11 TIPS FOR MATH SUCCESS
1. Complete ALL of the assigned homework every night.
2. Neatness not only counts, it is essential. Keep your notebook up-to-date and organized. Develop the habit of neatness in your notes and homework. This will help you in other subjects as well as mathematics.
3. Problems must be solved in pencil.
4. Even if you're an Einstein, you must show all your work. No skipping steps! Small calculations may be done on scratch paper or worked in the left margin. Steps are written one under the other, not to the side.
5. Box or highlight your answers so they may be easily seen and read.
6. Division problems are written as fractions.
7. Multiplication problems are written with parentheses. Avoid using a raised dot (•) or the elementary multiplication sign (X) .
8. Ask questions in class! There are other students sitting in the classroom with the same questions you have.
9. Work on developing a positive attitude. Even if you hate math, stop walking around announcing it like it's front page news. Instead, try to realize that most likely it's not the subject you dislike, but rather the NOT UNDERSTANDING that's getting you down. So vow to fight it and come out a winner.
10. Start taking responsibility for your own success or failure when trying to master a new concept. Remember, there is no "easy way" to learn math. It's HARD WORK.
11. Get help the same day you do not understand. Like most anything else, the more you practice, the better you'll do.
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2. Neatness not only counts, it is essential. Keep your notebook up-to-date and organized. Develop the habit of neatness in your notes and homework. This will help you in other subjects as well as mathematics.
3. Problems must be solved in pencil.
4. Even if you're an Einstein, you must show all your work. No skipping steps! Small calculations may be done on scratch paper or worked in the left margin. Steps are written one under the other, not to the side.
5. Box or highlight your answers so they may be easily seen and read.
6. Division problems are written as fractions.
7. Multiplication problems are written with parentheses. Avoid using a raised dot (•) or the elementary multiplication sign (X) .
8. Ask questions in class! There are other students sitting in the classroom with the same questions you have.
9. Work on developing a positive attitude. Even if you hate math, stop walking around announcing it like it's front page news. Instead, try to realize that most likely it's not the subject you dislike, but rather the NOT UNDERSTANDING that's getting you down. So vow to fight it and come out a winner.
10. Start taking responsibility for your own success or failure when trying to master a new concept. Remember, there is no "easy way" to learn math. It's HARD WORK.
11. Get help the same day you do not understand. Like most anything else, the more you practice, the better you'll do.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
