MLS Questionaire ________(5) NAME:__________________ MLS Interviews __________(15)

Expanding Your Understanding ___________(20)= Total_______________(40) DUE DATE:________________________

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Math Learning Styles (Interviews)

Summarize your learning style (copy the boxes from your questionnaire): Learn in structured, logical steps

Sequential 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 Global Learn when it “clicks,” & get the big picture

Learn procedures, facts, and routines

Factual 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 Abstract Learn concepts and see patterns

Learn by doing, moving and talking

Active 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 Reflective Learn by thinking, watching, imagining

Issues in math do not affect attitude

Accepting 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 Anxious Issues in math create anxiety and resistance

Learn in words, spoken or written

Verbal 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 Visual Learn in images, colors, arrangement

Remember in spoken words

Verbal Memory 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 Visual Memory Remember in images and arrangement

To do better in math, some strategies I could try are: (identify & describe) 1.

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For these two boxes, choose 2 other people (one for each box) and interview them about their learning styles. Write your impressions in the boxes below: Choose a different learning style for each one!

Name:

Learning Style:

What does this style mean? Give an example of what the student does this way.

What strategy would you suggest for this student?

Name:

Learning Style:

What does this style mean? Give an example of what the student does this way.

What strategy would you suggest for this student?

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Expanding Your Understanding: Choose one of your learning styles that you want to know more about. You can be very specific (e.g. abstract style), general (e.g. visual/verbal), or look at another viewpoint (e.g. Myers-Briggs).

Check one or more of these websites to learn more: Felder-Silverman’s model (I based much of my work on this) https://www.mindtools.com/mnemlsty.html Information on Learning Styles concepts relating many to study skills http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm Information on other types of Learning styles: VARK, Kolb’s, Jung’s/Myers-Briggs, Honey and Mumford’s, Gardner’s, and others http://nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles.html As long as you’ve included information from at least one of the sites above, feel free to look at other sites. Type at least one page about what you’ve learned from the website. Identify which website you used. Include a description of what you wanted to know about, what you learned, how you feel it applies to you, and how you plan to use the information. I’ll be grading based upon responses to each of those points. Turn in together: 1) MLS Questionnaire, 2) Interviews from this document, and 3) typed paper on “Expanding Your Understanding” described above

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