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How to Craft Consolidated Math Notes
Student Seminar
What’s the point?
• To have easy-to-find, concise, comprehensive math notes
• To be able to better remember old topics for assessments
• To better learn and reaffirm the material by writing it down and organizing your thoughts
Outline
• This is the possible structure of a consolidated note page for a topic
Note: Not all of these boxes will be necessary for every single topic!
Visuals/Graphs/Tables
• Visuals are effective way to remember the topic -> put at top
• make simple, uncluttered, focus on the most important aspects
Purpose/Definition/What is it?
• This can be formal for reference, or more general to jog your memory
• Want topic to be defined, but also concise
Properties/Functions/Explanations
• This is the most helpful part
• Put down the technical stuff e.g. forms, identities, functions if any
• This is where your math language goes, usually not words as the main part
Example Problems/Tricky Stuff
• This is where you address application of the material
• Put easy problems -> jog your memory
• Put problems that you have trouble with -> for tests
Other Notes + Stuff to Remember
• Other Notes - put down important things that were left out so far, or didn’t have a place
• Stuff to Remember- put down things you think you might forget, or get wrong
Some Examples
Logarithmic Functions(long condensed)
Inverse Trig Functions + Derivatives(short condensed)
Tips and Tricks
➢ Try to make these notes outside of class so you can concentrate and re-affirm knowledge later
➢ Don’t feel forced to try to fill in all of the boxes, expand and omit the outline boxes as you see fit, stick to 2 pages maximum
➢ Makue sure to put them all in one place (paper notebook, OneNote, binder)
➢ In your note-taking place, separate your consolidates notes from the other pages in your notebook
Pros and Cons
Pros
• Don’t have to scramble for notes that you cant find. Great for test and exam preparation.
• Don’t have to figure out what notes mean, you made them!
• Helps you learn it!
Cons
• Takes 8-10 min outside of class
• Have to make them when its fresh in your mind and before an assessment (within a week)
Try it Yourself!
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