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Scheduling & Studying for the Successful Student . Tamara Eyster. Scheduling Tips. Daily/Weekly calendar with everything scheduled, including meals, time with family, etc Monthly/Term calendar for planning your weeks ahead, including special events that will change your normal schedule.
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Scheduling & Studying for the Successful Student Tamara Eyster
Scheduling Tips • Daily/Weekly calendar with everything scheduled, including meals, time with family, etc • Monthly/Term calendar for planning your weeks ahead, including special events that will change your normal schedule
Scheduling Tips cont’d • Plan for the whole term, but work day by day, updating your schedule as needed. • As soon as possible contact your instructor when something throws off your schedule by more than 1 day, before is better. • Make sure you have your unit scheduled to be done before Tuesday!
Studying Tips • Keep an open & positive outlook on the topic • Write out every step of the problem, with reasons why you can do it. • Make flash cards of the words & problems that give you difficulty, use these while waiting in line, etc.
Studying Tips cont’d • Think of ways that you can use the topics covered in your everyday life or better yet, your career choice • Ask for help early & often, your instructor & the Math Center are here to help. • Classmates often have good insight into the topic too.
Instructors’ Tips • End classmate responses with open ended question (DeLong) • Use a cheap address book to write a dictionaryfor new words (unknown) • Proofread posts before submitting, write in Word • Submit most work before Saturday.
Students’ Tips • “I always read before attending a seminar, for any class… [One reason] it helps me understand better and also that way I am not bogging down the whole seminar asking questions that are clearly answered by the reading materials... [so] I read, attend seminar, do the homework and then do discussion. In this fashion I have a good handle on what I am to write about.” Heather Dunlap
Student’s Tips cont’d • Don’t Panic! (a student a long time ago had a plaque with this that she placed in front of her whenever she was working on a difficult topic, even during tests.) • Complete the unit by Sunday, start the next unit on Monday, so when it opens on Wednesday you are ready.
Students’ Tips • Take the assignments apart, look at them as little steps, one post a day. Junei Mauger • “In each class check all the things you can click on, left side of the home page, top of the home page, within the home page.” Heather Dunlap • Make a Good Schedule • Use all the tools available in MML, they are great
Math Anxiety links • Math Anxiety Test ~ http://www.mathpower.com/anxtest.htm • What is math and math anxiety ~ http://people.sunyulster.edu/NicholsM/rating_scale.htm • Math Anxiety ~ http://www.math.com/students/advice/anxiety.html • Coping With Math Anxiety ~ http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/anxiety • MathAnxiety.pdf ~ http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/math/pdf/MathAnxiety.pdf • http://webs.anokaramsey.edu/math/mathAnxiety.html • http://www.stressmanagementtips.com/games.htm
Other good Math Links • http://mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/search?q=math+myths • Math Help ,algebra, study skills, homework help, mathpower ~ http://www.mathpower.com/index.htm • http://www.khake.com/page56.html • http://www.purplemath.com/ • http://planetmath.org/ • http://math.ramshillfarm.com/ • More at: http://www.delicious.com/TamaraEyster/math
Math Center Services http://khe2.acrobat.com/mathtutor/ • Live Tutoring: • Q&A and Project Review Services: Students may submit projects (KU122, MM255 and MM207) and questions 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Tutors will respond to email questions. Email to: kumc@kaplan.edu Math Center Home: http://tinyurl.com/4eb5cg2