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STUDY SKILLS BUILDER 9 Exercises
Organizing a Notebook Check your notebook organization by answering the
following questions.
It’s never too late to get organized. If you need ideas
1. Do you have a spiral or ring binder notebook for
about organizing a notebook for your mathematics
your mathematics course only?
course, try some of these:
2. Have you ever had to flip through several sheets of
• Use a spiral or ring binder notebook with pockets and
notes and work in your mathematics notebook to
use it for mathematics only.
determine what section’s work you are in?
• Start each page by writing the book’s section number
3. Are you now writing the textbook’s section number
you are working on at the top.
at the top of each notebook page?
• When your instructor is lecturing, take notes.
4. Have you ever lost or had trouble finding a graded
Always include any examples your instructor works
quiz or test?
for you.
5. Are you now placing all your graded work in a dedi-
• Place your worked-out homework exercises in your
cated place in your notebook?
notebook immediately after the lecture notes from
that section. This way, a section’s worth of material is 6. Are you attempting all of your homework and plac-
together. ing all of your work in your notebook?
• Homework exercises: Attempt and check all assigned 7. Are you checking and correcting your homework in
homework. your notebook? If not, why not?
• Place graded quizzes in the pockets of your notebook 8. Are you writing in your notebook the examples
or a special section of your binder. your instructor works for you in class?

STUDY SKILLS BUILDER 10 Exercises

How Are Your Homework Assignments Going? Take a moment and review your completed homework
assignments.Answer the questions below based on this
It is very important in mathematics to keep up with review.
homework. Why? Many concepts build on each other.
1. Approximate the fraction of your homework you
Often your understanding of a day’s concepts depends
have attempted.
on an understanding of the previous day’s material.
Remember that completing your homework assign- 2. Approximate the fraction of your homework you
ment involves a lot more than attempting a few of the have checked (if possible).
problems assigned. 3. If you are able to check your homework, have you
To complete a homework assignment, remember corrected it when errors have been found?
these four things:
4. When working homework, if you do not understand
• Attempt all of it. a concept, what do you do?
• Check it.
• Correct it.
• If needed, ask questions about it.