Why Take a Math Study Skills Course?
Apply Your Knowledge
Other Courses
Learn the vocabulary & concepts
Answer fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, or true-false questions
Write essays and research
Math Courses
Learn the vocabulary & concepts
Actually apply your knowledge and solve problems
A Foreign Language
Numeric
Symbolic
Graphical
Requires Plenty of Practice
Like sports, music, art, etc.
Skill-based
Some need more practice than others, but all need to practice
Learn from mistakes
Improves speed, confidence, and understanding
Cultural "Bad" Attitude
America has an attitude problem
Math is hard
Only smart people can do math
I don't need math
We need a better attitude
Is math hard?
It can be, but so can lots of other things
Can anyone do it?
Yes, but like many other things, some will have to work much harder at it than others
Our everyday life would look drastically different without math
Minimal Class Time
High School
180 days * 50 minutes per day = 150 hours of class time
College
30 classes * 85 minutes per class = 42.5 hours of class time
Same Amount of Material
70-75% of learning happens outside of class
Sequential Material
What you learned yesterday will be used today, tomorrow, and beyond
Once you've learned it, you're expected to remember it forever
LIke a building, math requires a solid foundation