My "Three for Thursday" has a theme this week: math notebooking. All of my math students have a math notebook. We use it to document our learning. There are four sections: Learning, Math Minutes (mental math practice,) Problem Solving, and a Glossary. This idea of math notebooking has been growing in the education world, and there are a lot of great resources that I have found to help students organize their thinking. In our learning section, we take notes and practice problems to create a reference resource. Most often this section is where we create our graphic organizer or "foldable" to create a visual for understanding math concepts. You can see examples of lessons we have learned below. 5th grade has worked on such concepts as prime/composite numbers, central tendency measures, operations with decimals, factors/multiples, and more. Fourth grade has worked on types of quadrilaterals and PEMDAS (order of operations) and more while 3rd grade has learned about types of triangles, characteristics of 3D shapes, and more. It is evident that they feel these are important when I hear them say, "Can I write that down in my notebook?" Even when I don't prompt them, or occasionally, a student will hug their binder and say, "I love my mobile brain." (A fourth grader last year nicknamed them that, and it seems to have stuck!) Students are allowed to use their math notebook for daily work and even for tests and quizzes. I remind them that their notebook contains their own thoughts and learning and is a resource to be used. The more organized they keep them, the better. It will be a great portfolio of lessons learned when they take their entire notebook home with them at the end of 5th grade. Maybe they will love it so much and find it so useful, they'll even want to take it to middle school!
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