Cornell NoteTaking

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Cornell Note-Taking
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Cornell Notes
Name Date Class Period

• Write your name, date, class, and period in the
  upper right hand corner (see above).
• Write the topic of the notes (ex. Common
  Denominators, GCF, LCM, Order of Operations,
  etc.) on the top line (see above).
• Write Page in bottom right hand corner (see
  below).

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Cornell Notes
Name Date Class Period

• Page setup

• Draw a horizontal line about five lines up from
  the bottom.

• Draw a vertical line down the page about one
  third of distance from the left.

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Cornell Notes
Name Date Class Period

• Key words ideas
• Important dates/people/places
• Repeated/Stressed Info
• Ideas/brainstorming written on board / overhead
  projector
• Info from textbook/stories
• Diagrams Pictures
• Formulas

• Main Idea
• Key Question (after notes are completed)

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SAMPLEFor Math
Name Date Class Period

• What are the different types of mathematical
  operations?
• How are those operations shown in equations?

• Operations
• Add
• Subtract
• Multiply x , , or ( )
• Divide or ½ or

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Cornell Notes
Name Date Class Period

• Helpful Hints for Straight A Notes

• Abbrev. , Paraphrase.
• Use symbols (arrows, circles, underlining) or
  highlighting to emphasize important ideas and
  relationships.

• Skip lines between ideas.
• Within 24 hours, review notes and develop study
  questions on the left side.
• Be aware of teacher clues.

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Teacher Clues
Name Date Class Period

• How do I know if what the teacher says is
  important?

• Repetition or stressed inflection
• Voice gets louder/softer or faster/slower
• Writing on the board or overhead
• This will be on the test.
• Gestures (hand/arm movements)
• This is important.

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So, what about the bottom of my paper?
Name Date Class Period

• Summary - review notes as soon as possible after
  class and write a summary in your own words about
  the main ideas. Are there any gaps in your
  understanding? (see next point)
• Questions for the teacher.
• Doodles - down here they wont get in the way of
  the important stuff.

What belongs in the bottom space?
Summary, questions, doodles
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Abbreviation ExerciseAbbreviate the following
lines so they still make sense

• When following the Order of Operations, the steps
  are first to work out anything in parenthesis,
  then exponents, then multiplication from left to
  right, then division from left to right, then
  addition from left to right and finally
  subtraction from left to right.

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Abbreviation ExerciseAnswers
Name Date Class Period

• P
• E
• M
• D
• A
• S

• Parenthesis ( )
• Exponents 52
• X from left to right
• from left to right
• from left to right
• - from left to right

When doing problems w/multiple operations, I must
do the steps in a certain order.
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