Learning Disabilities and the Math Student

Many of our students who use our math software and tutoring approach us tentatively by saying after the first or second session
with us that they have been diagnosed with a specific learning disability. Some of
them express this to us in a matter-of-fact way and others tell us that -because of their
diagnosis, usually by a physician or a psychologist – they expect us to use tried and true
methods to “reach” them in their disabled state.

It’s Not All About Numbers: Why Children Do Poorly in Math

Parents often ask us why their children are doing poorly in math, particularly in grades 2-6. For young children, abstract quantities can be daunting, especially when taught in the context of skill drills. Many children do not find immediate meaning in numbers as symbols, although that is what we hope to convey to them.

Applied Geometry

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Geometry weaves a tangled web. Math Made Easy has the solution to help the geometry student navigate it and succeed in geometry.

Learning About Symmetry In Everyday Life

Did you know that starfish and humans start out life with the same type of structure? While starfish grow into five-pointed organisms and humans are close to mirror image in form, they both start out as bilateral (mirror image) as embryos.

Math Fun on the Road

For many families, the holiday season involves long car trips on boring roads.  License plate games are wonderful ways to strengthen numeracy skills while passing the time. Here are a couple of examples:

• For younger children, just memorizing the alphanumeric codes can be very helpful in nurturing their emerging abilities to make sense out of numbers (and letters too!).  
• Older children often enjoy the challenge of working out possible combinations on license plates.  For example, there could be as many as 17,576,000 different number/letter combinations on license plates containing three numbers and three letters!!! (26 x 26 x 26 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 17,576,000).
  

Please share your family's favorite license plate games! 

And check out our math software which is filled with real life math!

Fall Tips to Help Your Child Succeed in Math

As a parent, you are in a unique position to help set your child on a course toward math success. Here are four things you can do now that will make a difference all year long: