Math Is Fun Forum

Amy, just thought I'd give you a couple of tips on how to improve your maths. Maths is much more about doing than about reading. You could read a maths book for hours and not learn a thing. What you should do is find an example which you can understand and then do lots and lots of similar examples yourself until the method becomes extremely familiar. The biggest mistake that students make when studying maths is to give up once they encounter difficulties. They then avoid the subject in favour of other subjects and this only makes the problem worse. You have to put the time in to it and if you find yourself simply reading your maths book, take out a pencil and start working things out. If you find the problems difficult, go back to some simpler problems and work on these first. Good luck. If you get stuck on something, post a message and I'll see if I can help. By the way, I'm a maths teacher in Ireland.