Guided Notes

Every set here is built around a page of structured notes: students work through the concept with you, with doodles to color and checks for understanding built into the page. Most sets add a color-by-code or maze practice worksheet for independent work, a short real-life application page where students read and write about where the math shows up, and a completed answer key.

Coverage runs from 4th through 8th grade, weighted toward middle school: ratios and proportional relationships, one- and two-step equations, expressions and the distributive property, slope, linear equations and systems, functions, the coordinate plane, angle relationships and the Pythagorean theorem, area, surface area and volume, fraction and decimal operations, rational numbers, probability and statistics. Everything is CCSS aligned.

The notes are print-first — a printable PDF that fits an interactive notebook. Many topics are also sold as a print and digital bundle that pairs the notes with a self-checking Google Sheets pixel art activity for the practice half, so you can assign either depending on the day. Each product page lists what is included.

Unlike much of the catalogue these are almost entirely non-seasonal — core instruction, for the day you introduce a topic rather than the day before a break. For seasonal editions of the same topics see doodle and color by number. Guided notes also anchor most bundles, and they hold up as sub plans. If you are planning a unit rather than a lesson, the curriculum pages lay out the sequence these fit into, free to read.

More on how these get used: guided notes for middle school math, digital emergency sub plans, and why I love Google Sheets pixel art.