A Math Journal is a way of keeping your math work organized, so you can self-assess what you have learned. A journal entry should be written at the end of each math exercise. The math journal entries should take no more than 5 minutes.
Every journal entry becomes a record of the experience received from the specific math exercise
Daily journal prompts:
- I solved the problem by ___
- I can check my answer by ___
- The strategy I used was ___
- Another strategy I could use would be ___
- The first thing I did was ___
- Today’s lesson helped me to understand ___
- I learned that ___
- I would use this in my real life when ___
- I know that __ is __ because __.
- I knew I was right when……
- The best way to solve this problem would be___
- First ___ next ___ then ___ after that ___
Organizing Your Math Journal
Section 1: Vocabulary /Frayer models (Vocabulary sheets for each unit)
Section 2: Notes (All of the notes you take in class)
Section 3: Homework (Homework assignments)
Section 4: Quizzes/Tests