1. Learning to Learn Mathematics – Why is it Critical?
Wade Ellis, Jr.
West Valley College (retired)

2. Outline Introduction Five Areas of Learning to Learn & Handout
What you will be asked to do
Five Inquiry Questions
Connections
Comments and Questions

3. Introduction Learning is a process that can be improved
Learning to Learn is a set of practices, methods, and scholarship of how to improve student learning process
James Stigler
Productive Struggle
Explicit Connections
Deliberate Practice

4. Five Areas of Learning to Learn & Handout
Risk Factors and Issues for Learning Mathematics
Learning Process Methodology for Mathematics
Profile of a Quality Collegiate Mathematics Learner
Student Comments on Their Growth in Learning to Learn
The Transformation of the Mathematics Learning and Teaching Culture

5. What You Are Asked to Do
5 very quick mini-activities using research-based documents.
Your team of 3 to 4 participants in 8 minutes will use an inquiry question to analyze and summarize your learning for each provided document before sharing with the whole group.

6. Inquiry Questions
Which are the critical risk factors for students learning mathematics?
What is the most important new thing you learned about learning mathematics?
What are the three most important key learner characteristics for learning mathematics?
What did these students learn about learning mathematics?
What is the greatest challenge for mathematics faculty in teaching learning to learn mathematics?

7. Activity 1 Risk Factors and Issues for Learning Mathematics
Which are the critical risk factors that cause student risk factors in mathematics?

8. Activity 2 Learning Process Methodology for Mathematics
What is the most important new thing you learned about mathematical learning?
What is important new thing from the exercise

9. Activity 3 Profile of a Quality Collegiate Mathematics Learner
What are the three most important key learner characteristics?
Maybe they are all important
Two comments and a question

11. Activity 4 Student Comments on Their Growth in Learning to Learn
What did these students learn about mathematical learning?
Read these papers to see what the students thought about learning and mathematics
Two comments and a question

12. Activity 5 The Transformation of the Math Learning and Teaching Culture
What is the greatest challenge for mathematics faculty in teaching learning to learn mathematics?

13. Interconnections

14. Comments and Questions