The Distributive Property Doodle Notes

Distributive Property (concept & practice): "doodle notes" -When students color or doodle in math class, it activates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. There are proven benefits of this cross-lateral brain activity:- new learning- relaxation (less math anxiety)- visual connections- better memory & retention of the content!Students fill in the sheets, answer the questions, and color, doodle or embellish. Then, they can use it as a study guide later on.Content includes:- concept of distributing (based on doubling, tripling a recipe and how it applies to each ingredient)- definition of the distributive property- distributing a negative- practice applying the property without any variables- how to distribute with variables- simplifying and combining like terms to write distributed expression in simplest form- higher level practice with variablesCheck out the preview images for more detail about this item and the research behind it.Visual note-taking strategies like sk