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Today I'm a mathematics professor, but when I was a student taking first year calculus for the first time, I really struggled! In this video I break down a few major factors that contributed.
1) Everyone has their own attitudes towards math, and Carol Dweck's notion of a Fixed Mindset affects our learning behaviours. For myself, I had this idea I was "good at math" which meant I wasn't doing effective learning behaviours to improve myself because I thought this was fixed. I also then quickly developed a lot of math anxiety where I worried my selfimage as someone who was good at math would be proven untrue if I actually worked hard and then didn't succeed. Silly, but many of us have fixed mindsets that get in the way!
2) I was really passive in my learning behaviours, doing things like copying down notes or reading notes, but not engaging in active learning behaviours I now think are more effective for your learning.
3) I just didn't love it! Now I love Calculus, but it took my falling in love with math later on to come back and see a lot of the beauty. When I first took it it was just lots of computations evaluated by procedural fluency as opposed to conceptual reasoning. I first feel in love with math in an absract algebra course full of theorems and proofs.

0:00 The state of Calculus
1:08 Attitudes towards mathematics
3:17 Passive learning behaviours
4:18 Not in love with calculus
4:49 My view on attitudes today
7:15 Be an active learner!
8:31 How I fell in love with math
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