Teacher requires students to make note cards on important vocabulary, properties, and procedures and on difficult homework problems and common errors. Techniques for organizing knowledge. Students learn the difference between definitions, properties, and procedures. Class discussions on these. Familiarity with different learning strategies.
Students learn various strategies for learning material and what works with different topics.
Strategies are discussed in class for learning skills, problem solving working in groups, reading the textbook, taking notes in class, etc. Awareness of personal learning styles. Students examine the ways they best learn mathematics. Students compete learning styles inventory and these are discussed as a class.