With semester exams just around the corner a strong and supportive home study routine is important for effective study. Supporting students while they study at home can take a variety of forms and:

• encourages consolidation of ideas and concepts
• helps to transfer newly learned material to long term memory by revisiting concepts

Helping with home study could be in the form of:

• asking questions about the task and then talking through their working methods
• how might they approach the question
• what do they know about the question
• what information has been given

Encouraging them and taking an interest, but not doing the thinking for them

• encouraging students to think  builds their reasoning and critical thinking skills – a highly sort after employability skill
• get them to talk aloud when solving problems (this works for everyday problems not just mathematical ones.)
• Have the students check their answers:
  • Can they estimate an approximate answer
  • Does their answer make sense?