Cottage Grove Blog

The Motivation Factor

Mar 22, 2021 | Cottage Grove Blog

According to NBC news, there are 3 main motivating factors that human beings rely on. They are: 1. Extrinsic Motivation. This means doing something for the external rewards you'll receive. For example, a child named Maria earns money doing chores to bu..

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..

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..

Use Dominoes to Build Numerical Fluency

May 24, 2018 | Cottage Grove Blog

Would you enjoy reading if you had to sound out every word? Beginning readers start out reading letter by letter and progress to reading whole words at a time. Reading fluently is the ability to read and understand text without stopping to analyze each pa..

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 ..