I've been bitten!!!  And the kids love these books.  And yes, I teach high school.  High school Seniors to be exact.  We have several new, awesome, teachers at our school this year.  A few of them are using Interactive Notebooks.  I had never heard of them before.  I'm always looking for something new so I immediately started researching this idea.

I did not come up with these ideas myself.  The "numbers important to me", the cover, the spine, and the rubber band, all come from ideas I saw on Pinterest.

Right now we are working on Family of Functions, so far we have just been studying quadratics.  We spend several days learning all the ways to transform a parabola.  Next week we will take what we have learned and apply it to cubics, absolute value, hyperbolas, circles, square roots, linear, etc.

 The next day the teams were given the equation y = (x-2)(x-2).  They were discovering what happens when they changed a.  The INB worksheet followed the questions in the book.  We also talked about the difference between a graph and a sketch.

After spending some time learning what a, h, and k transform a graph, they did a few practice problems.




Then on the right side of their composition book they did a practice problem.

Here is a foldable that I used to review factoring.


 Like many other bloggers that I have been reading I am also finding myself using my INB to create my next lesson.  I didn't start these until about 2 weeks ago and we will finish our first 9 weeks next week.  I almost can't wait for next semester so I can start from the beginning.

Karen Hatch