Math Study Skills

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.