Visual Note Taking
These are notes from a recent class in my Linear Algebra course. Subspaces aren’t particularly hard to understand, but they form the foundation for most other advanced topics in Linear Algebra. Thus, (as we have been reminded several times by our professor) it is imperative to understand them extremely well.
Creating these visual notes helped me to understand and visualize concepts a lot better. In fact, since I had already studied this section, I tried to create these notes from memory as far as possible. This actually proved to be very effective because it allowed me to put forth my thoughts in a clear and (somewhat) organized manner. Initially, I thought this whole process would be time-consuming, and so it seemed definitively impractical and almost certainly impossible to create such notes for all my classes. However, this one page took me only about 30 minutes. This is the same amount of time I would probably take if I chose to revise the material by reading. Creating the notes not only made Math fun (not two words you hear in the same sentence every day), but also helped me to make these concepts almost intuitive– which is the goal with Math. It’s obviously a win-win situation, and I’m definitely going to try to make visual notes more frequently in the future.