“How to Improve Your Child’s Math in
3 Months or Less”
180 Degrees Turn Around
Double your child’s school grades by helping her make 180 degrees turn around in just 3 months or less! I have personally helped kids achieve just that many times over and I am going to show you how you too can for your child.
First, let me assure you that there is no such thing as a ‘dumb’ kid. If a child can learn to speak and communicate by the time they are is 3, they can absorb every bit of information presented to them. In cases of children with short memory loss, it can take longer but they can grasp any concept if it is persistently presented to them. This applies particularly to math.
Universities agree that a child learns 80% of what s/he is supposed to know about life by the time s/he turns 8. Surprised? Yes, it’s a fact!
This means that the following 20% will be learnt as she grows up into an adult. However, every child’s learning and conceptual abilities do vary, and they learn at a different pace. Some are quick learners while others are slower.
Memory Retention
The fact that some are slower than others reside in the fact that children have different degrees of memory retention. Some can remember most of the classroom lesson explanations and are thus able to tackle their homework easier than others with short memory retention who have difficulties remembering, resulting in non-completion of homework.
Professor Thome
Of such cases Professor Glenda Thome from the Centre for Development and Learning says:
“They may have trouble with solving math calculation problems that involve multiple steps, such as long division or problems in algebra, because in order to solve these problems they need to access information about math facts from long-term memory while remembering what they have just done and what they need to do next. They often have tremendous trouble with word problems in math because they are unable to keep all the information on their mental "plate" while they are deciding what information is most relevant and what process they need to use to solve the problem”.
Professor Thome hit the nail on the head! It all boils down to refreshing a student’s memory by allowing them to view a class lesson, which still is not much help to a kid who has 10 to 20 math problems to solve on their own.
Short Term Memory
Yes, s/he understands the concept but when it comes to working out the solution, s/he doesn’t have a clue of where to start as s/he vaguely remembers the example given in class.
A system devised by a group of teachers after experimental workshops, on different groups of various levels of children, were conducted over a period of 4 years is changing the way children learn.
Watch Solutions and Learn
The student is given to watch solutions of given problems, learn how to methodically answer them and subsequently apply the same principles to solve homework questions.
The impact on the student is multifold. He gets to learn how to solve his math questions, his confidence soars, he is less stressed, knowing that there is help available 24/7, and he manages to get good marks in math.
Revision
At exam times, he can quickly revise the topics, questions, and answers, to refresh his memory, instead of going over a thick textbook with questions that he still would not have figured out or remember how to do.
This alone would create a new child. Within three months he would catch up with his math and would be performing at his optimum in class.
Richard Pidial is an experienced teacher, co-founder of schrool.com a math learning site that teaches math with a twist.