This document provides tips for effective note-taking in class. It recommends focusing on key facts, writing down examples, and rewriting notes after class to fill in gaps. Specific strategies include sitting up front, writing down unusual facts, problems, and repeated concepts. It also suggests ways to correctly use a calculator during note-taking such as writing down keystrokes instead of stopping to calculate.

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3. Instructor
Visual
Auditory
How to Listen Effectively

4. How to Listen Effectively

5. How to Listen Effectively

6. How to Listen Effectively

7. On your Mark
• Sit at your desk
Get Set
• Focus
• Ready for notes
Go
• Steady pace
Last Lap
• Stay focused
Finish Line
• Class over

8. How to Become a Good Note Taker

9. Least
amount of
notes
Greatest
amount of
information
How to Become a Good Note Taker

10. How to Become a Good Note Taker

11. When to Take Notes
• Unusual facts
• Writing on board
• Summary
• Pause
• Repeated
• Enumerating
• Several examples
• ‘tricky problem’

13. The Seven Steps to Math Note-Taking
Examples section Explanations/rules
Key
words/concepts
Recite out loud
What did not
know
Review
glossary

14. How to Rework Your Notes
• Rewrite
• Fill in
• Left hand column
• Problem log
• Calculator sequence
• Reflection
Tape recorder?

15. How to Correctly Use a Calculator in
Class
• Do not stop notes
• Write keystrokes
• Abbreviation list
Example: ½ + ¼
1 A b/c 2 41+ A b/c =