Congratulations!
You are now the owner of a brand new math journal. This is going to be a place for you to stretch out your mathematics potential, reflect on what you are learning and show your thinking. You will have a variety of different journal entries to complete throughout each unit that will challenge you to solve mathematical problems, explain your thinking in a variety of ways, analyse mistakes, think about similarities and differences, write about new learnings and to try to justify and prove your answers. This journal will encourage you to use the following mathematical processes:
- Problem Solving
- Reasoning and Proving
- Reflecting
- Selecting Tools and Computational Strategies
- Connecting
- Representing
- Communicating
The above processes are all important and transferable skills that all mathematicians need to be able to use.
Here’s how this is going to work. I will set a due date for each journal entry period, I will present you with 5-10 journal prompts to choose from and you can answer as little as 3 and as many as 10. The questions will be posted in class as well as on google classroom. You will be assessed based on how well your entries demonstrate deep thinking. A student might complete 10 entries and not show the same level of understanding as a student who completed 3, it’s not about the number….it’s about the thinking that you can show. The checklist on the next page will be used to assess your entries as a whole after each entry period. You will also fill out a self assessment to hand in with your journals.
