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The COVID-19 slide: What summer learning loss can tell us about the potential impact of school closures on student academic achievement

Jul 20, 2020 | Cottage Grove Blog

As a parent, you've probably heard of the 'summer slide,' where students can lose up to 3 months of knowledge over the summer. This already scary phenomenon is being compounded this year by the knowledge slide kids are experiencing because of closed schoo..

Ten Reasons Now is the Best Time to Enroll in Mathnasium of Cottage Grove

Jun 27, 2019 | Cottage Grove Blog

  Are any of these math difficulties true of your son or daughter? Math grades are not what they should be. Your child says, “I don’t like math.”  They did not score well in math on a standardized test or on the SAT or ACT. Math homework is..

Word Problems - How do they help students in the long run?

Sep 15, 2018 | Cottage Grove Blog

Do you love word problems or try to avoid them? As kids go through the various levels of math in school, word problems are a constant. Here are just 5 reasons why you should embrace word problems. https://blog.mathnasium.com/why-do-i-need-to-learn-this..

The Sooner the Better: Top Reasons Why Signing up for Mathnasium is Important Today

Aug 22, 2018 | Cottage Grove Blog

      Procrastination: it’s damaging and frustrating, but in some way or another, we all do it. Often times, parents come into Mathnasium and leave knowing their child needs help, but don’t sign them up for the program. Maybe they think their child wil..

What can you do to prepare your child for higher math success?

Aug 19, 2018 | Cottage Grove Blog

  Most American children lose ground to students all over the world who are preparing themselves for success in the future, which includes, like it or not, a lot of math.  Unfortunately, this is because year-after-year students are put in clas..

Use Math to Improve Pool and Pool to Improve Math

May 6, 2018 | Cottage Grove Blog

  If your child is taking, or will soon take, geometry you could inspire their interest in angles and physics by inviting them to play pool. Cue sports, which includes pool and billiards, has tons of opportunity to add math to the conversation. Use ..

When Should Kids Start Learning Math?

Feb 5, 2018 | Cottage Grove Blog

Math is more than just addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. Most math skills are so intuitive to adults that you might not even think of them as belonging to the same category as algebra or trigonometry. Kids start learning math much earli..

Use Guideposts of Success in Math for Best Tutoring Results

Jan 15, 2018 | Cottage Grove Blog

Families who get the best results from our program at Mathnasium of Cottage Grove define their goals when they start with us. The goals help us develop a proper learning plan, and choose the best program. The guideposts help the families and us monitor pr..