Chris Brooks, principal educator at High Performance Learning, explains how he came to terms with learning maths:
"I didn't learn how to learn maths properly until I got to third year university. Before that I had relied on memory, attempting to remember the appropriate algebraic formulas and hoping that I could work out which one to use when I got into the exams. I must have been fairly adept at doing it this way because I got quite good grades but I didn't fully understand what I was doing and so forgot much of the material when the exams were over. After studying formal logic in Philosophy, and having a Pure Mathematics lecturer who taught me how to understand maths, my marks improved dramatically. Also I felt much better because all the maths I had done before began to make sense. Now, many years later, I can still remember what I learned. The amazing thing is that from that point on I did far less work yet got better marks than ever before."
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