
Over the years, I have written a lot about math word walls and how I came to believe in them. In the classroom, our word walls are an extension of my teaching and allow my students to work more independently. I can quickly point to a visual to make connections or easily move a student past frustration. During group and independent work, my students know they can access our math word walls for support. I always find myself gushing about math word walls because I know how well they work for my students. And then.... remote learning!
All of a sudden, teachers would be without their math word walls and I couldn't imagine myself in that situation. So around April 2020, I began really trying to figure out how to convert my printable math word walls into digital math word walls that students could access online. After a ton of thought, I decided to use the real photographs I had taken over the years so that the digital word walls would feel as much like a real math classroom as possible. After a few months of continuous printing (I needed to take some photos that were missing), cutting and photographing, I am proud to say that every one of my math word walls now comes digital along with their printable color and black and white versions!
In this post are images of all of the digital math word walls I have built in Google Sides. I also cover how to send the digital versions to students, link to some free supplements if you are using a virtual classroom and how to use the digital math word walls in Microsoft Teams, if you are not a Google school.
All of the digital math word walls are updates to their existing printable math word walls, so if you have any of my math word walls already, you can get the digital versions for free by re-downloading the files (directions farther down in post). The digital links will be on page 2 of the word wall PDF. I hope the digital versions are helpful both for sending to students working online and even as a classroom reference to project onto your front board.
Algebra Word Wall
The first one I updated was this Algebra Word Wall. It now has a link to this virtual algebra word wall included in the file. When you click on one of the images, a larger image comes up. This is how all of these new virtual math word walls work:
You can type math notes onto the virtual white board or even add extra posters. Or you can add YouTube video links, your own video links, really anything that you can think of to support students learning the curriculum. This algebra word wall is included in my Algebra Activities Bundle w/ digital updates.
Geometry Word Wall
I wanted to make the digital versions visually appealing to students (read: it is entirely too easy to become completely obsessed with making your virtual classroom perfect) so that they'd be spaces students want to visit, if even just in cyberspace. Here is a screenshot of the digital update to the Geometry Word Wall:
Here I add an extra reference to the quadrilaterals page of the digital Geometry Word Wall to help students with classifying. The possibilities are really endless when it comes to virtual classrooms. It's so easy to get completely carried away.
To date, I have made math word walls for grades 2 through 8, Algebra, Geometry and Algebra 2, the Unit Circle, Area and 3-D Shapes. They are all not available in print color, print black & white and digital.
The printable version of this Algebra 2 Word Wall was the first full math word wall I had made and it was the last to get its digital update, complete with all new photos. I had never actually photographed the 11 parent graph anchor charts, like these for for exponential functions, so those I took all new for the digital word wall.
Here is the home wall of the 8th grade math word wall. Clicking the images here will bring up larger versions of those images where there are also white boards. On the white boards you can type additional information or let students add what they'd like to add as a study guide.
All new photos for this 7th grade math word wall. Like all of the digital updates, this one clicks from its home wall to enlarged versions of the images.
Algebra 2 Word Wall
The printable version of this Algebra 2 Word Wall was the first full math word wall I had made and it was the last to get its digital update, complete with all new photos. I had never actually photographed the 11 parent graph anchor charts, like these for for exponential functions, so those I took all new for the digital word wall.
8th Grade Math Word Wall
Here is the home wall of the 8th grade math word wall. Clicking the images here will bring up larger versions of those images where there are also white boards. On the white boards you can type additional information or let students add what they'd like to add as a study guide.
7th Grade Math Word Wall
All new photos for this 7th grade math word wall. Like all of the digital updates, this one clicks from its home wall to enlarged versions of the images.
6th Grade Math Word Wall

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Math Word Wall Bundle - print and digital |
If you are building a virtual classroom, this quick video tutorial shows you how to link your digital word wall inside your virtual classroom. EDIT: I changed the end of the URL to /preview instead of /present in this tutorial. They're basically the same, but to be consistent, I should have showed /present. There's a video further down that shows this.
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Virtual math classroom and word wall images (free) |
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I've also ben making some digital-only activities, like this digital math escape room for simplifying integer expressions.
I wrote a post showing some of these updates and new digital math activities:
Just like the word walls, most of the math resources include both digital and printable versions so that you have what you need when you need it, no matter what school looks like. You can browse all of my digital math resources here:
This is amazing, Shana! Thank you for all this work.
ReplyDeleteLots of work, but glad to do it:) Thank you for your kind words!
DeleteThank you so much for all the time you have spent and the work you have done to make things easier for us!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Karen! I'm happy to do it. Thank you for all the hard work you are also putting in. You are changing kids' lives and their families' lives for generations to come. You are a rock star!
DeleteAmazing work! Thank you for saving me my precious time so that I can spend more time teaching! You are a lifesaver.
ReplyDeleteYou made my day! Thank you! It's really been my pleasure.
DeleteThank you so much, Shana for so generously sharing your resources with us!
ReplyDeleteIt's been my pleasure, Jas!
DeleteThank you for all your hard work in this. Thank you for sharing. Super helpful!
ReplyDeleteThank you for saying this. Lots of work but I feel really good about it. I hope the digital word walls come in handy for years to come.
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