The companion book to COURSERA®’s wildly popular massive open online course “Learning How to Learn”

Learning involves 2 key memory systems: your short-term and long-term memory. These are like your computer’s random-access memory (RAM) and hard-drive. In this title, Dr. Oakley explains how to effectively learn math and science. Contrary to common belief, math requires creative and analytical thinking. While many people think that there is only one way to solve a problem, there are, in actuality,many different solutions. For example, there are more than 300 different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. Studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you arrive at a solution is not the best way to learn math. It sometimes needs stepping away from a problem and allow the creative part of the brain to take over. This book asserts that we all have what it takes to excel in math, and learning it is not really as difficult as many might think it is.How to adjust your chunking practices (e.g. incorporate “interleaving”) as you become more familiar with a task or subject; and Procrastination can be like taking tiny amounts of poison. It may not seem harmful at the time, but the long-term effects can be very damaging. Some nonsense started getting popular around the turn of the 21st century that knowing facts is inconsequential so long as you know where to find them. Reading passively is a bad way to learn. It gives you the illusion of competence, without you taking much information in. To learn effectively, improve your memory and how you transfer information from the short-term to long-term memory. Learning Strategies, Concepts and Ingredients

This is similar to “muscle memory” in sports. When you begin to learn something like hitting a ball, you have to think about all the things involved. As we practise and repeat it, the act of hitting the ball becomes a single chunk. So we can just focus on one step – one chunk – instead all the steps involved. In fact, focusing on all the little steps causes us to overthink and is more likely to lead to “choking”. The difference between creative scientists and technically-competent but non-imaginative ones is their breadth of interest. Ways I incorporated this was by doing what I didn't like to do for 10 minutes every morning for me that is household tasks. So everymorning I clean, iron or whatever I have to do in the house for 10 minutes, making my myself less stressed and letting most of my energy shift towards other things throughout the day leaving my zombies happy and pain free.

cue) عبارة عن تنبيهات أو نغمات الجوال، فيقوم بروتين معين (وتساب يوتيوب ....إلخ) لأن هناك جائزة تعوّد على الحصول عليها وهي متعة وسائل التواصل والتخلص من ألم المذاكرة. يستطيع هذا الطالب أن يقلل من أثر الجوال بتركه خارج الغرفة، وبالتالي يقضي على فرصة أن تسرقه منبهات الجوال (إشارة cue). لماذا نتحدث عن التسويف في سياق ت��لم الرياضيات والعلوم بالذات؟ لأن هذه المواد – كما أسلفت – تراكمية. بالتالي فإن للتسويف أثر سلبي مضاعف (هل رأيت طالباً يحاول أن يفهم منهج الفيزياء كله في ليلة الإمتحان؟) Il metodo di studio e le tecniche di apprendimento proposti nel libro, francamente, paiono applicabili un po' a tutto, non solo ai 'numeri'. Questo è un bene da una parte, ovviamente, ma dall'altra il titolo non mi pare proprio azzeccato. Barbara says this is called "chunking" information and their's 3 parts to it.The first is directly focusing on what you want to learn. This puts information into neurons. The second Is understanding what you are learning. This binds neurons together and you have successfully made a chunk of information, but unfortunately it isn't easy to recall yet. To understand how the chunk does and doesn't fit into the bigger picture is the third part that makes the chunk of information useful - understanding when to use information creates pathways to the chunks and knowing when the information isn't need makes your brain not create pathways to chunks.

When working on something particularly hard, it’s helpful to sleep on it and return to it the next day. The more time you have between focus sessions, the more likely you are to make breakthroughs and see things in new ways. Shifting happens naturally if you distract yourself and allow time to pass. You could go for a walk, take a nap, do some exercise, take a shower, meditate, or play or listen to music. Sleep is one of the most effective ways to engage your diffuse mode. Analogies and metaphors can help you use an existing neural structure as a scaffold to help you build a new and more complex neural structure. Developing the Mind’s Eye Through Equation Poems Multitasking during the learning process means you don’t learn as deeply, this can inhibit your ability to transfer what you are learning. The Value of Learning On Your Own

Sometimes it’s helpful to take limiting cases where one variable or another goes to zero or infinity. That may help you understand what the equation is saying.

Despite the title of the book, most of the advice here is appropriate for just about any subject. It is especially appropriate for subjects with concepts that might be difficult to grasp. And the book is most definitely geared toward students. There are highlights and questions at the end of each chapter, to reinforce the key points.Our working memory is limited – it only has 4 slots. To make the most of our working memory, we have to group information into “chunks”.