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A Summary Sheet is a one page summary that contains the relationships between important points of a chapter, unit or course and allows you to review quickly and prepare for quizzes, tests and exams and new information.
Preparation for making a Summary Sheet starts while you are reading, listening to a lesson or going through your notes or text. You want to pick out the important points and how they are organized.

What is a Summary Sheet?

The preparation of a Summary Sheet follows the acronym SUMMARY which will assist you in remembering the process.

Select main points. You get the main points from course outlines,
lessons, assignments, notes, texts, tests and summaries developed in your notes.

How to make summary sheets? S stands for? U stands for? M stands for? M stands for? A stands for? R stand for?

Understand each point. Give an example or an explanation for each

main point on your summary sheet. Add lines to lesser points.

Map style used. Main points are put in the center with linkages to
lesser points and examples. Use colors and shapes to help in grouping material and showing the organization of the big picture.

Make it brief. Put enough into the Summary Sheet to understand

and assist your recall but do not rewrite your notes.

Add pictures and colors. To illustrate and give visual impact to

main points and examples. Aids in reviewing and recalling the content and the links between the main points.

Regularly read, reduce and review. Go over your summary sheet

often to reinforce your understanding and find more linkages and associations. Also, relate the summary sheet to other information you have learnt: new and old.

You do it for you. Your Summary Sheet is yours so make it make

sense to you. You should be able to explain them to others and also compare yours to theirs.

Y stands for?

Summary Sheets can also be constructed by just brainstorming all you know about an idea or topic. This helps you tell how much you can recall about a topic. From this remembering, find what's missing, add it and you have a usable Summary Sheet to review with.

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Beginning of a Summary Sheet on Solving Word Problems

Translation
The sum of 2/3 of a pie and 1/2 of a pie is? Six animals, twice as many rabbits as dogs, how many of each?

Types of problems WORD PROBLEMS Problem Solving Steps for Solving

How well you know content. How well you solve problems. Checks

Relationships

Things with parts

Chickens & donkeys field, 10 heads, 34 legs, i how many of each? A $100 coat is sale for 20% how much is it?

Examples

Use add, subtract, multiply or strategies like SCREAMC or PROBLEMS

Percent Problem is what?

Read, underline circle, reread Write in own words all known

Methods of solving Patterns Observe a diagram Simplify the bl Imitate a similar problem Trial & error Invert the problem Verbal with yourself/othe Equation/formula substitu

Mixture
Need 10 L of 30 % solution from combination of
20% & 40% solutions.

Record what's known Observe a di Sketch a visual aid /ill i Brainstorm about this problem
Problem type, extra needed information

How far does a car go 30 km/hr in 3 hours? Find the length of a diagonal of a square of 3m x 3m.

Formula/equation Geometry/Trig

List estimated l Numerical estimate or i

written solution

Engage in solving Do bl the work using

POSITIVE methods Check back to original problem & sentence it

Make a check of solution and write in

So what are variations to this

Consider similar questions & different questions

This Summary Sheet would continued by adding more examples of each type of question, creating more associations, coloring similar areas and developing short examples.
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