Unit Rates Doodle Notes
Unit Rates & Unit Prices: "doodle notes" - visual note taking pages with interactive tasks for building stronger retention of unit rate concepts
Boost your students' focus and memory! The blend of graphic and linguistic input in these guided visual notes helps students' brains to convert the information to long-term memory more easily.
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:
- Definitions of unit rates
- How to find a unit rate
- Unit prices
- Setting up the ratio - choosing ___ per ___
- Comparing unit rates
- 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 answer key, sample, and info.
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Reviews from other teachers:
-I used this as a supplemental lesson before showing my students fractional unit rate and it worked out so perfectly! Very straightforward and easy to understand, while giving thorough instruction. Great resource!
-I loved this resource, especially as it was a way to mix up how I deliver notes to my students. I like how students can decorate it however they want and gives them the opportunity to doodle while they work.
-Engaging and helpful during distance learning for my son. He enjoyed the graphics and it helped to keep him engaged while learning and reviewing.
-None of my students had experienced Doodle Notes before, and they were so excited to take notes with this resource! It was nice to see them so engaged in taking notes! They also LOVED being able to decorate their notes afterwards!
-Perfect addition to the students' math journals. I shrunk the image to 85% and it fit beautifully in a marbled notebook.
-I used these in 8th grade for a lead-in to proportional relationships (8.EE.5). I love that there were several real-world examples to help students see how they might use unit rates to solve problems. I wish these included finding unit rate on a coordinate plane, but I understand why they don't.