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Mathnasium@home Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Apr 15, 2020 | Westfield Blog

The following is a Q&A for parents, guardians and students that explains the details for Mathnasium@Home, the two-way live interactive online platform for learning math: taught in real time by Mathnasium’s experienced math instructors over the Internet. ..

Academically Speaking, the ‘COVID Slide’ Could Be a Lot Worse Than You Think

Apr 14, 2020 | Westfield Blog

Linked here is an informative article about recent research suggesting the “COVID slide” could be significantly worse than the annual “summer slide”, especially in math. The researchers did not include effects of direct instruction during school closures,..

Ask The Expert

Sep 1, 2016 | Westfield Blog

In this series of articles, Jodi shares her love of teaching and expertise, answering some of the most frequent questions she gets in her centers each day from parents wanting to do more to assure their children's academic success... Read Full Article..

Counting Past Ten: Building America's Strength in Numbers

Oct 1, 2015 | Westfield Blog

Here, in the US, numbers are abstractions to be memorized-cells in the multiplication table-and, when middle schoolers reach algebra, the digits are still as far off as the letters that now represent them ... If math were presented from the start as an in..