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Mathnasium Summer: As Explained by the Incredibles!

Jun 1, 2018 | Orland Park Blog

  Article originally written by Mathnasium of La Jolla We are on the brink of another school year coming to a close! This means more breathing room and a slower pace, but not a complete halt! Just as an athlete practices in the off-season, ..

Top 10 Ways to Beat the Summer Slide

Jun 1, 2018 | Orland Park Blog

Top 10 Ways to Beat the Summer Slide! What is the Summer Slide? During the summer, students who don’t practice their math skills can lose as much as 3 months of learning. This not only hurts their retention of the material learned during..

LET’S MAKE MATH FUN AGAIN!

May 7, 2018 | Orland Park Blog

  Students are settling into the new school year and learning new math concepts nearly every week. Math topics introduced in class today build on concepts taught prior years. Sometimes students have knowledge gaps from previous years. These ..

Strengthen Their Brains at Mathnasium

May 7, 2018 | Orland Park Blog

Where do you go strengthen your body? You go to the gym to work-out your muscles.  Our bodies thrive when they are used and atrophy when they are not being used. Our brains are no different.  The more we “exercise” our brain, the sma..

Why do kids fear and struggle with fractions?

May 7, 2018 | Orland Park Blog

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 enough to get by in everyday life (1/2 off sale ..

LET’S MAKE MATH FUN AGAIN!

May 7, 2018 | Orland Park Blog

  Students are settling into the new school year and learning new math concepts nearly every week. Math topics introduced in class today build on concepts taught prior years. Sometimes students have knowledge gaps from previous years. These ..

Avoid the Summer Slide: Advice from the Learning Experts at Mathnasium

May 7, 2018 | Orland Park Blog

School will soon be out for summer! Kids everywhere rejoice! And parents everywhere wonder how to keep those growing brains engaged during the summer months. Summer learning loss is a real phenomenon parents and educators have long acknowledged a..

FIVE SIGNS THAT YOUR CHILD IS STRUGGLING WITH MATH

May 7, 2018 | Orland Park Blog

First Step to Solving the Problem Is Identifying It “When Kids Get Stuck on a Math Idea, They Aren’t Likely to Speak Up” Now that school is back in full swing, new math ideas are coming at students every day. Math topics taug..

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