A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
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students end up unnecessarily dropping out of m...
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at your strengths and w...
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learning slowly can mean you learn more deeply
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than your fast-thinking classmates.
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avoid the tem...
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A good rule of thumb, when you are first learning new concepts, is not to let things
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Rising frustration
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good time-out signal for you, signaling
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that you need to shift to di...
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most difficulty in getting themselves to turn off
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their focused mode so that the diffuse mode
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can begin it...
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albeit
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begrudgingly
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Ask someone else for a different perspective
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however, it’s best that you first wrestle with the problem yourself
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Go early and often.
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Persistence is key—but misplaced persistence causes needless frustration.
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Working memory
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working memory as the mental equivalent of
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juggler.
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working memory is important in learning math and science because it’s like your own private mental blackboard where you can
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jot down
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a few ideas that you are considering or tryin...
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long-term memory might be thought of as a storage warehouse.
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they generally stay put.
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retrieve
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random-access memory [RAM],
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