This 202 page file contains high-quality photos of all the math notes I gave my students during the school year. It shows how I taught each math concept. My students were successful, scoring in the top 15% of all fourth-grade math students in the state of North Carolina. I attribute much of this success to note-taking, which is a powerful method of teaching as the student must engage his/her senses of sight, hearing, and touch.

The notes are organized so that all students have the same information on the same pages regardless of how neatly they write. All notes taken on one day have the same page number in the top right-hand corner. For example, one student may need only one page to record the day's notes, while another student may need three pages. The first student would have only one page labeled page 1, while the second student would have three pages labeled page 1. Students also record the Common Core objective in the top left-hard corner and the day's date under the page number in the top right-hand corner.

We include a table of contents in the front of the notebook so that students can quickly find any information they wish to review. Students who are out due to illness or vacation either have a friend takes notes for them while they're away or borrow a friend's notebook upon returning and copy the notes themselves.

This notebook contains notes on every Common Core objective for fourth-grade math along with "how to" step-by-step instructions, models, examples, and color coding where applicable.

In a few cases, related fifth-grade skills are included such as coordinate graphing and adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.