`Developing Mathematics Learning Skills”

DEVELOPING MATHEMATICS SKILLS (NAME

Mathematics study skills

Mathematics skills play a key role in our daily lives . Every person experiences the applications of mathematics . But we know for the fact that mathematics skills are difficult to understand and only few persons are good in mathematics concepts . And because of the current situation today like the advancement of technology , a person who is illiterate in mathematics concepts and applications has nowhere to go . Weak mathematical knowledge and understanding has an unparalleled ability to limit the success in life . Thus the main objective

of this is to analyze some mathematics skills and how will the readers apply these skills in for them to be successful in their chosen endeavor

To begin , the discussion will start on mathematics study skills because this will be the foundation for mathematics learning . To understand math lessons , the first thing to do is to read math books . Unlike when reading other books in English and history subjects where reading with comprehension is enough , in math books comprehension and analysis are both needed to understand better the math concepts . It is not like re-reading or memorizing every formula , it is a process that analyze well every number and letter in a formula and where these formulas where derived . In the reading process , a student must be aware that math books use technical terms like equation , integration , congruent , summation and many other more . The student must be aware of the meaning of these technical words and understand the context in which the words are used (Mackinnon , 2006 . After establishing the reading habit of the student the next step is to understand and analyze the lessons . This is the most important part of mathematics skills because this is where the part where most students fail to understand math lessons and eventually leading less enthusiast students . In to analyze well math lessons the student must concentrate on his or her math lessons . The student must listen attentively on his teacher and pay attention on what is written on its math books . And the last step for math study skills is solving math problems (Smith , 2007 . This is to gauge or determine the student on to what extent is the student learning or understanding to a certain math . The student must try to solve math problems in a regular basis so that the student will be familiar on how to tackle math problems . The student must not satisfied if he or she can answer math problems , the student must explore other math problems that will challenge the solver

Mathematics problem solving skills

Like what was discussed from the previous paragraph , mathematics problem solving skills is part of mathematics study skills . In solving math problems , the first thing to do is read the problem and determine what are the given . After this , the solver must find out what is being asked from the problem . Some math problems have obvious statement where the solver can detect it with ease while...