1. How to Craft
Consolidated Math Notes
Student Seminar

2. What’s the point?
• To have easy-to-find, concise, comprehensive math notes
• To be able to better remember old topics for assessments
• To better learn and reaffirm the material by writing it down and
organizing your thoughts

3. Outline
• This is the possible structure of a
consolidated note page for a topic
Note: Not all of these boxes will be
necessary for every single topic!

5. Visuals/Graphs/
Tables
• Visuals are effective way to
remember the topic -> put at top
• make simple, uncluttered, focus
on the most important aspects

6. Purpose/Definition
/What is it?
• This can be formal for
reference, or more
general to jog your
memory
• Want topic to be defined,
but also concise

7. Properties/Functions
/Explanations
• This is the most helpful part
• Put down the technical stuff e.g.
forms, identities, functions if any
• This is where your math
language goes, usually not
words as the main part

8. Example
Problems/Tricky Stuff
• This is where you address
application of the material
• Put easy problems -> jog your
memory
• Put problems that you have
trouble with -> for tests

9. Other Notes +
Stuff to Remember
• Other Notes - put down important
things that were left out so far, or
didn’t have a place
• Stuff to Remember- put down
things you think you might forget,
or get wrong

10. Some Examples
Logarithmic Functions(long condensed)
Inverse Trig Functions + Derivatives(short condensed)

11. Tips and Tricks
➢ Try to make these notes outside of class so you can
concentrate and re-affirm knowledge later
➢ Don’t feel forced to try to fill in all of the boxes,
expand and omit the outline boxes as you see fit, stick
to 2 pages maximum
➢ Makue sure to put them all in one place (paper
notebook, OneNote, binder)
➢ In your note-taking place, separate your consolidates
notes from the other pages in your notebook

12. Pros and Cons
Pros
• Don’t have to scramble for notes
that you cant find. Great for test
and exam preparation.
• Don’t have to figure out what notes
mean, you made them!
• Helps you learn it!
Cons
• Takes 8-10 min outside of class
• Have to make them when its fresh
in your mind and before an
assessment (within a week)

13. Try it Yourself!