3 Ways to Take Math Notes

How do your students take Math Notes?

Do your students know how to take Math Notes?

3 Ways to Take Math Notes 

Taking math notes can be a daunting task. How do students set up their notes? What should be included? What rules are there to follow? How to make note taking exciting and so on. Here are three easy ways to take math notes and keep your students engaged!

1. Make it different. 

Have your students try a different type of math notes. Do your students like to cut, fold, and make interactive notes? Have students make fold and flip notes. These are easy to make with a single piece of paper.

2. Keep it brief.

Math notes do not need to be lengthy. The best way to take notes brief is with the 3 topic approach. Each lesson should be broken down into 3 topics. Those are the big ideas for the math notes that day. Base your notes off of this approach and students will not be overwhelmed with note taking.

3. Scaffold the Learning. 

Use math notes as a scaffolding learning experience. Give students the 3 subtopics and framework for the notes. Have students fill in the blanks or complete the notes with teacher assistance, listening, or their textbook. Giving students all the information can be overwhelming, but scaffolding the information will help students

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Middle School Math Card Sorts - Grade 6

Do you want your students to deepen their understanding? 

What are your students struggling with in math?

Getting students from struggling to mastery doesn't happen over night. Growing their understanding is a process. Card sorts are a great activity to get your students thinking about the why's and how's of the math. Students make sense of word problems and the steps to solve them.    

Middle School Math Card Sorts

Having students work with partners on card sort activities helps create math talk. When students are verbal about math, they are better able to sort through their understanding and draw a conclusion. The card sort picture above is of an sixth grade sort called Integer Cut and Paste Activity. Students start with a problem and work through all the information provided. The goal is to get students to find and solve integer problems. The process in getting there is broken down into manageable scaffolded steps for students. Students have to find the opposite of the integer in the word problem. Students then create a number line to show the value of the integers. Each card sort activity goes through the process of math discovery to mastery. The lesson units are intended to help you assess how well students are able to understand each grade level standard. 

Included in each lesson are:

• Directions, grade level common core standards, and mathematical practices

• Formative assessment (pre-test) task

• Card sort activity with concept development 

• Extension activity for students to deepen their understanding

• Summative assessment (post-test) task

• Answer keys for all the assessments and activities

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Get your students thinking and mastering more math concepts this year. Engage your students in a math sort to deepen their understanding. Students can work independently alone or in groups to accomplish the tasks. Watch as your students go from struggling to mastery of math. 

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What's an Interactive Math Notebook?

Do you use Interactive Math Notebooks?

Do your students need more engaging math activities?  

Does your Math curriculum need more student-centered learning? 

Would you like to use a standards-based system notebook that helps your students? 

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The Middle School Interactive Math Notebook Bundle is a COMPLETE BUNDLE covering ALL 6th grade Standards! 

Included are the following Interactive Math Notebooks Activities:

Middle School Interactive Math Notebook 101 Guide

Interactive Math Notebook: Integers {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Factors & Multiples {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Rational Numbers {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Operations with Fractions {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Operations with Decimals {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Representing Rates & Ratios {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Applying Rates & Ratios {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Percents {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Equivalent Numerical Expressions {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Equivalent Algebraic Expressions {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Equations & Relationships {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Relationships in Two Variables {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Distance & Area in the Coordinate Plane {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Area & Polygons {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Surface Area & Volume of Solids {Grade 6}

Interactive Math Notebook: Displaying, Analyzing, & Summarizing Data {Grade 6}

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What are other teachers saying about this Interactive Math Notebook? 

Destiny said, "This is a time saver! Love this!" "Very practical in the classroom - neatly presented and easily accessible. LOW PREP as well. Thank you so much!" said 6th grade teacher. Katilyn said, "I look forward to using these with my kiddos this year!"

This Interactive Math Notebook was designed to be NO PREP, Print & GO! Easy to read directions, scaffolded approach to help your students make math connections and let students take ownership of their learning process. This was bundle was designed to cover all the standards, give teachers extra examples, and assist students in mastering all the math skills.

Check out the notebook today! Your students will have a great year learning math with this notebook too. 

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Spring Break Packet

Do your students need a review over Spring Break? 

Do you want to give them a fun Spring Math review? 

This Spring Break NO PREP Math packet that will keep your students engaged in Math over their break! This packet is designed to be fun for students to complete. This is a versatile tool for grades 3 to 8. 

THIS FREE SPRING BREAK MATH PACKET FEATURES:
*2 different covers for your student's Spring Break Packet
*1 letter to students discussing the packet and when it is DUE
*1 rubric for EASY grading when the packet is returned to school 
*This packet encourages fun Math review while away from school on Spring Break

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Spring Break is a great time to send home a couple activities for students to review. Make it fun and easy for the students to complete. Having students feel successful independently helps them to ENJOY learning and growing academically. Cultivate and create this environment for your students inside and outside of the classroom and watch your students shine.

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Writing Math in February (Grades 6-8)

Do your students struggle with writing?

Do your students need more practice with vocabulary?

Getting your students to write Math more leads to deeper understanding of concepts. Writing Math is a skill that needs to be practiced before it can be applied. Practicing vocabulary and writing will improve your students' test scores. Math is a language that you practice before you are fluent. Students who are able to express their math thoughts in writing are better able to talk about math. 

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A fabulous February activity for writing Math is WRITE THE ROOM with Math. Included are 14 vocabulary terms, sentences, writing papers, rubric, and answer keys. Students write grade level vocabulary terms with a scaffolded approach. There are many different ways to use this activity. You can give the sentences with vocabulary terms or with fill-in the blanks where students have to figure out the vocabulary words. Students build upon prior knowledge of concepts and use context clues to figure out which terms go with each sentence. 

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WRITE THE ROOM with Math can be used just like a task card activity at students' desks or as a gallery walk. The main focus of the activity is getting students to think, write, and talk Math. Having students practice and apply vocabulary increases their understanding and in turn will help them to make more connections between concepts. 

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Getting your students to write Math, leads to a deeper understanding of concepts. Writing Math is a skill that needs to be practiced before it can be applied. 

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Challenge your students to write more Math this year. February is a short month, but can have major impact on students' math skills. Watch your students accept the challenge to write more and master their vocabulary lists.

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