I think I'm getting dumber.
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I'm re-doing the math problems I did a month ago, and I'm getting some of them incorrect when I got them correct the first time. These aren't problems I guessed, but problems I actually calucalated and should know how to do. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Am I just having one of those days when my brain is not working, or am I getting dumber?
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I find that problems that I know how to do 100% of the time... i sometimes get wrong because if I've done them before because I'm trying to remember the exact way I did it previously and/or the answer I chose the last time...
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I agree with Money - sometimes you get questions wrong when you are trying to remember how you solved them in the past as opposed to simply solving them. But sometimes you identifed a core concept that is evading you a second time around. This can be helped if you identify the concepts invovled in a problem and note how you recognize these concepts and the steps or tricks that are related to that concept.
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