Managing the Mean Math Blues: Study Skills for Student Success [Paperback]

Is it possible for math-phobic students to learn math? Yes! Not only can they learn math, they can excel by learning the truly unique techniques in Managing the Mean Math Blues. Written by an experienced math teacher and psychotherapist, this book helps students overcome their negative perceptions about math using positive psychology, brain-based learning, and study skills techniques. Students turn failure into success as they practice these new skills on basic math content. With clear psychological models for concentration and focus (called flow) into math, students learn how to match their skills with math challenges, set short-term goals and seek feedback in order to learn math successfully.

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With over 50 combined years teaching basic math through calculus as well as consulting with math anxious students, Cheryl Ooten and Kathy Moore offer a wealth of creative ideas for all math students to overcome negative perceptions about math and develop the needed math study skills for success.

 

Managing the Mean Math Blues teaches students how to develop their own power to produce the desired proficiency in math. Students turn failure into success as they uncover secrets of successful math students and practice these new techniques with universal basic math concepts.

 

The second edition offers:

--Stronger and more math study skills content

--Added chapter to practice new skills on algebra

--Increased focus on the powerful flow with math technique

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