Square Roots Doodle Notes
Finding and Understanding the Square Root of a Number: 1 page visual interactive "doodle notes" set -
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. Graphic doodle and sketch notes take full advantage of Dual Coding Theory (the way brains process visual and linguistic information) to maximize retention.
Content includes:
- concept of root as the inverse of squaring a number
- understanding roots as side lengths and squares as area
- calculating a square root
- positive and negative roots both being solutions of a variable squared
- estimating a square root to the nearest integer (and as "between" two numbers based on perfect squares)
- rational and irrational numbers (definitions)
- identifying numbers as rational or irrational
- 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!
1 page is included, plus an answer key, a sample, and info.
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