The Mastery Technique

The first three steps of the Mastery Technique are about action: learning, applying, practicing. This fourth step is about mindset: are you striving towards mastery when you do the first three steps, or are you just going through the motions? Striving for Mastery is what takes place in your mind as you practice the knowledge, […]

This step really solidifies the previous two steps of “learn the facts” and “follow the rules.” Nothing really is learned without practice, and “skills” combines facts and rules into problem solving situations. It is important to remember that the best athletes in the world don’t sit on their past performances and championship glories. They practice,

This sounds a bit rigid, doesn’t it? Following rules? Don’t we want to encourage folks to be creative and think outside the box? Yet when we’re learning math, (which really is a science that was discovered rather than invented), the rules are the entire foundation! If you start with the rules, you can discern further

As discussed yesterday, the Mastery Technique is a simple 12-word process to help any student build a foundation to learn Math. It can be applied at any level of math, and I’ve even used very successfully it at the graduate school level when I was studying matrices and linear algebra. Step 1 is “Learn the

After teaching Math for a number of years, I realized that many students seem to think that learning math is much harder than it really is, which hurt their chances of actually making the effort needed to learn math! In other words, it became a self-fulfilling prophesy, and math actually did become hard to learn.