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Mathematics Survival Guide
Last revised: 31 August 2001
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Resolving Problems
Appendix A: The Hidden Script
1.``I really know this material, but I just don't do well on tests.''
2. ``The test is too long; if I'd had more time I could have done really well.''
3. ``The tests aren't like the homework.''
4. ``Careless mistakes keep killing me. I make a lot of stupid mistakes''
5. ``Why didn't I get more partial credit?''
6. ``I didn't know what you wanted'', or ``What do you want here?''
7. ``I knew more than the other students, and helped them, but they got a higher grade on the test!''
8. ``Why can't the top score be 100%? Aren't you going to scale the grades?''
9. ``I just don't use the book; I can't understand it at all.''
10. ``Why do I have to memorize this? Memorization isn't learning. Besides I know I'm going to forget it anyway.''
11.``Why should we do these long problems -- they won't be on the test away''
12. ``I've always been good at mathematics until this course.''
13. ``I can never understand my class notes; I don't read them. I didn't follow you that day.''
14. ``I couldn't make it to class yesterday; did I miss anything important?''
15. ``Where are we ever going to use this stuff?''
About this document ...
James Martino
2002-06-03
