Metacognition Exercises

Resources

• Recall Practice
• Spaced Repetition
• Alia Crum Public Speaking Study

1 A Mind For Numbers Chapter 1 Reading

Please answer the following questions about A Mind For Numbers Chapter 1.
Here is a link to the reading.

• Which parts of the reading did you find particularly relevant or interesting and why?
• Do you see yourself as being able to become proficient at using mathematics?

2 A Mind For Numbers Chapter 4 Chunking

Read Chapter 4 “Chunking…” from Oakley, A Mind For Numbers and answer the following questions: Here is a link to the reading.

• What material outside of this class do you feel like you have integrated into a “chunk”.
• What material in this class do you feel like you’ve “chunked”.
• What strategies do your past examples provide for integrating (chunking) other material you are learning?