞, ² ³ ⁿ, ≤ ≥ ≠ ≈, ∠ △ ⊥ ∥, [ ] { }) — factor that into the plan choice rather than discovering it in the middle of a lesson.

Practical setup on Koala Go for a notation-heavy math workflow

If you're evaluating Koala Go for a math-tutoring practice where notation matters — most middle-school and secondary work — here's the practical picture and where the current lines sit:

Whiteboard is the primary notation surface. The classroom's whiteboard hosts text boxes and stickies as first-class objects. Palette symbols insert into either, at the caret. Both tutor and student can insert. Boxes persist across lessons the same way any whiteboard object does.
Two palette entry points. The Whiteboard Library "Math Symbols" folder (discovery surface) and the ∑ sidebar popup that appears next to any selected text or sticky (speed surface). Same symbols, same tier gating, same shared-canvas sync.
Palette tier: Pro for the base, Platinum for algebra and geometry. Pro ($25.99/month monthly, $21.99/month billed annually) unlocks the base palette — operations, base compare, fractions/ratios/percents, degrees, square root, and round brackets. Platinum ($49.99/month monthly, $39.99/month billed annually) adds the algebra and geometry set — π ± ∞ ² ³ ⁿ ≤ ≥ ≠ ≈ ∠ △ ⊥ ∥ [ ] { }. Enterprise / B2B tutors are Pro feature level with Platinum symbols hidden.
Whiteboard PDF and PowerPoint upload for annotating existing worksheets (Pro). Upload a past paper, a textbook page, or a district worksheet and annotate on top of it with palette symbols in text boxes. The palette works over the PDF the same as over a blank canvas.
Cobrowser for paired graphing and rendered-equation tools (unlimited on Pro, capped on Free). Open Desmos, GeoGebra, or a subject-specific site in a shared browser inside the classroom — the student clicks and drags on the live page inside the lesson room. See what is a cobrowser? for the mechanic.
Paired manipulatives for the concrete-first pattern. Fraction Bars and Fraction Circles (Platinum) for fraction work; Number Rods and Number Lines (Pro) for early numeracy and place value. The fractions spoke and number-sense spoke walk through the manipulative side; this page is the notation side.

Honest limits worth naming that show up in real math work regardless of platform: iPad is rougher than desktop for narrow-symbol picking; students in mainland China sometimes hit connection issues (we route through Hong Kong proxies but the Great Firewall is a moving target — see teaching students in mainland China); and the palette is a symbols set rather than an equation renderer, so stacked fractions, radicand-under-a-bar radicals, exponents above ³, and live graphs pair with a cobrowser tool rather than living on the whiteboard.

How do I write math equations and notation on an online whiteboard? (Or: how to stop stopping the lesson to look up an alt-code)

Why writing real math on a video call is a specific kind of hard

Where the palette lives — two entry points, same insert

1. The Math Symbols folder in the Whiteboard Library

2. The ∑ sidebar popup next to a selected text or sticky

What's in the palette by tier

Six notation moves that carry most math tutoring

The honest limit: it's a symbols set, not an equation editor

When to reach for a symbol and when to reach for a manipulative

By age band: what tutors actually use

Practice, homework, and notation drills between lessons

Common failure modes and honest limits

Practical setup on Koala Go for a notation-heavy math workflow

Related answers in the math cluster

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