Category: Math
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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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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…