There’s nothing quite so vexing as sitting in a class filled with your mates, a mathematics teacher in front of the class teaching and you’re the only one with a confused expression on your face. Now, so many questions are running through your mind like “What does that x stand for?” “How is the square root of four (4) over nine (9) same as four (4) over nine (9) raised to the power of half?” {    4/9 = (4/9)1/2 }. Just as you’re trying to wrap your finger around it, you hear your teacher call your name and ask to give the answer to the question on the board. You stand and you just stare at the board, then you hear someone make a snide remark and everyone bursts into laughter. From then on you’re labelled the class dunce, and if you ever thought of asking questions to clarify your confusion, you never do so again. So you go on like that, class after class, your confusion piling up, failing tests, feeling stupid because you fail to progress on the topic, then you label maths your worst subject. You end up hating the teacher, miss his or her classes. This goes on until your final exams. You manage to get an “E” cause of the basics you know. You graduate dreading maths and anything related to it.

Many students go through this experience. Some may have bad teachers. “Bad” in the sense that they neglect students in class who are slow to comprehend things, and such students give up after some time noting that the teachers love those who answer their questions correctly. Some have the notion in their mind that they are not in the bunch of “astounding kids” who just happen to be good in maths, and that is entirely wrong. Anyone can be good in mathematics, in any subject as a matter of fact. Succeeding in maths depends on your routine of studying it and here are some tips to note.

If these tips and noted and carried out, then congratulations math whiz.