A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

when you procrastinate, you are leaving yourself only enough time to do superficial focused-mode learning.

Long-term memory is important for learning math and science because it is where you store the fundamental concepts and techniques that you need to use in problem solving.

This nightly housecleaning is part of what keeps your brain healthy.

“Intention to learn is helpful only if it leads to the use of good learning strategies.”

how spending a minute or two glancing ahead before you read in depth will help you organize your thoughts.

Enlisting the diffuse mode helps you learn at a deep and creative level.

Basically, the focused mode is used to concentrate on something that’s already tightly connected in your mind, often because you are familiar and comfortable with the underlying concepts.

It also is linked with handling simultaneous, big-picture processing.16

It’s best to work at math and science in small doses—a little every day.