Hi everybody. I'm Larraine Mahoney in
Auburn and my colleague Stacey Canino's there in Bolton.
Let's see. We're going
to get started with our slideshow here.
Stacey, do you want start going through this?
Sure. The first tip that we always give when we are
telling students how to be successful in
math class is to find a classmate to connect with.
There's multiple reasons for that.
The first thing you wanna do is
exchange contact information,
email, phone number, or whatever you're comfortable with.
Because if you miss a class,
you can find out what you
missed so that you're ready for the next lesson.
Also, it's a good idea to,
if you're in class
or you didn't hear what the teacher said,
you're not sure if something's due,
you can contact your classmate to
find that information out as well.
Okay. The next piece of advice we
have is to attend every class.
Because math is a sequential subject,
you need to build on everything in one class to
the next [inaudible] class
will make it much more difficult to learn
the next lesson and
give your full attention to the lesson.
Don't be afraid to ask questions,
but I would also say,
sometimes in a bad class,
it's okay to sit there and just be paying attention,
listening and writing everything down.
If you don't feel like you're completely
yet again, that's okay.
Because the example I give to
students that I work with is maybe you're not
getting it and you ask the instructor to go through
another example and it
takes two more examples before you get it.
But maybe the next two lines need
four more examples before they get it.
The instructor may not want to
devote class time to get each of you to
mastery so you just want to make sure
that you're paying attention and
getting everything written down.
If there's something in the moment that's reducing that
you think you can get clarification on, then go ahead.
The next one, it seems obvious,
but it is take good notes in class.
This is really important
because when you're going to complete homework,
a lot of it is on MATLAB
so a lot of students use view and example,
and that might not always be the way that
your instructor wants you to do the problems.
It also might confuse you to learn
two different ways when you're
trying to learn something new.
Always having your teacher's notes right next to you is
really helpful because you're looking at their method.
When you're writing your notes,
make sure you put the date in section
of the book that the lecture covers.
That's super important because
when you're going to do your homework,
then you know where to find examples
that correlate with the assignment.
Also, when you come down to the
[inaudible] or you meet
me for an individual appointment,
usually I like to ask and I'm sure
Larraine does to where your notes are so
we can look at those and see how the instructor wants you
to do the problems as well so it
helps us help you better.
We were talking about this a
little bit Larraine mentioned it.
If you do have trouble writing
down everything and processing,
sometimes you're just writing and not processing.
But if you are confused afterwards,
you can use your textbook to try to
fill in any gaps or you can meet with one of us,
Larraine or I to fill in
the things that you did not understand during the lesson.
Okay. Reading the textbook,
a lot of people are not
too thrilled about the idea of reading a textbook.
But this can really help prepare you for a class,
and it can also reinforce what you've learned in a class.
There are great example syntax,
except we have here oftentimes when a student
asks me to help them through
a travel then their stuff back,
flip that our patients when they're safe and
we find a helpful example in the text here's one.
Fairness, just like the one you just got back.
If the patient couple of lessons
is too fast when you're in
a classroom and you're missing parts of the concepts,
you're reading a textbook to preview
the material before class can be very helpful.
In fact, I just thought
what [inaudible] that said he tries to stay up
a couple days because he's already seen the material.
The next one is also very
important do all assigned homework.
You have to practice to be able to do math.
It's not something you can learn by watching.
Watching is the first step and very important,
but really knowing that you got it Is what you can do
it on your own and that only happens with practice.
Sometimes you have to struggle through
several examples like Larraine
was saying before you do master it,
but the only way to get there is to keep trying.
The other thing that's very
important is sometimes students like
to wait until the last minute
and do all the homework at once.
That is not good for retention.
You might remember it while you're doing it,
but then a couple of days later,
that's going to be tough to recall to your memory
because you were trying to do so much at one time.
A couple of things we recommend that you get a planner.
We have some here and
I think Larraine has some over there
to find gaps in
your schedule so if you
are setting up your schedule and you see,
oh, I have an hour-and-a-half between history and math.
You can do math either if you're at home,
dedicate that time in
a nice non-distracting location if you can find one,
or a really nice non-distracting location
is the CAS so we'll find
a lot of students come down and just hang out
and do their math work in between classes.
And that gives them the practice.
The next one is keeping a notebook or
binder for homework problems.
If you are working on your homework,
you can go back to
the assignment and continue where you left off.
If there were any specific problems
that gave you a hard time,
put a star next to them.
I often tell students
before they come to meet me to do as
much of the work as you can on your own and
then any clarifications or
anything that you struggled with,
that's what we work together on.
So this is a really good way to stay organized,
so we can do that to help you.
One thing I like to add to what Stacey just said
is it's really helpful to
try and do the homework independently
and then just come to us that the ones that
you're stuck on because I have students that
would set up an appointment with
me and they would come in and say,
okay, number 1 [inaudible] up to today.
Then it's not really a very efficient use of
everyone's time because they may find that they're
able to get the first six or seven
all by themselves without me
having to sit there with them so it's really good.
