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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Have you been caught having to memorise maths formulae, the mathematical concepts, the "little" tricks, and the progressive steps in a given duration that many claimed to be too short?
"How to remember?"
"Why teach so fast?"
"Any simpler method?"
These are sampled questions that express the stress and anxiety that many students faced.
Though some of ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
In learning of maths, as with learning of other subjects, we need to understand our learning styles. The styles are namely, visual, auditory and kinesthetic.
Each of us has one particular dominant style. Knowing which one will thus serve us good. However, the learning style itself is still not enough, we need ...
Posted in Learning Maths, Teaching Maths, Indices, Logarithm, Self-improvement, Inspiration, Psychology | No Comments »
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
In elementary school, we are exposed to quadratic equations and their solving. We focus alot on this topics which is deemed the basic of any algebraic studies.
The generic quadratic equation is y = a x2 + bx + c.
We know there are various methods to handle the quadratic equations.
There are:
Factoring
Completing the Square
Quadratic ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
While learning mathematics, we are always exposed to a few methods of solving a particular maths questions. The methods are taught in order to give us flexibility to select an apropriate technique to "attack" any maths problems.
Is it good then to master all the techniques taught?
The answer is to know your limits.
If you ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Do you prefer adding numbers or subtracting them?
Do you make more mistakes doing subtraction than doing addition?
If the answers to the above questions are all YES, you are not alone.
We are "programmed" since young to add more than subtract.
Do you count things starting from 1 up or down from 100?
Does the page ...
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