Most of a math course vanishes as it happens — boards get erased, pages get filed. Your journal is the part that stays: a running record where a semester of thinking tasks, models, and slow breakthroughs becomes something you can look back through and actually see changing. In this course, the journal is the portfolio — and for many of you it is the record you will carry into university mathematics.
The hub is Math Journal. The pages below support it in order:
| Page | When you need it |
|---|---|
| Your First Entry | Week one, facing a blank page |
| What a Strong Entry Looks Like | Once the habit exists |
| Journal Checklist | Before each unit’s collection |
| Showing Growth | Mid-course, when old entries become evidence |
| Final Reflection | The last week, reading the whole record |
Written forwards, read backwards
Entries take ten minutes and feel small. The value arrives months later, when Showing Growth calls week-one-you as a witness — and that only works if week one wrote honestly.