Welcome to the world of math notebooking! I have been working with all of my classes this year on creating their own math resource hidden inside a composition book. My initial goal was to give my math students a place to organize their new math vocabulary, create graphic representations of their thinking, practice problem solving, and process their mathematical thinking in words. I have been working to help them realize that math is a creative process, and these math notebooks have helped them realize that. Learning to use our math notebooks has been a work in progress all year. Learning to help them use their math notebooks has been a work in progress for me! A great resource I found over Christmas break, (from the wonderful Mrs. Runde I mentioned in my last post!) was the idea of making our math notebooks more interactive. Both the third and fourth grade classes have been creating graphic foldables to organize their geometry learning. These interactive foldables combine a little bit of artistic drawing with descriptions and real-world examples. You can see samples from both classes above. Now I am sure that there is a piece of learning that happens by simply creating the entry in their notebooks. But what thrills me the most is when they pull out their math notebooks (WITHOUT prompting!) and use their graphics or glossary or previous practice to help them answer a question or solve a problem.
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