How to discover your math-learning strengths & weaknesses

How to discover your math-learning strengths & weaknesses • how what you know about math affects your grades • how quality of math instruction affects your grades • how “affective student characteristics” affects your math grades • how to determine your learning style • how to develop a “math-learning profile” of your strengths and weaknesses • how to improve your math knowledge

How what you know about math affects your grades • Placements tests and previous course grades • Requests for higher placement • Montgomery College’s Research

How quality of math instruction affects your grades • Teaching style • Student-faculty ratio • Learning resources • Text • Tutoring

How “affective student characteristics” affect your math grades • Learning style • Visual • Auditory • Kinesthetic • Right Brain • Left Brain

How “affective student characteristics” affect your math grades • Math anxiety level • Previous math knowledge • Math attitude • Time since last course • Other skills courses and training • Reading skills • Locus of control

How to develop a “math-learning profile” of your strengths and weaknesses • understanding math-learning profiles • evaluate your math study skills • measure your math anxiety level • measuring previous math knowledge • determining your math attitude • time since last math course • previous study-skills courses/training

How to develop a “math-learning profile” of your strengths and weaknesses • previous/current required reading courses • your locus of control • your best learning modality • your cognitive learning style • evaluate your findings • specific and formal profiling evaluations

How to improve your math knowledge • review previous course material and tests • employ a tutor • sequential course scheduling • choosing your instructor

How to discover your math-learning strengths & weaknesses