Mathematical Properties - Decorated Notes Brochure for Interactive Notebooks

Excited to try doodle notes but need a product that will fit inside your interactive notebooks? Then Doodle Note Brochures are perfect for you!

Research shows that students who sketch, color, or doodle while listening to instruction tend to have better recall. These Doodle Note Brochures combine coloring, note taking, examples, and creative visual triggers to help students remember mathematical concepts.

Understanding the major mathematical properties of addition and multiplication is an essential prerequisite skill to solving complex algebraic equations. This Doodle Note Brochure provides students with verbal and visual cues to help remember the meanings of each property. From how you move to school (commute) and who you associate with (in parentheses of course!) these word based associations are great for helping struggling students.

Also included is the output practice page (2 to a page) which includes an opportunity to identify properties and make an equivalent expression.

I simply have my students pick up their page on their way into class. After bell work they can fold and begin coloring the front of their brochure. My only requirements are that students must listen, they must take all applicable notes, and they must stop coloring/doodling when I am finished teaching. They are welcome to finish coloring and decorating after their classwork is complete or at home/in their free time.

I typically give students a few extra problems to complete that they work out on the right side of their notebooks.

Project the template onto your board, screen using a projector or Elmo, or use powerpoint or your Smart Board software. I cut and paste into ActivInspire and write directly on my smartboard.

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Other Doodle Note Brochures:
My other Doodle Note Brochures
Basic Skills Bundle (Place Value, Prime & Composite, Divisibility Rules, Long Division, Rounding) - Doodle Note Brochures
Decimals Bundle (GCF, LCM, Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Decimals) - Doodle Note Brochures
Fractions Bundle Fractions (Comparing, Ordering, Converting, Reducing, Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Fractions) - Doodle Note Brochures



Square Puzzle Quests:
My other Square Puzzle Quests
Operations with Positive Decimals Square Puzzle Quest
Adding Positive Decimals Square Puzzle Quest
Subtracting Positive Decimals Square Puzzle Quest
Order of Operations Square Puzzle Quest



REVENGE! The review game:
Equations and Inequalities Unit Review


Fun Science Activities:
Population Relationships Scavenger Hunt
Biomes and Succession Scavenger Hunt



More are added daily! If you have a request for a topic, please contact me. I can have it for you asap!

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal, or district interested in transferable licenses to accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me at themathdetective@gmail.com.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: Copyright 2017 Kristine Vasher (The Math Detective). This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.