Circumference and Area of a Circle Doodle Notes
Finding Area and Circumference for Circles - Visual Interactive "Doodle Notes"
When students color or doodle in math class, it activates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. There are proven benefits of this cross-lateral brain activity:
- new learning
- relaxation (less math anxiety)
- visual connections
- better memory & retention of the content!
Students fill in the sheets, learn the formulas, answer the questions, and color, doodle or embellish. Then, they can use it as a study guide later on.
Content includes:
- Formula and meaning of circumference
- How to label units
- Formula and meaning of area for a circle
- Using Pi
- Rounding and approximating
- review of radius and diameter
- Review of meaning of pi, order of operations for exponents, etc.
- Practice & Examples
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2 pages are included, plus answer keys, samples, and info.
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Reviews from other teachers:
-I love that this did not require much preparation and offered my students great levels of engagement.
-My students loved these doodle notes! A great way to make the topic of formulas more engaging for my struggling learners.
-My students love doodle notes and they are more engaged throughout than when we take normal notes. This page also makes it easier to keep track of since its bright and eye catching, they refer back to it more often.
-I teach virtual and on campus classes; my students were allowed to choose how they wanted to complete these either virtually or by digital copy. They absolutely loved it! The students that dislike coloring, colored it digitally even though they were told they didn't have too!
-My son loves art and drawing, so this was a nice way to integrate something he likes to do with his math. kept him engaged as he was working on the pages.
-The doodle notes were super helpful in helping students differentiate between circumference and area formulas (something that they often confuse). My students always appreciate the doodle note format.
-I used this resource with my advanced group as a review from what they learned in 6th grade. I reduced the size to 85% to fit into their interactive notebooks and found that there was still room to write in the text boxes - that is not always the case with this type of resource I have found. To make the resource more interactive notebook-ish, I had students write ways to remember the formulas and definitions. I will use this resource again. Thank you!