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mathematics is different studying than studying subjects like English and history. You bet it is! And it could be the reason why some students are not as successful in mathematics as they are in other subjects.

Here mentioned some math tips.

One of the keys to success is regular practice just as you practice when you learn to play the piano or basketball. Here are some tips for helping you succeed in mathematics.



Attendance


Ask Questions


Homework


Read Your Text


Get Some Help


Preparing for a Test


Taking a Math Test


Attendance

Attend class regularly and take notes.

 
Ask Questions

Don't be afraid to ask questions in class. There are always other students in class who have the same questions but are too shy too ask.


Read Your Text

Many students depend solely on the instructor's lecture and explanations in class to do their assignments, without reading the explanation or studying the examples in their text. If you get stuck, one of the best resources you have is your text! Many exercises are keyed to specific examples or objectives that will explain the procedures for working them. Try to identify the main ideas that are in each lesson. Often they are clearly highlighted or boxed in the text.
 

Homework

Review your class notes and try reworking the problems the instructor did in class. Many students say "I understand it perfectly when you do it, but I get stuck when I try to work the problem myself." Reworking the problems the instructor did in class will help reinforce what you have learned.
Try to do your math homework as soon after class as possible, and reserve some time later in the day to attack the problems that you get stuck on the first time around.

Check your work with the answers in the back of the book. If you get a problem wrong, check to see if there is an example in the book similar to the problem you are working on. Study the example and then try to do the example problem with your book closed. Then give the homework problem another try its is usefull mayh tips. If the answer is not correct, check your computations (arithmetic and algebra). If you still have difficulty solving the problem, mark that problem so that you can get help with it.


Keep your homework in a notebook. The more organized it is, the more it will serve you as a guide for seeking help in resolving difficulties and studying for tests.
 

Getting Help

Visit your instructor during office hours.

Take advantage of the tutoring services on campus.

Visit the Tutoring Center.

Form a study group with your classmates.


Preparing for a Math Test

Many students work hard preparing for a test and yet they don't do as well as they expected. Here are some suggestions that might help:

Work regularly on your math homework. If you have difficulties get them cleared up right away.

A couple of days before the test, start to work through the sections to be covered on the test. Work sample problems. make notes on what each section is about. Get help with material you don't understand.

Make a summary of the different kinds of problems that will be on the test. Describe each problem type, describe the steps in working the problem, do an example of each. Your summary should include key definitions and/or theorems.

The last studying you do before the test should be in reviewing your summary. For each problem type it includes, make sure that you know the steps needed for its solution. Also, make sure that you know and understand all key definitions and/or theorems.



Taking a Math Test

Many students feel that they knew the material for a test and yet they did not do as well as they should have.

A few tips: Prepare as well as possible. Start preparing yourself mentally and, as the instructor passes out the test materials, think about your test taking strategies.

The following should be part of your plan:

Keep cool.

Do a "memory dump". While your head is still clear and before looking at the test, write yourself some notes. Include those things you think you might forget or "cautions" about typical errors you have made before.

Make a reasonable attempt at each problem. If you get it, fine. Go on. If you don't get it, put a check by it and then forget it until you have finished the rest of the problems.

When you have tried all of the problems on the test, go back and do the best you can on the checked problems.

If you can do only part of a problem, do it. Partial credit is better than no credit.

Above all, remain cool. Don't think about how you are doing or what happens if you don't do well. (You can do that after the test.) Don't worry if you find something you don't know.

In UAE Coun 4 cheetah born after 38 years. The seven-week-old northern cheetahs are about 25cm long and closely trail behind their shy mother, Safira, who was brought to the 4,100-hectare Arabian Wildlife Park from captivity two years ago.


Visitors on guided nature drives have already spotted the new family, said Marius Prinsloo, the manager of conservation and agriculture at Sir Bani Yas Island.


“Some groups have been lucky enough to encounter the female with the cubs,” Mr Prinsloo said yesterday. “The mother is very secretive about her movement, but the babies are very playful. They go around with her, following her wherever she goes and they’re fighting, rolling around, sneaking and chasing each other.”



