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How to Go the Extra Mile How to Go the Extra Mile in Your Course Preparationin Your Course Preparation

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How to Go the Extra Mile in Your Course Preparation Use a Math Learning Assistance Center Use a Math Tutor Successfully Use 3x5 Index Cards Construct and Use a Graphic Organizer Use Spare Time to Think Examine Other Students’ Homework

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How to Go the Extra Mile in Your Course Preparation Study for Test with Other Students Make Good Use of the Last 24 Hours Before a

Test Identify Common Errors Create Alterations in Problems Re-evaluate Your Attitude and Study Habits Be an Active and Focused Student

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Use a Math Learning Assistance Center

- Walk – in math tutoring provided by teachers - Walk – in math tutoring provided by teachers or studentsor students

- Computerized Tutors and Test Generators- Computerized Tutors and Test Generators

- Supplemental reading materials- Supplemental reading materials

- Supplemental workshops for your math class- Supplemental workshops for your math class

- Lectures on audiotape, videotape, or - Lectures on audiotape, videotape, or CD-ROM CD-ROM

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Use a Math Tutor Successfully

- Answer your - Answer your QuestionsQuestions

- Identify weaknesses - Identify weaknesses

- Help you make list - Help you make list of topicsof topics

- Help with practice - Help with practice problemsproblems

- Check your work- Check your work

- Make sure you - Make sure you become an expertbecome an expert

- Follow you - Follow you through all through all topics topics

- Make up practice - Make up practice testtest

- Encourage you to - Encourage you to take practice take practice testtest

- Grade practice - Grade practice test test

- Help you - Help you eliminate any eliminate any weaknessweakness

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Use 3x5 Index Cards- Helps you to master list of formulas - Helps you to master list of formulas

- Helps to identify different types of - Helps to identify different types of problem problem

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Construct and Use a Graphic Organizer

- Diagrams can make concepts easier to - Diagrams can make concepts easier to rememberremember

- Overall organization is easier to see - Overall organization is easier to see

- Graphic organizers can be fun and more - Graphic organizers can be fun and more creative then an outline creative then an outline

- Constructing an organizer requires you to - Constructing an organizer requires you to analyze the structure of the material analyze the structure of the material

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Use Spare Time to Think -Try to explain definitions, theorems and or -Try to explain definitions, theorems and or

other general ideas to yourself other general ideas to yourself

- Make up simple question to ask a teacher - Make up simple question to ask a teacher or other students or other students

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Examine Other Students Homework

- If you have the opportunity look over your - If you have the opportunity look over your class mates homework do soclass mates homework do so

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Study for Test With Other Students

- Start by working alone with the ACE steps - Start by working alone with the ACE steps

- Compare notes with a partner - Compare notes with a partner

- Compare topics with a partner - Compare topics with a partner

- Identify useful problems for each other- Identify useful problems for each other

- Ask each other questions - Ask each other questions

- Work out problems together - Work out problems together

- Ask each problems about test topics - Ask each problems about test topics

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Make Good Use of the Last 24 Hours Before a Test

- Use the final night before the test to - Use the final night before the test to strengthen any weaknesses strengthen any weaknesses

- On the day of the test take time to deal - On the day of the test take time to deal with concepts or problems that might be with concepts or problems that might be on the test on the test

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Identify Common Errors- Identify any typical errors you might - Identify any typical errors you might

make when solving a problemmake when solving a problem

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Create Alterations in problems

- Slightly change problems and then solve - Slightly change problems and then solve them to deepen your understanding of them to deepen your understanding of the concept involvedthe concept involved

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Re-evaluate Your Attitude and Study Habits

- Take time to think about how well you are - Take time to think about how well you are doing and if the studying is working doing and if the studying is working effectively effectively

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Be an Active and Focused Student

- Ask questions- Ask questions

- Make lists - Make lists

- Do homework - Do homework

- Study for test - Study for test

- Show up for class- Show up for class

- Get help- Get help

- Aim for 100%- Aim for 100%

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