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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3 Strategies for Practicing Math Vocabulary

Do your students struggle with math?

Do your students know their math vocabulary?

3 Strategies For Practicing Math Vocabulary 

Math is a language like English, French, or Spanish. There are key concepts in math that need to be explained and well defined. How do your students understand math vocabulary? Do you have them practice the terms? Here are three strategies to use with your students for practicing new math vocabulary words.

1. Make an Interactive Math Word Wall. 

What do you display on your classroom walls? Do your students create it or is it teacher made? Have your students create an Interactive Math Word Wall. Students will write the definitions and pictures for each word. Display their work on post-it notes beside or below the math word. Students will enjoy creating this word wall in your classroom. They will even ask if they can "cheat" and look at it during a quiz or test. Why do they ask this? It is a helpful reference for them to be reminded what the vocabulary word means. Math is a language that needs to be modeled and taught daily for comprehension.

2. Make a Math Writing Center

Do your students know how to write math? Do they need a scaffolded approach to using math word in context? Try using a Math Writing Center. When you do math centers or math workshops in your classroom have one center be writing math only. Students will work on writing sentences with important grade level math terms. This will help build students' math writing confidence. Students need to practice with a scaffolded approach. This is a great solution for students to learn how to write math terms in the appropriate context.

3. Make a Vocabulary Notebook. 

How do your students learn and record new vocabulary? Do your students make math vocabulary maps? Students will take ownership of their Math Vocabulary Notebook. Have students write 3-5 terms per week. Students will add new math vocabulary word maps to their notebooks every week. At the end of the year they will have completed the entire year's list of grade level vocabulary.

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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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Christmas Middle School Math Coloring Pages

Are you preparing for December?

Do your students like to try different math activities?

These Christmas Equations and Proportions Coloring Pages feature different colors with presents with bows, and gingerbread men. These coloring pages are a great way to practice algebra skills for class work, home work, or fast finishers!

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THIS CHRISTMAS EQUATIONS & PROPORTIONS PACKET FEATURES:

*2 different Engaging Math Activities (2 different color options)

*1 Version of Gingerbread Men Solving Equations (2 different color options)

*1 Version of Presents with Bows Solving Proportions (2 different color options)

*3 different Banners to hang on a Bulletin Board

*NO PREP, Print & GO Activities! (Only materials needed: 5 to 6 different colored crayons or markers, and a pencil). 

*FUN & rigorous activities centered on math curriculum

*HIGH QUALITY CLIPART is included 

*Topics covered: Algebraic Equations and Proportions

*Engage your students in Math for December!

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Get your students in the holiday spirit with fun math activities that incorporate rigor and relevance. Making math meaningful this time of year will help keep them engaged until the winter break.

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Winter Break Math FREEBIE

Are you preparing your students for a long Winter Break?

Do you want to actively engage your students in Math fluency over the Winter Break? 

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If you said YES, there is a FREE Math packet cover and rubric for your students to complete and return after their Winter Break. This Winter 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 and updated for 2018 Winter Break. 

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THIS FREE WINTER BREAK MATH PACKET FEATURES:
*2 different covers for your student's Winter 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 Winter Break

Engaging your students in Math may be difficult this holiday season, but you can keep them actively involved with activities to use their critical thinking skills.

Other teachers have said, "Thanks for the rubric - that is very helpful." "I do not send work home with my kiddos over breaks, but this will be handy as a "just in case" activity for a sub. Thank you!"  

Great for not just over the long winter break, teachers have used these puzzles for bell work, morning work, class work, and fast finishers to name a few! Encourage your students to have fun with Math and watch them succeed!! 

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Middle School Black Friday & Thanksgiving Math

Are you looking for Black Friday activities to engage your students?

Do you want to make real world connections with Black Friday & math?  

Do you need middle school math activities before the Thanksgiving break? 

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Get your students excited about the Holiday Math with these NO PREP Thanksgiving Math Activities. Students will make connections between sales, bargains, prices, and purchases. 

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THIS BLACK FRIDAY & THANKSGIVING MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH ACTIVITIES PACKET FEATURES:

*5 different Engaging Math Activities

*FUN activities and puzzles centered on reviewing math curriculum.

*Packed with 6th, 7th, 8th grade common core math problems for review and practice.

*HIGH QUALITY CLIPART is included

*Topics covered: percents, operations with decimals, operations with integers

Activities Included:

-Creating a Black Friday Advertisement {with rubric}

-Mark that Price! {with answer key}

-Big Toy Purchases {with answer key}

-Find Sale Price {with answer key}

-Integers Number Puzzle {with answer key}

My students always loved the Black Friday Advertisement project {with rubric included for easy grading}. It's an easy activity to facilitate and prepare for the Thanksgiving break. The past five years I've had an administrator come and do a surprise informal evaluation the DAY before break. This project has been great to show students actively engaged with real world applications at Thanksgiving. Every administrator has always commented that it was nice to see the students engaged in math and learning how it applies to Black Friday. These activities are sure to keep the last couple days before the Thanksgiving break fun and full of math content. I hope these activities are helpful in your classroom too! 

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