1. Math Interactive Notebook
Developing smart study habits

2. What is an Interactive Notebook?
Reference book of math concepts
How-to manual of math skills
Working portfolio of your math learning
Review handbook
Record of your mathematical thinking
Resource for open-note quizzes
Study guide

3. An Interactive Notebook will help you:
Organize information
Make sense of new ideas
Understand how concepts are connected
Remember what you learn in math class
Personalize how you learn
And most important…

4. An Interactive Notebook can double as a pillow in a napping emergency.

5. 50 percent of what we see and hear
We remember:
20 percent of what we hear
30 percent of what we see
50 percent of what we see and hear
70 percent of what we see, hear, and say
90 percent of what we see, hear, say, and do

6. What does an Interactive Notebook look like?
Large scribbler
Each pair of facing pages is dedicated to a single topic
The right side is for class notes and handouts (from the teacher)
The left side is for student reflection (your own thoughts and ideas)

7. What does an Interactive Notebook look like?

8. Right side- Teacher input
Notes from:
lesson/ lecture
textbook
video
group discussion
collaborative group process
Handouts
Example problems with steps explained
Definitions

9. Left side- Student output
Restate ideas in your own words
Pose questions about the information
Predict outcomes or next steps
Create a metaphor to connect new ideas to familiar ones
Write a reflection on the information or experience
Make connections between the information/text and your own life, another text, and/or the world
Glue in a foldable
Respond to a math journal prompt

10. Left side- Student output
Create an acronym that will help you to remember the information covered
Draw a picture to represent the information
Create your own original problems
Practice examples
Brainstorm ideas
Write a poem or jingle to help you remember the information
Create a thinking map to organize and clarify the information

11. Is this for a grade?
Your notebook will be checked on a regular basis for completion and understanding
At the end of a unit, you will turn in your notebook for grade recording
If you are absent, it is your job to get the notes and information you missed

12. Setting up your Interactive Notebook Number the pages:
leave the first page blank
right side pages only
upper right corner
Write “Table of Contents” at the top of page #1

13. Interactive Notebook Tips
Number every right-side page
All topic pages should contain only math content
Write the date and topic at the top of each page
Bring your notebook to class every day
Do not rip any pages out of your notebook
Do not write notes to your friends in your notebook
Do not use your math notebook for other classes