Make it a Mathnasium Summer and Beat the COVID Slide!

Jun 9, 2020 | Mesa North

Education Week released an article outlining a new curve we need to worry about flattening -- the “COVID slide.” The COVID Slide is the projected academic recession students will experience due to school closures. These projections take into account students learning relatively less new curriculum since mid-March as schools transition to remote learning and are based on trends from summer learning loss in past years.

 

The Northwest Evaluation Association, NWEA, released figures outlining how we can anticipate the COVID slide impacting student scores. As grim as the forecast for reading is, math is far worse. Students are projected to lose between a semester and a full year of academic growth in math! These projections are likely conservative for students in upper elementary grades, and perhaps even more so for vulnerable students who receive additional socio-economic support from their schools.

 

Why is math such a high risk subject? Beth Tarasawa, a researcher at the NWEA, explains “Anecdotally, we find it’s easier to keep reading in front of kids… it’s more difficult in a lot of ways to teach math to the curriculum and the new standards we have.” Despite math being a challenge to teach, success in the subject is entirely dependent on the individual’s prerequisite skills. Students not only must master previous skills, they need to apply those skills to more complex concepts with each successive grade level. Parents and educators have to tackle the issue head on. 

 

Academics and educators alike agree -- our best hope of flattening the academic slide for our students is to “repeat successful prior interventions for catching students up”. Enter Mathnasium.

 

Mathnasium is a math-only learning center where students in kindergarden through 12th grade come to catch up, keep up, and get ahead in math. Mathnasium offers math tutoring and enrichment, homework help, and test prep services to help students excel in the classroom and beyond.
 
Students learn from highly trained, expert math instructors one-on-one during one hour sessions two to three times per week to work on a personalized learning plan. For students who always struggled with math, now is a perfect time to gain the skills to get back on track. 

 

 

Both in-center and online, Mathnasium students boost their grades and scores, learn critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and gain self-confidence, transforming their understanding and appreciation of mathematics.

 

 

To learn more about Mathnasium, call (480) 325-6284.