“Practice makes perfect” is the saying. But, before perfect comes understanding and that’s where practice comes in. So what does this mean exactly? Working on math exercises are a great way to get in some practice. How do I know? I have done a lot of practice math exercises. I’ve gotten many, many wrong too.
Math classes and textbooks provide a lot math exercises for homework and practice. In many cases answers are provided. However, these answers are just that, the final answer. If there are a few steps, it’s not enough to really understand the solution process. Unless the student gets the answer correct and exactly in the format given in the solution, this can lead to many students feeling confused, stressed and lacking confidence when they don’t get the correct answer or the correct format given in the solutions.
Our math exercise worksheets don’t have solutions yet. In some ways on purpose. We want students to start writing mathematics and working with the language of mathematics. Exercise sheets start with a brief description of the key equations and concepts. This is then followed by a set of related math exercises for practice. We have a library of YouTube videos that go through many practice math exercises for you to get you started. We are continually working on our video library, so if you don’t find a sample exercise done in one of our YouTube videos, let us know. We’ll get on it!
Now, before you dive into more math exercises we’d like to give you a few tips to make it less like homework.
Math Exercises Made Easier Than You Ever Imagined
- Don’t start a question with trying to get it right. This can be very stressful and pressure filled.
- Start an exercise by writing down all the given information that you know related to the question.
- Next, write down what you are to find, solve or evaluate. If it’s more than one thing, then write them all down.
- Take a look at #3 and see if you have to break down the solution into sub-steps or sub-exercises This is usually the case as you start studying higher mathematics.
- Now see if you can find information in #2 that can be used to find, solve or evaluate what is being asked in #3 or for some of the sub-steps.
- Try and look at the math exercise as more of a puzzle or mystery that you have to solve. There are many ways to solve a mystery and in some cases it’s never solved. Unsolved mysteries are unsolved for a reason.
- Remember the goal is to get write down as many steps and answer as many sub-steps as possible. The correct answer will flow out from here naturally as your understanding increases.
Below we have our contents of math exercises. Again, it’s an ever growing library of practice exercises for you.