Interactive Notebook

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Math Interactive Student Notebook

• A Key Element to Success
• in Math Class with Mrs. Sanders

This is a modified PowerPoint of a PowerPoint
originally shared by Melinda Gannon.  
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Have you ever heard yourself say . . .
I can't find my . . . notes, homework, old
quizzes . . .
I can't remember what we did in class yesterday.
I'm sure its in . . . my locker . . . my book bag
. . . my room . . .
I was absent last week, did I miss anything?
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Keep it all together with your
Interactive Notebook!
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What is an Interactive Notebook?

• A personalized, clear textbook
• A working portfolio -- all of your notes,
  classwork, etc. -- in one convenient spot

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Left Side Right Side Orientation

• LEFT SIDE

• RIGHT SIDE

• Left side items are items from the teacher and
  text to be . . .
• LEARNED

• Right side items are the students . . .
• REFLECTIONS

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Left Side

• Left is for learnable content!
• The left side belongs to Mrs. Sanders and the
  text.
• The left side has testable information.

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Examples of Teacher Left Side Content

• Notes, usually in the Cornell note-taking format
• Handouts
• Graphic organizers
• Example problems worked out with written
  running commentary
• Content to go on a math foldable

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Right Side

• The right is for reflection.
• The right side belongs to YOU!
• The right side is where you record your
  PROCESSING of the teacher-provided notes,
  handouts, etc. (i.e. of the left side items).

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Examples of Student Right Side Work/Products

• Guided practice
• Graphic organizers
• Foldables
• Your re-writing of notes into your own language
  and/or with illustrations

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More Examples of Right Side Work/Products

• Math journal entries (e.g. about real-world math,
  about the assigned Internet math practice
  homework)
• Creative math memory hooks
• Mental math models (e.g. a story about good guys
  leaving and bad guys leaving to explain
  pos/neg integer multiplication)

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Extra Credit Right Side Work/Products

• NOTE These are graded by detailed rubrics.
• math riddles (especially for geometry)
• student-created math games requiring math
  expertise (both to create and play the game can
  involve dice, spinners, etc.)
• poems/raps to aid memory of concepts or
  algorithms
• etc.

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sample re-write of class notes into right-side
MISN format
source http//ideasite.net/math/  
. . . in your own language!
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Sample Math Memory Hook with Illustration
source http//ideasite.net/math/  
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Sample Foldables
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Sample Venn Diagram
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Sample Math Riddle
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Student Supplies

• Math textbook
• One-inch binder (math-class-only)
• M.I.S.N. a plastic or laminated bradded folder
  with pockets, filled with 120 pages of loose leaf
  paper
• Your own whiteboard (i.e. a sheet of white
  cardstock in a heavy duty sheet protector)
• pencil bag of supplies (see next slide)

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Pencil Bag Contents

• Pencils
• Mechanical pencil sharpener (must catch its own
  shavings)
• Whiteboard marker, map pencils, red grading pen
• Scissors, protractor, compass, glue, calculator

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Maintaining the Interactive Notebook

• IMPORTANT To help it last and keep it from
  getting lost, store your interactive notebook
  safely away in the FRONT POCKET of your
  Math-Class-Only Binder.
• Date and number each page (L1, R1, L2, R2, L3,
  etc.).
• No doodling that doesnt relate to notes
• No ripped out pages or torn corners

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Test Your MISN Knowledge

• Can you mentally fill in the blanks below and
  mentally circle the correct words?

• The left side is for
• _______ _______.
• It is for input/output.
• (circle one) from the _________.

• The right side is for
• _____________.
• It is for input/output.
• (circle one) from the _________.