Math 221C Mindset Activity Get Help From Others
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Mindset Activity: Get Help From Others
Heather M. Ivie Borgholthaus
Math 221C/Social Science Statistics
BYU-I
Brother Balls
April 29, 2023
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Questions
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Why is it normal to get confused sometimes when you are learning statistics, math, or
other challenging concepts?
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Why is it normal to eventually understand something better if you ask for help from
people, use good strategies, and keep trying?
Answers
The reason why it is normal to get confused sometimes when you are learning statistics,
math, or other challenging concepts because it can be difficult to reconcile the new incoming
information with what we already know or, we might find a math problem confusing because
we don’t know what the mathematical symbols mean, or we may have difficulty with
calculations.
But there is no need to worry because being confused about complex concepts and
phenomena such as difficult mathematics can mean we are investing enough mental effort
into trying to understand.
Everything can be turned into a learning opportunity; this is because finding learning new
material will cause us to struggle and get confused but this is an important part of the
learning process.
This struggle of learning complex things such as math can be associated with overcoming
confusion, and it helps us to find better strategies for understanding the world.
When you ask questions, it makes you an active learner instead of a passive receiver of
information. When you interact with information of math such as social science statistics by
elaborating on it, we can think critically about its context, or we can relate some pieces of the
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information to others you increase the likelihood that you will remember it. So, by teaching
others, you learn the material better.
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