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.
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.