Prepare Your Work Space:
- quiet area without music or television or noisy voices
- paper, sharp pencil, eraser, and pencil sharpener
- a calculator for marking your work
Get Started:
- Get some questions to do:
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- Take home a practice sheet.
- Ask your parents to make up some questions for you.
- Do 1 question, carefully showing your work:
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- Is it right? Do 2 more questions.
- Is it wrong? Go back and figure out what went wrong.
- Did you make a silly mistake?
- Yes = do the question again more carefully.
- Did you make a silly mistake?
- Do you not know your times tables?
- Use a times tables chart while you do the questions.
- Spend 10 minutes every night learning the times tables by heart.
- Do you not know how you went wrong?
- Go back and read your study sheets again.
- Ask your parent to look at your work to see what went wrong.
- Keep doing the question until you can figure out how to get the right answer.
- Do 2 more questions, carefully showing your work:
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- Are they right? Do 5 more questions.
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- Are they wrong? Go back and figure out what went wrong.
- Did you make silly mistakes?
- Yes = do the questions again more carefully.
- Did you make silly mistakes?
- Do you not know how you went wrong?
- Go back and read your study sheets again.
- Ask your parent to look at your work to see what went wrong.
- Keep doing the questions until you can figure out how to get the right answer.
- Are they wrong? Go back and figure out what went wrong.
- Keep doing more questions until you can correctly complete 5 questions in a row.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
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