Snowflake is our online digital platform. It has been designed as an interactive space for students and teachers to view and engage with our mathematics textbooks and software.

Snowflake provides a digital book viewer whereby the user can quickly and easily access a digital version of their purchased, or school assigned, textbook. The digital reader is easy to navigate whilst maintaining our student-friendly approach. It allows both students and teachers to access and view their digital subscriptions alongside additional interactive software like printable worksheets, activities, and games, graphics calculator instructions, Self Tutor, a Graphing Package, and a Statistics Package all in the one location.

The online book viewer and all its content are compatible with a range of devices including, PC, Mac, iPad, Android.

In addition to accessing the digital textbooks, schools can manage online subscriptions with ease, and can assign subscriptions to both students and teachers. Teachers will also have access to extra support materials relevant to the programmes they teach and the products they have purchased. For example, Scope & Sequence documents.

You can find Snowflake at https://snowflake.haesemathematics.com.au
Help can be found at https://snowflake.haesemathematics.com.au/help

Snowflake offers a wide range of interactive content and features to help students with their learning. These features have been designed to provide additional support, encourage student understanding, and nurture an appreciation of mathematics.

The interactive features are constantly being updated to improve the overall experience of using Snowflake. These changes are based on user feedback and are completed with both students and teachers in mind.

Please note, even though these features work the same in our younger primary books, they do look a little different. Instead of the Snowflake icon, we have utilised these icons below.

Each digital subscription contains various interactive games, worksheets and activities that improve both the overall learning and teaching experiences. These features can be found by looking and clicking on Snowflake icons like this .

The interactive features are tailored to each book and appropriately match the specific year level.

There are a range of different features and in-browser tools that can include:

• Demonstrations to illustrate and animate concepts.
• Multiple choice quizzes to test understanding.
• Games to practise and build skills.
• Printable pages for use in class.

Each digital subscription, where applicable, includes a graphics calculator instructions booklet. These are available for a range of different brands:

• Casio
• TI (Texas Instruments)
• HP (Hewlett Packard)
• Numworks

These are linked in the first few pages of the digital subscriptions, before the contents page.

These instruction booklets include a range of instructions and tips that help students understand how to use their calculators; from getting started, to special buttons, using memory, and working with lists and functions. They allow the student to utilise their calculator to its full potential. There are also further specific instructions throughout each textbook when additional calculator help may be needed. These provide step-by-step instructions to help students work through the question.

Self Tutor is an engaging feature that supports students learning independently and in classrooms.

Self Tutor is available for all examples throughout the digital textbooks. Click on any example box or Self Tutor icon to access a step-by-step animation with teacher voice support providing explanation to aid understanding.

This allows students to work on their own, and is ideal for catch-up and revision, or for motivated students who want to do some independent study outside school hours.

Once clicked on, a pop up will appear containing the Self Tutor video. This will then go through every step of getting to the answer in detail.

Any part of the Self Tutor video can be paused and repeated as often as required.

This feature works the same way in our younger primary books, however it does look a little bit different. In our younger primary books, this feature is called "Watch Listen Learn", and can be found by looking for this icon.

The Graphing Package allows users to plot multiple functions onto the same set of axes. It can be used to find the axis intercepts of functions, the domain and range of functions, and much more!

The Graphing Package can be used as an alternative to a graphics calculator. This feature can be accessed in all books where graphing functions is included in the course. It can greatly assist and streamline learning.

The Graphing Package can be found in the textbook as an interactive link, as well as on the navigation bar for ease of access.

Throughout the books, just look for and click on the Snowflake icons like this . When clicking on the Snowflake icons throughout the book, the Graphing Package will be automatically filled with functions from nearby questions.

Alternatively, look for the symbol in the navigation bar to open the Graphing Package.

The Statistics Package allows users to analyse discrete, continuous, and categorical data. This feature can be accessed in all books where analysing data is included in the course. The Statistics Package will not only summarise the data, but it will also display the data using methods relevant to your course.

The Statistics Package can be found in the textbook as an interactive link, as well as on the navigation bar for ease of access.

Throughout the books, just look for and click on the Snowflake icons like this . When clicking on the Snowflake icons throughout the book, the Statistics Package will be automatically filled with data from nearby questions.

Alternatively, look for the symbol in the navigation bar to open the Statistics Package.

This feature is a great addition to Snowflake as it allows users to add virtual sticky notes to their digital book, recording key points to help with their studies or exam revision.

Users can add virtual sticky notes wherever they need, on any page within each book. Mathematical expressions entered in a particular format will be shown in typeset form on the note.

Notes can be easily edited, moved, hidden, or resized. A complete list of notes can be found in the Notes tab of the contents menu.

The notes are saved online in the Snowflake cloud, so they are accessible on any device used to read the online book.

Corrections are made in reprints of our books, but with Snowflake, users have immediate access to updated content and software. Content is updated automatically, online users are not required to download or install any updates to view the changes.

A list of errata can be found here https://www.haesemathematics.com/errata. You can also find a list of errata specific to your Snowflake books here https://snowflake.haesemathematics.com.au/errata.

Supplementary content is released when there has been curriculum/syllabus changes shortly after the release of a book. The supplementary content is automatically added to a user's Snowflake account, as an individual subscription. The supplementary book, will indicate when a user should be using its content as part of their learning.

In addition to the help section provided within Snowflake, users can contact our IT support team with any queries they may have itsupport@haesemathematics.com.

Our digital Mathematics Dictionary can be purchased here https://www.haesemathematics.com/books/mathematics-dictionary.

The Mathematics Dictionary can be used as a stand-alone eBook, or on top of your textbook within Snowflake. To use it in your textbook, you can click on words to see their definition and related terms.

We have translated all dictionary definitions into Arabic, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (simplified), and Chinese (traditional). The translations are written for the student to understand what the English definition means, rather than a direct definition in that language. This subtle difference is to help the ESL learner understand mathematics in English.