Home » Your New Favorite Math Note Taking Method: Math Wheel Notes!
Discover an innovative, brain-friendly way to take math notes—and watch your students’ engagement and retention soar!
Students tuning out when it’s time to take math notes and try practice problems?
Trying to create new and engaging ways for students to take notes?
Lack of organization in students’ math notes and example problems?
BUT, it’s time to change that ~ because math notes shouldn’t be a drag!
I’ve tried different note-taking methods with students over the years, like:
But here’s the thing: students NEED to write and ENGAGE with the material themselves – that’s how information actually sticks. Handing them pages of completed notes doesn’t help get the content into their brains.
So, when Doodle Notes came on the scene several years back, I wanted to create something similar, but with a little different structure…maybe because my brain just needed the structure of different sections.
And I came up with the idea of ‘math wheels,’ which blend structure and creativity.
With math wheels, students:
Math wheels facilitate interactive learning through the use of doodles and creative visuals, helping students to better engage with the content and retain it.
The use of colorful, engaging visuals and doodles can make learning math more fun and enjoyable for students, increasing their motivation and interest in math.
Math wheels encourage creativity and personalization, allowing students to express themselves and their understanding of the material in unique ways.
This is a great resource for my students to do note taking and practice problems in their Interactive Math Notebooks. They have a lot of information in them and align very well with our standards and learning goals. I highly recommend!
I love these math wheels! I love using guided notes and these are fun and easy to use. The kids like them and actually use them and refer back to them. Totally worth the money and a time saver!
I’ve used other wheels before with my students, so I went ahead and bought the entire bundle. They are a fabulous way to make math fun and help the students remember concepts.
This is definitely something you want to use in a creative math classroom.
Choose from over 100 math wheels for grades 3 to 8, covering concepts like basic fractions and decimals, ratios, surface area, exponent rules, slope, and transformations. You can purchase individual wheels or save with bundles!
Besides specific math topics, you can also find wheels for:
AND, if you happen to teach ELA too, there are a few grammar wheels for you.
Find them all in the Cognitive Cardio Math shop on TPT.
Check Out the Math Wheels Below!
Shop by grade level: the buttons will take you to the grade level bundle on TPT
(except for 8th grade – no bundle for this grade yet).
You can also get to the individual wheels from there.
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