As the cubs mature and grow into their hunting instincts, he said, Safira will take them on longer journeys. Safira is roughly 31kg and nearing six years old as a fully grown female.




The birth of the four cubs doubled the island’s population of northern cheetahs. The northern cheetah is classified as a “vulnerable” species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and is a close relative to the indigenous Arabian cheetah, which became extinct in the UAE in 1972.
 
“This is a very significant event because with these animals, both the mother and father were captive-bred,” Mr Prinsloo said.
 
“These animals were properly rehabilitated, brought here, and from that, these two zoo animals became truly wild and even had babies in the wild.”


The father, Gabriel, is not involved with raising the cubs, as female cheetahs are solitary and males are brought in purely for mating.Aimee Cokayne, the research and conservation officer at the wildlife park, said the animals mated in early October.



The cubs were born in a mountain cave without human interference, although Ms Cokayne, with whom the animals are familiar, tracked Safira by her radio collar.


“Aimee found a signal on the mother and it was the same place every time, so we suspected she was staying there because the cubs were born,” Mr Prinsloo said.
Identifying the sex of the cubs is tricky. Ms Cokayne has so far only been able to observe them from a distance.


“We think we have three males and a female, but we’re not 100 per cent sure,” she said in a video released by the Tourism Development & Investment Company, which runs the conservation project. She expected to be able to tell boys from girls in a few months.


Survival rates for cheetah cubs are low, but Ms Cokayne called it “a triumph” that Safira has been able to keep the family intact. “Having these cheetahs on the island and re-wilding and having them breed in a natural situation … that in itself is an amazing thing,” she said.



Earlier this year, two striped hyenas a species that is extinct in the UAE were born as part of the breeding programme. Also, Mr Prinsloo said four baby giraffes were born last month on the island.



 

Oven Roasted Summer Vegetables:
 
There is a profusion of fresh vegetables available in the summer and what better way to savor their sweetness than roasting them in the oven.


Ingredients:
 
2 zucchini, cut into bite sized pieces



1 red pepper, cut in quarters


1 large red onion, cut into wedges


1 green pepper, cut into quarters


A dozen fresh asparagus


½ teaspoon salt


6 cloves garlic, unpeeled


1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper


2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil


1 teaspoon dried oregano
 
Method:
 
In a large shallow roasting tin, place the zucchini, red and green peppers, onion and asparagus. Add the extra virgin olive oil, salt, freshly ground pepper and dried oregano and toss the vegetables well to coat. Spread the vegetables in an even single layer and roast them in an oven at 450ºC for 30 to 35 minutes. When the vegetables have lightly browned, remove the roasting tray from the oven. Squeeze out the garlic puree from the peels and add to the oven roasted vegetables. Serve immediately with a sprinkling of chopped spring onions.
 
Oven Roasted Root Vegetables

Oven Roasted root vegetables makes a hearty side dish during the winter and for a good mix of flavors choose at least four or five different root vegetables.


Ingredients:

2 sweet potatoes, sliced into chunks



2 read onions, quartered


2 parsnips, quartered


2 beetroot, quartered


2 large carrots, cut lengthwise


4 sprigs of fresh thyme


5 tablespoon olive oil


1 teaspoon salt


4 tablespoon balsamic vinegar


1 ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Method:

In a small bowl, combine the olive oil and balsamic vinegar and keep it aside. In a shallow roasting tin add all the vegetables and season it with salt and freshly ground pepper. Add the sprigs of thyme and pour over the olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing. Let the root vegetables marinate for an hour before roasting. Place the roasting tin in the oven ant 375ºC for 35 to 40 minutes until the vegetables are tender and golden brown in color.


Oven Roasted Vegetables with Balsamic Vinegar


A good way to make your children eat vegetables is to roast them with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar to balance the sweetness of the vegetables.


