Math Matters

With semester exams just around the corner a strong and supportive home study routine is important for effective study. Supporting students while they study at home can take a variety of forms and:

encourages consolidation of ideas and concepts
helps to transfer newly learned material to long term memory by revisiting concepts

Helping with home study could be in the form of:

asking questions about the task and then talking through their working methods
how might they approach the question
what do they know about the question
what information has been given

Encouraging them and taking an interest, but not doing the thinking for them

encouraging students to think builds their reasoning and critical thinking skills – a highly sort after employability skill
get them to talk aloud when solving problems (this works for everyday problems not just mathematical ones.)
Have the students check their answers:
- Can they estimate an approximate answer
- Does their answer make sense?