Summer Math Loss

Apr 15, 2021 | Southland

Why kids lose math knowledge, and how families can work to counteract it.

It’s tough to imagine filling a lazy beach day with fractions, or stretching out in the back seat on a road trip and practicing long division. For many of us, summer and mathematics just don’t seem to mix.

But across the socioeconomic spectrum, kids arrive back at school every fall much worse off in mathematics than they finished in the spring. On average, students lose approximately 2.6 months of learning in math over the summer — and teachers have to give up weeks of class time, or more, to make up for that loss.

Follow the link below to learn more.

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/16/06/summer-math-loss