Math Study Skills Workbook: Your Guide to Reducing Test Anxiety and Improving Study Strategies » (2nd Edition)

This best-selling workbook provides accessible, clearly written guidance to help students effectively study and learn mathematics. Examining students' strengths, weaknesses and learning styles, this text offers proven study tips, a homework system, and concrete techniques for such skills as note-taking, reducing math anxiety, improving test-taking, and much more. Students are encouraged to personalize the workbook's strategies and tools to help them succeed in their specific math course. Intended for use in any math class, math lab, study skills class, or developmental studies course, the workbook can be used for independent study or as a supplement to class lectures.

• Test-taking coverage includes advice on managing and reducing negative self-talk, understanding the stages of memory and using memory techniques, and understanding and preventing specific test-taking errors.
• Students learn to assess their own learning styles and to use the Math Autobiography Appendix to understand their personal math history.
• Chapter Openers clearly outline a list of skills and strategies students will learn within the chapter.
• Boxed features and examples throughout the text illustrate study skills and learning styles in a context that is relevant to students; this method of learning to recognize their strengths and weakness helps them shape their own set of study skills.

Contents

Note: Each chapter concludes with a Review.

• 1. What You Need to Know to Study Math
  Why learning math is different from learning other subjects
  The differences between high school and college math
  Why your first math test is very important

  2. How to Discover Your Math-Learning Strengths and Weaknesses

  How what you know about math affects your grades

  How quality of math instruction affects your grades

  How affective student characteristics affect your math grades

  How to determine your learning style

  Assessing your math strengths and weaknesses

  How to improve your math knowledge

  3. How to Reduce Math Test Anxiety

  Understanding math anxiety

  How to recognize test anxiety

  The causes of test anxiety

  The different types of test anxiety

  How to reduce test anxiety

  4. How to Improve Your Listening and Note-Taking Skills

  How to become an effective listener

  How to become a good notetaker

  When to take notes

  The seven steps to math note-taking

  How to rework your notes

  5. How to Improve Your Reading, Homework, and Study Techniques

  How to read a math textbook

  How to do your homework

  How to solve word problems

  How to work with a study buddy

  The benefits of study breaks

  6. How to Remember What You Have Learned

  How you learn

  How short-term memory affects what you remember

  How working memory affects what you remember

  How long-term memory/reasoning affects what you remember

  How to use memory techniques

  How to develop practice tests

  How to use number sense

  7. How to Improve Your Math Test-Taking Skills

  Why attendingclass and doing your homework may not be enough to pass

  The general pretest rules

  The ten steps to better test taking

  The six types of test-taking errors

  How to prepare for the final exam