Showing posts with label how to improve math?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to improve math?. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Improve Math Scores Easily

Does it sound something unexpected? Well, researches have shown that involving children in daily activities like checking total of shopping bills, calculating daily electricity consumption, calculating calories in food, calculating the time to reach home from some place at a particular speed and stuff like that…Oh! We are surrounded by math!

Just exercise a few muscles of your brain and I m sure, you can list down 20 different wacky ways in which we use math in some form or other. The key here is to involve your child in doing these calculations himself or herself. This way, children not only feel involved in daily activities but also understand the importance of math in daily life.

Moreover, unconsciously they are also exercising the logical part of their brain in this process. Getting usual to encounters with math in this way will help to eliminate their phobia for math. It works, try it!

For any help in math with any grade, feel free to chat with academic counselor by clicking here.

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Improve Math by learning Speed Math Tricks

“If there is a choice between getting an electric shock and solving 54287 x 685 without calculator, I would prefer the former” says Ann, Grade 8, Massachusetts. This is completely understandable. Our children in US are being made very habitual to use calculators at very young ages. Unlike children in most of the Asian countries, they find it rather difficult to deal with multiplication, division, percentages, fractions and other similar problems. Researches have proven the use of calculator in very young age as one of the reasons for such difficulties at later schooling years.

“Our education system may take some time to improve upon but as a parent, I would like to see the change before my child gets out of school” says Dr. Randy Goldberg on being requested to give a feedback by a private tutoring company.

However, we now have a solution. We find many services in our country who offers great programs in building up speed and accuracy in mathematical problems. These work on highly scientific methods and really bring the best out of students. The idea of solving complex mathematical problems in mind itself is simply fascinating. It is even better for young brains as children like to boast about their skills among their peers, which, in a way, is very helpful. Children get more interested into it and hence develop perfection soon.

Certain affordable online tutoring services also exist which provide excellent programs in speed mathematics taken by live tutors. The students need not to go anywhere and develop good skill set in the subject. You can also keep those as an option.

You can click here to discuss with an academic counselor regarding the same.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

How to improve math score?

If “How to improve math scores?” is haunting your mind, please bear with us and donot hesitate to read the complete post.

Math has loads to offer. Our little tornadoes are always bubbling with energy but when it comes to solving Algebra problems or figuring out the area of a cone, there comes a trouble. Most of the parents share same sentiments (don’t worry, you are not alone. :) ) But yes, if improving math scores of your child is a concern, please read forward.

If you think that we will be talking about some books or assignments kind of things because the title says “How to improve math score?….blah blah blah!” then I am sorry to disappoint you. This is beyond doubts that these suggestions to improve math score work big time( hard to admit that these are the results of some very serious scientific studies carried out on hundreds of families) but yes, fun element is always taken care of. What better than to build very strong foundations of mathematics in our children when they feel its fun!

You can choose any of these suggestions depending upon your requirement and noticing the improvement in math scores graphically would be a good idea. Try to keep a track record of how you child improves. Here is the list:

  1. Testing and tasks
  2. Math Summer Camps and Programs
  3. Math Videos
  4. Flash cards
  5. Speed Mathematics
  6. Participation in daily activities
  7. Math Games and Puzzles: Chess, Checkers, Sudoku
  8. Join Math Groups and math forums
  9. Use Yahoo Answers and Wiki answers
  10. Relax


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