I love my interactive notebook, I really do. But sometimes I think we can have soon many foldables and colorful notes that it really distracts from what we are trying to accomplish and sometimes wastes time. This coming from someone who love the color and the activity of the notebook but sometimes, sometimes it's just too much.
Equations is a place where I feel that way. I love having tons of steps and I found tons of amazing foldables with multiple pages and steps. However, at the end of the day, I really just want my kids to remember 5 steps. I think, if we think of GEMDAS instead of PEMDAS and think of parenthesis as operations below the vinculum as well as those with other grouping symbols, that 5 steps are really all we need. Sometimes you will need to complete all 5, and with utilizing order of operations the procedure may take more than 5 steps total, but sometimes like with one step equations you may only need to complete the last step. I'm sure this idea will evolve over the years as I teach, but as I find myself contemplating more foldables for this section I keep coming back to the fact that I really want to KISS it - keep it simple, stupid! :)
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