Ingredients:

 1 large tomato



1 medium summer squash


1 yellow pepper


1 bunch of asparagus


1 red onion


1 small eggplant


1 medium zucchini


2 sprigs rosemary


2 tablespoon olive oil


2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar


1 tablespoon brown sugar


1 tablespoon sea salt

Method:

Cut the vegetables into rough chunks of approximately the same size and place them in a roasting tin. Add the rosemary sprigs along with salt into the roasting tin. In a small bowl, mix the olive oil, balsamic vinegar and brown sugar and stir until all the sugar gas dissolved. Pour this mixture over the vegetables and roast them in an oven at 375ºC for 25 to 30 minutes. Serve with grilled chicken or fish.

Omaha Hi operates the same as Omaha Hi/Lo, except that the pot can be won by a hi and lo hand. Hi/Lo is a poker game that splits the stake pool into two equal pots. At the end of the game, all hands must be formed with three community cards and two hole cards. The highest ranking hand wins the Hi pot, while the low pot is won by a hand that contains the lowest series of cards, each no greater than eight (excluding Aces). The best and lowest possible Lo hand is an Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5. If no Lo hands can be made, the Hi pot winner takes the entire pot. A lo hand with the lowest high card beats other lo hands.


A game of Omaha is initiated by putting stakes into the pot, called the small and big blinds. The players who make the blinds are determined by their seating relation to the dealer, who is marked by a dealer 'button'. The player on the left-hand side of the dealer has the job of making the small blind, while the second player to the left of the dealer has the job of making the big blind. The small blind is half of the minimum stake wager, and the big blind is the full minimum stake wager. Each game, the dealer button rotates one position to the left, so that the player who made the small blind will be the dealer in the next game.


As soon as the blinds are put into the pot, four cards are dealt to each player at the table, after which, the first betting round is initiated. The player to make the first move is the one to the immediate left of the player who made the big blind. This player has the option of folding, checking (which is betting an amount equivalent to the big blind) or raising, (there is a maximum of three raised per betting round). All players, in turn, follow in a clockwise fashion. The betting round ends when it has gone full circle to the player who made the big blind bet. On a side note, if the players who made the blind bets fold in the first round, they will receive half of their stake back.

The Flop follows the first betting round, which is the first series of community cards. (Community cards are upturned cards that all players use to form their hands). Three cards are turned over on the Flop.

After the Flop is carried out, the second betting round begins. It operates exactly as did the first betting round. In addition, players now have the option of calling, which amounts to passing on any action if a bet has not been made yet in the round.

The Turn follows the second betting round, which is the addition of one more community card, bringing the total to four.


After the Turn is carried out, the third betting round begins. It operates exactly as did the first and second rounds, but with one change. The bet and raise amount is set at the maximum stake limit of the table.


The River follows the third betting round, which is the addition of another community card, bringing the total to five.


After the River is complete, the fourth betting round begins. It goes by the same rules that the third betting round did, and ends when the last remaining player makes their move. All players will show their hands to determine hi and low pot winners (if any).

The best strategy for playing Omaha Hi is to gage your game by asking yourself whether you should fold your hand or keep playing it. Especially for Omaha Hi/Lo, it is important to do this right from the start - And to do so while considering your hands potential of not just being the highest ranked hand, but for the lo side of the pot as well.

The following tips do not subscribe to any poker strategy that claims to call itself tight nor aggressive. Rather, these tips are helpful in that they inform a player about their odds of forming a wide variety of hands. Whether this is a pair or straight, it is your responsibility to then determine if you would still like to stay in the game. A large factor that cannot be pinpointed are the other players. If you feel another player has a three of a kind, you may not want to stay in the game if you only have good potential of forming a high pair. Therefore, the best way to use these tips are to guide your folds in the first two betting rounds. After that, it is up to you to use your bluffing skills (if need be) and good perception skills regarding other players.

Four cards no greater than 5

Ace/2

Ace/three Face Cards

Ace suited with any card

Ace with low cards no greater than 5

Pair of Aces (one Ace suited with any third card)

Pair of Aces/two cards no greater than 8

Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif include the corruption of Pakistan. It’s difficult to imagine anything competing for headline space with the historic accord on the 18th Amendment. Difficult, that is, unless you factor in Zardari and corruption.


