Watch through the tutorial videos to get an idea of how the topic works. The goal here is to get a better understanding of how the topic works and is put together.
Use the pause and rewind abilities to slow things down and repeat as needed to follow along with the material being shown on the screen.
Watch one of the examples shown fully with all the steps. Then pause the video before the next problem is done and work through it yourself before it is explained to see if you've got the right idea.
Take notes throughout the video to help you better organize things in your head. Writing things down helps to make connections.
Write down any questions you still have through the course of the video. Stop in to see me during seminar, before school, after school, or during my prep block to clear up anything you aren't sure about after the video.
Work through the practice problem randomizer. The goal here is to do practice problems correctly almost every time you work through the problem.
Write these down somewhere so you have the work shown and can go back to check your work to find mistakes. If you can't find where you are going wrong, check with a friend or come in to have me look it over. Sometimes fresh eyes can find the mistake pretty quickly.
When you are checking your answers, the following are some common mistakes (generally look for these first):
Negative numbers
Combining two values incorrectly (adding instead of subtracting, multiplying instead of dividing, mistyping a number into a calculator, etc.)
Missing labels on answers
If you are finding that you are making pretty big mistakes pretty regularly on the practice problems, find someone to help you through a couple more examples (this could be coming in to me, going to a friend, or going to another adult).
Look at the problem exemplars. These do not exist on all topics yet!
These are examples of common mistakes that I see students make and what score level that mistake would lead you to. They are here so I can be as transparent as possible as to where these mistakes end up in terms of conceptual versus computation errors.
If you are continuously making the type of mistake, this is something to be aware of and address as you go through the practice problems (for example, if you always make mistakes on negative numbers, you should slow way down when dealing with negatives).
If you feel I have made an error in assigning any of these point levels, please talk to me about where and why you feel I should change things.
This is a section that has extra practice sets/problems and tutorial videos if you need a little bit more practice with any of the concepts covered in class.