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#37231 06/20/03 08:00 AM
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Dear Youngprer,

Have you tried to activate your maths textbook? I find it quite hard to get the core concepts and to apply them quickly and proficiently. could you activate it in 45 min?








#37232 06/20/03 01:12 PM
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WHAT?!?!?! the whole thing in 45min? He is a Freshman in HS, maybe Geometry or Algebra can be learned in a few hours... YOUR in college with higher material...

Tell us, why are you into math if you hate it so much? Seems like you are regreting doing math at all and making little progress, yet still wanting to "create" your own math...






#37233 06/21/03 05:54 AM
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It doesn't matter if it's college level material, because if you've learned everything from the previous levels, it should still take roughly the same amount of time, more or less by little.

Activating math techniques is a little different than normal activation, mostly because much around all concepts of math take practice. When you're activating a textbook, it's ideal to activate by chapter, and not by trying to do the ENTIRE textbook at once. Treat each chapter as a book within itself, going from the core ideas, to the step-by-step process of solving a problem.

One thing you may want to do, during a preview of the entire textbook for instance, is go through and try to find what would likely be the most important basic concepts, and think about how they relate to all of the other chapters. You'll find that most subjected textbooks have some basic functions, especially in math, that govern the rest of the concepts.

Then, go chapter, by chapter. I can activate a chapter in 45 minutes, but the textbook would take me more like anywhere from 12-38 hours. It all depends on a number of factors how long it will take for you in the end. So, once you've built the core concepts, then try out solving a few problems. Check your work, and see if everything makes sense. Try to understand not just what you're supposed to do to solve the problem, but what is being done. This applies to not just PhotoReading, but learning math in general. You want to understand what is happening, and why it is happening. If you learn this with the most important concepts, then the rest should be completely easy.

Try spending a little of your activation time understanding what is happening, and what the steps are, and then spend the last of it working out problems to build those neural pathways.

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#37234 06/20/03 06:03 PM
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=) I love that abbr., Neuropathway. But Carl, are you strong enough to take the courses? Seems like you are not building a house on good foundation...






#37235 06/20/03 07:09 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by THEChangLiu:
=) I love that abbr., Neuropathway. But Carl, are you strong enough to take the courses? Seems like you are not building a house on good foundation...

What are you talking about??






#37236 06/20/03 07:40 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by THEChangLiu:
WHAT?!?!?! the whole thing in 45min? He is a Freshman in HS, maybe Geometry or Algebra can be learned in a few hours... YOUR in college with higher material...

Tell us, why are you into math if you hate it so much? Seems like you are regreting doing math at all and making little progress, yet still wanting to "create" your own math...


Hi Chang-- you are getting ready to enter college, yes? Take it from a person who's been there and done that, if a person is not strong in a subject in H.S., (math, for example), when you take the ACTs, SATs, or other exams to get into college, if you score below average on the math portion, you MUST take remedial math in college. So, he may not be INTO math, just looking at HOW TO LEARN it, I wish I had this in college, I done the remedial math TWICE!!!






#37237 06/21/03 02:03 AM
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How "low" are we talking about here? for the Math stuff on SAT/ACT/SATII.






#37238 06/21/03 02:57 AM
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It's been 10 years, so I do not remember the exact points. I would say at least 60 percent they would let you pass.

BUT, in case you are going to go to college, the last I heard, in 2002, they were changing the format of the ACTs and SATs, some schools were even thinking about dropping them all together. I don't know the outcome of it though.






#37239 06/21/03 02:05 PM
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It is the 2004's SAT format change. Which switches from the 1600 system to a 2400 point system adding in the new sections. Also the test duration is changed from traditional 3hours.

Dropping the SAT?!? .... haven't heard of that.







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