<p>study math? Stupid question, I know, but I'm having trouble in math and my teacher's kinda mean to us (and never gives bonus or ANYTHING other than tests)...so how do you study math well enough to get good grades?</p>
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<blockquote> <p>My school has the integrated math system, if anyone else does too....?</p> </blockquote>
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<p>First read the textbook, read the section before your teacher explains it in class. Then you have to do the homework problems, duh. Try to do them before go to class to learn about them. This helped me alot during Algebra 1, as a result I moved up from a C- to an A+.
<em>Try to learn the material before it is discussed in class. Then when you hear it in class, it will be like a review and the points that you did not understand you may ask your teacher. And when you’re taking notes, you actually understand what you are writing down and not just take notes for the sake of taking notes.
*</em> Math is all about practice, practice, practice, and practice. For example for each hour you spend in a math class you need to study a least 2 hours outside of class. Heres an example if I have a class that lasts for 2 hours, then I would have to study 4 hours for homework.</p>
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Really good hint 
if you review afterwards, it’ll be like “catching up”. your brain (i think) will work better if you’re “getting ahead”.</p>
<p>Mmmm, I don’t study much but really it’s just problem sets. Just do a bunch from your book. What kind of math are you learning? I know you said integrated but what’s your next test on? or what do you need more help understanding? I’d just make sure to memorize the unit circle (only really need the pi/6) and trig equations for calculus. Integrals and derivatives are pretty easy…mmmm, remember the log rules (ln are the same).</p>
<p>Just practice problems, practice problems, practice problems, practice problems, practice problems!</p>
<p>Oh, I’m kinda doing intergrated too. IB Math and all that. The hardest thing is being able to switch from a stat to algebra to trig set of mind all in the same problem. Again…problem sets.</p>
<p>xxsteelxx: That would help…if my teacher taught only from the book. We’ve used only the book for about four sections out of the thirty some this year. He never tells us what section we’re doing next, or if we’re skipping the next one…(he wants to finish the book before the end of the year, but we usually finish at the end of april, early may. (well, last year we did)).</p>
<p>Did you make flash cards to help memorize stuff? I’ve had trouble with math since seventh grade, and none of my teachers (i’ve had this teacher for two years, and will have him next year) have ever showed us a way that really helps me.</p>
<p>And I suppose there’s no “sleep with your book under your pillow, and you’ll instantly know it” method?? :D</p>
<p>I think it’s extra important to pay very good attention and take good notes in class because if you don’t then you won’t be able to stare at your homework problems and figure them out. If you are having trouble then come into class for tutoring. Then before tests glance over your homework problems from the chapter and if theres any that you don’t remember how to do just by looking at it, go back to your homework and see how you worked it out. My school doesn’t have textbooks for my pre-calc class right now, if you have a textbook then make good use of it studying for your tests as well.</p>
<p>For me the thing that works best is to look at what the math is used for, and work backwards from that.</p>