Researchers found there was a ‘COVID slide’ by fall 2020 for math. This is similar to the commonly known ‘summer slide’ where the student loses ground on the academic progress made due to no learning for several months. And if we combine a weak spring semester with an inactive summer, you will have a difficult next fall semester on your hands. Don’t let this happen to your child.
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Stronger Math Students in 5 Steps
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We hear that having good math abilities leads to more opportunities and higher salaries. But did you know there was an...
10 Ways to Avoid Summer Slide
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Summer slide is the term used to describe the loss of skills many students experience during the time off from school....
Ways to Make Your Children Smarter
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In this article on Barking Up the Wrong Tree blog, the author gives a great list of ways to improve your child’s...
Mistakes Can Create Success
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Intelligence is the measure of the brain's ability to acquire and apply certain knowledge and skills. We know the...
Intelligence is NOT fixed
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Many people wrongly believe intelligence is fixed at birth. Many factors will affect school performance such as...
Math at Sea with Logarithms
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For more: go HERE to the Ed.Ted.com site to answer questions and get more resources about this lesson such as more...
A Case for Algorithms
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In THIS article, "The Faulty Logic of The Math Wars" in the New York Times, Alice Crary, a philosophy professor, and...
What it feels like to be bad at math
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Via JoanneJacobs.com The author of the blog Math with Bad Drawings is a current math teacher (and former math student)...
Embrace the Mistakes
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No one enjoys mistakes, but we all make them. Did you ever think it could be beneficial to admit to them? Kathryn...
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