Quick Tip: Jot notes in math class
A quick way to make sense of what your teacher is teaching!
Hey math students,
Howz it going? Today’s quick tip is on jot notes.
Jot notes are summarized notes you write on key points of a class. You may have done this for other courses if you had to watch a video, see a play, listen to a lecture or go to an art gallery, make jot notes on what you were seeing, and then talk about it. And similar to highlighting sentences when reading a book – you’re noting the critical ideas - same idea for math class.
It's like asking an AI chat tool to summarize the key points of your math teacher's teaching, except you're doing it while your teacher speaks and writes.
In math your jot notes will include,
1) Title of lesson
2) Meaning of any new math words
3) Meaning of any new symbols
4) The first question your teacher does (that’s the easiest one and all other questions in the lesson will build on it)
5) A picture is the perfect jot note - quick to copy and tells you so much!
4. What else? When you’re bored, you doddle. In math class, when your teacher is rambling, I want that doodling to be you changing your teacher’s words into easy questions.* Teacher speaks, ‘Adding fractions’, you change that to, 1/2 + 1/3. They yell, Algebraic expressions, you write, 2x + 3x or 5x – 2. The quietly whisper, multiplying integers will be on test, you jot, “(-2)(+3) on test”.
*Math symbols are ideal for shortening math words and math sentences.
5. What else? Your call. You may highlight when the teacher says, “this is important” or “most students struggle with this”. Formulas and rules (P=2l + 2w) would be helpful as like pictures, they you a lot.
6. Next step: 1) Ask your English teacher how to take jot notes as they would have experience with jotting. 2) Ask anyone for guidance who is good at jot notes (yes, it can be a parent, as many have to jot in their job). 3) Read up and understand more about being a jotter! Once you understand what to write and what to look for, jotting becomes much easier to do.
7. Now, you’re ready to join the jotting world. And get creative too - use different coloured highlighters. Think of jotting as math doodling with a purpose!
Let the jotting begin,
EH
What’s EH?
Initials for my name, Edison Hopkinson.
Plus, ‘EH’ is a part of Canadian culture - it’s how many of us finish off sentences.
Have a good day, EH! Math’s going well, EH!
So not so much a question, but more a statement. Well, I guess it could be a question, Math’s going well, EH?
I think I’ll stop there, EH.