1. Tamara Eyster

2. Scheduling Tips Daily/Weekly calendar with everything scheduled, including meals, time with family, etc Monthly/Term calendar for planning your weeks ahead, including special events that will change your normal schedule

3. Scheduling Tips cont’d Plan for the whole term, but work day by day, updating your schedule as needed. As soon as possible contact your instructor when something throws off your schedule by more than 1 day, before is better. Make sure you have your unit scheduled to be done before Tuesday!

6. Studying Tips Keep an open & positive outlook on the topic Write out every step of the problem, with reasons why you can do it. Make flash cards of the words & problems that give you difficulty, use these while waiting in line, etc.

7. Studying Tips cont’d Think of ways that you can use the topics covered in your everyday life or better yet, your career choice Ask for help early & often, your instructor & the Math Center are here to help. Classmates often have good insight into the topic too.

8. Instructors’ Tips End classmate responses with open ended question (DeLong) Use a cheap address book to write a dictionary for new words (unknown) Proofread posts before submitting, write in Word Submit most work before Saturday.

9. Students’ Tips “I always read before attending a seminar, for any class… [One reason] it helps me understand better and also that way I am not bogging down the whole seminar asking questions that are clearly answered by the reading materials... [so] I read, attend seminar, do the homework and then do discussion. In this fashion I have a good handle on what I am to write about.” Heather Dunlap

10. Student’s Tips cont’d Don’t Panic! (a student a long time ago had a plaque with this that she placed in front of her whenever she was working on a difficult topic, even during tests.) Complete the unit by Sunday, start the next unit on Monday, so when it opens on Wednesday you are ready.

11. Students’ Tips Take the assignments apart, look at them as little steps, one post a day. Junei Mauger “In each class check all the things you can click on, left side of the home page, top of the home page, within the home page.” Heather Dunlap Make a Good Schedule Use all the tools available in MML, they are great

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