How to Learn Maths
Maths doesn’t need to be the difficult subject many people find it to be. For many people who fail maths at school, the obstacle isn’t with maths but their approach to learning the subject. If you’ve found yourself in this position and need to pass maths for employability or furthering your education, then read on...
Mindset and Perspective:
The first step to overcome your difficulties in learning maths is to alter your perspective of the subject. Any belief of maths being difficult is itself an obstacle that encourages you to see difficulties where they don’t exist.
By changing the way you think, you will learn to perceive maths in a way that allows you to break down all of its complexities into simple concepts.
TapClick on the following to reveal facts that can help change your perspective of maths:
All maths is based on addition…
If you can do simple additions like 2+2, you’ll be glad to hear that all of maths is based around this one concept. Whether it's multiplication, subtraction or to powers, the different types of maths actions are just specific ways to do addition.
Every maths action has an opposite…
Everything in maths has an opposite that can be used to reverse outcomes. Addition has subtraction as its opposite, while division is the opposite of multiplication.
Maths actions can be repeated…
Simple maths actions like addition and subtraction can be repeated to form more advanced concepts. Repeat addition becomes multiplication, and repeat multiplication becomes powers. The same is true for the opposite actions...
Maths is not about numbers…
The alphabet is used to present descriptions in English language, but we don’t think of the stories and information it creates as being about the alphabet. In maths, numbers are used like the alphabet - they’re just a way to describe an amount. But like the stories and information of English language, maths descriptions can also be presented in other formats such as pictures and sound.
Tap on the following boxes to see how measurements can be communicated visually as well as with numbers: