Math Study Skills

by Nolting, Paul D., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780618473038
• ISBN10: 0618473033
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-17
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

This best-selling workbook provides accessible, clearly written guidance to help students effectively study and learn mathematics. Examining students' strengths, weaknesses and learning styles, this text offers proven study tips, a homework system, and concrete techniques for such skills as note-taking, reducing math anxiety, improving test-taking, and much more. Students are encouraged to personalize the workbook's strategies and tools to help them succeed in their specific math course. Intended for use in any math class, math lab, study skills class, or developmental studies course, the workbook can be used for independent study or as a supplement to class lectures. Test-taking coverage includes advice on managing and reducing negative self-talk, understanding the stages of memory and using memory techniques, and understanding and preventing specific test-taking errors. Students learn to assess their own learning styles and to use the Math Autobiography Appendix to understand their personal math history. Chapter Openers clearly outline a list of skills and strategies students will learn within the chapter. Boxed features and examples throughout the text illustrate study skills and learning styles in a context that is relevant to students; this method of learning to recognize their strengths and weakness helps them shape their own set of study skills.

Table of Contents

Note: Each chapter concludes with a Review

What You Need to Know to Study Math

Why learning math is different from learning other subjects

The differences between high school and college math

Why your first math test is very important

How to Discover

Your Math-Learning Strengths and Weaknesses How

what you know about math affects your grades

How quality of math instruction affects your grades

How affective student characteristics affect your math grades

How to determine your learning style

Assessing your math strengths and weaknesses

How to improve your math knowledge

How to Reduce Math

Test Anxiety Understanding math anxiety

How to recognize test anxiety The causes of test anxiety

The different types of test anxiety

How to reduce test anxiety

How to Improve Your Listening and Note-Taking Skills

How to become an effective listener

How to become a good notetaker

When to take notes

The seven steps to math note-taking

How to rework your notes

How to Improve Your Reading, Homework, and Study Techniques

How to read a math textbook

How to do your homework

How to solve word problems

How to work with a study buddy

The benefits of study breaks

How to Remember

What You Have Learned

How you learn

How short-term memory affects what you remember

How working memory affects what you remember

How long-term memory/reasoning affects what you remember

How to use memory techniques

How to develop practice tests

How to use number sense

How to Improve Your Math

Test-Taking Skills

Why attending class and doing your homework may not be enough to pass

The general pretest rules

The ten steps to better test taking

The six types of test-taking errors

How to prepare for the final exam

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