Read through the tips listed below and choose two or three that you don’t do now and implement them into your study habits .  By doing this, not only will you learn math skills as well as boost your knowledge and know how in such an necessary subject …MATH. Maybe you will even surprise yourself and your parents and get an A in math.

VALUABLE SKILLS-It is essential to have the following skills if you want to increase your understanding of mathematics and learn math skills.  The level of understanding will vary based on your grade level.

1. Understand the related addition or subtraction math facts requirement for your grade level.

2. Understand the related multiplication or division math facts required for your grade level.

3. Learn the meaning of addition and subtraction and how they are related .

4. Learn the meaning of multiplication and division and how they relate to each other .

5. Identify patterns in numbers and symbols to further understand concepts .

6. Practice estimating numbers in the following place values: Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Hundred Thousands, Millions, and Billions

ASSIGNMENT METHODS – Practice these skills when managing your assignments at school or home .

7. Complete your daily assignments and always be willing to do more assignments.

8. Make a daily assignment note pad .

9. Start a journal or project book of math activities.

10. Be sure you do your work home every night.

11. Be careful and work deliberately on assignments.

12. Participate in math enrichment activities.

13. Be sure to check assignments/tests for errors before you hand them in

STUDY HABITS- Get in the routine of doing these activities to strengthen and learn math skills.

14. Review every night the concepts that were taught that day , regardless of whether or not an assignment has been issued .

15. Prepare for tests or develop math puzzles for review.

16. Take advantage of review opportunities, before test, regardless of when they are held for example during: recess, lunch, before school and after school.

17. Review the most important definitions of math vocabulary.

TUTORING OTHERS AND HONING YOUR SKILLS- In order to retain information at the highest level you must teach those skills to others.  It is also important to enhance a deep understanding of the concepts.

18. Be sure to ask questions when you have troubles understanding information.

19. Provide tutoring for a friend or younger student.

20. Create math problems to challenge friends or family

PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUES – Use any of the following strategies to solve problems.

21. Draw a diagram.

22. Build a model and act out a problem.

23. Use trial and error then test the result.

24. Work the problem backward .

25. Look for a pattern.

26. Make a table.

By practicing these tips you will enable yourself to be more successful in math and develop your grades in school!