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We were the first company in the country to offer double sided student response boards. Our original double sided response boards were called wonderboards. They could be cleaned up no matter what you wrote on them with. The smooth white markerboard surface could be used with markers, crayons and grease pencils. The black textured markerboard surface on the flip side worked great with white or colored chalk. You could order these boards for your entire school and the teachers that liked chalk would use the black side and the teachers that were familiar with dry erase markers would use the white side. We all know that white boards now dominate over chalk boards. Schools started asking us to change our wonderboards to double sided white boards. They knew we manufactured our products and would be able to do them up with one white side lined and the other white side unlined. We then began to offer our boards, double sided, with a "goof-proof" white markerboard surface on both sides. What we have found over the last several years, is that teachers expected double sided dry erase boards to give them two boards in one. To be twice as good. What teachers actually experienced was that they would only last half as long. The reason for this is because most desk tops are now "bullet proof". When a double sided markerboard surface is used at the desk, the back side can get scratched by any grain of sand, grit, or other abrasive dust. This is not an issue when the front side of the board stays the front side. The problem is when you also use the back side as the front side. Now both sides get laid against the top of the desk, get scratched up and ruined. (You could cover the desk top with a protective cover and place a protective sheet between each dry erase board for storing, but there must be a better way.) Double sided dry erase boards are very tough and strong but they fail when stacked up face to face against each other, or against desk tops. In February 2000 we removed the option for double sided boards from our catalog. The reason we removed them from our catalog was that everyone who tried our new improved single sided designs, loved them. All our student Storyboards, Place Value Boards, and Graph Boards are lined in a soft gray color with a generous amount of blank unlined space too. Other companies offer lined boards in bold dark colors that make it hard to see the work the students have done. With our invisi-line technology you can use these lined boards as unlined boards too. We also are the only company we know of, that leaves empty space for students to solve problems before graphing them on the dry erase graph. If you think you might like to find out for yourself how well our boards work in the classroom, click here.
THE MARKERBOARD PEOPLE 1611 N. Grand River, Lansing MI 48906 toll free (800) DRY-ERASE (379-3727) (517) 372-1666 fax (517) 372-3009 The Markerboard People, Inc..
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Graphboard
Rulerboard (Place Value)
Base Ten Grid
Storyboard
Lined Board (Language Arts)
Unit Circle / Polar Graph
