Quadratic Formula Doodle Notes

The Quadratic Formula: "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:

- Using the formula to find solutions

- Writing and saying the formula

- How to plug in

- Meaning of solutions as roots / zeroes

- Three representations of solutions - factoring, quadratic formula, and graph

- Practice and 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:

_This really helped us review and get ready for the end of unit assessment. I mostly use Doodle Notes for review topics.

-Great summary of my power point and lesson. I used it as a day 2 start of class review with the whole class participating in filling it in. Very nice.

-Students loved this activity. And it was a nice way to change up the business of taking notes. thank you!

-This was a great resource for my algebra 1 class!

-I used this as a way to provide a bit of a brain break while introducing our next topic.