Littleton Blog

What Makes a Good Math Teacher?

Feb 7, 2024 | Littleton Blog

Littleton, CO - The instructors at Mathnasium of Littleton are exceptional math educators and outstanding individuals. How do you as a potential consumer know this? First, every individual desiring to work at our center is required to pass two, sometimes ..

Finger Counting: A Great Tool or a Hindering Habit

Jan 19, 2024 | Littleton Blog

People are born with a great counting tool right on their own body. Fingers are great for young children first learning to count, add, and subtract. Neuroscientists and educators agree that children who learn to use their fingers as a mathematical tool in..

Why Not Stand Out at School?

Jan 7, 2024 | Littleton Blog

Why would you choose to blend in at school and in life when you can succeed with distinction? Let Mathnasium of Littleton help nurture your child's natural love for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) related fields of study. Stu..

6 Tips and Tricks for Math Homework Success

Aug 10, 2023 | Littleton Blog

Just the mere mention of math homework brings out strong feelings in most people, and regrettable these feelings are rarely positive. Most children dread it, and their parents, though they may try to maintain a positive game face, dread it too. Here are s..

Are You Inadvertently Teaching Helplessness

Aug 1, 2023 | Littleton Blog

Remember the classic children’s book, The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper. In the story, some toys were on a train that broke down and they needed help. They needed to get over the mountain to get to the children on the other side. The toy clown ..

10 Important Questions to Ask at Parent-Teacher Conferences

Feb 3, 2023 | Littleton Blog

It's that time of year again! Parent-teacher conferences. Here is a list of questions to consider asking your child's teacher at conferences. Arrive With Questions, Leave With a Plan It's always good to go into your conferences with a few questions ..

How To Teach Your Child To Love Learning

Jan 12, 2023 | Littleton Blog

Each of us came into this world actively learning. Absorbing information through all our senses, familiarizing sounds and touches, and learning to expect outcomes. Babies are inquisitive, toddlers are too, yet somehow during our human development, our int..

What is Numerical Fluency

Nov 16, 2022 | Littleton Blog

Just as in the English language there exist multiple phrases to express the same concept, a mathematical problem can be approached in numerous ways. Numerical fluency is having the mathematical understanding to find the most efficient way of expressing, a..