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earning to Learn Mathematics
Reflecting on and appreciating your learning
1. What is prediction based upon, and why are some people very good at it?
2. How does visualizing the size of something by starting with a unit of that something and expanding
forward from what you can see help you to understand the relative size of something?
3. Why do good estimation skills increase efficacy in learning and using mathematics?
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ssessing Your Performance
Assessing your performance as a learner
Review the description of
A Successful Performance
and assess your own performance against the
standard offered there.
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How and why was your performance
SUCCESSFUL
?
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How can you
IMPROVE
your performance, making it more successful? What
concrete steps
do you
need to take to make each improvement?
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