8 Habits of Highly Effective Math Students

You need to get to the other side of a creek, so you look for a log that has fallen across it.

• Look for and make use of structure.

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

• Model with mathematics.

Attend to _____________.

You see an ad for fancy new plastic shoes that cost 300 dollars. The ad tells you that you need the shoes, that you MUST have them in order to be happy. What must you do to decide whether to buy the shoes?

• Critique the reasoning of others.

• Model with mathematics.

• Make sense of problems.

• Beg your mother for 300 dollars.

You need to decide how many Saturdays you'll need to spend mowing lawns in order to earn enough money for a new set of Airpods. You sit down, and write down an equation showing how much money you'll earn over time.

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

• Model with mathematics.

• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

• Look for and make use of structure.

3+3+3+3+3+3+3 = 3(7)

• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

• Use appropriate tools strategically.

• Construct viable arguments.

• Model with mathematics.

You take a complicated mathematical concept and make it easier to understand by comparing it to a real world situation.

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

• Construct viable arguments.

• Attend to precision.

• Use appropriate tools strategically.

Make sense of problems and _____________ in solving them.