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Developing your Maths Confidence


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Join Nick and Liz for a podcast on developing your maths confidence on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Nick give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences of developing maths confidence.
 


 Running order of the developing your maths confidence

There are lots of different ways you may need to use maths at university and most courses will have some element of maths; whether looking at percentages or having to understand charts.

Maths anxiety 

1.       What it is

2.       How you can cope with it and strategies

Maths at school is meant to be a building block to give you an overview, sometimes it is more like a stumbling block         

3.       Anxiety, stress and well-being

4.       Follow the steps to get to the answer – not always obvious along the way

5.       Practice

6.       Little and often

7.       OK to make mistakes

 

Maths is learning another language

8.       Maths conventions

9.       No exceptions so easier than learning English!

 

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