Scaffolding

Scaffolding is all about connecting content with students' experiences, whether they are real life applications or things they have learned in previous classes. The math curriculum is set up to provide scaffolding for almost every content strand. From Math I to Math II to Math III and even through the higher level maths, concepts build on one another. 

Krystal and I (because, yes we are the best team ever!) are giving ourselves and our students the opportunity to scaffold throughout their math courses with the math notebooks we are doing. Many of you know already, but students will essentially use the same notebooks through Math II and Math III (and hopefully their college classes as well!) The notebooks are section by broad concept topics (Expressions, Functions, Quadratics, Exponentials, Geometry, Trigonometry, Statistics & Probability) so that we can continue to add to concepts we've already talked about. 

My students are liking the notebooks for organization. They don't necessarily see the value just yet (we haven't truly gone back to a topic that we have already talked about to add a page). I think they'll like it a lot next year when they need to review for upcoming concepts. I'll like it a lot better when I can say "I know you've looked at this before. It's on page G4".