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HINTS TO HELP YOU LEARN MATH.

1. Take NOTES while your teacher tells you how to work problems. If you have trouble writing and thinking at the same time, discuss the problem with your teacher. You might be allowed to record the lecture. Even better if you could video or at least take photos of the notes on the board.

2. Do all assigned homework. Homework is the practice that makes YOU understand how to do the math. If the teacher assigns the even problems because the odd answers are in the back of the book, also work a few odd and check your answers to check your understanding.

3. If you have access to your tests after they have been graded, study your incorrect answers. Discover where you went wrong so you will not continue to make the same errors. Make sure you understand those concepts already tested. You build new math concepts on those old concepts.

4. Keep up with and organize your notes, homework and returned tests.

5. Find help if you are having difficulty understanding the math. Find a website. There are videos of demonstrations of every math concept online. You can look at my links. Find someone who understands math to help you understand it.

6. If you have trouble with the terminology or learning formulas, make and practice with flashcards or go on line and find flashcards that fit what YOU need. You must understand the language of math.

7. NEVER GIVE UP. Keep trying and learn a little bit everyday. You may have to learn math concepts to fill holes in your math knowledge but You CAN LEARN HOW TO DO MATH.

Flash card machine lets you make and share flashcards with what you need. Here are some cards I made about positive, negative, absolute value

Math has an undeserved bad reputation. It really does make sense and is logical. Most people wait for teachers to give them quick little rules that will work. But without knowing why those little rules work, they will forget them. MORE importantly, they come to think math is just a lot of rules that don't make sense, so they NEVER USE THEIR OWN POWERFUL BRAIN TO DISCOVER AND LEARN MATH.

I taught GED classes, 7th and 8th grade math, Algebra A, Algebra B, Algebra I, Algebraic Explorations, Geometry, Algebra II, and Pre-Calculus (one semester about 20 years ago). I have retired, but I still enjoy teaching and talking about math.

I originally made these pages while I taught geometry. Few of my own students ever visited, but others did.

I will update and improve this slowly, since I am retired and have slowed down a lot.