Pi Doodle Notes (for Pi Day or Anytime!)

Pi "doodle notes" offer a creative, fun, interactive activity for learning what Pi Day is all about.

The doodle note set has two pages, and you can choose one or use both as an awesome way to celebrate Pi Day with your students! They'll be learning all about pi while enjoying it and relaxing at the same time.

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:

- approximations of Pi

- definition of "irrational"

- meaning / utility of the number pi

- room for a history fact about Pi

- room for a formula that includes Pi

- background of Euler using the greek letter to represent it

- circumference and diameter

- why we can't know or recite ALL digits of pi

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Visual note taking strategies like sketch notes or doodle notes are based on dual coding theory.  When we can blend the text input with graphic/visual input, the student brain processes the information differently and can more easily convert the new learning into long-term memory.

This strategy also integrates the left and right hemispheres of the brain to increase focus, learning, and retention!

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