National Math Scores - The New Pandemic

Fractions

Why do kids fear and struggle with fractions? Many kids fear fractions because they don’t understand how they work – they mix up the parts and don’t understand what they mean and what we do to them. Parents typically understand..

Algebra

  Why do kids struggle with Algebra? We’ve asked algebra teachers what skills they wish their students were better at coming into Algebra class? Their answers were always the same 3 skills: Multiplication facts, Fractions, and&nb..

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Dear Berish: Our son Tyler was struggling in 8th grade math but excelling in all of his other classes. As parents we were concerned that he was not grasping and understanding this particular subject. That's when we enrolled him in Mathnasium in Sko..

The Beaver's Lesson

Did you know that Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, was a math professor at Oxford? In another of his works, The Hunting of the Snark, Carroll has one character, the Beaver, try to add 2 + 1: "Two added to one---if t..