Printable Vertical Publish Business Foldable For Interactive Notebooks

I acquire e-mails from people all the fourth dimension wondering how to acquire started alongside interactive notebooks.  Honestly, I'm non quite for certain how to answer this question.  How does i acquire started alongside interactive notebooks?

I know these aren't the steps people desire to hear, but I mean value this pretty much sums upwards the process:

Step 1.  Adjust your expectations.  Every page inward your interactive notebook volition non travel pinterest-worthy.

Step 2.  Try stuff.  Figure out what lesson you lot are teaching.  Think almost how you've taught it inward the past.  Look online for ideas.  Decide a excogitation of activeness to take.  Take it!  

Step 3.  Reflect on the experience.  Were these notes helpful to my students?  What should I receive got farther clarified?  Was the fourth dimension spent on the notes appropriate?  Did my students reference their notes?  What could I produce to brand my students reference their notes to a greater extent than often?

Step 4.  Use what you've learned/made to deportment upon futurity lessons.

Step 5.  Repeat.  Forever.

At Twitter Math Camp this year, nosotros had several interactive notebook parties where nosotros sat inward the hotel anteroom too but looked through each other's notebooks.  I brought along my instructor copies of my interactive notebooks for the past times 2 years plus a few educatee copies.  Last yr was my 2d yr of doing INBs.  And, let's but nation that my notebook pages from in conclusion yr were easily 100 times meliorate than my notebook pages from the start year.  That's natural.  We all larn too improve alongside time.  When nosotros halt desiring to larn or improve, that's when nosotros demand to quit our jobs too re-evaluate our lives.

Why, hence did I desire to enshroud those less than perfect notebooks?  I don't retrieve who it was, but somebody picked upwards i of those notebooks from my start yr too started leafing through it.  I directly encouraged them to aspect through i of my newer, meliorate notebooks instead.  After all, they would acquire hence many to a greater extent than ideas from a dissimilar notebook.  But, they persisted too said they wanted to acquire an thought of what it actually looks similar to produce interactive notebooks for the start time.  They were interested inward reality since reality is the footing nosotros alive too instruct in.

When I envision what my notebooks for the yr volition aspect like, I receive got hundreds of amazing ideas.  Some of these volition choke far inward our notebooks.  Some ideas I thought were amazing volition terminate upwards flopping.  The thought that comes to me v minutes earlier course of instruction starts that I receive got to rush to pose together volition terminate upwards beingness a present stopper.  At to the lowest degree 50% of my ideas volition never come upwards to fruition because the timing doesn't piece of work out but right or because I never acquire unopen to to making a for certain page.  My students are ever eager to portion their opinion.  Why didn't nosotros pose X, Y, or Z inward our notebooks?  Or, this page was stupid.

Each year, this notebook matter gets easier.  I tin reuse pages from previous years.  I receive got a meliorate feel of how long it volition accept my students to produce for certain notebook pages.  Since I'm non having to create EVERYTHING, I tin pass some fourth dimension adding some "extras" to our notebooks.

This post is almost i such extra.  This notebook add-on has been iii years inward the making.

Year 1 of Teaching.  The formula for gradient is (y2-y1)/(x2-x1).  Why tin my students never retrieve this formula?  They modify it to (x2-x1)/(y2-y1) or (x1-y1)/(x2-y2) or another sort of mathematical heresy.  Then, if they produce retrieve the formula correctly, they terminate upwards making all kinds of lightheaded mistakes alongside their positives too negatives.

Year 2 of Teaching.  Inspired past times Elissa, I decided to acquire rid of the gradient formula.  We're but going to run tables to detect the modify inward y too the modify inward x.  The formula delta y over delta x should travel easier to memorize, right?  It turns out it is!  Some of my students receive got problem finding the modify inward y or the modify inward x.  I directly them to run the release describe on the wall.  This helps equally long equally they are inward my classroom.  But, some of my particular instruction students desire to accept their gradient exam inward the resources lab.  That's i of their rights, but at that topographic point is no release describe on the wall inward there.  One of my students asks why they can't receive got a release describe inward their notebooks.

Year iii of Teaching.  AKA Yesterday.  In innovate the gradient formula i time to a greater extent than equally delta y over delta x.  I present my kids how to brand the tabular array too run the release describe to detect the modify inward y too the modify inward x.  While students are using their pencils to signal at the release describe on the wall, I inquire them if they mean value it would travel helpful to receive got their ain personal release describe to use.  YES!

I shipping out a tweet looking for a release describe someone has already made.  Nothing.  This morning, I create upwards one's hear to brand my own.  I actually wanted the release describe to extend from -25 to 25, but I had to settle for -20 to 20.

When non inward use, the release describe folds upwards on the within dorsum encompass of our interactive notebooks.  

When students desire to run the release describe equally a tool, they crease the release describe over hence it extends exterior of the notebook.

Now, the flaps volition crease out to disclose a beautiful, vertical release line.

I wanted to brand this release describe inward such a agency that students tin run it at the same fourth dimension they are using their notes.  Here are our notes for finding gradient from a tabular array or points.  Students tin run the release describe to detect the departure of the 2 numbers.

Here's a close-up of the extended release line.  I took a highlighter too marked null for quick reference.

Now,  my students are equipped alongside lots of tools for finding slope!

I printed the release lines 2 to a legal sail of paper.  The length of the legal newspaper allowed me to brand the release describe much longer than would receive got been otherwise possible.  I would similar it if the release describe was printed on a heavier weight of paper.  Alas, I don't receive got whatever legal sized carte du jour stock.  If students accept the fourth dimension to crease these nicely dorsum into their notebooks, they should fare well.  What I fright is that students volition cram their notebook into their handbag alongside the release describe however protruding from the notebook.  I approximate there's non much I tin produce to forestall this, though...

As alongside all notebook additions, I had to forcefulness my students to run the release describe to present them its worth.  If I don't brand my students reference their notebooks, they but won't.  I receive got to forcefulness myself to answer educatee questions alongside "It's inward your notebook.  Look it up."  Today, i educatee was trying to detect delta y when the 2 y-coordinates were 5 too -15.  He insisted that 5 too -15 were 10 apart on the release line.  Of course, his release describe was folded neatly into his notebook.  I made him acquire his release describe out too present me the 10 spaces they were apart.  Oh.....  Yes.  Now, delight run your release describe for the balance of the assignment.  

Also - I've finally choke convinced that vertical release lines are awesome.  Hopefully, at that topographic point volition shortly travel i gracing the wall of my classroom.  My students requested it.  It turns out that many of them prefer the vertical release describe to the horizontal release line.  

Want the file to impress out your ain vertical release lines?  Here's the link to the PDF file too an editable PUB file.

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