The “back-to- school” signs throughout stores these days remind parents and children to stock up on school supplies and the latest fashions. Picking out new items together is fun.
Children, reminded of the upcoming school year, experience a variety of emotions. Some students look forward to making new friends, trying a new activity, and learning new skills. Other students mourn their carefree summer days. Many feel anxiety about changes and an increased workload. Children struggling to keep up in math often feel anxious. Children not being properly challenged in math often feel bored.
Ask your children how they feel about math. If they use words like, “hate,” “boring,” “stupid,” “too easy,” or “too hard” they are struggling to feel engaged in their math education. That is a big problem and it will impact their effort and attitude. If they say “I’m just no good at math” it’s a crisis. If you agree, and say “I was never any good at math either,” you should declare your house to be in a state of math emergency.
As you write your checklist of back-to- school necessities don’t forget to add math skills to the list. You can’t buy a box of “math confidence” or a bag of “math enthusiasm” in the school supplies aisle, but you can get a membership at Mathnasium of Parker. 82 % of parents with children attending Mathnasium report a positive increase in their children’s attitude and confidence.
Your child may not think math enrichment is as cool as the trendiest tennis shoes, but as parents you know math confidence will have a more lasting value. Plus, kids actually like coming once they recognize the benefits and start earning rewards. Confidence and enthusiasm does increase a child’s cool factor- -maybe even more than cool tennis shoes!
Perhaps you are thinking about hiring a math tutor for your son or daughter. If you are one of these parents, consider these benefits of our math center over a math tutor:
Effectiveness: Our math center makes a bigger, and longer lasting, affect on math grades than online or personal tutoring. We provide a customized learning plan to address any gaps in foundational skills. Sometimes students need to go backward to work on skills like multiplication and division before they can tackle percentages. Tutors rarely trace difficulties back to the root cause of the problem. Just like you can’t fix a foundation built on sand, you can’t help a student struggling with math without identifying their learning gaps. Our assessments ferret out any foundational weaknesses and then we target our instruction to address them. Plus, going to a place dedicated to math instruction really sets the right tone for concentrating.
Value: Tutors cost more per minute of instruction than our center charges.
Convenience: Your children can come at the hour that best fits your family schedule anytime from 3:00 pm to 7:00 Monday - Thursday and 10-2 on Saturday. Fall hours start August 8th. Students can come up to three times per week. This works well with most after-school activities. Our instructors are qualified to help young students and high school students. Parents with multiple kids, in 2nd – 12th grade love being able to take care of everyone’s math supplemental education at the same time.
Quality: Mathnasium students get access to our proprietary math curriculum that can be customized for different learning styles and rates of learning. We help children go beyond grade level to reach their potential.
ï‚· Students taking, or thinking about taking, calculus.
ï‚· Students entering middle school or high school, especially if they lack study skills.
ï‚· Students feeling anxious or bored in math at school.
ï‚· Students who are fighting with parents about math grades, homework, or placement.
ï‚· Girls and minorities exposed to negative messages from our culture about their aptitude in math and science.
ï‚· Students whose math teachers were not able to meet their educational needs.
ï‚· Girls who inherited math anxiety from a female math teacher, or mom.
ï‚· Children struggling with changes from Common Core Math Standards.
ï‚· Anyone wanting to reach their full potential in math!!!
So when you write your back-to- school shopping checklist, don’t forget to include math confidence on it. It’ll be the most important thing on the list. If you want to learn more about us, give us a call to set up a no-sales- pressure 5 minute tour. 303- 840-1184
If you are one of our summer students, talk to us today to get some great deals on extendingyour membership. But hurry these deals don’t last forever.
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