This year at DRSS I’ve grown in a few things. One of those things was in math, and it was organizational skills. You can see that I grew in organizational skills through my math notebook and the method I learned and currently use in it.

 

As I said above, one way you can see that I grew was in my notebook. I use organization all the time in my notebook. Below I will mention more specifically the method we use to organize our book, but in this paragraph I will talk about my math notebook overall. Our notebook is built to be organized. In it, we have a table of contents, learned a specific method to write stuff in it in, and even how we glue things in is specific. I did not think of this at first and that is why I did my original method, which was writing My FQ+FQAs on one page.

 

At first in the FQ+FQAs (which are places in our notebooks were we write the main point of a lesson, it stands for Focus Question and Focus Question Answer), I wrote them all on the same page. I thought this was more organized because all the FQ+FQAs where on the same page, but that actually didn’t help. In the method I use now, all the FQ+FQAs are with their respective lesson. This is more organized because I can look at the lesson, and then just look to side to see the main point/notes for the lesson. I realized this when I had to do constant flipping to get to the main point/ write down the main point.

 

Looking at these artifacts, you can see that I’ve become better at organizing. With my notebook I practice organizing with each new thing. The FQ+FQAs are a reflection of how I can organize things and that I can learn new methods.

 

As seen above, you can see my growth. I think DRSS does this to teach me to be a better person. This makes me a better person because organization is an important skill that I can use in a variety of ways. I don’t just have to use it in math, this skill will apply to me in many ways and will affect me all my life. I can use when simply planning, like when writing down a schedule, or in a future math class.