If math felt challenging during the school year, a long summer break rarely makes it easier. Many students return to school in Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, Seaside, or Marina needing weeks to re-learn skills they had mastered in May—simply because they weren’t using them over the summer. The good news? Summer is the best time to build momentum
If math felt hard during the school year, a long summer break rarely makes it easier. Many students return to school in Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, Seaside, or Marina needing to re-learn skills they had in May—simply because they weren’t using them over the summer.That “rusty” feeling has a name: summer learning loss, or the summer slide.
The numbers are sobering. According to the most recent Nation’s Report Card, only 22 percent of U.S. high school seniors are proficient in math. Nearly half score below the “basic” level. Behind these statistics are millions of students who continue to struggle, many of them carrying math gaps that make each new lesson more difficult than the last.
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