It's a good test to test yourself because what I'm doing,
how far can I get independent so I'm taking a crack in
the homework before you come in to
the alerting policy one of us a good idea.
So get help when needed.
Don't wait if you're struggling.
There's resources available for you,
come to the Learning Commons on a rapid basis.
You can see me or Stacey,
you can make an appointment.
We'll show you at the end of this meeting how to go
to homepage and click on our scheduler.
It will take you right to that support and you can pick
either me or Stacey depending on your preference,
they're fine and depending on our availability.
One thing I would really try to discourage you
from I can't sit
two minutes and say I've sat two hours at this last time,
I was in tears,
I was so frustrated.
I say if you're heading down
that road just close the book and take a break,
close the computer and take a break.
If you're really frustrated
and you have sunk a lot of time into it,
that's not productive time.
Just step away and say,
''I'm just going to read this tomorrow and see if it'll
help or I can jump into, wasn't eating a variety.
You can also make an appointment to meet
with your professor during their office hours.
If Stacey is not available,
if I am not available or if you just
want to meet with your professor first and
certainly your parietal professor
I think are required in that final office hours a week.
A lot of students sign then it's tough
to get in there during
that narrow window of time. End of slideshow.
Would you like me to show them how
to find the math tutoring page and make appointments?
Yeah, you can share screen if you want to do that.
I'm hoping that this will go everywhere.
If you can't see when I go to the next page,
let me know and I'll have to change my screen share,
but to find the math tutoring page,
which contains everything about our math tutoring,
you go to the middle of the CCC website
and there's this bar with all these selections,
academic support is toward the middle.
If you hover over that,
you will see tutoring services column
and you can click on math right there,
and there is our math tutoring page.
Both of our names are here,
both of our email addresses are here if you need to
contact us for any reason.
Also you can click
this red button to schedule an appointment.
What's going to happen is it
will take you into Connects ED,
make sure you pick the top Cayuga logo.
For some reason the bottom one doesn't work.
I'm not sure what we will be able to see here,
but I'm going to give it a shot.
Hopefully will work. You'll be
putting your Cayuga credentials in here,
the same one that you use to sign on your computer or
your email address that's what you want to use here.
But anyway it's going
to take you in there and what
you'll see is Larraine's schedule,
you'll see my schedule.
Those of you who are not on
either campus that are fully online,
you can choose an online meeting with either of us.
When you go in there,
you'll see hours and you'll also see
the type of meeting and you'll pick Fulton campus,
Auburn campus, or online meeting
and you should be able to schedule
a half-hour appointment that way.
I was telling Stacey the other
day we had our first workshop,
sometimes you'll have students that will
say Larraine I want to meet with you
every Tuesday at 1:00 that
way I know I'll get my homework done over
the weekend and then I'll see you with
any problems that I have on Tuesday.
It's a really important tool for some students,
they have had accountability.
They know if they have a recurring 30-minute appointment,
every week with me or Stacey and keeps on their toes,
keep them from falling behind.
If they didn't get their work
done, they'll just come in and say,
''I didn't think to put this weekend, but I'm going to
sit over here and probably get caught up.''
It's a black piece
of time that they can devote to their math.
I think that's about it.
Anybody have questions for us?
Any questions? The other thing I did want to
mention is we are going to
have a math table up and running.
In Fulton here we should have it
up and running at least by next week.
How about you, Larraine, you think?
Yeah, I hope that we'll have
our peer tutors on by next week.
We've been busy mid day, which is good.
There's a lot of students that come in.
I might get five or six students
at once that are working on math that are
spread out throughout the learning pilings and I'll
just go around from
time to time and say, ''How are you doing.''
Or somebody come and get me if they're stack.
It's just a good place to get your work done there's
computers that are available for student use.
There's printers that are available for student use.
Yeah.
That's that. We have textbooks as well.
We have all math textbooks.
I know there were some textbooks on back order,
so I've had a lot of students coming in just
to see the assignments and get started.
Our next workshops are going to be later in the semester.
If you want to find those,
those of you who are online
are probably already use this link,
but there's a link at the bottom of
this page that says ''Study Skills.''
That's actually a bunch of other workshops as
well held by other people like our writing specialists,
Chris Motto, she's going to do
a reading strategies one tomorrow.
How to talk to your professors
and then there's going to be
some more math down here in the beginning of October,
we're going to do math test prep strategies.
That's going to be more specific to
help you prepare for exams.
There's a lot of people that are not sure
how to prepare for an exam and
then they go in and they blank out.
We'll give you some tips
so that hopefully that won't happen.
Yeah, I said in the past, unfortunately,
the idea law students for
the first time right after they've
gotten their first math test yet and
that and they felt like that,
''I think I prepared for this test.''
Then they get their test handed back to them and
their previous one they hope it would be.
Then they realize, ''I better go get support.''
Usually after that first test
or if you feel
like I'm not quite sure if I'm ready for this test.
Definitely want to see us before the test.
That's it.
Unless anybody has some questions.
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Alrighty. Thanks, everyone.