Triangles Doodle Notes

Classifying, finding missing angle measures, and determining whether triangles exist: visual interactive "doodle note" 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:

- triangle classifications by sides and angles (acute, obtuse, right, equilateral, scalene, isosceles)

- impossible triangles

- Triangle Sum Theorem (180 degrees)

- finding a missing angle measure

- sketching each type of triangle or identifying it as non-existent

- 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!

3 pages are included, plus answer keys, samples, and info.

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Reviews from other teachers:

-I absolutely love your doodle notes as they are the best way to get more artistic kiddos to write and retain the information!

-I used this resource to introduce the concept to my students and give them something tangible to look back on and review the material.

-Great resource for all of my Math Intervention groups.

-This was great for me to give students in an honors course that need a concept that was missed in previous years.

-I grab every Math Giraffe resource I can get my hands on! They are terrific for interactive notebooks; introducing new content and remediating my students with special needs. Thanks!