Instead of basking in the glow of the deal on the 18th Amendment, a historic, momentous political success, Zardari has been forced to deal with the ghosts of his corrupt past this week. Is the Supreme Court out to get Zardari? I don’t know. What I do know is that while there were 8,041 beneficiaries of the NRO, there was only one Mr NRO: Asif Zardari. And the Supreme Court appears determined to not let us forget that.

CJ Iftikhar and Justice Ramday stunned long-time observers of the court by breathing fire on second-tier bureaucrats and government officials on Tuesday. When I made my way to the court on Wednesday, all anyone wanted to talk about was the dramatic scenes in the court a day earlier. A veteran lawyer who ardently campaigned for CJ Iftikhar’s reinstatement and, shall we say, isn’t a fan of Zardari was apoplectic.

Courtrooms, you see, are meant to be a picture of serenity and calm. But for a brief while on Tuesday, the soaring ceiling of Courtroom No 1 may well have been a big top as judges threatened with imprisonment the sacrificial lambs that appeared before them. The reason was ostensibly the across-the-board non-implementation of the NRO judgment, but the judges did betray a peculiar interest in the progress on the Swiss cases and NRO beneficiaries in the Zardari circle.

Like most people, I would be happy to see the rascals and the scoundrels who dot our political landscape and public officialdom get it in the neck. But there’s a time and place for everything and a way of doing things. And what transpired on Tuesday was definitely not the ideal way of getting the NRO judgment implemented.

Or was it? Enter the wretchedness of Pakistani politics.

Ever since the Dec 16 short order, the government has claimed that Zardari has constitutional immunity and nothing can be done about the Swiss cases as long as he’s president. To most constitutional lawyers this was a reasonable, even accurate, reading of the law.


But then the judges breathed fire and suddenly the letters to Switzerland were drafted. So are we now to assume that Zardari doesn’t in fact enjoy immunity? And if he does, then what’s changed? Nothing, other than the fact that the judges had to metaphorically pound their gavels to get the government to act.

Wouldn’t you be tempted to take this route, then, if you were on the Supreme Court? It’s easy to blame the judges for overstepping the boundaries of propriety and courtroom conventions, but had the government just done earlier what it’s in the process of doing now there would have been no need for courtroom unseemliness.


What’s next for Zardari? To understand that, we need to start with what the Supreme Court ordered in the NRO judgment. Narrowly constructed, the only thing the court ordered on the Swiss matters was for all the things Malik Qayyum did in his capacity as Musharraf’s attorney general to be withdrawn.

The exact language of paragraph 177 of the judgment reads: “… the communications addressed by Malik Muhammad Qayyum to various foreign fora/ authorities/courts withdrawing the requests earlier made by the Government of Pakistan.


Translated into layman’s terms, the Supreme Court was essentially telling the government that the Swiss judicial system will determine the fate of Zardari. Can they proceed with the cases while he’s the president of Pakistan? The Geneva public prosecutor’s comments to Reuters suggest not, but legal issues aren’t settled in casual remarks to a news service.


The main worry for Zardari, though, is what it has always been: the political cost. Securing a conviction against him for corruption has proved fiendishly difficult, even when a Pakistani government has been desperate to do so, as it was during Sharif’s second term. But the corruption allegations have proved a formidable weapon to destroy his political reputation.

On Wednesday, you could see again how it works. There on Dawn’s front page was the news of the deal on the 18th Amendment, and right beside it were the words ‘Swiss’, ‘cases’ and ‘Zardari’. His political foes will be happy: if they can’t get rid of him, at least they can be sure he will never grow in stature.

It’s not hard to imagine what the months ahead will look like either. Every few weeks there will be some news, either from Switzerland or Pakistan, of some development, or even non-developments, in the Zardari corruption saga.

And even if the Swiss quickly decide they can’t proceed against him  but they guarantee that ‘Swiss’, ‘millions’ and ‘Zardari’ will definitely appear in headlines together in the months, and most likely years, ahead.

The accidental president will give up his powers before long, but what he won’t do is shake off his past any time soon.