Proportions Doodle Notes
Solving & Understanding Proportions: "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, answer the questions, and color, doodle or embellish. Then, they can use it as a study guide later on.
Content includes:
- Proportions operate like equivalent fractions
- How to cross-multiply
- Determining whether a pair is proportional
- Solving proportions
- Practice & Examples
Check out the preview images for more detail about this item and the research behind it.
Visual note taking strategies like sketch notes or doodle notes are based on dual coding theory. When we can blend the text input with graphic/visual input, the student brain processes the information differently and can more easily convert the new learning into long-term memory.
This strategy also integrates the left and right hemispheres of the brain to increase focus, learning, and retention!
2 pages are included, plus answer keys, samples, and info.
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Reviews from other teachers:
-Excellent resource! My students loved being able to visualize their thinking in a creative way! Their quiz scores improved after I used these notes with them! Thank you!
-My students LOVE doodle notes. I email them to my students the day before so that they can print them prior to our live class and then we fill them out together in Zoom.
-I used this as additional practice for my students, and it is a good resource for reinforcement after the lesson. They enjoyed the visual aspect of the notes. Thank you!
-Math Giraffe resources have become a staple resource in my math class. Students use them throughout a unit to gain further understanding and clarity on the subject of Solving Proportions. Thanks!!
-This was a perfect addition to my interactive notebook, and my students were able to easily understand it!