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mistakenly skips a topic, zoning out dur- suggests to help train your brain for math.
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about your parents’ divorce, or switching cipline that you are studying.

behind and unable to catch up. Use recall
page or concept, look away and say the
This happened to Oakley as a child, grow- main ideas aloud to yourself. If you can
ing up in a poor school district with teach- recall the ideas on your own, then you’ve
ers who chose to kick kids out of the
classroom rather than teach them the If you can’t, then you’ve been passively
concepts they didn’t understand. There- reading and not truly gaining anything.
fore, Oakley grew up believing that she Test yourself
was terrible at math. Luckily, she had oth- quizzes, and test yourself on everything
Bulletin
er skills. She quickly learned Russian and
joined the military as a translator. She got
- these tests, you will never know what you
alized that the only way she would have
a successful career outside of the army missing.
as a translator was if she also had expe- Chunk your problems. Once you under-
rience with technology. This scared her

numbers. In the end, though, she decided involved become a “chunk” of memory.
that even though it might be impossible That means that instead of needing to re-
she was going to “train her brain” to un-
derstand math.
chunk.
And, that’s just what she did! At twen- Don’t study for
ty-six, she went back to school, got a sec-
ond Bachelors degree, a Masters degree,
and a doctorate all in math. Oakley’s brain like a muscle. Would you start run a
whole philosophy is that anyone can train marathon without training before?
his/her brain to understand math.