Chapter 2: Q. 82 (page 128)
List five negative thoughts that you have said to yourself in the past that will hinder your progress
on word problems. You may want to write each one on a small piece of paper and rip it up to
symbolically destroy the negative thoughts.
Short Answer
The negative thoughts may be
1. Explanation
2. Not understand
3. Mathematical operations
4. Skip the problem
5. Can't do