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How to Become a Math Genius: Straightforward Study Tips
The Genius Myth Are you a math person? I’ll bet you’ve decided one way or the other — or maybe a teacher or parent decided for you and you ran with it. It is common for people to decide if they’re “math people or if they’re not math people” at a very young age.1 But…
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George Orwell’s Six Rules of Writing (How They Apply to Your Writing and Your Life)
Clear back in April of 1946 (so, seventy-eight years ago at the time of this writing, after the publication of Animal Farm, but before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-four), George Orwell wrote an essay called “Politics and the English Language” that came out in Horizon.3, The whole essay is important and worth reading, so I…
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Secret Math Tricks (How to Multiply by 1 and Add 0)
I know, I know. This sounds utterly ridiculous. Secret math tricks? Multiplying by 1? Adding 0? Why on Earth would we do that? But it’s legit. Here we go. The Reason These Secret Math Tricks Are Useful We’re not allowed to just change math problems to make them easier for ourselves, because then we would…
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How To Math With Fractions
If I’ve learned anything during my time working as a math tutor (with students from 5th grade all the way through college), it’s this: The #1 Big Bad Math Enemy that makes it hard to do math is fractions. Seriously. When I was working in the Math Center at the University of Utah, college students…
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The Passive Voice (vs The Active Voice)
If you’ve been paying attention to grammar lessons and/or the little red comments that teachers write on your papers (please pay attention to these things and don’t let your teachers’ hard work go to waste!), then you’ve probably heard of the passive voice. And that it’s bad and we shouldn’t use it. But what exactly…
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