\documentclass[]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[upright]{fourier} \usepackage{tkz-linknodes} \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \parindent=0pt \begin{center} \fbox{% \begin{minipage}{10cm} \begin{NodesList}[margin=2 cm] \begin{align} 3\left(x^2-\frac{2}{3}\right) &= 4 \AddNode\\ 3x^2-2 &= 4 \AddNode\\ 3x^2 &= 6 \AddNode\\ \intertext{\hfil isolate the term with the variable \hfil} x^2 &= 2 \AddNode\\ \sqrt{x^2} &= \sqrt{2} \AddNode\\ |x| &= \sqrt{2} \AddNode\\ x &= \pm\sqrt{2} \AddNode \end{align} \LinkNodes{expand}% \LinkNodes{$+2$}% \LinkNodes{$\div 3$} \LinkNodes{$\sqrt{\ldots}$} \LinkNodes{$\sqrt{x}=|x|$} \LinkNodes{so that} \end{NodesList} \end{minipage}} \end{center} \end{document} % Encoding : utf8 % Author : Alain Matthes (2008) % Engine : pdfLaTeX (LaTeX only with pdftex >= 1.40) % Packages : xkeyval, tikz with arrow library, amsmath, etex, ifthen % Remark : needs two compilations