Nephi+Oakeson

September 24: My entier life all I have ever done to prepare for one of my math tests is to do my home work I've been given. I was hoping you might have some more ways to help better prepare for my math tests. Cory: Yeah, I do. Stay to the end of class and do homework with me. Do the chapter review in the textbook on your own without looking back in the chapter for help. Use flash cards to review vocabulary terms and basic processes. Explain to a roommate or neighbor or anyone who will listen how to work through the problems (talk yourself through them as opposed to just solving them.)

October 7: Thanks for the suggestions on how to better prepare my self for math tests. I have been enjoying math 950, it has felt like a review on math I already know. But at the same time it’s educational for me to go threw the basics again. This week I found it to be most gratifying to truly understand adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. Be for we started chapter 4 I really didn’t under stand how to perform all four forms of arithmetic when it came to fractions.

Oct. 29 I was disappointed this week by my midterm score. But I realize that I need to focus on my order of operations, and if I'm able to do this it should fix some of the problems with droping the negitives and mis multiplying. Also I need to refresh my memory on my past tests to keep that information fresh just be for I go to take a test.

Nov. 14 this week I learned about polynomials, and what they are. the distribution of polynomials is a math problem I think i have never done before. also polynomials are not as hard as they first looked when I saw them in my math book a week ago.

Nov. 21 This week in math I learned about scientific notation. which is how to write a very large or small number in a simple comparable way. 4.7638 X 10^9