11 ways to Learn Math
1. No motivation to learn Students have to be pushed to do work. This type of students always question about uselessness of learning math such as what is the use to learn all these trinomial factoring when in fact they will perhaps never use it in their real life?
2. Can not follow steps or procedures Concepts are taught to student but they do not seem to be able to follow the algorithm and steps on how do solve problems. Problems are done in “piece-meal” fashion. For example, student cannot find the quotient using mental math instead a separate vertical multiplication needs to be done every time to find it. The equation can not be carried out from left to right in logic and continuous steps, instead a separate calculation is done on each expression so a simple equation problem has taken the student the whole sheet to just get one equation solved. I do not know if this happens is because their teacher did not work out the problem on the board and explain clearly so the student ends up doing problems on piece meal fashion. For example x + 3 (x-2) = 3 (x-9), the students can not do smoothly from to left, instead the student would write a few not connected steps to figure out each expression first and then assemble them together.
3. “I don’t know” attitude The student keeps on saying “I don’t know” when asked to do work. They are not able to point out where they do not know or why they do not understand.
4. Do not even try to remember The students seem to be so forgetful and constantly need to be reminded on whatever has been taught. They do not bother even to memorize some very basic math rules. For example, the students will completely lose direction if they do not even bother to remember the identity of sine square plus cosine square is 1 since they will not have the second nature to do proof or see the way on how to do them.
5. Never master the basicsSome grade 5 or even grade 10 students never mastered the times table or still need to use fingers or skip counting to get answers then they will have problems to do factoring or trinomial factoring using cross-multiplication method since their mental math ability is too weak. So even problem like 2 to the power of 4 times 4 to the power of 2 will lose them since they cannot “see” the base 4 can be changed to base 2 and then add the exponents together to get answers.
6. Leave all notes behindI have students who will collect all my written notes I used to teach them, but on the other hand I also see some students leave all my written notes behind and never collect them. Don’t they want to review those important points to help them in the exam? Of course, these notes are helpful, but it is too bad some students just do not care.
7. Cannot concentrateSome students can’t concentrate and get distracted so easily and often ask for more breaks than others to just get away from learning.
8. Do not want to practiceComplain about doing practice when in fact the student needs more practice to perfect the system and this is one of the reasons some students do not get high marks – lack of enough practice.
9. Only care about marks Marks are important but if students only care about marks then they are not getting the real benefits, what they learn in how to solve problems and the willingness to do deep research and analyzing will really benefit them in the future. Sometimes even a wrong answer can benefit students because if they did through study and came up with a wrong answer then they can learn from mistakes. Sometimes quantity is important such as the amount of practice but the quality of practice must also coexist. For example, if they do not follow a good ritual to use LCM to get all the same dominator when doing rational equations then their calculations are error prone.
10. No perseverance, cannot take any pressure.
11. No good study habit.· Keep no notes in teaching or left notes without collecting after tutor.· Do not review notes, no notes to review.
1. No motivation to learn Students have to be pushed to do work. This type of students always question about uselessness of learning math such as what is the use to learn all these trinomial factoring when in fact they will perhaps never use it in their real life?
2. Can not follow steps or procedures Concepts are taught to student but they do not seem to be able to follow the algorithm and steps on how do solve problems. Problems are done in “piece-meal” fashion. For example, student cannot find the quotient using mental math instead a separate vertical multiplication needs to be done every time to find it. The equation can not be carried out from left to right in logic and continuous steps, instead a separate calculation is done on each expression so a simple equation problem has taken the student the whole sheet to just get one equation solved. I do not know if this happens is because their teacher did not work out the problem on the board and explain clearly so the student ends up doing problems on piece meal fashion. For example x + 3 (x-2) = 3 (x-9), the students can not do smoothly from to left, instead the student would write a few not connected steps to figure out each expression first and then assemble them together.
3. “I don’t know” attitude The student keeps on saying “I don’t know” when asked to do work. They are not able to point out where they do not know or why they do not understand.
4. Do not even try to remember The students seem to be so forgetful and constantly need to be reminded on whatever has been taught. They do not bother even to memorize some very basic math rules. For example, the students will completely lose direction if they do not even bother to remember the identity of sine square plus cosine square is 1 since they will not have the second nature to do proof or see the way on how to do them.
5. Never master the basicsSome grade 5 or even grade 10 students never mastered the times table or still need to use fingers or skip counting to get answers then they will have problems to do factoring or trinomial factoring using cross-multiplication method since their mental math ability is too weak. So even problem like 2 to the power of 4 times 4 to the power of 2 will lose them since they cannot “see” the base 4 can be changed to base 2 and then add the exponents together to get answers.
6. Leave all notes behindI have students who will collect all my written notes I used to teach them, but on the other hand I also see some students leave all my written notes behind and never collect them. Don’t they want to review those important points to help them in the exam? Of course, these notes are helpful, but it is too bad some students just do not care.
7. Cannot concentrateSome students can’t concentrate and get distracted so easily and often ask for more breaks than others to just get away from learning.
8. Do not want to practiceComplain about doing practice when in fact the student needs more practice to perfect the system and this is one of the reasons some students do not get high marks – lack of enough practice.
9. Only care about marks Marks are important but if students only care about marks then they are not getting the real benefits, what they learn in how to solve problems and the willingness to do deep research and analyzing will really benefit them in the future. Sometimes even a wrong answer can benefit students because if they did through study and came up with a wrong answer then they can learn from mistakes. Sometimes quantity is important such as the amount of practice but the quality of practice must also coexist. For example, if they do not follow a good ritual to use LCM to get all the same dominator when doing rational equations then their calculations are error prone.
10. No perseverance, cannot take any pressure.
11. No good study habit.· Keep no notes in teaching or left notes without collecting after tutor.· Do not review notes, no notes to review.
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