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Learn to learn

Choose one question. Work through these six steps. Keep one page of evidence of what you learned.

Ask a specific question

Replace “I want to understand science” with “Why can two percentage changes describe the same numbers?”

Locate an original source. Note its date, scope, and what it does not establish.

Write three sentences in your own words. Mark the point where you get stuck.

Calculate, draw, compare, or make something. Check it against the stated goal.

Change the numbers or setting. Can you still explain why your method works?

Write what changed your mind and a question to revisit later.

Try the percentage exercise, then explain it to someone without showing the answer.