The Don’t Panic Method of Studying for Math

Every night , when you go home, look over your math journal notes and your classwork for a couple of minutes. Make a note of anything you don’t understand so that you can ask tomorrow in class. (5 mins or less)

Do your homework; check the answers with a calculator if this is possible. If you are

wrong, try to correct your work in colored pencil for 5 minutes. If you figure out the

problem, great. If not, ask in class tomorrow.

2. 5 nights before the test, make sure you know what will be “on” the test. The benchmarks for the unit will be in the classroom folder, in math.

Spend about 5 minutes looking over your vocabulary. If you aren’t 100 percent sure about what something is, look it up in the classroom folder, the the math textbook, or Wikipedia/Simple Wikipedia. If you still aren’t sure, bring it to class in the morning and ask.

Mostly, try a problem in each category- you can use undone problems in your book, problems you got wrong, or make some up. If you get stuck, circle it and bring it to school.

3. 4 nights before the test, spend a tiny bit of time on vocabulary. If there is something you don’t remember, write it on a sticky note or index card and put it someplace where you will see it often- like your bathroom mirror. If there is something you don’t understand, bring it to school the next day. (3-4mins)

Look over your journal notes. If there is something you still don’t understand, circle it so you can ask the next day. If you had forgotten, highlight it so you can look it over each night. (4-5 mins)

Now go to your math book, look for problems that you got wrong- re do them in colored pencil, and try to get them right. If you can, yay! If not, bring them to class in the morning so that we can go over them.

4. 3 nights before the test, spend a tiny bit of time on vocabulary.

Go back to your book, and try to finish the whole thing (correctly) by the time we take the test. Check your work with a calculator,or with the orange sheet the next day. If you are still confused about something we went over in class, try looking it up on simple Wikipedia, Wikipedia, or a Khan Academy tutorial. Don‘t forget that there are notes on each chapter in the Google Classroom folder by unit! The “proper names” we give in class will help you do this. Also check your journal notes again.

5. 2 nights before the test, repeat day three. See how close you can come to getting everything correct in the book. Make notes of anything you still don’t understand so that you can ask in class tomorrow. Make sure you are looking at your index cards every day.

6. The night before the test, look over the things you had too ask about or look up for just a few minutes. Then eat a good dinner, read, and go to bed on time. You are more than prepared for the test.

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